I wish I had known about this idea when it started but I'm glad I'm learning about it now. The basic idea is to list 20 "classic" novels and wait for the magic number to be revealed next week which will tell me the book I will be reading. I like this idea because, in a way, it forces me to read a classic that I keep pushing back on my TBR list because there are SO many New Releases that I keep giving precedence to! So, here is my (quickly put together) list of "classic" novels that I own and, most importantly, have not read yet!
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. Middlemarch by George Eliot
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
7. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
9. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
10. Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
11. BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara
12. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
13. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
14. Orlando by Virgina Woolf
15. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
16. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
17. Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
18. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
20. Richard III by William Shakespeare
What a great list! I loved The Five Children and It; I couldn't stop laughing. I just finished Madame Bovary and was left feeling rather flat, yet Flaubert's descriptions can be really wonderful. I'm going to be reading The Screwtape Letters for my C.S. Lewis project this month; I've read it a couple of times already and it's very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get the book you are hoping for! Happy spinning! :-)