Hooray, it's time for another Classics Spin! Head on over and take a look at the rules. The goal is to read the chosen title by May 15. And...t
his time I decided to stuff my list with the giant scary chunksters. Not all of them are giant and scary, but really quite a lot of them are. This does mean that there's a good chance I won't be able to finish my title by the deadline, but what is life without a little danger?- Henry James, 1902, The Wings of the Dove.
- Chaim Potok, 1972, My Name is Asher Lev.
- Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made.
- Venerable Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
- On the Origin of Species, Darwin (1859)
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth.
- Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks
- Thomas Mann, Germany, 1924. The Magic Mountain.
- Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum
- Grimmelhausen, Simplicissimus
- Feodor Dostoevsky, Russia, Brothers Karamazov
- Junichio Tanizaki, Japan, 1943. The Makioka Sisters
- VS Naipul, Trinidad, 1979. A Bend in the River.
- Mario Vargas Llosa, The Time of the Hero
- Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, 1375. Muqaddimah.
- Murasaki Shikubu, Japan, ca. 990.The Tale of Genji (abridged).
- Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Chaka
- Solzhenitsyn, 1974, The Gulag Archipelago. (abridged)
- Anthony Trollope, 1865, Can You Forgive Her?
- “Why We Can’t Wait,” Martin Luther King Jr.
Some of these are also on my TBR 2015 list. Some are just sitting on my shelf, waiting to be read, without an official TBR challenge status. And with one or two, I'm not quite sure yet how I'll get them.... |
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