The Classic Club — Spin #8

classics clubI have been woefully neglectful of my Classics Club reading. Time to move on and read some great books. My list is above. Looking forward to the spin number on November 10th.

  1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  2. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  3. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  4. The Sun Also rises by Ernest Hemingway
  5. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  6. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  7. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
  8. The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
  9. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
  10. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  11. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  12. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  13. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  14. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
  15. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  16. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  17. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
  18. The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling
  19. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
  20. Billy Budd by Herman Melville

And the Spin is #13 – One Hundred Years of Solitude. ย Hope to have a post ready by January 5, 2015.

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5 Responses to The Classic Club — Spin #8

  1. The Warden was just a lovely book and my first introduction to Trollope. Oh, and The Man Who Knew Too Much ……. I just read The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton and am convinced he is one of the most underrated authors ever. It was just brilliant!

    I hope you have a great spin and get the book that you want!

  2. Cat says:

    You have some wonderful titles on your list. I loved Mill on the Floss, Cranford and The good Soldier. Hope the spin is kind to you!

  3. Sandra says:

    Great list. I think you will be happy with any number on monday. Even if I don’t like Hemingway that much, I enjoyed reading The Sun Also Rises because of its setting. Lucky spin for you!

  4. whatmeread says:

    You have some good ones on your list. I didn’t realize that Chesterton wrote The Man Who Knew Too Much, if it is the same as the movie.

  5. Jorie says:

    Hallo, Hallo! ๐Ÿ™‚

    Greetings from a clubber who is thankful to be participating in her first SPIN! ๐Ÿ™‚

    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    The Sun Also rises by Ernest Hemingway
    Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
    A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
    The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
    The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

    Wow! We share quite a few interests in the Classics! ๐Ÿ™‚ I do not think I have all of them listed on my own tCC List as of yet either! lol Of this entire list of choice, I must say, the two that stand out to me are the ones I love in motion picture: The Invisible Man & The Man Who Knew Too Much!! Did you see either of them on the screen prior to wanting to read them!? I admit — I hadn’t even realised when I had seen them they were *books!* I sometimes find myself a bit left out of the loop which films are based on books & which are strictly original screenplays!

    I see you have an appreciation for Magical Realism! I do as well — started with my absolute JOY in finding “The Golem and the Jinni” at my local library — from there I seek out Magical Realism titles and of course, I’m curating a bit of liberty on my tCC List as I’m adding what I consider to be ‘next classics or modern classics’ choices! I even found a few Magical Realism books on blog tours which I happily hosted,… wells, wait “Lemongrass Hope” was a non-blog tour review & boy was that a curiously wicked novel! Have you read that one!? (you can see the review if you visit my Story Vault)

    Have fun!

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