Classics Club Spin #43

It is time for the 43rd edition of the Classics Club Spin – List 20 books from my Classics Club “to be read” list by Sunday, February 8, 2026; the mods will then pick a random number, and I have until March 29 to read the corresponding book. (I’m not quite clear on the penalty for not completing it one time; I’ve never tested those waters.)

 

My spin list:

 

1. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

2. The Magus by John Fowles

3. The Long Winter (Little House #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

4. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

5. A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin

6. The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers

7. Grendel by John Gardner

8. Things Fall Apart  by Chinua Achebe

9. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

10. Cool Hand Luke by Don Pearce

11. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

12. The Silver Sword (Escape from Warsaw) by Ian Serraillier

13. Post Office by Charles Bukowski

14. The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

15. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

16. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

17. The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman

18. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

19. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

20. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper

 

I’m probably hoping for Lord Jim, but The Ascent of Rum Doodle would be fun too. I haven’t read McCullers in a while so Sad Café would be my third choice. I’m hoping for something NOT terribly long, so hoping against Dickens or Fowles, but I’ll take what I get. Cheers!

 

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