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 the Classics Club’s spin #42, and my 14th time participating!
Here are the dates and guidelines from the host blog:
On Sunday 19th 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 21st December, 2025.
We’ll check in on the 21st 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 19th October 2025.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 21st December.
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 decades I haven’t completed yet for the challenge. (You’ll note a few listed more than once – I’m weighting my list towards books I truly want to read!)
Here we go!
Here’s my list of 20 classics for the next Classics Club Spin:
- The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
- The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
- A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse
- The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
- This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- White Fang by Jack London
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
- Frederica by Georgette Heyer
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
- A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse
- The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
- My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Wish me luck! I’ll be back on October 19th to reveal my spin result!
My previous Classics Club spins:
CCSpin29: The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
CCSpin30: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
CCSpin31: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
CCSpin32: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
CCSpin33: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
CCSpin34: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
CCSpin35: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
CCSpin36: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
CCSpin37: Howards End by E. M. Forster
CCSpin38: The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
CCSpin39: An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
CCSpin40: Dracula by Bram Stoker
CCSpin41: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Bookshelf Fantasies 
A fabulous list. I have read The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier and The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham as well as both Mary Stewart books. All excellent reads. I can’t wait to see which one you end up reading!
It’s great to hear that that you recommend those books! I’m really excited to see what I get, and would be happy with any of them!
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Your previous spins have covered a lot of ground classically speaking, so I hope this spin lives up to them!
I moved my Miles Franklin title so if she spins up, we can at least read the smae author at the same time (I will be reading her autobiography of her childhood years, which I’m assuming will be a companion piece to My Brilliant Career anyway).
I really will be happy with whichever of my books comes up, but I do love the idea of both of us reading the Miles Franklin book at the same time! (Maybe if it doesn’t come up for the spin book, we can still coordinate on this one?)
You have some of my favorites on your list. I can’t wait to see what you spin. 😀
Thank you! I think I’ll be happy no matter which one comes up!
Secret Garden is my all time favorite children’s book.
I know I read it ages and ages ago, but I barely remember it, so it’ll feel new to me!
What a fantastic list! You really can’t go wrong😁
I’m excited to see what I get… and hope to manage to knock out the four remaining books in my decades challenge by the end of the year!
Good luck with the spin. My post will go up on Saturday!
Looking forward to seeing your picks!
I loved The Secret Garden but it’s been ages since I read it. I like your list and think we could share a library!
It’s so much fun to meet people whose tastes match mine! I read The Secret Garden ages ago as well — so long that I think it’ll feel like a new book to me!
Good luck! I’ve read a few of these–House on the Strand, My Brilliant Career etc. Enjoy!
Thank you! Can’t wait to see what I get!
This is a great list! I’ve read some of these – The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Garden, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Loved them all! The Mysterious Affair at Styles is still one of my favorite Christie books of all I’ve read so far. 🙂
I have Something Wicked This Way Comes on my spin list this time as well. I have come to really love Bradbury’s writing and am quite excited to read this one! I also have Frederica on my TBR.
Nice to hear that we have books in common! It’s been quite a while for me since I read anything by Bradbury, and I’d be very happy to get his book as a spin result! I do really enjoy Georgette Heyer’s books, and I’ve been meaning to read Frederica for a couple of years now. Wishing us both good luck with our spin results!