In an unscheduled interruption to my countdown of my
favourite 50 books from childhood, I’m going to take part the first Classics Club spin since I joined a little while.
The principle appears to be quite simple – I list twenty books from my
Classics Club list, they post a random number from one to twenty and, in August
and September I have to read whichever book on my list the number corresponds
to.
So, without more ado, here is my spin list:
1. Fantômas – Marcel
Allain & Pierre Souvestre
2. The Thirty Nine
Steps - John Buchan (reread)
3. Rashomon –
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
4. The Trial – Franz
Kafka
5. Chaka the Zulu –
Thomas Mofolo
6. The Good Soldier
Svejk – Jaroslav Hasek
7. The Sword of
Honour trilogy – Evelyn Waugh (reread)
8. Berlin
Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
9. Mr Norris Changes
Trains – Christopher Isherwood
10. Keep the
Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
11. Rebecca – Daphne
du Maurier
12. The Power and
the Glory – Graham Greene
13. Catch-22 –
Joseph Heller
14. The Master and
Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov (reread)
15. Interview with a
Vampire – Anne Rice
16. The Twelve Caesars – Suetonius
17. The Complete
Short Stories – Saki
18. The Old Devils –
Kingsley Amis
19. The Voyage of
Argo – Apollonius of Rhodes
20. Any Old Iron –
Antony Burgess
Let’s see what comes up on the wheel tomorrow!
2 comments:
Yours is easily the most wide-ranging list I've read for the spin, in terms of time & space (across history and the world). I'm not joining the spin, but it's always interesting to see what number comes up and what people end up with. I'm also enjoying your children's lists though I haven't commented yet.
Lisa - Thanks for the comment! I've pulled out the Trial as the Spin book. I enjoyed the Metamorphosis so hopefully I'll like this too.
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