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 13th time participating — although for the Classics Club, it’s spin #41!

Here are the dates and guidelines from the host blog:

On Sunday 15th June, 2025 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 24th August, 2025..

We’ll check in on the 24th August 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 June 2025.
• We’ll announce a number from 1-20. 
• Read that book by 24th August.

My spin lists are usually a mix of books from different decades and centuries, but in 2025, I’m focusing on books that count toward my 20th Century Decades reading challenge (for which I’m aiming to read one book published per decade). All of the books on my list fit the challenge! And they’re all books I’d want to read anyway… so this should be an exciting spin, no matter which number comes up.

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. A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse
4. Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
5. Peony by Pearl Buck
6. White Fang by Jack London
7. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
8. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
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. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
14. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
15. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
16. Frederica by Georgette Heyer
17. Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
18. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
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 June 15th 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
Fall 2024 (CCSpin39): An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
Winter 2025 (CCSpin40): Dracula by Bram Stoker