I have been slacking on my classics lately (and blogging, but shhh...we won't speak of that). Well, the Classics Club hosting a Classics Spin. You list 20 classics from your list and post it. On Monday February 18, they'll announce the number, and you read the book that corresponds with that number on your list by April 1. Easy, right? I'm super busy with work in March so I'm going to cheat and post mostly easy and short ones. I have to be reasonable. I won't have the time or concentration necessary to read
Don Quixote, you know?
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
- The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- Howards End by E. M. Forster
- The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Graham
- Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Ooh, both Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Moonstone are fab but very looooong! Hope you get Wind in the Willows or something like that. :-)
ReplyDeleteJoanna, they are really long, but luckily I have the audio for both. If I get one of those, I think I'll do a combination of reading and listening. I too am hoping for one of the short children's books. :)
DeleteI wonder if I can still make my list and have whatever number they picked be Vanity Fair? ;) Some good ones on the list! I read your pick when I was just a kiddo (think it was assigned in 6th grade?). Enjoy!!
ReplyDeleteTrish, I was totally going to cheat and put Vanity Fair on the list! I'm pretty sure I read Islands of the Blue Dolphins when I was in elementary school too, but I have the worst memory. I don't remember anything about it. I'm lucky I got a short one.
DeleteI got a short one too! It's been years since I read Islands of the Blue Dolphins, but I loved it in grade school.
ReplyDeleteGreat list, Kristi! From your list I have read 'The Master and Margarita', 'The Moonstone', 'The Great Gatsby', 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. I would love to read the others some day :) Which book did you get? I also saw on the right that you have finished 25 books this year. That is really wonderful! Great going! Happy classics reading!
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