Update: The Classics Club gods have spoken! Number 14 was drawn, meaning I’ll be reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. What’s on your list?
The Classics Club is hosting The Classics Club Spin, another fun challenge as the group works their way through their classics lists. We are to each list twenty books from our list, and on Monday 18th the moderators will randomly select a number. Whatever book coincides with that number is the book we have to read by April 1st. I am going with the suggestion of five books I’m dreading, five books I’m excited to read, and five books I’m neutral about. The final five books are rereads.
Five Longer Reads I’m Dreading
1. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind
2. Joyce, James: Ulysses
3. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
4. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
5. Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables
Five Books I’m Excited to Read
6. Dickens, Charles: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
7. James, Henry: The Portrait of a Lady
8. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
9. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms
10. O’Connor, Flannery: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Five Neutral Reads
11. Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho
12. Stoker, Bram: Dracula
13. Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
14. Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
15. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
Five Rereads
16.Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
17. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
18. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
19. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
20. Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar
Good luck to all participants! I can’t wait to see what everyone is going to be reading.
I can’t wait to see what number we get!
Good luck!
Great list! Hey, don’t dread Crime and Punishment. I’m reading it now and it’s an amazingly easy read. I was truly surprised.
Ditto to what relentless said…can’t wait to see what our number is. Wishing you luck too!
Oooooh, since they just announced it this morning, you’re reading Catch-22!! What a crazy book, but humorous for sure!
I have to read Frankenstein for mine! Have you read that?
Frankenstein is on my classics list, so I’ll also be reading that…eventually. Good luck to you! I’m excited to start Catch-22.
Thanks!!! We’ll just have to see how it goes!
Catch-22! A book that I’m dreading to read because it’s quite the tome. I hope you’ll enjoy it though
I read Catch-22 years and years ago. It’s very funny. I hope you like it.