Last week, I shared a post with my list of books for the newest Classics Club Spin challenge (see it here), and a few days ago, this spin’s number was announced. (For those keeping track, it’s CC Spin #35, and for me personally, #7!)

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.

For CCSpin #35, the lucky number is:

And that means I’ll be reading:

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (published 1853)

Synopsis:

The women of an English country village star in this Victorian classic that inspired a BBC series, from the author of North and South.
 
Welcome to Cranford, where everyone knows one another and a cow wears pajamas. It’s a community built on friendship and kindness, where women hold court and most of the houses—and men—are rarely seen. Two colorful spinster sisters at the heart of Cranford, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah Jenkyns, are daughters of the former rector, and when they’re not playing cards or drinking tea, they’re feeding an endless appetite for scandal and weathering commotions to their peaceful lives, from financial troubles to thieves to an unexpected face from the past.
 
First published in installments in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens, Cranford was a hit of its time and today offers modern readers a glimpse into a small English town during the mid-nineteenth century.

In case you’re wondering — yes, I’m happy with this spin! I’d been holding my breath thinking that I’d end up with a really long book this time around, and I’m perfectly content not to feel that kind of pressure. At 145 pages, Cranford should be very doable… and we have until December 3rd to finish our spin books this time around.

What do you think of my newest spin result?

Here’s my list of 20 titles for Classics Club Spin #35:

1. Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne DuMaurier
2. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
3. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
4. Dracula by Bram Stoker
5. Peony by Pearl Buck
6. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
8. Howards End by E. M. Forster
9. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
11. The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
12. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
13. Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholom Aleichem
14. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
15. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
16. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
17. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
18. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
19. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
20. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

My previous Classics Club Spin books:

Are you participating in this Classics Club Spin? If so, what book will you be reading?