Classics Club Spin #46

Posted on by Fictitiously Yours, Gail

It has come round again! What is it, you may ask?

The Classics Club is a voluntary commitment to read fifty classics of your choice in five years from the time you join. The Classics Club site hosts a periodic “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. 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, before a certain date.

Method to my madness:

I have less than twenty books left on my Classics Club list, having read 33 out of 50 books, so my spins from here on out are going to include repeats. I’m going to do this one Hunger Games style, which means the titles I least want to be picked right now, I’m putting in more than once. May the odds be ever in my favour.

  1. The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  2. Steppenwolf (1929) by Herman Hesse
  3. The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Friederich Engels & Karl Marx
  4. Glenarvon (1816) by Lady Caroline Lamb
  5. The Waste Land (1922) by T.S. Eliot
  6. The Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce
  7. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
  8. The Aeneid by Virgil
  9. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin
  10. Glenarvon (1816) by Lady Caroline Lamb
  11. Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes
  12. Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman
  13. Till We Have Faces (1956) by C.S. Lewis
  14. The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
  15. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne
  16. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger
  17. The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx
  18. Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
  19. Fear and Trembling (1843) by Søren Kierkegaard
  20. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The spin number for this round will be posted this upcoming Sunday, November 15, and afterward I have until January 3, 2027 to read the selected title.

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

2 thoughts on “Classics Club Spin #46”

  1. I have a couple of these on my CC list, but not this spin. I hope you enjoy whatever you get, but the Jules Verne sure is a fun one. I loved it!

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