Classics Club: The First Year in Review (and a new Spin List!)

When I compiled my list last year, I made efforts to keep the number small and attainable.  It has grown since then, so I've been curious to see where I stand.

Here's What I've Read:

1. My Antonia
2. Watership Down
3. The Warden
4. The  Painted Veil
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
6. Frankenstein
7. Youth and the Bright Medusa
8. On the Road
9. How Green Was My Valley
10. One of Ours
11. The End of the Affair
12. Lady Windermere's Fan
13. A Lost Lady
14. Fellowship of the Ring
15. Persuasion
16. Pygmalion
17. River of Earth
18. The Beautiful and Damned
19. Crime and Punishment
20. The Professor's House
21. My Mortal Enemy
22. The Great Divorce

Doesn't look too shabby to me, especially because I'm currently working on 3 others (Grapes of Wrath, Hound of the Baskervilles, Eugene Onegin) and because they haven't all been a cakewalk (On the Road, Fellowship of the Ring, Crime and Punishment).  I think that it has definitely been beneficial to have them listed in one spot.  And it is certainly fun to be able to cross them off!

In other news, the Classics Club is doing another Spin List selection, and since the first one worked out so well for me (with The Beautiful and Damned) I thought I'd give it another go.  [update: looks like it's #6!]

5 Books I'm Afraid Of (because it weighs more than my cat, because it was written before my country began, because it's probably WAY too melodramatic, etc. etc.)

  1. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

  2. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  3. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy

  4. Native Son, Richard Wright

  5. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe

5 Books I Think I'll Like (but never got around to & am now ambivalent towards)

  6. Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope

  7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

  8. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

  9. Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell

 10. Cakes and Ale, W.Somerset Maugham

5 Novella Pairings (I need to get those novellas read!)

 11. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Marley & Stempenyu by Sholem Aleichem

 12. The Duel by Anton Chekov and The Duel by Alexander Kuprin

 13. The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl by Italo Svevo and The Touchstone by Edith Wharton

 14. The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling and May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 15. Le Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire and Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

5 Modern[ish] Picks (because most of my classics hail from the 19th century)

 16. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

 17. Things Fall apart, Chinua Achebe

 18. The Bell, Iris Murdoch

 19. Easter Parade, Richard Yates

 20. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh