Apparently it’s time for another Classics Club Spin. For the spin, each Classics Club member posts a list of 20 books from their Classics Club list. On August 9, the club picks a number which determines the book the member will read by September 30.
So, here is my list! I find I only have about 20 books left to read!
- I Go by Land, I Go by Sea by P. L. Travers
- The Prince by Machievelli
- August Folly by Angela Thirkell
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
- The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
- Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
- The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
- The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
- Joanna Godden by Sheila Kay-Smith
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- The Viscount de Bragelone by Alexandre Dumas
- The Winged Horse by Pamela Frankau
- Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
- Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
- Evelina by Frances Burney
Have you read any of these? Which do you hope I’ll get?
What? Me Read? 
I’ve enjoyed a few of those, particularly The Sea Hawk and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The Brothers Karamazov is on my spin list too but at a different number. Good luck!
Good luck to you, too! I seldom get the book I want, but they’re all on my list, so I’ll read them sometime!
I had no idea that P.L. Travers wrote different books than the Mary Poppins books. Your list includes more than one lesser-known book by a famous author (Shakespeare, Dumas, Marlowe). The only book on your list that I’ve read is “The Prince”. It’s a fascinating piece of early political science. I would recommend a good critical edition to get the historical background. The Italian Wars were way over my head but I found William J. Connell’s edition quite helpful.
I’ve read a bit about the wars in fiction. I might have been cheating a little, because I’ve already read this one just haven’t posted the review yet.
Darn – there are books on this list I’ve never heard of! I’ve read Mansfield Park – good and worthwhile but maybe not Austen’s best. The Prince might provide insight into our current political situation, if you can stand it. But The Last of the Wine is what I’d hope for at this point; sounds wistful and escapist, with maybe some wisdom thrown in.
I enjoyed My Brilliant Career, and while I haven’t read The Duchess of Malfi I’ve seen it performed a couple of times – it’s great, so long as you can cope with some serious melodrama!
I am sure I haven’t seen it or read it, but I know it’s seriously over the top.