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 #45, and my 17th time participating!

Here are the dates and guidelines from the host blog:

On Sunday 16th August 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 4th October, 2026.

We’ll check in here on the 4th October 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 16th August 2026.
• We’ll announce a number from 1-20. 
• Read that book by 4th October.

I’m always excited when a new spin rolls around! For spin #45, I’ll be sticking with my interest in 20th century fiction, so that’s mainly how I’ve focused my list. Where will the spin take me this time? We’ll find out in a few days!

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

1. The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
2. Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
3. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick
4. This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
5. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
6. White Fang by Jack London
7. Anna and Her Daughters by D. E. Stevenson
8. Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
9. Eight Cousins / Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
10. Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery
11. Peony by Pearl Buck
12. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
13. Frederica by Georgette Heyer
14. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
15. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
16. Dear Hugo by Molly Clavering
17. Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem Aleichem
18. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
19. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
20. Under the Rainbow by Susan Scarlett

Wish me luck! I’ll be back on August 16th 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
CCSpin42: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
CCSpin43: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
CCSpin44: Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier