Hello, Clubbers!
It’s time for another Classics Club Spin!
What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 21st April, 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 April 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 2nd June, 2024.
We’ll check in here on Sunday the 2nd June 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 April 2024.
- We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
- Read that book by 2nd June.
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 2nd June 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
A last minute change to my list… https://bookobsessed.home.blog/2024/04/20/classics-club-spin-37/
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I shouldn’t do it, but here I am. http://fictitiously.ca/2024/04/20/classics-club-spin-37/
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My list…
https://bookobsessed.home.blog/2024/04/20/classics-club-spin-37/
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I’m in. Here’s my list. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2024/04/my-list-for-classics-spin-37.html
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My list is up now:
https://bitterteaandmystery.blogspot.com/2024/04/classics-club-spin-37-april-2024.html
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I’m in! Here’s my list: https://www.truebookaddict.com/2024/04/classics-club-spin-37.html
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I’m in!
https://wordsworthandwatercolors.blogspot.com/2024/04/these-are-20-randomly-selected-books.html
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Your list! Oh to read Gone With the Wind or Testament of Youth again for the first time! GWTW–I’ve read it more than any other book. Yes, I hate the racism, but I love Rhett and Scarlett and Melanie. My list is up! https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/classics-club-spin-37/
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I’m in! Here’s my list: https://bookshelffantasies.com/2024/04/17/getting-ready-for-the-spring-2024-classics-club-spin/
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I’m in, and hoping just as much fun as for spin #36:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/04/17/the-classics-club-the-classics-spin-37/
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Okay… my post will go up on Saturday (I almost missed it. Any chance you can give us a touch more lead time in the future?).
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Of course I’ll join again, this is one of my favourite challenges.
My list.
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I’ve only read Rebecca on your list Marianne, but I do love the classic translations and books in other langauges that you read.
Good luck!
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Well, some of them are in my own language. And there are more translations into other languages than into English, so I have a larger choice.
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I’m in for my 37th CC spin 🙂
https://bronasbooks.com/2024/04/17/classics-club-spin-37/
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You might hold the record for most spins!
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I will if Jean from Howling Frogs doesn’t put up a list this time. We’re the only two left who have participated in all the spins.
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I’ve posted my list here: https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2024/04/ah-its-time-for-another-classics-club.html
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I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by Edith Wharton (I should remedy that), but I hope you get Lost Horizon. It’s on my list, too.
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I’ve wanted to read Lost Horizon since I was a kid.
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I’m in! https://firesidetales24.blogspot.com/2024/04/classics-club-spin-37.html
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Welcome to your first CC Spin Stacey! We hope that Lady Fortuna is kind to you 🙂
(I don’t seem to be able to log into my old blogger account anymore and cannot leave any comments – is anyone else having this problem?)
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Thanks for the welcome!
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I’m happy you are joining us!
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Vera is on my list! The Forstythe Saga–good luck!
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Great! I’m in. Here’s my list – https://booksplease.org/2024/04/16/classics-club-spin-22/
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Oh no, not again! OK, you’ve twisted my arm – I’m in. But be kind for once, eh? 😉
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Ha ha, no guarantees 😀
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I’m in too, thanks!
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Great!
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I’m IN! My list will be posted on Thursday!
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Looking forward to reading your list Kelly 🙂
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