Earlier in the week, I shared a post with my list of books for the newest Classics Club Spin challenge (see it here), and today, this spin’s number was announced. (For those keeping track, it’s CCSpin #46, and for me personally, #18!)

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.

For CCSpin #46, the lucky number is:

And that means I’ll be reading:

This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
Published 1964

Synopsis (paperback edition):

When Lucy comes to Corfu to visit her sister, she is elated to discover that the castello above their villa is being rented to Sir Julian Gale, one of the brightest lights in England’s theatrical world. As a minor player in the London theatre herself, Lucy naturally wishes to meet him—that is, until her sister indicates, with uncharacteristic vagueness, that all is not well with Sir Julian and that his composer son discourages visitors, particularly strangers. Yet Lucy has already encountered Sir Julian’s son on the morning of her arrival, in a tempestuous run-in that involved the attempted shooting of a friendly dolphin. First published in 1964, this spirited novel will hold Mary Stewart fans breathless as it uncovers a series of mystifying and frightening events, tinging the otherwise sparkling setting of Corfu with dark hues of violence.

Synopsis (Kindle edition):

Lucy Waring, a young, out-of-work actress from London, leaps at the chance to visit her sister for a summer on the island paradise of Corfu, and what’s more, a famous but reclusive actor is staying in a villa nearby.

But Lucy’s hopes for rest and romance are shattered when a body washes up on the beach and she finds herself swept up in a chilling chain of events…

Escape to Corfu and join the original queen of the page-turner Mary Stewart, as she leads you on a thrilling journey . . .

The cover art above is from the original edition (1964). A couple of other covers are below. The Kindle edition (right) does not at all convey the mood of the others!

I’m delighted with this result! Mary Stewart is one of the 20th century authors whose works I’m eager to explore. I’ve only read one of her books so far (The Ivy Tree, published 1961), and loved it.

What do you think of my spin book this time around?

I’ll be back to share my thoughts before January 3, 2027!

Are you participating in this Classics Club Spin? If so, what book will you be reading?

Here’s my list of 20 titles for Classics Club Spin #46:

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. Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson
19. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
20. Under the Rainbow by Susan Scarlett

My previous Classics Club Spin books:

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
CCSpin 45: Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier