The Classics Club is having an event called The Classics Spin. The event will run from February 10 to April 2. Basically, I have to choose 5 books that I am dreading to read, 5 that I can’t wait to read, 5 that I feel neutral about, and 5 others of my choice. I am posting the list today, but people who want to participate in this event have until next Monday, February 10 to post their book list. On February 10, I will be assigned a number from 1-20, and I must read the corresponding book by April 2. So here is my list:
Books I Am Dreading to Read
1. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
2. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
3. Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) – Stendhal
4. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
5. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Books I Can’t Wait to Read
6. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
7. Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
8. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
9. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
10. De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) – Jules Verne
Books I Feel Neutral About
11. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
12. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
13. Watership Down – Richard Adams
14. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
15. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Free Choices
16. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
17. The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson
18. 1984 – George Orwell
19. The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
20. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
