Before next Sunday, 16 August 2026 create a post that lists twenty books of your choice that remain on your Classics Club list. On that day the Classics Club will post the winning number. The challenge is to read and review whatever book falls under that number on your Spin List by 4 October, 2026.

I nearly missed this Spin, but saw it just in time I hope before the draw is announced!

Here’s my list:

1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2. The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
3. Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
4. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
5. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Time of Angels by Iris Murdoch
7. I’ll Never be Young Again by Daphne du Maurier
8. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
9. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
10. The Go Between by L P Hartley
11. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
13. Daisy Miller by Henry James
14. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
15. Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning
16. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
17. Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
18. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
19. Maigret’s Doubts by Georges Simenon
20. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy