So yesterday, when I was linking around to finishing the Classics Club Spin #3, I found out that it was Classics Club Spin #4. So, since reading War and Peace made me smarter, I thought I’d do it again. Of course, yesterday was the day they picked the spin number and I clicked that post first (stupidly), so I made my list and then used random.org to pick a new number so I couldn’t be accused of influencing my outcome. Geoff saw my random.org selection, so he can vouch for me for not cheating.
I picked books that I have on my shelf. Luckily, all my Solzhenitsyn books are on a shelf that I didn’t get to, so there was no chance of another long, Russian, hyper-realistic novel on the list.
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Good Earth by Pearl Luke
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Warden by Anthony Trollope
- 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- The Overcoat and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- The Sound and the Fury by William Falkner
- Tess of the d’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
And the lucky number was fourteen. So I will be reading The Scarlet Letter.
Also, saddened by how few women are on this list, if I do Classics Club Spin #5, I’m going to make an all-woman list and choose from that.
So, wish me luck. This seems more doable in the time frame suggested (by January 1) than War and Peace.