Getting ready for the Fall 2024 Classics Club Spin!

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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 11th time participating — although for the Classics Club, it’s spin #39!

Here are the dates and guidelines from the host blog:

On Sunday 20th October 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 18th December, 2024.

We’ll check in here on the 18th 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 20th October 2024.
  • We’ll announce a number from 1-20. 
  • Read that book by 18th December.

It’s always exciting when a new spin is announced! I’ve updated my list, and can’t wait to see where the spin lands.

Here we go!

Here’s my list of 20 classics for the next Classics Club Spin:

  1. Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne DuMaurier
  2. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick
  3. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
  4. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  5. Peony by Pearl Buck
  6. White Fang by Jack London
  7. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
  9. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
  10. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
  11. My Family and Other Animals by  Gerald Durrell
  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. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  18. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  19. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  20. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

Wish me luck! I’ll be back on October 20th 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
Spring 2024 (CCSpin37): Howards End by E. M. Forster
Summer 2024 (CCSpin38): The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

13 thoughts on “Getting ready for the Fall 2024 Classics Club Spin!”

  2. What a great list! I’ve read several of them and it’s tough to say which I hope you’ll get. We just read Frankenstein for our bookclub this month, so I think I’ll go with that. (or Dracula!!)

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  6. I will always pump for the Australian titles on any list, so I wish you Miles Franklin!

    But Bronte, Steinbeck, Du Maurier are always good and I was rather surprised by how much I enjoyed Frankenstein – it was vastly different from what I was expecting. I remember trying to read Black Beauty as a young teen and really struggled to get into it. But when I eventually got going with the older style writing, I loved it.

    Good luck!

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