I'm participating in the Classic Spin again.
It's site is here.
I have to choose 20 classic books that I want to read and on October 17th, a number between 1 and 20 will be picked and that is the book that I will have to read by December 12th of this year.
Edited on October 18th to say that the spin was for #12, so I will be reading The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
Here are my books:
1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolff
2. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
3. Dracula by Bram Stoker
4. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
5. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
6. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
7. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
9. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
10. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
11. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
12. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
13. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
14. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
15. Persuasion by Jane Austen
16. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
17. Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
18. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
19. Howards End by E.M Forster
20. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
So many great books I loved here, 8 for instance. Good luck on the draw. I can't wait! My list is here: https://wordsandpeace.com/2021/10/13/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-28/
ReplyDeleteLovely list! Enjoy
ReplyDeleteBrilliant list. I have read #1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 16, and 19. Same as Emma, I loved "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Persuasion" is my favourite book by Jane Austen. Good luck with your spin.
ReplyDeleteMy list.