Classics Club Spin #29

My reading this year has been mostly “free range,” so I am a little hesitant to commit myself to reading any specific thing, but I’m also still willing to keep at my Classics Club list. Well, my rejiggered Classics Club list. Earlier in the year, I moved a few titles off the list and replaced them with backlog books—books I own but haven’t read. I’d like to kill as many birds with the fewest number of stones possible.

Anyway: Classics Club Spin is an occasional event put on by the Classics Club blog. I take my list and pick twenty books I haven’t read yet. On Sunday (March 20th), CC picks a number between 1 and 20. I read the corresponding book by April 20th.

So, here’s my list:

1. Tales of Terror and Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
3. The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
4. The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham
5. The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
6. In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn
7. The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
8. King Solomon’s Mines by Henry Rider Haggard
9. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
10. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
11. Curious, if True Strange Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
12. Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
13. Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
15. Shakespeare’s Sonnets by William Shakespeare
16. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
17. Middlemarch by George Eliot
18. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
19. The Monk by M. G. Lewis
20. The Mummy! by Jane Webb Loudon