Classic Club Spin # 19
Did you say the C-word?
- Chunkster:
- A chunkster is 450 pages or more of
- ADULT literature (fiction or nonfiction)
- … A chunkster should be a challenge.
The list: CC Spin #19 @The Classics Club
- Moby Dick – H. Melville (720 pg) MY CHUNKSTER READ!!
- War and Peace – L. Tolstoy ( 1392 pg)
- The Old Curiosity Shop – C. Dickens (576 pg)
- Collected Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield (673 pg)
- The Gulag Archipelago – A. Solzhenitsyn (496 pg)
- The Mill on the Floss – G. Eliot (579 pg)
- East of Eden – J. Steinbeck (691 pg)
- Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen – (784 pg)
- Martin Chuzzlewit – C. Dickens (864 pg)
- Count of Monte Cristo – A. Dumas (640 pg)
- Oliver Twist – C. Dickens (512 pg)
- Humboldt’s Gift – S. Bellow (512 pg)
- Vanity Fair – W. Thackeray (912 pg)
- Wuthering Heights – E. Brontë (450 pg)
- Sybil – B. Disraeli – (450 pg)
- Grand Days – F. Moorhouse (678 pg)
- Master and Commander – P. O’ Brian (457 pg)
- Swords and Crowns and Rings – R. Park (450 pg)
- The Man Who Loved Children – C. Stead (528 pg)
- Clayhanger – A. Bennett (528 pg)
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I loved loved loved Grand Days, Master and Commander & Swords and Crowns and Rings – all very different stories but wonderful engaging reads one and all. M&C does have a lot of naval talk, but the friendship that develops between Maturin & Jack is what makes this series zing.
Grand Days is one of those books I adored beyond belief in my 20’s, felt ‘meh’ about in my 30’s but appreciated again in my 40’s…although I’m still to read the final book in the trilogy.
Good luck – all of these books would be great company to curl up with on over your long, dark winter nights.
Bronaq, I just had to include some Australian classics!
I always use your posts from a few years ago with Australian
Awards…Jane Gleeson’s 50 best Aussie bookes or all the Aussie books
you still want to read!
I’ve got Oliver Twist on my list too (different number). Some good ones here.
It’s time to read some books I read in my high-school days!
That was so long ago and I’m sure I will get much more out of
the classics then I did then. Looking forward to Oliver Twist and Moby Dick!
Not …War and Peace. Many say it is wonderfu…I just see the size of the book and I shiver!
Any new challenges Joseph after completing your 100 novel list?
Congrats…that was an achievement I folllowed closely!
Great list of chunksters! I first read Moby-Dick last fall and loved it.
Thanks for your comment….I am looking forward to Moby DIck…there is so much in that book!