Forgive me bloggers, it’s been four years since my last Classics Club spin. This is the season though, I like to read a classic at the end of the year. There’s no theme for Spin #32, but the rules remain the same: pick twenty books from your Classics Club list (which of course I no longer maintain) wait till the random number is pulled (tomorrow) and read that book over the next month. Simple. You can use a theme, or do a classic “five books I’m dreading, five books I’m looking forward to” etc. but I’m short on time so how about a random number generator and the 1,001 Books list? Here we go:

1. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
2. The Information by Martin Amis
3. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
4. The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
5. American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
6. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
7. A Question of Power by Bessie Head
8. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargos Llosa
9. Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
10. Evelina by Frances Burney
11. No Laughing Matter by Angus Wilson
12. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
13. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
14. Arcanum 17 by André Breton
15. To The North by Elizabeth Bowen
16. Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo
17. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
18. The Talk of the Town by Ardal O’Hanlon
19. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
20. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

So I’ve not even heard of twelve of these! And I may reserve the right to substitute another Frances Burney novel if I land on Evelina, just because I’ve read it somewhat recently. Though it was awfully fun. Check in tomorrow to learn my fate…