I am following my friend Cecilia’s lead and participating in the Classics Spin. It sounds like fun. It isn’t clear to me if you have to be a member of the Classics Club or not, but anyway, here goes. I have to make my own list of 20 classics, and then each month the club will arbitrarily pick a number, and I have to read and review that book that month. Sounds like fun! Most of these are books I haven’t read, although there are a few I want to reread in the near future. Here is my list, in no particular order.

1. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Summer by Edith Wharton
3. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
4. Stoner by John Williams
5. Middlemarch by George Eliot
6. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
7. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
8. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
9. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
10. Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
13. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
14. Beloved by Toni Morrison
15. Light in August by William Faulkner
16. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
17. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro
19. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
20. The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson