I’m so excited that another Classics Club Spin has been announced! This will be spin #17, and my second time participating since I joined the Classics Club last July.
Next Friday, March 9th, a number from 1-20 will be chosen and I will then have until April 30th to read the book from my list that corresponds with that number. So far I’ve read 4/65 books from my Classics Club Master List, and I look forward to reading another one soon!
Here is my spin list:
- The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen
- Mariana, Monica Dickens
- Heidi, Johanna Spyri
- Night and Day, Virginia Woolf
- Watership Down, Richard Adams
- A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
- The Lark, E. Nesbit
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (re-read)
- A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
- The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
- The Group, Mary McCarthy
- Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
- The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton
- Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
- Westwood, Stella Gibbons
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
- The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Three Musketeers, Alexander Dumas
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
There are several titles I’m dreading and a few that I absolutely cannot wait to read. Hurry up March 9th!
Is there a number you hope gets picked?
Dwell in Possibility 
Some lovely choices here. I put Three Musketeers, Testament of Youth and Portrait of a Lady on my list too.
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Yay, great minds! I’d be very happy if one of those three are chosen.
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I hope you both get Testament of Youth! I’m not sure how that will happen if you numbered them differently, though. 🙂
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I really should read it soon regardless of whether or not it gets picked!
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Gosh, it’s decades since I read Heidi! I had a lovely illustrated copy of it as a child and can still remember the pictures. I loved it back then, so I’m going to wish for that one for you… 🙂
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I can’t believe I never read it as a child!! I used to love the miniseries.
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Great choices. The Heat of the Day, Mariana, The Lark, The Group, and Westwood are all on my TBR. Whatever you end up reading, I hope it’s good!
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Thanks, Fran! I’ll be especially happy if one of those five get chosen.
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I’m just putting my list together now – we’ll have two reads in common when I’m done 🙂
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I look forward to seeing your list, Brona!
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There are some books there that I have really enjoyed. If you have not read The Pursuit of Love, you should read that before Love in a Cold Climate, as that is a sort of sequel.
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Don’t worry, I’ve already read The Pursuit of Love. It was such a fun read and I’m really looking forward to Love in a Cold Climate!
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Good for you for putting Middlemarch on your list! I’ve heard so many wonderful things about it but the length has always scared me from putting it on a spin list. In a couple of spins time I’ll have to! Good luck and I hope you get a great pick. 🙂
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Oh it definitely scares me too!! But I do want to read Middlemarch soon, so if it does get picked it will be a good push to do so.
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This is a great list, so many I want/have read! Good luck!
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Thanks, Laurie!
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Lovely list. Lots here I haven’t read. I have Brideshead on my Spin list too. Middlemarch is one of my all-time favorite books, so although it is long, it’s so good!
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I’d love to read Brideshead soon. It’s been on my TBR list for ages! That’s good to hear about Middlemarch. It does intimidate me a bit, but I think I’ll enjoy it when I do pick it up.
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I’ve only read Middlemarch, and some are not on my spin, but on my long term list. I would like you to get Lolita, -since I’d love to hear your opinions on it.
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I’m very curious about Lolita as well, but can’t say I’m looking forward to reading it.
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Lol, exactly.
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Hi, great list. I just moved my #17 to be the same as yours and Brona so we can have a readalong if that number hits. (Love in a Fallen City)
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Yay, that sounds great!
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