It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!
Hosted by The Classics Club blog, the Classics Club Spin is a reading adventure where participants come up with a list of classics they’d like to read, number them 1 to 20, and then read the book that corresponds to the “spin” number that comes up. This will be my 7th time participating — although for the Classics Club, it’s spin #35!
Here are the dates and guidelines from the host blog:
On Sunday 15th, October, we’ll post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by the 3rd December, 2023.
We’ll check in here on Sunday the 3rd December to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
What’s Next?
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Sunday, 15th October.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 3rd December.
I’m a little nervous this time around, because my reading schedule already feels overstuffed with a couple of big books related to group reads. I’m tempted to drop the longer books from my list… and yet, with a month and a half to get it done, even something on the lengthier side might be possible. Maybe. Fingers crossed.
Okay, sticking with the list I already had going, and just adding in the replacements for books I’ve already read…
Here’s my list of 20 classics for the next Classics Club Spin:
- Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne DuMaurier
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
- An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Peony by Pearl Buck
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Howards End by E. M. Forster
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholom Aleichem
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Wish me luck! I’ll be away on October 15th and for the week following, but I’ll share my spin result once I’m back online.
My previous Classics Club spins:
Spring 2022 (CCSpin29): The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
Summer 2022 (CCSpin30): Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Fall 2022 (CCSpin31): A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Winter 2022/2023 (CCSpin32): O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Spring 2023 (CCSpin33): Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Summer 2023 (CCSpin34): Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Bookshelf Fantasies 
I’ve read 8 of these. Dracula is by far my favorite. But if you need a short one Cranford is humorous and fun.
I *think* I’d be okay with any on my list (although the idea of ending up with something as long as David Copperfield is giving me shivers), and I’d be thrilled to get Dracula! It would be a reread for me, but it’s been so many years that it’ll mostly feel new, I think.
David Copperfield would definitely be a big commitment😁 Fingers crossed you get something shorter!
I hope so… although, being realistic, I’ll probably never end up reading David Copperfield unless it comes up in one of these spins. 🙂
We have a couple that overlap including Frankenstein. It would be a good choice to read this month! So would Dracula, which I read a few years ago and loved!
I would be happy with either of those! I’ve read them both before, but so many years ago that I’ve been eager for a re-read.
Yes, I was about to say that David Copperfield would be a commitment, but we have most of October, and all of November. I’m sure if that comes up you’ll get through it. Good luck to us all!
Thanks, and yes, good luck to all of us! I was going to swap a shorter book in DC’s place, but we do have a lot of time for this read, so I’ll be brave about it. 🙂
We both have Cranford in our lists! Fingers crossed that one of us could get that!
David Copperfield, Tenant of the Wildfell Hall, and Mysterious Affair at Styles are my favorites. I wish you’ll get to read them, even if they’re not get picked.
I am reading a book where Frenchman Creek was mentioned, and now I want to read it too.
Well, happy spinning, and have fun! 😉 My spin list: https://klasikfanda.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-classics-club-spin-cc-spin-35.html
Thank you! Good luck to you too — I hope we both get books we love!
Ohhh you do have some big ones on there! I hope for your sake a slimmer one spins your way 🙂
Although DC, the Tennant, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Mayor of Casterbridge are incredible reads if you can make the time….
I’m excited to read those longer ones… eventually… and I think I need the spin to motivate me to dive in! Can’t wait to see what number comes up!