Classics Club Spin #42

Oh, late again! It’s Classics Club Spin #42 and I have another chance to choose from my Classics Club list . I hope to get to this one. I’ve been doing too many re-reads due to group pressure but I’m going to change that for next year. So here we go ………. !

The Rules for the Classics Club Spin #41 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 December 21, 2025

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

The Mabinogion (1350 – 1410)
Adam Bede (1859) – George Eliot
The City of God (426) – Augustine
The Clouds (c. 423 B.C. – Aristophanes
Gorgias (382 B.C.) – Plato
Crime and Punishment (1866) – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Aristotle, Ethics (330 B.C.) – Aristotle
News from Nowhere (1890) – William Morris
The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) – John Bunyan
Tom Brown’s School Days (1857) – Thomas Hughes
The Consolation of Philosophy (524) – Boethius
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) – Jules Verne
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898) – Jerome K. Jerome
Lives (75) – Plutarch
The Observations of Henry (1901) – Jerome K. Jerome
Cur Deus Homo (1094-1096) – Anselm of Canterbury
Wives and Daughters (1864/66) – Elizabeth Gaskell
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) – Victor Hugo
Kidnapped (1886) – Robert Louis Stevenson
Moll Flanders (1722) – Daniel Defoe

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 Projectand my Children’s Classics Project, with no deadline date, just a dedication to read at least one of them by the deadline.

And the winning number was 17 ! Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell is the winner. I have some pretty heavy-weight books on my list so I was a little relieved to get this one!