So. 
I saw on Twitter this morning that the latest SPIN! number was about to be announced and then…
I missed the interim window to make my list because I saw that the SPIN! number was published! Ooops. whoops. I hadn’t made my list yet.
So I entered 20 books into a random list order generator and so I could still be surprised by whichever book landed on the SPIN.
Here’s the list BEFORE I entered them into the randomizer:
The Three Musketeers – Alex Dumas
Jude the Obscure – Hardy
the Woodlanders – Hardy
Rabbit, Run – Updike
Naked Lunch – Wm Burroughs
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The House of the Seven Gables – Hawthorne
Vanity Fair – Thackeray
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
Candide – Voltaire
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Confederacy of Dunces – JKToole
Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup
The Way We Live Now – Trollope
the Counterfeiters – A. Gide
A Handful of Dust – Waugh
The Ox-bow Incident – Walter Van Tilberg Clark
Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City
and here’s the results UP to the SPIN NUMBER of 9:
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the Woodlanders – Hardy
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The Way We Live Now – Trollope
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Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City
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The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
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Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup
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Rabbit, Run – Updike
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Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
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Jude the Obscure – Hardy
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Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Alrighty then! Off to the library website to order the book. Or go to Audible and check if the narration is highly rated? Maybe. I have a credit to use…
Glad you thought of the random list generator. I’ve never read that one – hope you enjoy it!
I love the spin. I couldn’t not play!
What a clever way to miss the spin but still be IN the spin!! I’ve heard of that book, but I thought I should re-read Jane Eyre first. I’ll be interested in your review!
Oh, you must try the Thandie Newton narration of Jane Eyre! So very very good.
❤️
Adam! LOVED your essay/response to that odd odd SPin crit post.
I really need to read more classics but I’m stuck in an easy read rut.
READ! Read what you can, read what you will, read all you want, to get your reading FILL! (poem.)
Yayyy! I always love seeing what people are reading with their classics club spin. I can’t wait to hear what you think of Wide Sargasso Sea. I’m never going to read it because I am too scared it would ruin Jane Eyre for me! So I must depend on the opinions of others. :p
I had trouble with Wide Sargasso Sea. It is not a straight forward narrative. If you can find it on audio, I would be curious to know how that works for you. As I recall, it was all very poetic and stream of consciousness with lots of intense, lush imagery. So if the right person read it to me, I might “get” it more than I did reading it on my own way back when. 🙂
Glad you found a way to spin things to work for you 🙂
WSS is on my TBR classics list – good luck with it.