Classics Club Spin

Published on by Margaret

It’s time for another Classics Club Spin.

Before next Sunday, 15 October 2023, create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain “to be read” on your Classics Club list. On that day the Classics Club will post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by 3rd December, 2023.

Here’s my list:

  1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  2. Fair Stood the Wind for France by H E Bates
  3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  4. The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
  5. The Stars Look Down by A J Cronin
  6. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
  7. Dickens at Christmas by Charles Dickens
  8. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
  10. The Birds and other short stories by Daphne du Maurier
  11. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
  12. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
  13. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  14. Daisy Miller by Henry James
  15. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
  16. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
  17. Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning
  18. Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
  19. The Invisible Man by H G Wells
  20. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

I can’t decide which one I’d like to come up in the Spin! But which one/s would you recommend?

10 thoughts on “Classics Club Spin”

  1. You have so many excellent choices here, Margaret! There are several here that I’ve been glad I read (e.g. the Capote, the du Maurier, the Huxley, and a few others). Whichever one you get, I hope that you enjoy it, and I’ll be really interested in your opinion.

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    1. I loved The Count of Monte Cristo, so I’m hoping The Black Tulip is as enjoyable. I read some of Mary Renault’s books years ago, but not Fire from Heaven. I’d be happy if either of them came up in the Spin.

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  3. I should really plump for How Green is my Valley since it’s set near the area where I grew up but I’ve knocked it down a few points because it wasn’t written by a Welsh author :)

    I would go for Dombey and Son, one of the best of Dickens’ novels IMHO

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    1. I’ve been thinking of reading How Green is my Valley for years now, so I’d love that to be picked, but I’m also keen to read Dombey and Son!

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  6. Lots of great titles here, and some I’ve actually read! Sense and Sensibility I think is my favourite Austen so far – I haven’t read Persuasion yet, and that’s on my spin list!

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