Classics Club Spin #37

Posted on by Gail

Perhaps it is ill-advised for me to participate in this spin, as I have several lengthy books on the go and several absorbing life changes on the go as well. On the bright side, I filed my taxes today so maybe I’m not as behind in life as I feel I am. We take the wins where we find them.

That said, my criteria for which of my remaining books to include in this spin is as follows: the shorter ones. So, the short story collections, plays, novellas, and shorter novels or treatises are generally represented here. The major exception to this is The Idiot. And won’t that be what I feel like if that’s the one picked this spin. Tomorrow will tell.

  1. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  2. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
  3. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  4. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  5. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  6. The Stone Angel by Margaret Lawrence
  7. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  8. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  9. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  10. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
  11. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  12. The Dubliners by James Joyce
  13. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  14. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  15. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  16. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
  17. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
  18. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  19. The Communist Manifesto by Friederich Engels and Karl Marx
  20. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

This has been my fifth Classics Club Spin! Check out my whole list here.

4 thoughts on “Classics Club Spin #37”

  1. I’m glad you decided to go ahead and join in this time. Hopefully you won’t end up (feeling like) The Idiot! You have lots of good choices here, but I would like for you to get the Agatha Christie. I read it recently and really enjoyed it! Or maybe the C.S. Lewis book. I read it years ago, but can’t remember much about it. I still have it on the shelf, so maybe I should re-read it. I would really like to re-read a lot of his books. 

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    1. I’m definitely looking forward to those! I missed The Idiot and got Uncle Tom’s Cabin instead, which is another long one. Oh well, it’s been on my re-read list for a while so it’s probably best I get on it and can stop thinking about it!

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    1. I read it as a teenager and really liked it. I’ve been wondering for several years if it will hold up in the same way, considering some of the criticisms I’ve heard. I would recommend it, based on my recollection of having really liked it, but I don’t know if I want to commit myself to an opinion formed over ten years ago! 🙂 I may have to get back to you on it.

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