This year despite all the turbulence, both personal and pandemic related has been a very good reading year! After many years have, I been able to read to my heart’s content and though there have been some reading events I failed, in most I had moderate success. Therefore, I thought I will go for the last Spin of the year hosted by Classic Club. CC Spin #25.
The rules as always are simple enough and I quote again from the Classic Club Page –
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Sunday 22nd November.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 30th January 2021.
I know I am posting this on Sunday 22nd November but I am sneaking it in under the cover Time Zone differences. Anyhow, here is my list of 20 Books1
- The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarrington
- Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
- Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
- Wives and Daughter by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
- So Big by Edna Ferber
- Son Excellence Eugène Rougon by Emile Zola
- The Bucaneers by Edith Wharton
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- And Quiet Flows The Dawn by Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
- A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
- Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem Aleichem
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Kumarasambhava by Kalidasa
- Gora by Rabindranath Tagore
- Gossip in a Library by Edmund Grosse
- Staying on by Paul Scott
- White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
That’s my list! With an exception of Zola and Gaskell, I am pretty edgy about most! But then I have discovered that the books I am most anxious about are the one I love the most! So here’s hoping for the best – Happy Spinning Everyone!
A great variety of books, some I’ve never heard about and many Russians, which I haven’t read enough 🙂
Thank You! Russian Literature is very rich and I hope to read more some day!
That’s a really interesting and varied list – good luck!
Thanks Karen! 🙂
Edmund Gosse has been a favorite in the past… i should reread him sometime… So Big is an interesting choice…
I have his Gossip in the Library…I need to read it soon! So Big seemed like something I should read once!
Ooo, and you’re in under the wire! Goodness, I was going to read The Life and Opinions this year and never did so if you get it ….. hmmmm ….. And there is Tevye! I may also be a reading partner for Wives and Daughters and the Bucaneers ….. I’m looking forward to the result, my friend! Good luck!
Someday we will get to Life and Times! But I am so excited you are reading Tevye with me! It’s been ages we read anything together! Also let’s read Wives and Daughters soon…..let’s face it together that after this book, there is no more “unread” Gaskell!