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 #45, and for me personally, #17!)
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 #45, the lucky number is:
And that means I’ll be reading:
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Published 1936
Synopsis:
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother’s dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn.
From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn’s dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls—or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions… tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.
That’s two Daphne du Maurier books in a row for my Classics Club spins, and I couldn’t be happier! Granted, I would have been excited to read any of the books on my list… but after being completely enthralled by Frenchman’s Creek, I was eager to explore more of this author’s books, so this is a terrific spin result for me!
What do you think of my spin book this time around?
I’ll be back to share my thoughts before October 4th!
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 #44:
- The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
- Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick
- This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
- White Fang by Jack London
- Anna and Her Daughters by D. E. Stevenson
- Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
- Eight Cousins / Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
- Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery
- Peony by Pearl Buck
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Frederica by Georgette Heyer
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Dear Hugo by Molly Clavering
- Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem Aleichem
- Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
- Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- 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
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