Classics Club Spin #20

Well, it certainly has been a minute since I last posted. It was October I believe. It's not that I haven't been reading, I have. Unlike past quiet periods I've been reading more. In late October I started working for an online bookstore and it's taken up most of my time. I haven't really had the energy or motivation to write. I'm also a university student so my time is limited. But things have calmed down a little in my personal life and I've gotten a handle on my busy schedule. This year I've mostly been reading Ivan Turgenev and Virginia Woolf who are my two favourite writers. It wasn't planned but it's been nice just sitting with their works and letting their words wash over my soul. It's been much needed. Now, however, I'm ready to take a dive back into my Classics Club list and this Spin couldn't come at a better time.

The Rules for the Classics Club Spin are: 

1. Go to your blog
2. Pick 20 books that you've got to read from your Classics Club list (mine is here)
3. Post that list, numbered 1 to 20, on your blog by next Monday
4. Monday morning we'll announce a number from 1 to 20. Go to the list of 20 books you posted and select the book that corresponds to the number we announce
5. The challenge is to read that book before May 31st.

My list is: 

1. The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Volume One) - Leo Guanzhong
3. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
4. The Tennant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
5. Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
6. The Oresteia - Aeschylus
7. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
8. The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo
9. Rudin - Ivan Turgenev
10. King Lear - William Shakespeare
11. Daphnis and Chloe - Longus
12. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
14. The Vita Merlini - Geoffrey of Monmouth
15. Mary and the Wrongs of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
16. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
17. Epic of Gilgamesh - Anonymous
18. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
19. Metamorphoses - Ovid
20. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake


I've thrown in a couple I'm looking forward to read, a few I've been meaning to read for a long time and a couple I'm dreading because of the density or size. Can't wait to see what I get!