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Friday, October 18, 2024

Classics Club Spin #39


I can't believe it is time for another Classics Club Spin.

What is a CC Spin?

  • Pick twenty Classic books you still want to read. 
  • Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Sunday, 20th October.
  • A number from 1-20 will be announced. 
  • Read that book by 18th December.
This year I am participating in the "Novellas in November" challenge so I decided to combine the two events, making all my options novellas or at least under 200 pages. That way I know at least one of my novellas will be a classic!

My CC Spin #39 list:
  1. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956, 159 pages)
  2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843, 184 pages)
  3. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (1933, 112 pages)
  4. Norwood by Charles Portis (1966, 190 pages)
  5. House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday (1968, 185 pages)
  6. Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861, 176 pg.)
  7. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1937, 175 pages)
  8. The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925, 160 pages)
  9. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966, 160 pages)
  10. Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville (1924, 160 pages)
  11. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962, 146 pages)
  12. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912, 142 pages)
  13. Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (1886, 128 pages)
  14. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo (1955, 128 pages)
  15. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937, 107 pages)
  16. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1962, 184 pages)
  17. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (1922, 152 pages)
  18. A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf (1929, 112 pages)
  19. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster (1908, 112 pages)
  20. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898, 131 pages)
Who knows? Maybe I will be able to read several of these. I sure hope so!

Update: October 20th...
The lucky number is 

Checking my list...I'll be reading The Postman Always Rings Twice. I checked the library and my hold should be available soon.  In the meantime, I just finished A Christmas Carol and have Giovanni's Room checked out and it's waiting for me on audiobook. So I have other novellas to keep me busy while I wait.

-Anne
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