Classics Club Spin #37

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Well, here I go. I keep doing these spins and then reading other books. But the books are on my Classics Club list so it’s not all bad. I’ve made it through Ivanhoe and Bleak House so I’m feeling rather pleased.

Time for another spin:

So, as for this spin …… The Rules for the Classics Club Spin #37 are:

Go to your blog.
Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club list.
Post that list, numbered 1 – 20, on your blog by Sunday.
Sunday morning, the Classics Club will announce a number from 1 – 20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted and select the book that corresponds to the number they announce.
The challenge is to read the book by June 2, 2024

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I used the random list organizer here to choose the 20 books from my master list. Here is my spin list:

The Custom of the Country (1913) – Edith Wharton
The Cherry Orchard (1904) – Anton Chekov
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler (1979) – Italo Calvino
The Stranger (1942) – Albert Camus
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) – Jacob Burckhardt
Lives (75) – Plutarch
The Bucanneers (1938) – Edith Wharton
1984 (1949) – George Orwell
Tom Sawyer (1876) – Mark Twain
Bel-Ami (1885) – Guy de Maupassant
Dead Souls (1842) – Nikolai Gogol
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) – Anthony Trollope
The Republic (380 B.C.) – Plato
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776 – 1789) – Edward Gibbons
Tartuffe (1669) – Molière
The Twelve Caesars (121) – Suetonius
Au Page d’Amour (1878) – Emile Zola
On the Imitation of Christ (1418 – 1427) – Thomas à Kempis
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 – 1885) – Freidrich Nietzsche
Fear and Trembling (1843) – Soren Kierkegaard

As with previous Spins, instead of producing a new post, I’m going to simply announce the winner below and, to make it easier to complete at least one book, I’m going to choose a book from my Guardians List, my Shakespeare Project and my Children’s Classics Project, with no deadline date, just a dedication to read.

And the winning number was 8 ! Which means I get to read 1984! What an appropriate book for the times in which we live. See my other options below:

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