The Classics Club Book Spin

The Classics Club is doing something called a “Classics Spin”.  What is that?  First, I have to take my Classics Club list of 50 books and pick 20 I haven’t read.  I post the list, and on Monday the Classics Club will pick a number from 1-20, and that’s a book I have to read by April.

I’m also supposed to include some books on my list that are challenging or that I’m kind of nervous about reading.  I am going to “cheat” a little since I’ve piled on a lot of challenges this year, and include books that are also on my TBR Pile Challenge.

This seems like a good way to choose my next book, so here’s my list. Some short (Lois Lowry, Edgar Allen Poe), some long (George Eliot), some intimidating (Rudyard Kipling, William Faulkner). I even random-ordered it.

1. Maugham, Somerset – Of Human Bondage
2. Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
3. James, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
4. Jackson, Shirley – The Haunting of Hill House
5. Heinlein, Robert – Stranger in a Strange Land
6. Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7. Murakami, Haruki – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
8. Ishiguro, Kazuo – The Remains of the Day
9. Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
10. Poe, Edgar Allen – The Raven
11. McKinley, Robin — The Hero and the Crown
12. Lowry, Lois — Number the Stars
13. Eliot, George – Daniel Deronda
14. Kerouac, Jack – On the Road
15. Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tender is the Night
16. Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park
17. Spark, Muriel – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
18. Faulkner, William – Light in August
19. Greene, Graham – The End of the Affair
20. Vonnegut, Kurt – Cat’s Cradle

Of course I could choose my own book, but I’m a rule-follower at heart so I’ll do what I’m told.  Stay tuned to see what gets picked!