Spin #44 for the Classics Club, May 2026

 

The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty unread books from my classics list and list it in a post before Sunday, May 17th, 2026.  On Sunday, the Classics Club will generate a random number between 1 through 20 and post it at the Classics Club website. Then I will read whatever book falls under that number on my Spin List by July 5th, 2026.

This list is very close to my last list; I only changed two of the books. Even so, I get excited every time I put out a spin list and wait to see which number will be picked.

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

1. Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr.Ripley (1955)
2. Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana (1958)   
3. Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
4. