The Classics Club Spin #19

How time flies because it’s time for another Classics Club spin.  And not just any old spin but ‘an extra special, super-dooper CHUNKSTER edition’!  This time, the wonderful people who run The Classics Club are encouraging us to fill our spin list with 20 of the HUGE books we may have put off reading up until now.

For those unfamiliar with how the spin works, here are the step-by-step instructions:

• At your blog, before next Tuesday 27th November 2018, create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list. This is your Spin List.
• You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.
• On Tuesday 27th November, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List, by 31st January 2019.

When I looked at the unread books left on my Classics Club list, I was disappointed to find (OK, that’s a lie) that I don’t have that many huge books to choose from and very few that would qualify as ‘chunksters’.  However, I’ve selected the twenty biggest books…many of which will probably viewed as positively svelte by some.   Knowing my luck, though, I’ll end up with the biggest one anyway.  (The page numbers are in some cases from Goodreads so may not be accurate.  Gulp, you mean the books might actually have more pages than shown…?)

My Classics Club Spin #19 List

1. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (281 pages)
2. Villette by Charlotte Bronte (575 pages)
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (374 pages)
4. Sick Heart River by John Buchan (318 pages)
5. Kindred by Octavia E Butler (295 pages)
6. Romola by George Eliot (708 pages)
7. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (461 pages)
8. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (304 pages)
9. Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann (255 pages)
10. The Town House by Norah Lofts (301 pages)
11. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (359 pages)
12. A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates (406 pages)
13. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers (483 pages)
14. Katherine by Anya Seton (516 pages)
15. The Last Man by Mary Shelley (291 pages)
16. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (528 pages)
17. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (343 pages)
18. The Flowers of Adonis by Rosemary Sutcliff (425 pages)
19. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin (361 pages)
20. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (234 pages)

Will you be taking part in the Classics Club Spin #19?  If so, what’s the biggest book on your spin list and are you excited or daunted by the prospect of reading it?