One of my new years resolutions was to get back onto my Classic Club challenge, which I neglected miserably last year. As we’re already in March I have only started one book from the list (which still isn’t finished), I thought it might be time to join in with the classic club spin again and give my reading the kick up the … it needs.
For the spin, you pick 20 books from your list and then, tomorrow, a number is announced and you read that book. Easy, as long as I don’t get a book I’m dreading! Here’s my list…
- 1984 – George Orwell
- A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- Lacuna – Barbara Kingslover
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- Possession – A S Byatt
- Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
- Sons and Lovers – D H Lawrence
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Path
- Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
- War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
- Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
I have to admit a few of these are re-reads I’m quite looking forward to revisiting (like Oscar and Lucinda which I haven’t read in over 20 years) and some are by authors I know and trust but just haven’t gotten round to reading (like Barbara Kingslover). A few though I am dreading as I’ve tried and failed to read them before. The biggest of those is Possession (I wrote about my inability to finish it here). So wish me luck and keep your fingers grossed it’s not number 12!
Emma