Upcoming: Classics Club Spin #44

What is the spin?

It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 17th May, 2026 create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list.

This is your Spin List.

You have to read one of these twenty books by the end of the spin period.

Try to challenge yourself. For example, you could list five Classics Club books you have been putting off, five you can’t WAIT to read, five you are neutral about, and five free choice (favourite author, re-reads, ancients, non-fiction, books in translation — whatever you choose.)

On Sunday 17th May 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 5th July, 2026.

Join in!

My CC #44 List:

1.      The Good Earth by Buck

2.      All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

3.      Death Comes for the Archbishop by Cather

4.      Don Quioxides by de Cervantes*

5.      The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov

6.      Heart of Darkness by Conrad*

7.      The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle

8.      Invisible Man by Ellison*

9.      Madam Bovary by Flaubert*

10. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne

11. The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

12. Siddhartha by Hesse

13. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Highsmith

14. On the Road by Kerouac

15. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair

16. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

17. Midnight’s Children by Rushdie*

18. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Sparks

19. Dracula by Stoker*

20. The Copenhagen Trilogy by Ditlevsen

*Books on the top 30 classic books list.

-Anne