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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Classics Club SPIN #41 coming up


It is time for another Classics Club Spin.

And now that I'm reading 12-pages a day of a classic book every day, I am no longer dreading the longer, denser books on my list.

The spin happens on Sunday, June 15th. At that time a number will be announced and I will have until August 24th to finish that book. All you have to do if you want to join in is create a numbered list of 20 classics you still want to read and wait for the announcement, then commence reading.

My Classics Club SPIN #41 list

  1. Something by Ray Bradbury
  2. Something by Anne Bronte
  3. A children's classic like Peter Pan or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  4. The Master and the Margarita by Bulgakov
  5. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather
  6. The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov
  7. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. A Pulitzer Prize winner awarded before 1975
  10. A Passage to India by Forster
  11. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Hardy
  12. Catch-22 by Heller
  13. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Highsmith
  14. Siddhartha by Hesse
  15. Hamlet by Shakespeare
  16. Now in November by Johnson
  17. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by Le Carre
  18. The Westing Game by Raskin
  19. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Sparks
  20. Cry, The Beloved Country by Paton

I am already set to read Catch-22 so I obviously hope #12 is the number. All of these books are on my new and updated Classics list.


-Anne
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