I decided to do all the ladies this time. My list:
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- The Devil’s Pool by George Sand
- The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Collected Stories of Colette by Colette
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The number will be picked on August 11th. So stay tuned.
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My absolute favourite from your list is The House of Mirth. Wharton used such masterful character development that added such depth to this book. You have so many other great choices though. Gaskell, Austen and Eliot are all favourites.
I hope you have a wonderful Spin!
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I tried The House of Mirth maybe ten years ago and got really into it, until I put it down and then it just completely vacated my mind. Hopefully it will get chosen; so many people have told me I will love it.
Of course, I could just *read* it without the Classics Club as well 🙂
We will be sharing Beloved if #16 spins up.
I read Bloody Chamber in a readalong recently & found myself a little obsessed with it by the end. It got under my skin and into my dreams!
You’re the only other person I’ve seen with George Sand on the CC list – I’ve only read one book by her & definitely want to read more.
Good luck
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I had a friend do an independent study project for George Sand way back in high school, but never read her myself.
I actually picked up the Collected Works of Angela Carter at the library yesterday. So I’ll end up reading The Bloody Chamber (it’s in there) no matter what number is chosen 🙂