Spin #43 for the Classics Club, February 2026

 

The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty unread books from my classics list and list them in a post before Sunday, February 8th, 2026.  On Sunday, the Classics Club will generate a random number between 1 through 20 and post it at the website. Then I will read whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List by March 29th, 2026.

So, here is my list of 20 books for the spin...

1. Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr.Ripley (1955)
2. Madeleine L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
3. Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana (1958)   
4. Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
5. Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles (1950)
6. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
7. Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre (1847)
8. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five  (1955)
9. John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (1945)
10. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (1818)
11. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
12. J. D. Salinger – Catcher in the Rye (1951)
13. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (1958) 
14. Dashiell Hammett – Red Harvest (1929)   
15. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
16. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
17. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Sign of the Four (1892)
18. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
19. Edna Ferber – Giant (1952)
20. Edna Ferber – Show Boat (1926)

The four books I would most like to read for this spin are A Wrinkle in Time, The Talented Mr.Ripley, Jane Eyre, or Our Man in Havana. But, really, any of the books on my list would be fine.