It’s time for The Classic Club’s 19th Spin! To join in simply list any 20 books that remain on your Classics Club list before Tuesday, 27th November. On that day, the club will announce the winning number and then all you have to do is read the corresponding book by Thursday, 31st January 2019. Which is an extra special, longer amount of time, so we can try to tackle one of those imposing tomes on our classics shelf. Here is my list:
- Emma by Jane Austen [re-read]
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
- The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens [re-read]
- The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Howards End by E M Forster
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy [Re-Read]
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott [Re-Read]
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- The Time Machine by H G Wells
- War of the Worlds by H G Wells
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
With the longer time in mind, I have tried to pick the larger books off my list or those that were left over from my first list. Come back Tuesday to discover my result. Wish me luck!
Are you taking part too? What book do you think would be good for me to get?
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Excellent choices. Enjoy!
Thank you 🙂
The Count of Monte Cristo is huge! I put it on my CC list, too, but I am not adding to this spin. I’m not sure that I’m in the mood to read it yet.
Good luck!
Hello Deb, thank you for stopping by and commenting. It is always lovely to hear from a new face 🙂 I know it is very long but I would be pleased to get The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Age of Innocence is wonderful. Good luck!
Thank you Cathy 🙂
I have been useless with my Classics – I should start again, perhaps in the New Year – I hope Ivanhoe comes up, mainly because I haven’t read it and would be interested in your take.
Lynn 😀
Lynn, I hope you are able to make a fresh start on your classics reading in the new year and I would be very happy to get Ivanhoe as my result. 🙂
I’ve got Emma as a re-read on my list too! And Anne Bronte. I did toy around with Ivanhoe as a re-read, but then changed my mind. I love that The Count of Monte Cristo is on your list. 😀
Hello Risa, thank you for stopping by and commenting. It is always lovely to hear from a new face 🙂 I would particularly like to get The Count of Monte Cristo.
And it’s Emma for you, isn’t it? Hope you have a lovely re-reading experience. 🙂
It certainly is Emma for me Risa and thank you, I am really looking forward to my re-read 🙂
Good to see we have a bit longer to read the spin choice this time – I might put Nicholas Nickelby on my list too this time around
Cleopatra it is great to have a bit longer to tackle some of the bigger books on our lists. 🙂
So many good books you have there!
We share Hard Times in the list, but for different number.
I wish you’d get The Black Tulip–it’s a less famous work of Dumas, but I loved it!
My list: https://klasikfanda.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-classics-club-spin-my-come-back.html
Hello Fanda, thank you for stopping by and commenting. It is always lovely to hear from a new face 🙂 I am pleased to hear you loved The Black Tulip as I am really looking forward to reading it.
Oh, I have to hope you get Little Dorrit since I’ll be reading it over Christmas too! Otherwise I hope you get one of the HG Wells books since I loved my recent re-reads of those. Good luck! 😀
Thank you FF, I would really like to get Little Dorrit as Dickens would be perfect on the lead up to Christmas. 🙂
Wow, you’ve got great titles on this list! Good thing that some authors have more than one entry, as it improves their chances of being chosen on the drawing. 🙂
Carmen, so pleased you think there are some great titles on the list! And it wasn’t really by design to have authors have more than one entry – It just worked out that way as certain authors tend to write books on the longer side! 😀
That’s a good strategy of yours to pick the thicker volumes. I was toying with the idea of joining in again with the spin but I already have enough reading scheduled for the next few months and I do like to leave space for reading something on a whim
Well Karen with it being a extra-special, longer Spin time it is the perfect opportunity to tackle the longer books on our lists. I’m sorry to hear you aren’t taking part this time, but I hope you enjoy your scheduled reading. 🙂
You alerted me to the fact the deadline is quite some way off so on that basis I just did my list. If I end up with a book I don’t like, I know who to complain to don’t I????? 🙂
HAHA I can only take responsibility for telling you there was more time, not for what books you put on your list 😛
But I have to have someone to blame…..
HAHA 😛
It’s good to highlight the chunksters this time around – I love seeing what people plan to read….& we share Little Dorrit if #7 spins up 🙂
Brona, wouldn’t it be fun if we both got Little Dorrit? Dickens would be perfect for this time of year. 🙂
That’s a great list. Of the books I’ve read, I particularly enjoyed The Moonstone, Wives and Daughters, the two Dumas books and Ivanhoe. I will be posting my own list tomorrow and I think Nicholas Nickleby will be on mine too. 🙂
Helen, great to hear you have enjoyed quite a few of these. I look forward to seeing your list and wouldn’t it be fun if we both got Nicholas Nickleby?! 🙂