The Only Way Ahead…..the Classics Way!

It’s the Classic Spin time again! Yup! The Classic’s Club has organized another Spin and the rules are as always simple –

• Pick 20 Classics of your choice
• On Monday, i.e. May 20^th, the Club will pick a number
• You read the book that you have marked against the number through May and June

The big question is will I do it again? I mean in the last club Spin, I got Madame Bovary which I detested the first time I read it, so may years ago; but with loads of encouragement and support from fellow club members, bloggers and readers, I managed to prod through the book, a second time – net result I still did not like it!

So will I do it again? The answer is …..Of course!! Yes!!! Most definitely!

There is no denying it’s a lot of fun. Even if I did not like the book, I got some wonderful perspective and engaged in some marvelous debates about it. Most importantly, if it was not for the Spin, I would have never read that book again since it was part of my private dreading to read it again list!

Now for the list – here goes….

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
5. Jane Eyre  by Charlotte Bronte
6. Great Expectation by Charles Dickens
7. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
8. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
9. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
10. The Way of  all Flesh by Samuel Butler
11. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
14. The Moonstone by Willkie Collins
15. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
16. Wives and Daughter by Elizabeth Gaskell
17. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn      Waugh
18. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
19. My Antonia by Willa Carther
20. A Farewell to the Arms by Ernest Hemmingway

Let’s see what faith holds on Monday. I have edited m y previous list a bit and put down a few more books that were in my to-read-but-never-got-around-to –it list.

Can’t wait for Monday!

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