For November/ December I’m taking part in The Classic Club’s “Spin” again, choosing 20 books from my main Classic Club list. A number from 1 to 20 will then be chosen at random tomorrow, November 10th. I’ll then have until January 5th, 2015, to read the book.
Last time I got A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf and loved it so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for another good pick. For the last spin, I let my daughter randomly select which ones to read. This time, I’ve chosen books under four categories to see how that works out for me.
Books I Really Want to Read
1. 1984 – George Orwell
2. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
4. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
5. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Books I Really Don’t Want to Read but Feel I Should
6. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
7. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
8. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
9. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
10. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Books I Know So Little About I Don’t Know if I Want to Read
11. The Golden Notebook – Dorothy Lessing
12. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
13. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
14. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
15. Lacuna – Barbara Kingslover
Books I’ve Read Before and Hope are as Good as I Remember
16. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
17. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
18. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
19. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
20. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
And that’s the list. the number has been drawn and the winner is No. 13 The Moonstone.
Happy Reading!
Emma x
One Readers Thoughts 
I’m delighted to see an Aussie classic on your spin.
Good luck 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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A nicely diverse list. My picks would be The Moonstone and Oscar and Lucinda, and I do hope that the spin brings you a book you will love,
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That’s because I never know what I should read 🙂 am hoping for one of the less weighty ones in the run up to Xmas.
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Funny, the only category of yours I have read all of is ‘Books I don’t want to read but feel I should’! I liked all of them to varying degrees, or at least felt glad I had read them, so I don’t think you should be too scared. Hope you get something good for the holidays.
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Thank you. I think one of the reasons i feel i should read them is that I am in the minority and probably am missing out. Two I have tried several times and given up each time so this might be the incentive I need.
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Here I am, better late than never! You are so fortunate to get The Moonstone! Collins’ books are so entertaining.
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That sounds good. I could do with being entertained. Have read some good but serious books recently.
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Yeah – number thirteen. It would have to be, wouldn’t it? Actually, the Moonstone’s not such a bad story; it introduces one of the first serious detectives in fiction, and it has a twist.
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Most people are saying it is worth the read so am getting excoted about it now
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