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The Classics Club Spin ~ #14!

~ Jennifer @ The Relentless Reader ~ 13 Comments

The Classics Spin <~~Clicky click for more info
I made my Classics Club Spin List here. 

That means I’ll be reading Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos before April 1st of this year. 


Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos’s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted.
Are you taking part in the Classics Spin? What book is #14 for you?

The Classics Spin!

~ Jennifer @ The Relentless Reader ~ 33 Comments
Here’s the scoop: We are to list 20 books from our Classics Club List that we have yet to read. (That’s easy, I have WAY more than 20 left to read!)
The fine folks at The Classics Club will give us a number and we’re to read the corresponding book from our list. Easy-peasy right? 
My list:
  1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
  3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  6. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  7. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  8. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  9. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  10. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  11. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  12. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  13. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  14. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  15. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  16. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  17. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  18. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  19. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  20. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

My list is a combo of books I can’t wait to read and books I’m intimidated by. 


Except that I am..a little.
Wish me luck!