Delving into the Classics – the Return of the Spin

Just when I’ve been revisiting the life of Katherine Mansfield the Classics Club are rolling out another Spin Challenge. This is the perfect challenge if you feel like a change from reading the latest thing everyone’s talking about. Or if you want to escape into another era or ease into a writing style that has a slower more considered pace. Or maybe you just want to ditch the quandary of what to read next. I can probably say yes to all of that.

So I’ll be reading a book from the following list that corresponds to a number chosen by the Classics Club.

1 Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930)
2 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
3 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (1938)
4 The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham (1957)
5 The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing (1950)
6 A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute (1950)
7 The Garden Party and other stories by Katherine Mansfield (1922)
8 A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell (1951)
9 The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Buchan (1938)
10 Vittoria Cottage by D E Stevenson (1949)
11 Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon (1928)
12 Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence (1913)
13 The Warden by Anthony Trollope (1855
14 Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple (1953)
15 To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
16  A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor (1951)
17 Lotte in Weimar by Thomas Mann (1939)
18 The River by Rumer Golden (1946)
19 The End of the Affair by Graham Green (1951)
20 Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)