Hello, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!
What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 21st January, 2024 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 21st January 2024 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 3rd March, 2024.
We’ll check in here on Sunday the 3rd March to see who made it the whole way and finished their spin book!
What’s Next?
- Go to your blog.
- Pick twenty books that you’ve got left to read from your Classics Club List.
- Post that list, numbered 1-20, on your blog before Sunday 21st January 2024.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 3rd March.
This is meant to be a fun, social way to read another book from your classics club list. We’re very relaxed about how you set it up, we simply want you to read more classics!
Sometime this week, at your blog, you might post a list that looks something like this:
My Book Spin List for the Classics Club –
- Jane Eyre
- The Inferno
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Oliver Twist
- Clarissa
- Gone With the Wind
- Don Quixote
- Testament of Youth
- Richard III
- The Iliad
- Jude the Obscure
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The Master and Margarita
- Dracula
- The Home and the World
- Sense & Sensibility
- Madame Bovary
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Antigone
- The Tale of Genji
(Obviously, YOU choose what books YOU want to list, in what order.)
Next Sunday?
We will announce a number from 1 through 20. When we announce it, go to your Spin list. Find that number, read (and hopefully, review) the book listed for that number by 3rd March 2024.
So, if (for example) we announce #14, and if the above list was your Spin List, you’d have to read Dracula.
The prize, of course, is the reading experience 🙂
When we announce the number next week, come back and tell us your spin title.
Who’s in?
Add the link for your spin list below and join in the discussion.
Hashtag: #ccspin
Better late than never, my post is finally up, even if it was after the spin. My no. 20 is a book I have had for ages and really have troubles with. Maybe now, after much more experience in reading, I will enjoy Somerset Maugham’s A Writer’s Notebook. I do like other books by him.
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Is everything ok? I’m surprised we haven’t received our number yet
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Sometimes working out the scheduling thing between Australia and USA time means this post gets scheduled at odd times. Hopefully you have found it now 🙂
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Please, please, please make sure I get one of the shortest books from my list https://bookertalk.com/the-classics-club-spin36/
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Ready to take my new list for a spin:
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I am spinning! https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-sunday-salon-four-nights-of.html
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And Then There Were None and Lost Horizon are both on my list, too. Maybe one of us will get one of them!
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I’m joining for the first time ever, looking forward to it! http://hannahslibrary.com/2024/01/20/classics-club-spin-36/
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Welcome Hannah, we hope you enjoy your first spin!
I think the comment I left on your blog got sucked into the spam folder, WP seems to be doing that at the moment.
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Thank you! I’m happy to finally be participating and blog hopping to meet everyone 🙂
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I hope you end up with an excellent book.
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I hope you get an excellent read too! 🙂
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Here you go! https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2024/01/20/tcl-joins-the-classics-club-spin-ccspin-36/
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Well, you probably know already what I’m going to say – I wish you the George Orwell for your spin 🙂
And I think my comment on your blog got sucked into spam.
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NOPE! Here it is! I just didn’t approve it until now. (Also, lately WP has been very strange about comments.) I’ve read the classics classics by Orwell – Animal Farm and 1984 – and I don’t recall when I bought this one, but it is about time I got around to reading it!
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Getting my list in just in time…
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I like the Aussie choices on your spin. I read Tennant’s The Battlers last year and was really impressed. I hope The Honey Flow does the same for you.
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Trying again. I wonder which “ole college try” this is? lol
My list: https://www.truebookaddict.com/2024/01/classics-club-spin-36.html
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Good luck Michelle – I hope this ole college try is the one 🙂
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Thank you!
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A rather busy time is upon me with a holiday and a move in the not too distant future, so all my choices err on the slim side for this spin 🙂
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And I like the ferris wheel, also. Bright and colorful!
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Thank you! I thought it was time for a change 🙂
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I finally got my list together.
Here it is:
https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2024/01/classics-club-spin-36-january-2024.html
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Seeing Jane Eyre on your list makes me realise I am long overdue for a reread.
I’ve managed to read it every decade of my life (although I cheated a little with the last one – I was reading it during the month of my 40th birthday, so I was 39 for some of the book and then 40!) Which means it is 15 yrs since I last read it – yikes – how did I get to be THAT old?!
