My Head Is Full of Books: Classics Club Spin #14

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Classics Club Spin #14

It's that time again for the Classics Club Spin.

What is the spin?

It’s easy. By October 3rd, Monday, list your choice of any twenty Classic books you'd like to read.

This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in October and November. So, try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)

Next October 3rd, Classic Club will report, and I will report here, a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by Dec.1st .

My list:

	Title	Author
1	Little Women	Alcott, Louisa May
2	Bastard Out of Carolina	Allison, Dorothy
3	Agnes Grey	Bronte, Anne
4	Kindred	Butler, Octavia
5	Death Comes for the Archbishop	Cather, Willa
6	Murder on the Orient Express	Christie, Agatha
7	The Optimist's Daughter	Eudora Welty
8	Jamaica Inn	DuMaurier, Daphne
9	Middlemarch	Eliot, George
10	Cranford	Gaskill, Elizabeth
11	Interpreter of Maladies	Lahiri, Jhumpa
12	Breathing Lessons	Ann Tyler
13	Anne of Avonlea	Montgomery, L.M.
14	Suite Francais	Nimerovsky, Irene
15	House of Mirth	Edith Wharton
16	Gilead	Robinson, Marianne
17	Wild Sargasso Sea	Rhys, Jean
18	Mrs. Dalloway	Woolf, Virginia
19	To the Lighthouse	Woolf, Virginia
20	So Big	Edna Ferber

I know some of these books are not exactly CLASSICS in the true sense of the word by I am attempting to read all or most of the Pulitzer Prize winning books authored by females and I am interested in knocking many of the books off the 102 Greatest Books by female authors list.