The Classics Spin, an occasional challenge run by The Classics Club where the reward is great reading. What could be better?
I usually fail miserably at this, but here I am, trying again. Go me!
We are supposed to kind of challenge ourselves with this list, but my list is constrained by 1) books I'm able to find at the moment (yes, it's that kind of situation with my massive home library) and 2) I'm trying to choose short books. Otherwise, I know I'll fail.
To see my entire Classics Club list, visit the tab in the menu at the top. Okay, here goes...
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf
- Rabbit, Run, John Updike
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- The Collector, John Fowles
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
- Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- The Princess of Cleves, Madame de Lafayette
- Roxana, Daniel Defoe
- Roderick Hudson, Henry James
- Cheri (with The Last of Cheri), Colette
- The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
- A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde
I was worried about length too, and so I took off almost all the doorstops. There's plenty of others I'm just as worried about that aren't so long!
ReplyDeleteI found Bell Jar to be way quicker than I expected it to be.
If #4 spins up we will share The Bell Jar, although i confess I'm hoping for one of the sci-fi books on my list this time.
ReplyDeleteI read Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time recently, it was different to what I expected.