Showing posts with label spin list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spin list. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Spin List for March

I didn't post this in time for the spin, but I already had the list ready to go.  I haven't checked to see what #8 is in my list yet... Here goes:
  1. How German is It Abish
  2. A Death in the Family Agee
  3. Humboldt's Gift Bellow
  4. G Berger
  5. The Chaneysville Incident Bradley
  6. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain  Butler
  7. The Green Lantern Charyn
  8. The Woman in White Collins
  9. The Inheritance of Loss Desai
  10. The Reivers Faulkner
  11. The Keepers of the House Grau
  12. Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson
  13. The Way West  Guthrie
  14. Mrs. Kimball Haigh
  15. The Bone People Hulme
  16. Brave New World Huxley
  17. The Executioner's Song Mailer
  18. Lonesome Dove McMurtry
  19. Tales of the South Pacific Michener
  20. Lolita Nabakov
And the winner is The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.  Good gracious it's huge!  After reading the back cover, I guess it is not about a nurse.  lol

Friday, December 4, 2015

Spin List for December 2015

Here is my spin list for December 2015.  All titles are taken from my list of 50 in 5 years.  I eliminated most of the books I did not think I could complete in a single month, though some of these would be really challenging as well.

  1. "Prometheus Bound" by Aeschylus, 14 pp., c. 480 BC
  2. "Medea", "Electra", "The Orestes", "Andromache" 
    • & "Iphigenia Among the Tauri"
  3. "The Clouds", "The Birds", "The Frogs" & "The Lysistrata" 
    • by Aristophanes
  4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, 244 pp.
  5. The Annals by Tacitus, 188 pp., c. 109 AD
  6. The Confessions by St. Augustine, 128 pp., 398 AD
  7. King Henry the Fourth by Shakespeare, 69 pp., 1596
  8. King Lear by Shakespeare, 1608
  9. Pensees by Pascal, 184 pp., 1670
  10. The Social Contract by Rousseau, 52 pp., 1762
  11. Faust by Goethe, 294 pp., 1808
  12. The Essays of Emerson, 262 pp., 1841
  13. Barchester Towers by Trollope, 476 pp., 1857
  14. Middlemarch by Elliot, 831 pp., 1871
  15. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, 935 pp., 1875
  16. Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, 366 pp., 1913
  17. Brave New World by Huxley, 237 pp., 1932
  18. The Reivers by Faulkner, 305 pp, 1962
  19. The Known World by Jones, 388 pp., 2003
  20. The Sea by Banville, 195 pp., 2005

Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington - 1922

Booth Tarkington won a second time with Alice Adams in 1922.  Alice Adams is another highly class conscious tale in which the title charac...