I joined The Classics Club earlier this week and have immediately found a fun way to pick my first book to read from my list of 50-classics-to-read-in-5-years. Every so often, the club has a special event called the “The Classic Spin.” It works like this:
Choose 20 books from your list of classics TBR and post that list on your blog before March 9th. On Friday, March 10th, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by May 1, 2017.
So here is my first Spin List. It should be fun to see which number (and which book) is chosen in the “spin” on Friday! That’s where I will start my five year classics journey! I’ll return to this post on Friday and highlight the book chosen.
Classic Spin #15:
- Rose in Bloom, Louisa May Alcott
- The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
- The Railway Children, Edith Nesbitt
- A River Runs Through It, Norman McClean
- Arabian Nights and Days, Naguib Mahfouz
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
- The Chosen, Chaim Potok
- A Very Easy Death, Simone de Beauvoir
- The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley
- A Room With a View, E.M. Forster
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The Moorland Cottage, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Ask Me, William Stafford
- The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner
- Travels With My Aunt, Graham Greene
- The Ramayana, Bulbul Sharma
- Crooked House, Agatha Christie
- The Gaucho Martin Fierro, José Hernández
- The Measure of My Days, Florida Scott-Maxwell
- Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the CIty, Italo Calvino
A Fondness For Reading 
From this list, I’ve only read A River Runs Through It. I hope you get something else! 🙂
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Les, I’m excited to see which one will be chosen!
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From your list, I read Marcovaldo and enjoyed it very much. Good luck! 🙂
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I’m looking forward to reading that one, Juliana!
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Welcome to the Clasdics Club & welcome to your very first spiin.
Persuasion is my favourite novel (well one of many favourites!) so I wish you it this spin 🙂
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Thanks, Brona! I’m excited to be part of the CC and to start out with this Spin! I will definitely be reading Persuasion soon. I read almost all of Jane Austen’s books one summer about 45 years ago, and remember loving Persuasion, but I need to reread it so I can declare it’s my favorite Austen, too!
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I see you got a Gaskell – and a Gaskell I haven’t heard of it as well. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it later.
Thanks for the enthusiasm for Out of Africa – I feel a little nervous about it.
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Brona, I’ll be very interested in how you like Out of Africa! If you are interested (now or after you finish reading it) here is the link to my post about it: https://afondnessforreading.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/africa-2/
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