Classics Club Spin #33

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Sue

Time for another spin. I am coming to the end of my first Classics Club challenge (read 50 classics within 5 years – only need 4 more to complete my first 50!), so am looking forward to this spin. I have chosen 20 books from my ever expanding list of owned but unread classics, and when the magic number is spun on Sunday 19 March, I will have until the end of April to read the relevant book. I have four of the following books already planned for reading for other challenges over the next few weeks, so am hoping for one of those!

Here is my list:

1	The Well Dressed Explorer (Australian)	Thea Astley	1962
2	Lorna Doone	RD Blackmore	1869
3	The Promise	Pearl S Buck	1944
4	The Story of the Stone V2 – The Crab-Flower Club	Cao Xueqin	1791
5	The Leopard	Tomasi Di Lampedusa	1958
6	Barnaby Rudge	Charles Dickens	1841
7	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	1844
8	Mountain Madness	Winifred Fortescue	1943
9	My Apprenticeship	Maxim Gorky	1916
10	I, Claudius	Robert Graves	1934
11	The Art of Seeing	Aldous Huxley	1943
12	The Portrait of a Lady	Henry James	1881
13	The Pea-Pickers (Australian)	Eve Langley	1942
14	Seven Pillars of Wisdom	TE Lawrence	1922
15	Intimate Strangers (Australian)	Katharine Susannah Prichard	1937
16	Old Mortality	Walter Scott	1816
17	The Honey Flow (Australian)	Kylie Tennant	1956
18	Childhood, Boyhood, Youth	Leo Tolstoy	1852
19	The Warden	Anthony Trollope	1855
20	Piccadilly Jim	PG Wodehouse	1916

Published by Sue

I read a lot. I have always read a lot. One of my earliest memories is lying in bed reading, with a pile of books next to my bed. I also own far too many books, and keep buying them even though I have so many I haven't yet read, but I do love to have choice at all times. These days I often forget about the book almost immediately after finishing it, so I want to keep a record of my reading. Here it is. View all posts by Sue

7 thoughts on “Classics Club Spin #33”

WordsAndPeace March 15, 202311:37 am Reply

Impressive list, I think I have only read I, Claudius, which I enjoyed a lot.
I need to retry first volume by Cao Xueqin.
My list is very light: https://wordsandpeace.com/tag/classics-club/

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FictionFan March 16, 20238:03 am Reply

I’m always a sucker for Dickens, so Barnaby Rudge would be my pick. But I also adore The Warden – one of my favourite books of all time, that I re-read every few years. Hope whichever one you get turns out to be a winner! 😀

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1. Sue March 16, 202312:40 pm Reply
  
  I am also a sucker for Dickens, ever since I saw Oliver (the musical) at age 12, and my Dad told me there was a book… I read them all in my teens and have reread many since, but I don’t remember Barnaby Rudge at all – hence its appearance on my list
  
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Reese March 16, 202312:32 pm Reply

I had The Leopard on my Classics Club list but read it a while ago. I was very impressed.

Hope you get something fun!

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Brona's Books March 17, 20233:20 pm Reply

Ohhh The Pea-Pickers – I adored that book, obsessed about even! So I wish you that, although any of the Australian would be great.

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1. Sue March 17, 20234:21 pm Reply
  
  I will be reading The Pea Pickers in the next couple of weeks anyway, for a GR Aussie Readers challenge, so it would be great if it was also the spin choice! I am also keen to read Intimate Strangers as I have enjoyed everything I have read by KSP. She lived most of her life in the Perth hills, not far from where I live now, and her home is now a Writers’ Centre. Good luck with your spin too!
  
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Classics Club Spin #33 March 17, 20233:36 pm Reply

[…] (A) Intimate Strangers | Katharine Susannah Prichard [reading with Sue @Me Myself and I] […]

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