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, my ending number is 72 (as of September 13, 2022.) This "master list" is shown below.
On September 18, 2022, the Classics Club blog will post their CC Spin #31, 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 30th of October, 2022. Although the Classics Club has been at this for quite awhile (Spin #31!), this is only my second time to participate. My first spin was Misery by Stephen King.
Duration of Challenge: September 18 - October 30, 2022
Number selected for Spin #31 - 2
Spin List
1. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) – Sophocles
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
3. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
4. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson, #2) – Rick Riordan
5. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
6. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
7. The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi
8. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) – Stephen King
9. The Commitments – Roddy Doyle
10. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
11. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
12. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
13. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling
14. The Martian – Andy Weir
15. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #1) – Jules Verne
16. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
17. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
18. The Odyssey – Homer
19. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
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 further down the page. As I complete a series book from the master list, I will replace it with the next one the series. In order to get my Spin List, I used a Table of Random Numbers to generate 20 numbers from 1 to 72 (the total number of books in the Master List.
Master List
1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #1) – Jules Verne
2. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1) – Sophocles
3. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
4. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
5. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
6. The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi
7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
8. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson, #2) – Rick Riordan
9. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
10. Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
11. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
12. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
13. A Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
14. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
15. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
16. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
17. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
18. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) – J.K. Rowling
19. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
20. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
21. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
22. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
23. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
24. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
25. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) – J.R.R. Tolkien
26. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
27. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
28. Ulysses – James Joyce
29. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
30. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
31. The Commitments – Roddy Doyle
32. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
33. Dracula – Bram Stoker
34. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) – C.S. Lewis
35. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
36. The Odyssey – Homer
37. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
38. 438 Days – Jonathan Franklin
39. How to be Champion – Sarah Millican
40. The Romanov Sisters – Helen Rappaport
41. The Martian – Andy Weir
42. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) – Deborah Harkness
43. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) – Stephen King
44. Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) – Pierce Brown
45. Hamilton: The Revolution – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
46. The Fireman – Joe Hill
47. The Radium Girls – Kate Moore
48. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
49. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
50. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
51. Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
52. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosiński
53. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
54. Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
55. Go Tell It On the Mountain – James Baldwin
56. A Death in the Family – James Agee
57. Blindness – José Saramago
58. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
59. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
60. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
61. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
62. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
63. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
64. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
65. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
66. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
67. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
8. Watership Down – Richard Adams
69. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
70. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
71. The Stranger – Albert Camus
72. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Series books to add as needed. (34)
Replaces #1 - The Mysterious Island (Captain Nemo, #2) – Jules Verne
Replaces #2 - Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2) - Sophocles
Replaces #2 - Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3) – Sophocles
Replaces #8 - Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot (Percy Jackson, #2.5) – Rick Riordan
Replaces #8 - The Titans Curse (Percy Jackson, #3) – Rick Riordan
Replaces #8 - Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon (Percy Jackson, #3.5) – Rick Riordan
Replaces #8 - The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson, #4) – Rick Riordan
Replaces #8 - Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades (Percy Jackson, #4.5) – Rick Riordan
Replaces #8 - The Demigod Files (Percy Jackson, #4.5) – Rick Riordan
Replaces #8 - The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson, #5) – Rick Riordan
Replaces #12 - Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) – J.K. Rowling
Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) – J.K. Rowling
Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) – J.K. Rowling
Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) - J.K. Rowling
Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) – J.K. Rowling
Replaces #18 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) – J.K. Rowling
Replaces #25 - The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) – J.R.R. Tolkien
Replaces #25 - The Return of the Kind (The Lord of the Rings, #3) – J.R.R. Tolkien
Replaces #34 - Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #34 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #34 - The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #34 - The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #34 - The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #34 - The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #41 - Artemis – Andy Weir
Replaces #42 - Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2) – Deborah Harkness
Replaces #42 - The Book of Life (All Souls, #3) – Deborah Harkness
Replaces #43 - Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) – Stephen King
Replaces #43 - End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) – Stephen King
Replaces #44 - Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2) – Pierce Brown
Replaces #41 - Artemis – Andy Weir
Replaces #62 - These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Replaces #62 - The First Four Years (Little House, #9) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
List of completed Spins!
Spin #30 -
Misery by Stephen King (August 9, 2022)
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