The BookTube Spin

Look, I’m not on BookTube – where people talk about books on YouTube, for the uninitiated. Nobody needs to see my shoddy camera angles and poor editing technique. But I do enjoy watching a few of the channels, and taking their new and modern ideas to the olde worlde world of book blogging. Our words are written down! Fancy.
And I enjoy no book channel more than Rick’s. He’s come up with The BookTube Spin, which is very similar to the Classics Spin, but open to any sort of book. Essentially, pick and number 20 books – he’ll spin a wheel and a choose a number on 31 January, then we have two months to read the book. I’ll let him explain in greater detail…

It’s a fun way to get someone else to help sort through your tbr pile! I decided to plough my own furrow a little, and pick alphabetically – skipping Q and so ending at U. Where possible, I also chose book titles beginning with the same letter, though that wasn’t always doable from my tbr shelves.
I’ve tried to pick books that I’m not racing towards (though I’m pretty sure I’ll read  Butterfly Lampshade soon whether or not it comes up), so as to find something unexpected from my tbr.
1.) After the Funeral – Diana Athill
2.) Butterfly Lampshade – Aimee Bender
3.) Chedsy Place – Richmal Crompton
4.) Dombey and Son – Charles Dickens
5.) Every Eye – Isobel English
6.) Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
7.) Go She Must – David Garnett
8.) Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
9.) Lions and Shadows – Christopher Isherwood
10.) Woman in a Lampshade – Elizabeth Jolley
11.) Suddenly, a Knock at the Door – Etgar Keret
12.) The Limit – Ada Leverson
13.) The Magician – W. Somerset Maugham
14.) News of England – Beverley Nichols
15.) The Opposite House – Helen Oyeyemi
16.) Pax – Sara Pennypacker
17.) Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole – Allan Ropper
18.) The Small Room by May Sarton
19.) Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido
20.) Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Have you read any of these? Fancy making your own Spin? Let me (and Rick) know if you join in!