Here is my current
"Spin" List of 20 books for the "
Classics Club Reading Challenge." This list was developed from the poster
"100 Essential Books" Scratch Off Bucket List. However, since I've already read and scratched off a number of the original books and some "books" were actually series of books, my ending number is 106 (as of June 6, 2022.) This "master list" is shown below.
On June 12, 2022, the Classics Club blog will post their CC Spin #30, a random number from 1 to 20. The challenge is to read and review whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List by the 7th August, 2022. Although the Classics Club has been at this for quite awhile (Spin #30!), this is my first time to participate.
Duration of Challenge: June 12 - August 7, 2022
Number selected for Spin #30 - ??
Spin List
1. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) – Deborah Harkness
2. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
3. The Commitments – Roddy Doyle
4. The Odyssey – Homer
5. Misery – Stephen King
6. The Martian – Andy Weir
7. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling
8. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
9. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
10. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
11. Watership Down – Richard Adams
12. Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
13. How to be Champion – Sarah Millican
14. A Death in the Family – James Agee
15. Go Tell It On the Mountain – James Baldwin
16. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
17. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson, #2) – Rick Riordan
18. The Romanov Sisters – Helen Rappaport
19. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
20. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) – C.S. Lewis
The following is the Master List of what I have left to read on this poster. Some of the selections shown on the poster are actually whole series so I have listed the books in those series which I've not completed. In order to get my Spin List, I used a Table of Random Numbers to generate 40 numbers from 1 to 106 (the total number of books in the Master List. The first number, 67, corresponded with A Discovery of Witches and became the first book on my list of 20 (and so on.)
One problem for me is I don't like to read series' books out of order, hence the 40 random numbers generated. If a number generated led me to a book in the middle of the series, I substituted whichever book in the series was first on the list. So when the random number was 34 which corresponded to Harry Potter and the the Deathly Hallows, the 7th book in the series, I substituted the first unread book in that series, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. If that book's list number, 28, had come up, I planned to skip it and go on to the next random number. Complicated enough? Only to explain.
Anyway, on to the Master List!
Master List
1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #1) – Jules Verne
2.
The Mysterious Island (Captain Nemo, #2) – Jules Verne
3. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) – Sophocles
4.
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2) - Sophocles
5. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3) – Sophocles
6.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
7. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
8.
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
9. The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi
10.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
11. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson, #2) – Rick Riordan
12.
Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot (Percy Jackson, #2.5) – Rick Riordan
13. The Titans Curse (Percy Jackson, #3) – Rick Riordan
14.
Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon (Percy Jackson, #3.5) – Rick Riordan
15. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson, #4) – Rick Riordan
16.
Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades (Percy Jackson, #4.5) – Rick Riordan
17. The Demigod Files (Percy Jackson, #4.5) – Rick Riordan
18.
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson, #5) – Rick Riordan
19. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
20.
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
21. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
22.
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
23. A Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
24.
Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
25. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
26.
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
27. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
28.
Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling
29. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) – J.K. Rowling
30.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) – J.K. Rowling
31. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) – J.K. Rowling
32.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) - J.K. Rowling
33. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) – J.K. Rowling
34.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) – J.K. Rowling
35. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
36.
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
37. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
38.
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
39. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
40.
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
41. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) – J.R.R. Tolkien
42.
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) – J.R.R. Tolkien
43. The Return of the Kind (The Lord of the Rings, #3) – J.R.R. Tolkien
44.
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
45. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
46.
Ulysses – James Joyce
47. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
48.
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
49. The Commitments – Roddy Doyle
50.
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
51. Dracula – Bram Stoker
52.
Misery – Stephen King
53. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) – C.S. Lewis
54.
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) – C.S. Lewis
55. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) – C.S. Lewis
56.
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) – C.S. Lewis
57. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) – C.S. Lewis
58.
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) – C.S. Lewis
59. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) – C.S. Lewis
60.
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
61. The Odyssey – Homer
62.
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
63. 438 Days – Jonathan Franklin
64.
How to be Champion – Sarah Millican
65. The Romanov Sisters – Helen Rappaport
66.
The Martian – Andy Weir
67. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) – Deborah Harkness
68.
Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2) – Deborah Harkness
69. The Book of Life (All Souls, #3) – Deborah Harkness
70.
Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) – Stephen King
71. Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) – Pierce Brown
72.
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2) – Pierce Brown
73. Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
74.
Hamilton: The Revolution – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
75. The Fireman – Joe Hill
76.
Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) – Stephen King
77. End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) – Stephen King
78.
The Radium Girls – Kate Moore
79. Artemis – Andy Weir
80.
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
81. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
82.
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
83. Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
84.
The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosiński
85. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
86.
Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
87. Go Tell It On the Mountain – James Baldwin
88.
A Death in the Family – James Agee
89. Blindness – José Saramago
90.
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
91. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
92.
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
93. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
94.
Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
95. These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
96.
The First Four Years (Little House, #9) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
97. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
98.
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100.
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
101. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
102.
Watership Down – Richard Adams
103. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
104.
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
105. The Stranger – Albert Camus
106.
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
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