Which is my long way of saying – I hope you spin Jane Eyre 🙂
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Missed the last one so I’m excited to jump into 2024 with a new spin: http://fictitiously.ca/2024/01/19/classics-club-spin-36/
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Glad you could make it this time 🙂
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Brilliant. Thank you.
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I am taking part in spin #36. Here is the link: https://volatilerune.blog/2024/01/19/classics-club-spin-36-my-list/
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Glad you can fit us in at the moment….what with publishing your first book and all!! SQUEAL – how exciting and congratulations Frances!
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Haha. Always time for my blogging friends.
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I started a new list at the beginning of the year and am excited to have enough books for a proper spin again. Here is my spin list: https://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2024/01/spinning-classics.html
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Congrats on your new CC list Mary – I hope your first spin from it is memorable 🙂
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The ferris wheel is so enticing!
I’m in, too.
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Thanks Rose, I thought it was time for a little change 🙂
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I’m in! Hoping for something on the shorter side, since this is a busy time of year… but I’ll be happy with any of these: https://bookshelffantasies.com/2024/01/18/getting-ready-for-the-winter-2024-classics-club-spin/
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Ditto! I have a holiday and a move on the cards in the next little while, so slim books work for me too.
Good luck!
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I finally caught a spin in time to get a list together! I only have 11 books left so it’s a bit of an odd one: https://warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/classics-club-spin-36/
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Glad you made it in time!
The spins get quite creative as the number starts to dwindle 🙂
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I just put up my spin list:
https://reesewarner.blogspot.com/2024/01/classics-club-spin-36.html
I’m concentrating on finishing my first Classics Club selection.
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Doubling up your books has become a time honoured and highly approved way of managing your cc list as the number dwindles 🙂
Good luck!
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A great way to start the new year and I love the spin logo!
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Thanks Jane, I was ready for a change, pleased that so many of you like it too 🙂
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Yes! I’m in – https://booksplease.org/2024/01/17/classics-club-spin-21/
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I think my comment on your blog got sucked into the spam folder, but I loved How Green Was My Valley so much that I hope you get it this spin, and I will say it again here 🙂
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I’ve fished your comment out of my Spam – and I’d love to read How Green Was My Valley soon if it’s not my Spin number. It;s been one of the books I’ve been meaning to read for years.
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I didn’t even open the book I got for Spin #35, but I am determined to have it work for #36.
Here is my list: https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/01/16/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-36/
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That happens sometimes Emma; life gets in the way of our reading time. I hope you have more success with this one 🙂
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Woot! Here’s mine: https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2024/01/classics-club-spin-36.html
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Another impressive list as always Jean – and congrats on your 36th CC spin 🙂
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FABULOUS LIST. In spite of the very real racism in Gone With the Wind it is still an amazing read. Also, thanks for the reminder to get my post together!
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I’m in! List will post tomorrow. Be kind to me, Spin Gods!
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Obviously I hope your George Orwell gets spun this time so you can read in for #ReadingOrwell24 😀
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YES! I had a post all ready since the last spin, and I just happened to have a spot to publish it on my blog on the 20th.
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I’ve been neglecting this list for too long. But December and January are always hectic and some things just fall behind. But I am glad to join in again.
My list.
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Glad you can join us again Marianne.
I’m not sure how I’m going to fit THIS spin in, but have picked lots of slim books to help out 🙂
Good luck!
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I’ve been taking part in all the challenges, just haven’t been able to post all my classic reads on your list, yet.
I’m looking forward to finding out which book I am going to read this time.
Good luck everyone.
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My list will post tomorrow!! I’m ready, but a little nervous…
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A few heavy-hitters on your spin list Kelly! I can vouch for Angle of Repose, Brideshead Revisited, Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Breakfast at Tiffany’s – but they are all thoughtful reads.
But you have every right to be nervous about Madame Bovary – ugh!! (but that could just be me!)
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Madame Bovary makes me a little nervous, but then so does Angle of Repose! Whatever comes up, I’ll give it a valiant effort!
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