The Classics Club Spin is back.
What is the spin?
It’s easy. Before next Wednesday 1st August 2018, create a list of twenty classic books of your choice that remain “to be read”.
This is your Spin List.
You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the month.
Try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five classics books you have been putting off, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, re-reads, ancients, non-fiction, books in translation — whatever you choose.)
On Wednesday 1st August, The Classics Club will post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by 31st August, 2018. We’ll check in here then to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
What’s Next?
- Pick twenty classic books that you’ve got left to read. Or you are welcome to read along with me. Check out my list below.
- Post that list on Facebook, blog, or your refrigerator, numbered 1-20, before Wednesday 1st August.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20. You can check my blog or the Classics Club website for the number.
- Read that book by 31st August.
- Let me know how you did.
My List
Title
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Author
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1
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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Allison, Dorothy
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Top five
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2
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Agnes Grey
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Bronte, Anne
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3
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Master and the Margarita, The
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Bulgakov, Mikhail
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Bottom five
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4
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If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Calvino, Italo
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5
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Cather, Willa
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6
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Moonstone, The
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Collins, Wilkie
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7
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Tale of Two Cities, The
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Dickens, Charles
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8
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Count of Monte Cristo, The
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Dumas, Alexandre
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Bottom Five
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9
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Name of the Rose, The
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Eco, Umberto
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10
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Middlemarch
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Eliot, George
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Bottom five
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11
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So Big
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Ferber, Edna
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12
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Hardy, Thomas
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Bottom five
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13
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Scarlet Letter, The
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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14
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Talented Mr. Ripley, The
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Highsmith, Patricia
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Top Five
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15
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Suite Française
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Nimerovsky, Irene
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Top five
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16
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Wild Sargasso Sea
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Rhys, Jean
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Top Five
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17
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Frankenstein
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Shelley, Mary
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Bottom Five
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18
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Grapes of Wrath, The
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Steinbeck, John
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Top five
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19
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East of Eden
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Steinbeck, John
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20
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Picture of Dorian Grey
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Wilde, Oscar
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Join me!
AND THE SPIN # is....
#9
Looks like I will be reading THE NAME OF THE ROSE.
AND THE SPIN # is....
#9
Looks like I will be reading THE NAME OF THE ROSE.
