You might remember Rick MacDonnell’s BookTube Spin earlier in the year – in brief, make a list of 20 books you want to read – he’ll get a random number from one to twenty, and you have a couple months to read the book. The first one went really well for me, and I thought Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House was really good. The spin is happening every few months, and it’s time for round two…
This time, I’ve gone through my unread books list on LibraryThing, picking the first book from each page of titles… Now, I have 83 pages of unread books, so I allowed myself to skip to the ones I particularly wanted to read. Here’s the list…
1. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Ruegen by Elizabeth von Arnim
2. The Enchanter by Lila Azam Zanganeh
3. The Brandon Papers by Quentin Bell
4. An Autumn Sowing by E.F. Benson
5. Caroline by Richmal Crompton
6. The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
7. Doctor’s Children by Josephine Elder
8. Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald
9. Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets by Jessica Fox
10. The Familiar Faces by David Garnett
11. Don’t Open the Door by Anthony Gilbert
12. The Brickfield by L.P. Hartley
13. Sun City by Tove Jansson
14. Ignorance by Milan Kundera
15. My Remarkable Uncle by Stephen Leacock
16. Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
17. The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell
18. Mr Beluncle by V.S. Pritchett
19. The White Shield by Myrtle Reed
20. Migraine by Oliver Sacks
well, good luck! Is there anything you *really* hope comes up???
Good qu! Not really – I have tried to stick to books I’m keen to read but not DESPERATE to, I.e. the ones that might languish on my shelf forever.
This is such a fun idea, I’m definitely going to give something like it a go next time I’m stuck for what to read next! Got my fingers crossed another winner is spun for you 😉🤞