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 December 6, 2022.) This "master list" is shown below.
On December 11, 2022, the Classics Club blog will post their CC Spin #32, 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 29th of January, 2023.
Duration of Challenge: December 11 - January 29, 2023
Number selected for Spin #32 - 6
Spin List1. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
2. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
3. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
4. Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) – Pierce Brown
5. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
*6. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
7. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
8. 438 Days – Jonathan Franklin
9. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
10. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
11. Dracula – Bram Stoker
12. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
13. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
14. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
15. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
16. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosiński
17. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
18. Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
19. Ulysses – James Joyce
20. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
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 entire series, so I have listed the books in those series that 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 in the series. In order to get my Spin List, I used a Table of Random Numbers to generate 20 numbers from 1 to 71 (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. Ulysses – James Joyce
28. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
29. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
30. The Commitments – Roddy Doyle
31. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
32. Dracula – Bram Stoker
33. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) – C.S. Lewis
34. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
35. The Odyssey – Homer
36. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
37. 438 Days – Jonathan Franklin
38. How to be Champion – Sarah Millican
39. The Romanov Sisters – Helen Rappaport
40. The Martian – Andy Weir
41. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1) – Deborah Harkness
42. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) – Stephen King
43. Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) – Pierce Brown
44. Hamilton: The Revolution – Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
45. The Fireman – Joe Hill
46. The Radium Girls – Kate Moore
47. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
48. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
49. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
50. Play It As It Lays – Joan Didion
51. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosiński
52. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
53. Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
54. Go Tell It On the Mountain – James Baldwin
55. A Death in the Family – James Agee
56. Blindness – José Saramago
57. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
58. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
59. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
60. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
61. Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
62. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
63. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
64. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
65. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
66. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
67. Watership Down – Richard Adams
68. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
69. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
70. The Stranger – Albert Camus
71. 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 #33 - Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #33 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #33 - The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #33 - The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #33 - The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #33 - The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) – C.S. Lewis
Replaces #40 - Artemis – Andy Weir
Replaces #41 - Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2) – Deborah Harkness
Replaces #41 - The Book of Life (All Souls, #3) – Deborah Harkness
Replaces #42 - Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) – Stephen King
Replaces #42 - End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) – Stephen King
Replaces #43 - Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2) – Pierce Brown
Replaces #61 - These Happy Golden Years (Little House, #8) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Replaces #61 - The First Four Years (Little House, #9) – Laura Ingalls Wilder
List of completed Spins!
Spin #31 - Misery by Stephen King (August 9, 2022)#ccspin
