It has come round again! What is it, you may ask?
The Classics Club is a voluntary commitment to read 50 classics of your choice in 5 years from the time you join. Every so often, the Classics Club site hosts a “spin” to motivate participants to keep at their list, and maybe relieve some of the choice paralysis that can slow you down, by choosing a random book for you to read within a certain time period. Essentially, every spin you compile a list of twenty of the books you still haven’t read from your list, post it, and then the Classics Club will post a random number from 1-20. The book corresponding to the number is the one you read next, or before a certain date.
Method to my madness:
I chose three books that have been physically sitting on my shelf, waiting for me to read them (The Stone Angel, Aeropagitica & Of Education, The Curve of Time) and four books that I’ve started before and failed to finish (Glenarvon, Don Quixote, Paradise Lost, The Waste Land). The other thirteen are works by authors whose works I’ve never read before and some of what remained in my non-novel sections of the list. Between these, I scraped up twenty entries, so let’s go!
- Pygmalion (1913) by George Bernard Shaw
- The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
- The Waste Land (1922) by T.S. Eliot
- The Stone Angel (1964) by Margaret Laurence
- On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac
- The Curve of Time (1961) by M. Wylie Blanchet
- Aeropagitica & Of Education (1644) by John Milton
- Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton
- Don Quixote (1605-1615) by Miguel de Cervantes
- Steppenwolf (1929) by Herman Hesse
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce
- Indiana (1832) by George Sand
- Beowulf, Unknown
- The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
- Glenarvon (1816) by Lady Caroline Lamb
- The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
- Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman
- Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The spin number for this round will be posted this upcoming Sunday, June 15, and afterward everyone has until August 24 to read their selected title.
This has been my seventh Classics Club Spin! Check out my whole book list here.
Fictitiously Yours 
The Waste Land and The Dubliners are going to be on my next CC list, so I would be interested to see a review from you for either of them. I hope you end up with something you enjoy!
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I hope you get Ethan Frome for the most selfish of reasons – I loved it, which of course means that I want everyone else to read it too. Dubliners had an effect too, it left me wanting to tell stories about the people in a place that was as important to me as Dublin was to James Joyce, so that is my second choice for you.
I’ll look forward to your review anyway and echo Kelly’s sentiments to hope you get a book you enjoy 😀
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