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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Classics Club SPIN time again


The Classics Club is sponsoring a SPIN again. It is the 15th spin they have sponsored.

What is the spin?
It’s easy.  Before next Friday, March 10th, create a  list of any twenty classic books that remain “to be read” on your list.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in March and April. Try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five classic books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, re-reads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
On Friday, C.C. will 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. C. C. will check in May to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
Join me. Create your own list. Or read along with me. I'm really hoping for a short one this time but with my luck, the winner will be the longest book on the list. Here's my list for this, the 15th Spin event on Classics Club.

(And thanks to CC for organizing this. I have been a pest to get another SPIN going. I know.)


Title
Author
1
Bastard Out of Carolina
Allison, Dorothy
2
Agnes Grey
Bronte, Anne
3
Kindred
Butler, Octavia
4
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
Calvino, Italo
5
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cather, Willa
6
Jamaica Inn
DuMaurier, Daphne
7
Invisible Man
Ellison, Ralph
8
So Big
Ferber, Edna
9
Cranford
Gaskill, Elizabeth
10
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
11
Stranger in a Strange Land
Heinlein, Robert
12
Tales of the South Pacific
Michener, James
13
Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wilder, Thorton
14
The Sound and the Fury (read-along)
Faulkner, William
15
All the King’s Men
Warren, Robert Penn
16
The Optimist’s Daughter
Welty, Eudora
17
Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John
18
Anne of Avonlea
Montgomery, L.M.
19
Suite Francais
Nimerovsky, Irene
20
Wild Sargasso Sea
Rhys, Jean