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 9th time participating — although for the Classics Club, it’s spin #37!
Here are the dates and guidelines from the host blog:
On Sunday 21st April 2024 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 2nd June, 2024.
We’ll check in here on Sunday the 2nd June 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 21st April 2024.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 2nd June.
Even though my to-read pile for the next few months is on the overwhelming side, I do love these spins and don’t want to miss out. I took the two longest books off my spin list last time around (David Copperfield and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), and although I’m tempted to add them back, the timing just isn’t right quite yet. So, I’m sticking with the same list as from spin #36, just adding in one new book to replace the one I read.
Here we go!
Here’s my list of 20 classics for the next Classics Club Spin:
- Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne DuMaurier
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick
- An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Peony by Pearl Buck
- White Fang by Jack London
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Howards End by E. M. Forster
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- The Hobbit 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
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Wish me luck! I’ll be back on April 21st to reveal my spin result!
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
Fall 2023 (CCSpin35): Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Winter 2024 (CCSpin36): A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Nice post 🌹🌹
That’s so fun, Lisa – I’ve read some of these, but there are many on your list I’ve been meaning to read. Looking forward to the spin results!
Me too! 🙂 Thanks, Barbara. Some of these would be rereads for me, but in those cases, it’s been so many years since I first read them that I’d be happy to read them all over again.
That’s how I am too!
I don’t know why I’ve never read much by Pearl S. Buck except The Good Earth. I should add this to my list. Several of these—the Mishima, Dracula, the LeGuin—are on my own long-list.
I’ve read two other books by Pearl Buck, quite a long time ago, and I’ve been wanting to read more.
Can’t wait to see what you spin! 😀
Thanks, me too!
Hope you get the Hobbit. That would be a fun read.
I agree! It would be a reread for me… which I’ve been wanting to do regardless, but I think I need a bit of push to actually get started. 🙂
Love the children’s classics you have here – I’ve oftened wondered how a reread of Black Beauty would hold up as an adult. It was a book that ‘stretched’ my reading abilities when I read it at the age of 11-12!
I love that these spins give me a good excuse to go back to children’s classics that I never read!
I’ve read two of these, but some of the others sound good. Of course I know the story of Tevye the Dairyman because of the musical Fiddler on the Roof (which I once performed in a amateur production of back in the 1980s. I had a tiny part as one of the younger sisters, but they had me lead the finale song Anatevka)!
How fun that you were in Fiddler! I’ve seen so many versions throughout my life, but I’ve never read anything by Sholem Aleichem, and it seems like it would be great to try.
Yes, but because it was a production in Hebrew, and I was a new(ish) immigrant at the time, they gave me a very small part. I think I’ve read a short story or two of his, and his stories are delightful. If it doesn’t get picked, you should still try to read them.
It seems this spin came around super fast, didn’t you just do one? Lol time flies😁
Definitely! The timing isn’t great for me — I’ve somehow ended up with way more ARCs for May and June than I intended to, and adding a classic on top of those seems like a bad idea… but I can never resist the fun of a spin!
I’ve read and enjoyed several on your list, but I hope you get The Mysterious Affair at Styles. I just read it recently and thought it was very good!
I’ve had it on my list for 8 spins now, so I hope it comes up soon!
Good luck!!! A very exciting selection!