The Classics Club is where you pledge to read a certain number of classics within a 
certain time period. Most bloggers end up doing the same thing I chose: 50 classic books in 5 years.
So the Classics Club devised a little game for the Classics Clubbers, and I’ll just let them explain it since they did it so well:
Just for fun, we thought we’d try a Classics Spin for any who are interested. What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, by next Monday, Feb 18, list your choice of any twenty books you’ve left to read from your Classics Club list – in a separate post.
This is your Spin List. You have to read one of these twenty books in February & March. (Details follow.) So, try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
Next Monday, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by April 1. We’ll have a check in or something in April, to see who made it the whole way and finished the spin book.
So, here’s my Classics Club Spin list:
- The Thousand and One Nights
- Robinson Crusoe – Defoe
- Joseph Andrews – Fielding
- William Meister’s Apprenticeship
- Aesop’s Fables
- Don Quixote
- A Tale of a Tub – Swift
- Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
- A Modest Proposal – Swift
- Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
- Pamela – Richardson
- Sense and Sensibility – Austen
- Gone with the Wind
- Frankenstein
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- Alias Grace – Atwood
- Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
- Melmouth the Wanderer
- Oliver Twist
- The House of the Seven Gables
What classic novel are you interested in reading?
Thanks for reading,
February 2013 Update: The book chosen was #14, which for me is Frankenstein!!!
I consider you a friend, so I hope number 6 is not selected
laughing at this.
Hahah! I know, it’s one of my “please don’t choose, please don’t choose” picks!
Though Rebecca is not on my original list, I would love to read it; I’ve read such wonderful reviews of it.
It’s my namesake, so I really do need to read it! I have heard it is really good!
It is!!
I want to read Rebecca, Thousand and One Nights and Robinson Crusoe from your list. I’ll be picking up Treasure Island on audiobook later today for my Classics Challenge adventure classic and next year would love to join in the classics club as well! I like that you have 5 years to read 50. I also look forward to reading Chronicles of Narnia for my animal classic or children’s classic, Great Gatsby for my 20th century classic and still need to figure out a 18th century or earlier classic. Good luck, the spin idea is a neat way to pick the book.
Those are all great classics! I haven’t read them all but that’s a great list!
You really should join the Classics Club. If you click on the Classics Club link, one of them will take you to the Classics Club page. Let me know if you have a hard time finding it and I’ll send you the link directly!
What a great list – I’ve only read seven of those books! Yikes! I need to join that Classics Club. I hope that number 16 gets chosen, because that Atwood book is excellent! You will love it!
I’ll read Alias Grace soon anyway since I’m doing Project Atwood !
You should join the Classics Club. It took me a few months of thinking about it before joining, but really it’s just for you to make a good goal and keep it. There’s no pressure. The Classics Club offers memes, but I don’t do those. I just picked my books, link them up, and read them!
But I could not resist the Classics Club Spin! Too fun!
I have some of those on my Classics Club list, too. We should read one together!
Ok, let’s see which one we need to read for the Classics Club Spin and then we can pick a few common books to read and schedule when we want to do it. We also need to read Tractors soon, and I’m still thinking March, but we can do April if you prefer! Let’s figure that out today.
Either one works for me.
I want to read Don Quixote , Sense and Sensibility and Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist is high on my list, too!!!! I’m excited to find out what I “have to” read for the Spin!
I’m pretty sure you’ve already downloaded it on your Kindle (free, btw). Mine is sitting on my kindle waiting for me to read it
There are just so many on my Kindle waiting to be read!
How to choose?
I’m reading Sense and Sensibility right now! It’s a re-read for me, though. You have some really ambitious titles on your list. I can’t wait to see which one you end up reading.
Almost all of them are on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list, too. Which is why some are kind of ambitious. . . but I’ll try them!
Great list lady
I hope you get a good one!
Me too! But no matter what it is, I’ll read it!
Frankenstein? Oh well!
Wish you happy reading 
I’d have to read it eventually anyway!!!
Good luck with your selection. Frankenstein would be on my list too. I really need to stop stalling and sign up for the Classics Club since I’m reading some anyway for the Back to the Classics challenge!
Yes you should join us!!!
Have fun with Frankenstein!!! I loved it when I read it.
Good to know!!!
Frankenstein will be an interesting read! It’s Jackie (Jackiemania’s) pick for the Spin, too, I think.
Ooooh I don’t know jackiemania! But I just did a little googling and found her! Thanks for the tip!
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