A few days ago I posted my list for Classics Club Spin #6. I was pleased with my list, all classics that I’ve been eager to read or that I think I ‘should’ read. Let me share my list with you once more:
- Abe, Kōbō – The Woman in the Dunes
- Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
- Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
- Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
- Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden
- Dickens, Charles – Tale of Two Cities
- Forster, E.M. – Maurice
- Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
- Grossmith, George – The Diary of a Nobody
- Hermans, Willem Frederik – De donkere kamer van Damokles (The Darkroom of Damocles)
- Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
- Isherwood, Christopher – Goodbye to Berlin
- Ishiguro, Kazuo – Remains of the Day
- Kafka, Franz – The Trial
- Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
- Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind
- Mulisch, Harry – De Ontdekking van de Hemel (The Discovery of Heaven)
- Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
- Thackeray, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair
Well, the Classics Club announced the winning number yesterday and the winner is…
*drumroll*
#1: The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
Awesome! I can’t wait to get started! I probably won’t get around to it until halfway June, but the aim is to read it before July 7 and that I shall do.
