The Classics Club is doing another Spin.  Even though I said I wouldn’t do any challenges this month, this will be my first Spin, and since I’ve got until Jan. 5th to complete one book, I decided to participate.  Part of the challenge is to choose five of my Classics Club books I’m hesitant to read, five I can’t wait to read, five I’m neutral about, and five free choice.  The problem with that is I didn’t put any books on my Classics Club list that I knew I wouldn’t want to read.  So, instead, I chose five books that I think are lengthy/dense and/or difficult for the modern reader.  Those are in bold.  The five I can’t wait to read are italicized, and the five neutral books are in regular text.  The five underlined books are my free choices.  I’ve either read them many years ago, started them but never finished, or I already own them and it’s a matter of convenience.

1. Kafka, Franz: The Trial
2. London, Jack: White Fang
3. Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
4. Bronte, Anne: Agnes Grey
5. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
6. Dickens, Charles: Oliver Twist
7. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter
8. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
9. Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
10. Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
11. Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland
12. Yeats, William Butler: Irish Faerie Tales
13. Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe
14. Flaubert, Gustav: Madame Bovary
15. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
16. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
17. Proust, Marcel: Swann’s Way
18. Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
19. Gogol, Nikolay: Dead Souls
20. Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth

Once the Spin number is announced (Monday, Nov. 10th), I’ll post which book I’ll be reading.  Depending on which book it is, I might create a read-along for those of you who would like to read it too.

Are you in the Classics Club?  If so, are you participating in the Spin?