Classics Club Spin #19

Classics Club Spin #19

It's time for my first Classics Club spin challenge and—of course, because why not—it is CHUNKSTER themed! Per the announcement:

This is an extra special, super-dooper CHUNKSTER edition of the Classics Club Spin. We challenge you to fill this spin list with 20 of those HUGE books you’ve been putting off reading because you didn’t have enough time. With this spin we are giving you the time  – nearly 10 weeks in fact – to tackle one of those imposing tomes on your classics shelf.

This semester, I'm in a course on James Joyce, and I've been reading Ulysses for the past couple of months (79% done!), so of course (heh) "big books" is the theme of this challenge. Also, I just read Jane Eyre for the club, and it's definitely a chunkster, too. So many big books! Zoinks! I'm committed to participating in the spin, though, so I made sure to keep the one big book from my main list that I couldn't deal with having to read right now, The Odyssey, off of my short list. Now I'm ready to knock one of these books off my list. Bring it, spinner!

1. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
2. The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
3. Genet by Edmund White
4. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
5. Border Country by Raymond Williams
6. This Child’s Gonna Live by Sarah E. Wright
7. La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc
8. Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
9. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
11. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
12. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
13. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
14. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
15. Journey to the End of the Night by Céline
16. The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
17. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
18. Kipps by HG Wells
19. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
20. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Updated 11/27: And the number chosen was 1! Good thing I adjusted my list because I originally had The Odyssey as #1. Looking forward to reading Lady Chatterley's Lover, especially since it, like Ulysses, faced a long censorship battle.