Spin List! #39
#3, The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy!
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable before spinning time;
But soft, what post from yonder blogger breaks? It is the List, the 39th to be spun!
Once more unto the Club, dear friends, once more!
1. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
3. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
4. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
5. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
6. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
7. Howard's End, E. M. Forster
8. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
9. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
10. Emma, Jane Austen
11. Persuasion, Jane Austen
12. Trilby, George du Maurier
13. The Lark, E. Nesbit
14. The Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker
15. The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki
16. The Four Feathers, A. E. W. Mason
17. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
18. Malice Aforethought, Francis Iles
19. Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
20. Greyfriars Bobby, Eleanor Atkinson
Nice! My list will go up on Saturday!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I look forward to your spin list! What do you most hope to get?
DeleteSome nicely scary titles there! Sir Gawain involves a bit of head-chopping so it could fit too...
ReplyDeleteI had Rebecca on my list, but read it a while ago now. It was pretty fun--and just the right amount of scary.
Oh, so it does! Even better.
DeleteI loved your review of Rebecca! It made me even more excited to read it, whenever that may be. I have seen the film, which I thought was great. (Mrs. Danvers was creepy as all get out!)
Your list looks great and I have read quite a few of them, the latest one was "Rebecca". Maybe you'll get that one?
ReplyDeleteHere is my list:
https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-classics-club-classics-spin-39.html
Thank you! I would love it if I got Rebecca - I think I'm just in the right mood for it!
DeleteI love your list! Which one would you be most pleased to get?
Ooooh, good question. I love Charles Dickens and I still have a few of his books to read, so maybe Nicholas Nickleby?
DeleteWow! Nicholas Nickleby for the win!
DeleteHappy reading!
Yes, I got it. That means you didn't get yours. I'm sorry. But you can always read it next. The Mayor of Casterbridge is also a great one. Enjoy.
DeleteWe both have Brideshead Revisited on our list, but I hope you get Frankenstein. I just read it for the first time and it would be perfect for you this month!
ReplyDeleteOh, I love your list, and the doubling up is quite fun - double the suspense! I hope you either get Brideshead or Far From the Madding Crowd. Though the latter is a semi-long one to read within the time, it is excellent!
DeleteTrilby, Frankenstein, and Rebecca are the ones I think I would be most thrilled to get. It seems that tales of terror with a person's name in the title is what fits my reading mind right now!
During the composition of my spin list I was lamenting that I hadn't thought to put more scary books on my 'great list'; I was thinking that I should some day compile a list of Classic Gothic Books to challenge myself with, but it might be hard to determine what should go on it . . .
awesome list! I have read 8 of them.
ReplyDeleteI wish you #5
Here is my list:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/10/15/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-39/
Thank you!
DeleteI'd be absolutely thrilled if I got Rebecca, especially after so many recommendations!
Ah, Edgar Allan Poe! And The Lady Vanishes - I've always wanted to read that one. You have a fantastic list! Which do you most hope to get?
So many good ones!! I got Howards End two spins ago, and loved it. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Good luck to you, too!!
DeleteThis is such a great list! Fingers crossed you get something suitably Gothic and spooky. If you do, I'll drop whatever I'm reading and read along with you. We can compare notes by jack-o'-lantern light.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteTomorrow we shall know . . . a group of bats will appear in the sky, fluttering across the image of the shroud-white moon, and their number will be the number of our spin. Then on with our cloaks and away to some ruins, where we will read of ravens and the risen dead . . .
Or perhaps I'll get The Lark!
Elizabeth, our dreams of reading Gothic tales of terror have been shattered. I'm going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, and you're selling wives at the fair!
DeleteAlas! These are not quaint nor curious volumes, nor are they of forgotten lore - how to ponder weak and weary? #3 - only this, and nothing more!
DeleteAll that said, I am quite looking forward to The Mayor of Casterbridge. Hélas pour le gothique: c'est la vie! I'll just have to get after it, and then have time for Rebecca, or Frankenstein!
Good luck with the Tales!