Time for a new spin! The Classics Spin #42
The Classics Club
2024-2029
Here are the directions from The Classics Club:
At your blog, before Sunday October 19, create a post to list your choice of any twenty books that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.
On Sunday October 19, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by December 21, 2025.
Here are 20 titles I have selected from my list:
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 | 210pp (5 on my list)
- Momentum Mori by Muriel Spark | 1959 | 225pp (6 on my list)
- Silly Novels by Lady Novelists & other essays by George Eliot | 1836 | 100pp (8 on my list)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan-Doyle | 1902 | 176pp (9 0n my list)
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe | 1841 | 56pp (10 on my list)
- The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico | 1940/1 | pp64 (15 on my list)
- The 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie | 1957 | 256pp (20 on my list)
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | 1939 | 277pp (21 on my list)
- The Thin Man by Samuel Dashiell Hammet | 1933 | 259pp (23 on my list)
- The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham | 1929 | 240pp (24 on my list)
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart | 1945 | 112pp (27 on my list)
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1911 | 196pp (36 on my list)
- Poems by Wilfred Owen | 1920 | 96pp (37 on my list)
- A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft |1792 | 134pp (40 on my list)
- The Third Man by Graham Green | 1949 | 160pp (41 on my list)
- Cover Her Face by P.D. James | 1962| 298pp (44 on my list)
- A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie | 1950 | 256pp (45 on my list)
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | 1925 | 208pp (47 on my list)
- The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White | 1936 | 256pp (48 on my list)
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie | 1939 | 179pp (49 on my list)
COME BACK NEXT MONDAY –
to see which book I will be reading.
As #17 was the number chosen so I will be reading:
A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED BY AGATHA CHRISTIE | 1950 | 256PP (45 ON MY LIST)
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13 responses to “The Classics Club: The Classics Spin #42 #theclassicsclub #ccspin”
Looks like a great list! I’ve read four of these. I love old classic The Thin Man movies but haven’t read any of the books. In fact, I didn’t even know the movies were based on books until recently! Good luck with the spin!
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Thank you!
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I like your list. I’ve read Snow Goose and The Secret Garden and enjoyed both. Are you hoping for one titles in particular? I posted my spin list and hopoe for The Bell Jar or a Michener book.
Tina
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Hi Tina, thanks. I don’t mind what comes up although on this occasion I was hoping for one of the shorter books. Glad you enjoyed The Snow Goose and The Secret Garden I’d certainly be happy with either. Hope you get one of the books you are hoping for and enjoy it too!
Janet
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So many good books on your list, I find it hard to pick one! But A Murder is Announced is one of my favourite Christies, so I’ll hope for that one for you…
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Hi FictionFan, Glad you thought this was a good list, thanks. I’ll be happy with any one of them.
Really almost all of my Christie ‘knowledge’ has come from the films/TV series rather than the books so that would be interesting. My favourite is 4.50 from Paddington but Murder is Announced is up there too so either would be great!
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I read one of Ethel Lina White’s stories earlier this year. I’m glad that Pushkin Vertigo is rereleasing many of these classic crime books.
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Yes! It’s great that many of these classic crime books are being rereleased – I must look at Pushkin Vertigo. I’ve read a few of the British Library Publishing crime books and enjoyed them.
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Good list. I’m currently listening to Mrs Dalloway. The Snow Goose!
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Thanks! I’m reading Mrs Dalloway soon hopefully for the 1925 Classic reading week.
I’ll really be quite happy for any one of the books on my list but The Snow Goose would be a lovely choice.
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Enjoy!
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What a fabulous list – I’d be happy to get any of them, I think!!
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Thank you, Kaggsy, there are some that should be right up my street. I’ve chosen as many preferred ones (crime fiction for example) and from the shorter length books as I really want to kick start reading my classic club list again hopefully this spin will do the trick! Two months to the deadline so there should be plenty of time to find the right moment to read and share my thoughts on whichever one is chosen.
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