Classics Club Reading Challenge - Spin #31

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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