Spin List! #37

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These are the 20 randomly selected books from my Classics Club Challenge that shall serve as my Spin List for said club. When a spin is spun a number between 1 and 20 will be announced, and I will have either to read the corresponding book or be banished to the outer Hebrides to live a life of solitude, my only fare seawater, white bread, and snails. [WARNING: One of these statements is similar to a lie, in that it is not quite true.]

I am very excited for my first spin, coming this Sunday!


1. The Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker

2. The Count of Monte Cristo,  Alexandre Dumas

3. Emma, Jane Austen

4. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

5. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift

6. Greyfriars Bobby, Eleanor Atkinson

7. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens

8. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

9. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell

10. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

11. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

12. Rasselas, Samuel Johnson

13. Trilby, George du Maurier

14. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

15. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh

16. Persuasion, Jane Austen

17. Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Maturin

18. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

19. Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomes De Quincey

20. The Four Feathers,  A.E.W. Mason

Comments

  1. KellyFriday, April 19, 2024

    I also have Brideshead Revisited on my spin list. Perhaps one of us will get it! I would certainly be happy if it came up for me. Good luck on your first spin!!

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    1. ElizabethSaturday, April 20, 2024

      Thank you! I'd love it if I got Brideshead! I've read only two Waugh novels but I'm already quite hooked. He has a brilliant style! I can hardly wait for the spin, whatever it is!!

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  2. Deb Nance at ReaderbuzzSaturday, April 20, 2024

    The Count of Monte Cristo! That's the book I hope you get in this spin. There is no way I could read it by June but it's a book well worth reading no matter how long it takes.

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    1. ElizabethSaturday, April 20, 2024

      Thank you! Indeed, there are a couple of books on there that I think I'll have to give myself some leeway for (looking at you, Melmoth the Wanderer!), but in a way I'm most excited for those! I love a challenge, and with classic books you know they're worth it!!

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