My spin list:
1. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
2. The Magus by John Fowles
3. The Long Winter (Little House #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
5. A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
6. The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
7. Grendel by John Gardner
8. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
9. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
10. Cool Hand Luke by Don Pearce
11. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
12. The Silver Sword (Escape from Warsaw) by Ian Serraillier
13. Post Office by Charles Bukowski
14. The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
15. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
16. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
17. The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman
18. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
19. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
20. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
I’m probably hoping for Lord Jim, but The Ascent of Rum Doodle would be fun too. I haven’t read McCullers in a while so Sad Café would be my third choice. I’m hoping for something NOT terribly long, so hoping against Dickens or Fowles, but I’ll take what I get. Cheers!
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...I had no idea that Cool Hand Luke was a novel!
ReplyDeleteMe either...ya know, until I did.
DeleteI didn't know that about Cool Hand Luke either
ReplyDeleteKim is awfully great and a pretty easy read.
Oh good! Kim was my next choice.
DeleteThe Silver Sword was one of my childhood favourites - I leant it to my uncle who was a school teacher. He then read it aloud to every single one of his Yr 6 classes until he retired.
ReplyDeleteI take that as a pretty impressive recommendation :)
DeleteAlways great to see other classic lists. You wrote that you'd like to get #4 or 17. I have read Rum Doodle (together with six others from your list). Nice one.
ReplyDeleteI always check which ones I would get then. That would be William, an Englishman, or Invincible Louisa for me.
Let's see what it will be. Good luck!
Here is my list:
https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-classics-club-classics-spin-43.html
Cheers :)
DeleteYes 6 is good and short. I loved 4.
ReplyDeleteMy list: https://wordsandpeace.com/2026/02/04/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-43/
Well that sounds hopeful for either of them.
DeleteThis looks like a great list! I've read two of them. Things Fall Apart and Anne of Green Gables. Both very good! Good luck with the spin! :)
ReplyDeleteI've not read Achebe, nor many African authors, so even if we don't get #8, I'm looking forward to that one, whenever I get around to it.
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