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Friday, July 19, 2024


It’s time for another Classics Club spin.

This is the Classics Club’s 38th CC Spin. 

What is a CC Spin?

  • Simply pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
  • Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Sunday, 21st July.
  • A number from 1-20 will be announced. 
  • Read that book by 22nd September.

For full details on how to play along, or to join the classics club, click on the link at the beginning of this post.

My CC Spin #38

This Spin I am choosing past Pulitzer Prize winners by decades or half decades and will decide on which book based on library availability once the spin decides the decade or title. (See my Pulitzer List for options.)

  1. Some book from 1918-19
  2. Some book from 1920-29
  3. Some book from 1930-39
  4. Some book from 1940-44
  5. Some book from 1945-49
  6. Some book from 1950-54
  7. Some book from 1955-59
  8. Some book from 1960-64
  9. Some book from 1965-69
  10. Some book from 1970-74
  11. Some book from 1975-79
  12. Some book from 1980-84
  13. Some book from 1985-89
  14. Some book from 1990-95
  15. The Magnificent Ambersons 1919
  16. All the King's Men 1947
  17. A Bell for Adano 1945
  18. A Death in the Family 1958
  19. House Made of Dawn 1969
  20. The Optimist's Daughter 1973

Clearly I am trying to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. I want to continue reading past Pulitzer Prize winners, and I think reaching back at least thirty years should qualify the books as "classics". 

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The winning number is 17. Now to see if I can find a copy of this 1945 Pulitzer Prize winner, A Bell for Adano by John Hersey.
-Anne
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