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For the fun of it, the The Classics Club is trying out a Classics Spin for Clubbers who are interested. And the spin is easy.
By next Monday, Feb 18, Clubbers should list their choice of any twenty books left to read from their Classics Club list and read one of these books in February and March. The list should be in the following order:
- 5 Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read,
- 5 Classics Club books you can’t WAIT to read,
- 5 Classics Club books you are neutral about
- 5 free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
On Monday, 18th, a post will go up listing a random number selected from the 1-20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on the Clubbers’ Spin Lists, by 1st April.
I am game for this because it will urge me to add up the number of read Classics; that is progress, whatever I end up reading. so here is my list:
5 Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read
- Marc Ferro: – Nicholas II (The Last of the Tsars)
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
- Haggard, Rider – Nada The Lily
- Shakespeare – Coriolanus
5 Classics Club books you can’t WAIT to read
6. Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice 7. Blackmore, R. D. – Lorna Doone 8. Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre 9. Spyri, Johanna – Heidi 10. Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the D’Urbervilles5 Classics Club books you are neutral about
11. Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 12. Eliot George – Silas Marner 13. Wright, Richard – Black Boy 14. Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist 15. Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway 5 free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.) And those I have chosen below are my favourites/re-reads 16. Ama Ata Aidoo – Dilemma of a Ghost 17. Hope, Anthony – Prisoner of Zenda 18. Ayi Kwei Armah – Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born 19. Haggard, Rider – King Solomon’s Mines 20. Stevenson, Robert Louise – Treasure IslandI do hope my lucky number comes up for me to read one that I really am yearning to read 
I think we’re all crossing our fingers and hoping the book we yearn for is chosen. Dracula – I read it last year and it was nothing like I expected – really enjoyed it.
Oh Cat, it is the volume of Dracula that I find daunting
I hope that number doesn’t come up. But I guess I might as well get it over with, if it comes up since I would have no other option. 
Glad you came by 
You have such a fun way of presenting things.;-)
LOL
Life can be fun at times, 
I’ve read one (Anna Karenina) of the first list
All of the second
Dickens and Woolf of the third
and only Treasure Island of the last.
My favourite of all these is Miss Austen of course
Oh Gilly, I wish I can lay hands on Lorna Doone. I can’t seem to get a copy down here.
Tess by Hardy is GREAT – it’s on my top 5. Tom Sawyer is pretty awesome too
Happy reading!
Thanks, Heidi. You know I’ve started Tess but it is so voluminous and continuing to read it is daunting. It is an Enotated version mind you and I must say that so far I enjoyed it, but I’ve put it on hold now. If that number comes up then I would have no choice than to plunge on.
I love most classics but haven’t read Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre yet either. Hoping to at least read Pride and Prejudice soon. Are you on Goodreads? There’s a classics discussion group there and that was the reason I started this year’s reading challenge off with The Brothers Karamazov.
Yes, I’m on Goodreads but not particiapting in the dsicussion. Jane Eyre was one of my favourites when growing up, at least the abridged version. As for P & P, I can hardly remembe the details so I would love to delve into it again for better appreciation.
Thank you, Sheila, always 
18, 19 are great reads
I agree Boomie. I read them so long ago
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I was just raving about Jane Eyre to a friend last night, as well as fondly remembering Pride and Prejudice. This looks like a great exercise–I am tempted to do it, but at the same time I don’t know if I have time. Hmm…
Oh WC, this Classics Club fun Challenge is a five year duration thing. You read 50 and above classics within five years. I think you can do it.
Do join 
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Nice mix! I wouldn’t dread Dracula…I did before I tried it, but wow! It was very well written, full of subtlety, and the only horror book Ive read feeling that it was worth it.
Also, yay for Prisoner of Zenda!! I loved it when I read it years and years and years ago. Perhaps I should give it another try some day. As for Treasure Island…I never could stand it as a child, and I’m thinking the aversion still remains. May be someday if/when I get to read it to my boys I MIGHT find it interesting…will have to see.
All the best with your pick!
Risa, I was hoping for Prisoner of Zenda or Lorna Doone or Tess. But no. 14 landed with Oliver Twist. No choice bu to plunge in. BTW, I loved Treasure Island as a kid
Thanks for coming by
What is this one about… don’t get the number thing…
Oh Elizabeth. The Classics Clubbers are to list any 20 of the books on their original Classics list and based on the criteria above. A random number 14, went out on Monday and the Clubbers are to read the book which corresponded to the number.
In my case, 14 corresponded with Oliver twist on my list above and so that is what I would be reading by April 1.
i wish i could read as much as you can!
O:h Trisha, these days, reading has become a herculean task for me, what with so many obligations here and there.