Classics Spin #6

It’s time for Classics Spin #6, and I’m getting my list in under the wire! I went the lazy way this time…I’m just recycling my list from Classics Spin #5 and replacing the title I read for that one with a new one. In this case, I replaced one conversion story (C.S. Lewis’s Surprised by Joy) with another (Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain). Seemed like it made sense.

The Rules (from The Classics Club, The Classics Spin #6):

• Go to your blog.
  
• Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
  
• Try to challenge yourself: list five you are dreading/hesitant to read, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favorite author, rereads, ancients — whatever you choose.)
  
• Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog by next Monday.
• Monday morning, we’ll announce a number from 1-20. Go to the list of twenty books you posted, and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce.
• The challenge is to read that book by July 7, even if it’s an icky one you dread reading! (No fair not listing any scary ones!)

My Spin List, gleaned from my Cavalcade of Classics:

1. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
2. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
3. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
4. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup
6. The Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
7. Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
9. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
10. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
11. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
12. The Histories by Herodotus
13. The Republic by Plato
14. Lives by Plutarch
15. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
16. The New England Mind by Perry Miller
17. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
18. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
19. The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith
20. The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan

The Lucky Spin Number will be revealed on Monday, May 12. Drop by then to see what I’ll be reading before July 7!