This will be my 8th Classics Club Spin, and I have been successful with all except the very first. It is a great way to motivate yourself to read some of those classics that have sat on the shelf for far too long.
The idea is to list 20 classics still on the TBR, and then wait – on On Sunday 17th, October, a number from 1 through 20 will be posted, and the challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List by the 12th December, 2021. That’s an eight week reading window for this spin. A couple of times I have had to read the very longest book on my list (War & Peace and Tom Jones), so I am leaving the really long ones off this list as I know I will be very busy over the lead-up to the end of the year. Here is my list…
| 1 | Anonymous | Beowulf |
| 2 | Blackmore, RD | Lorna Doone |
| 3 | Buchan, John | The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| 4 | Burns, Robert | The Poetical Works of Robert Burns |
| 5 | Di Lampedusa, Tomasi | The Leopard |
| 6 | Dickens, Charles | Barnaby Rudge |
| 7 | Dumas, Alexandre | The Three Musketeers |
| 8 | Eliot, George | Adam Bede |
| 9 | Forster, EM | A Passage to India |
| 10 | Gaskell, Elizabeth | North and South |
| 11 | Graves, Robert | I, Claudius |
| 12 | Hardy, Thomas | The Trumpet-Major |
| 13 | Harrower, Elizabeth | The Watchtower |
| 14 | Hugo, Victor | Notre-Dame of Paris |
| 15 | Maugham, W Somerset | Of Human Bondage |
| 16 | Stark, Freya | Alexander’s Path |
| 17 | Sun Tzu | The Art of War |
| 18 | Trollope, Anthony | The Warden |
| 19 | Trollope, Anthony | Miss Mackenzie |
| 20 | Wyss, Johann David | The Swiss Family Robinson |
Me, My Shelf and I 
wow, fabulous! I have only read 5. I, Claudius is amazing. And of course Victor Hugo, but I’m French so that goes without saying, lol.
Here is my list: https://wordsandpeace.com/2021/10/13/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-28/
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