- The Aenid, Virgil
- The Histories, Herodotus
- The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar
- One Thousand and One Nights, trans. Husain Haddawy
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
- Inferno, Dante
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
- Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
- Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
- O Pioneers! Willa Cather
- White Fang, Jack London
- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
Friday, March 4, 2016
Spin Me Right Round, Baby
Every so often the Classics Club does a 'spin' challenge, in which players post a list of twenty books from their classics-to-be-read pile, number it, and wait. After we've had a few days to post the list, the folks at the Classics Club blog issue a number. Whatever number they draw, that's the book to be read next. So, here's twenty items from my list, and I await Monday with anticipation!
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Read 2: 7 & 16. Got 5: 2, 3, 10, 17 & 19.
ReplyDelete@CyberKitten: I imagine Moby consitutes a TBR pile all by itself!
ReplyDelete@R.T. Hopefully not too much so -- I'll wince if the spin gives me a Thousand and One Nights or Moby Dick, but it's only a 1 in 10 shot for either of those.
My copy of Moby Dick (conveniently located as it has been ready to be added to my TBR database for over 6 months sitting right next to me) is a mere 583 pages. Last weekend I finished a 688 page history of Prussia and yesterday polished off a 466 page history of mankind. Moby Dick is probably a 2 week read - tops.
DeleteAre you taking it on this year?
ReplyDeleteI know it's only March (already!) but I think I've pretty much got my fiction reading planned for the rest of the year... in a moment of weakness I started piling books into sections and there it was - a years worth. So Moby Dick will be 2017 at the earliest. I am, however, planning a series of 10 books made into movies later (say around the summer) and am playing with the idea of reading a few non-fiction that have also made it to the silver screen including 'Bridge of Spies' and 'In the Heart of the Sea' which were two of my favourite films for quite some time. So I'll kind of be reading Moby Dick - almost!
ReplyDeleteMy moods change too swiftly for that much planning! I'm pretty sure I'll read Moby this year, though. If I want to go forward in American lit at all, but follow a roughly chronological pattern, it's unavoidable.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the Patrick Stewart version of Moby-Dick?
Well, that wasn't my original intention. I was just stacking books and all of a sudden there it was! I am trying to be more structured though. But I do need room to be creative, so although I know my next two non-fiction (one I started yesterday) and probably know the two after that... I'm not sure about the two after that... [grin]. Keeps things a bit more... open.
DeleteThink I saw the Patrick Stewart MD ages ago.... probably. Seen several versions over the years. It's an iconic story after all.
Oh, and a rather significant book (by H G Wells no less) dropped onto my mat a few days ago. Until very recently I had no idea of its existence. Don't you love it when that happens?