Classics Club Reading Challenge - Spin #30

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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