I’m excited to be joining in The Classics Club Spin for my second time! When I participated last fall, my spin ending up being Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, which I ended up listening to on audiobook. I enjoyed it, but not as much as the better known The Outsiders by Hinton.

What is the spin?

Rules as shared by The Classics Club:

It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 20th March, 2022, 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 20th, March, 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 30th April, 2022. That’s a six week reading window for this spin. You may like to stack your list with books that you know are do-able for you within that time frame.

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I have chosen shorter books from my to-read-list. I have many ARCs demanding attention, as well as books I need to read for my Popsugar Reading Challenge, so if I try to include anything hefty, I’m afraid I won’t pick it up right now. I’m also trying to stay away from overly heavy or sad books at the moment, so if I’ve included something you’re read that you remember as depressing, please let me know. I might can change it before Sunday. 🙂

Let’s see what I’ve chosen!

(Link to Goodreads synopsis through book title.)

Five Classics I’ve Been Putting Off:

1. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

2. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

3. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

4. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

5. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Five Classics I Can’t Wait to Read:

6. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

7. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

8. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

9. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

10. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Five Classics Recently Added to My Shelf:

11. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

12. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

13. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

14. Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier

15. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier

Five Free Choice Classics:

16. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

17. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

18. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

19. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’ Connor

20. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Will you be joining the Classics Club Spin Challenge? Have you read any of these? Let me know in the comments!

Happy Wandering!