The Classics Club is having another spin! I haven't been able to participate in the past few they have had. So here is my list, those marked with an * will be rereads for me:
- Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton *
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Germinal by Emile Zola
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson *
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Larkrise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
I will anxiously await to see what book I will start reading on Monday.
Hope you get Germinal - I think it's my favourite book ever :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't get it but perhaps next time for a spin. I try to read my books by the number on my list (the spin excludes this of course), so I believe it is a few more books to go.
DeleteI'm halfway through Germinal, and I also thinnk you will love it...and become a Zola convert...if you're not already one :-)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until I finally read it, perhaps for the next spin.
DeleteOh my gosh seeing The Outsiders on this list brings back so many memories!! I love that book! But I really hope you get Zola. His writing can be very dense and slow, but it is so worth it because it's unlike anything else.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading The Outsiders for the first time, and then how my viewpoint of Ponyboy changed over time.
DeleteNo luck for Zola this time but perhaps on the next spin.
Great list, you've got some on there I have already enjoyed as part of The Classics Club. I hope the spin chooses a book you'll enjoy. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI think I will enjoy the book that won, Walden and Civil Disobedience, have you ever read it? I hope you got a book you want to read.
DeleteI just love your list. Thoreau looks fascinating but who could resist a Zola novel? Gaskell, Wharton & Austen? What more could you want?! ;-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your spin!
thanks, Thoreau it is. I think I will enjoy Walden, but I don't know that much yet about civil disobedience. It is a short read of only 260 pages, so I will get it read soon, although I don't think I will post my review until July 7th. Did you get a book that your excited about?
DeleteGreat list! I just finished Wives and Daughters and it was awesome as I was expecting it to be. Such great characterization. Northanger Abbey is a pet favorite of mine. I know it's considered such a slight Austen work, but I'm very fond of it. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read more Austen books, as I loved Emma and enjoyed Pride and Prejudice. This time though it is Thoreau. Are you excited about the book on your list that was selected?
DeleteI'm pleased with the book that was selected, though there were a few on the list I was a bit more excited about. (My book was Bab: A Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart). Good luck with Thoreau! I remember liking Civil Disobedience and the first and last parts of Walden. The middle part of Walden was kind of a slog, but then, it was assigned reading for me at the time, and I was reading it in one of those Norton Anthologies with the tiny print and thin pages.
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