It’s time for another Classics Club Spin.
The rules are easy: compile your list of 20 books by Sunday 18th April.
On that day a number will be randomly selected.
That’s the book you read.
You have until the 31st May 2021 to finish your book and review it.
Join in the fun by visiting the other players and commenting on their lists.
It’s a great way to meet like-minded bloggers and explode your TBR classics wishlist!
I have participated in ALL 26 spins. I believe that Jean @Howling Frogs and I are the only two left who can say that!
- The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen & David M Shapard [shared read with Jessica @The Bookworm Chronicles]
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather
- The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin [shared read with Me, My Shelf and I]
- The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
- The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens [shared read with Joseph @The Once Lost Wanderer]
- Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
- The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
- Laura: A Journey into the Crystal by George Sand
- Red Sky at Sunrise (trilogy) by Laurie Lee
- The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki
- Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
- The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura [shared read with Robin @A Fondness for Reading]
- A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring by Anthony Powell
- A Mere Chance by Ada Cambridge
- Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
- Coonaroo by Katharine Susannah Prichard
- 1788 by Watkin Tench
My previous 25 Spin results look like this:
Happy Spinning!
UPDATE: It’s number 11. I will be reading
While working in a small geological museum, Alexis Hartz meets his cousin Laura, who has discovered a way to enter a geode. Travelling through a vast and glittering landscape of brilliant crystals, Alexis falls passionately in love with Laura. But when they return to the ordinary world, only friendship remains. He yearns for the perfect world of the crystals, and returning there becomes a perilous obsession. But is the crystal world as real as it seems, or is his mind succumbing to its dark powers?
First written in 1864, this little known work by George Sand is a fantastical novel in the truest sense of the word.
This Reading Life 
I’ve read it so many times but Pride and Prejudice is calling to me! Have a wonderful spin, Brona!
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I haven’t read P&P for nearly a decade – I’m LONG overdue for a reread. The annotated edition should make it even more fun than usual.
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Oh yes, I think reading an annotated version would be a real delight.
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I could say, how do you have so many great books waiting to be read that you can select one by lottery. But I have shelves of books I never seem to have time to get to – all of Dumas and all of Walter Scott for instance. I’m not sure which of yours to wish for, but I see the Cambridge is available from Proj Gutenberg so I’ll download it to my Kindle and maybe even find time to read it.
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Proj Gutenberg is great for sourcing some of the older Aust classics, but I’m struggling with my epub version of All That Swagger – so many spelling mistakes (or it could be Franklin’s Irish vernacular!) Also finding the story itself a bit of a drag….
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Applause for completing all the CC Spins, bravo, Brona!
I have a Willa Cather’s too on my list – My Antonia – but I’ll read it no matter what the spin will bring me, so I hope you’d get number 4! 🙂
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Thanks Fanda – a Cather would be nice about now – I’m struggling with my seventh Zola book – I guess there had to be one that wouldn’t appeal in a series of 20.
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What a great list! Hiroshima is a powerful and unforgettable read and as painful as it is, I think everyone should read it. Good luck with the spin!
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I did attempt to read it after my trip to Japan three years ago, but found it too heavy going for my post-holiday mood. A spin might be the push I need to try again.
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Great list! I vote for the Dream of the Red Chamber, because it scares me a bit and if you like it I’ll put it on my list.
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It scares me too Jean!!
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Ohhh, tempted as I am, I don’t think I should do this one.
What I need to tackle is my pile of books that I bought in the late 90s and the early noughties.
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Maybe we should do a TBR spin to tackle those more modern titles 😀
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Cathy 746 would be in that one!
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Hey, that’s a fun idea!
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I recently read The sign of the four and The dead secret, enjoy ^^
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I’m trying to read Sherlock Holmes in chronological order. My edition has the first 4 stories in it. I read the first for the the second-to-last spin, so hope to get the next one soon. It was thoroughly enjoyable.
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Ooh, a bunch of things I don’t know. Really I hope you get one of those. But Sherlock Holmes is great, and Suetonius is wonderfully gossipy, though who knows how true it is. I remember liking Little Dorrit, but it’s been years, and I could reread it.
It would be interesting about the annotated P&P.
Happy spinning!
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I’m trying to keep up with my Australian classics reading, so always add a few titles to each spin 🙂
I’m secretly hoping for the P&P too – feeling the need for a comfort read right now.
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If it’s #9, we’ll be reading Little Dorrit together.
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Great, I will add you to my post 🙂
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So many interesting books on your list. I have read “s 6 and 9.
Here is my <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-classics-club-classics-spin-
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Love the diversity of your spin list Marianne – nice to see so many books in translation.
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Well, some of them are in my own language but I love to read books from all over the world.
Looking forward to seeing what we both will be reading. “The Dream of the Red Chamber” would be a great addition to your previous spins.
Good luck.
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It looks like my link didn’t come out properly, so here I try again:
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I’ve long enjoyed the Sherlock stories, and Wilkie Collins is a favorite (although I don’t think I’ve read The Dead Secret), but if I had to pick, I’d choose Pride and Prejudice. Making my own spin list, I was a little disappointed I didn’t include any Austen in my Club list—although, truthfully, I’m not sure I ever need a list to prompt me to reread Austen. Enjoy!
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Since working in an Indy bookshop, I do not reread books any where near as often as I used to. I miss being able to spend time with old favourites.
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Wow! Good for you! And good luck.
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Ooo how exciting that we have both have Sense and Sensibility at no.2 on our lists – It would be great if we got to read it together! Good luck and happy Spinning! 😊
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wow, I had no idea George Sand wrote in that genre. I need someone so far from France to introduce me to it!!
And I’m impressed by your wall of Spins!
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