Classics Club Redux: The List

Last year I pretty much gave up on my Classics Club List -- from my original list of 75, I had six left to go which I'd been putting off forever. I'd tried reading all of them at least once and just couldn't get into them. Since I started with 75 I thought that I'd done pretty well and decided to take a break, though I had made a tentative second list.

I forgot all about it and the Classics Club, but I've been blogging a lot more lately (around the end of the year I usually get revved up again while planning the Back to the Classics Challenge). This week a lot of bloggers are signing up for the next Classics Club Spin, which is always really fun. Basically, participants pull 20 books from their list and number them, then a random number from one to twenty  is chosen, and everyone reads whichever number book corresponds. It's a really fun way to choose a book off your list and I always enjoyed it.

Well, I do love making lists, and it's always fun to have someone else choose your next read. But before I can choose a list of twenty for the spin I had to come up with another Classics Club List. Some of the titles are more obscure classics because in the past 12 years or so since I seriously started reading, I've read a lot of the major works -- I'm getting down to the less-well known titles and authors. Also, I've really stopped buying classics that I can get for free from the library or digital download. Nowadays, I usually only buy books that I can't find otherwise.

This time, I've chosen only books from my own shelves, and I didn't choose any books from the TBR Pile Challenge because I know I'm definitely going to read those -- I really want to make some progress with my owned-and-unread books and I think this will really inspire me. Without further ado:

1. The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim
2. Imperial Palace by Arnold Bennett
3. Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
4. Bond Street Story by Norman Collins
5. One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens
6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
8. My American by Stella Gibbons
9. Westwood by Stella Gibbons
10. Living/Loving/Party Going by Henry Green
11. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
12. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
13. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
14. The Hireling by L. P. Hartley
15. The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
16. Mandoa, Mandoa! by Winifred Holtby
17. A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse
18. Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy
19. Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann
20. The Little Ottleys by Ada Leverson
21. The World My Wilderness by Rose Macauley
22. Whiskey Galore by Compton Mackenzie
23. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
24. The Pumpkin-Eater by Penelope Mortimer
25. In Confidence by Irene Nemirovsky
26. The Misunderstanding by Irene Nemirovsky
27. One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
28. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
29. A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
30. Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal
31. Summer Half by Angela Thirkell
32. Pomfret Towers by Angela Thirkell
33. Is He Popinjoy? by Anthony Trollope
34. Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope
35. Linda Tressel and Nina Balatka by Anthony Trollope
36. An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope
37. Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope
38. Roughing It by Mark Twain
39. The Children by Edith Wharton
40. The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton
41. Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton
42. Frost in May by Antonia White
43. Barmy in Wonderland by P. G. Wodehouse
44. Jenny Wren by E. H. Young
45. The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young
46. La Debacle by Emile Zola
47. The Fortunes of the Rougons by Emile Zola
48. A Love Episode by Emile Zola
49. Money by Emile Zola
50. Beware of Pity by Stephan Zweig

Bloggers, which have you read and loved -- or hated? Should I just get rid of some of these and not waste my time? 

I'll pick out twenty of these and post my Spin list in a day or so. On Friday the Classics Club will post the number and who knows what I'll read next!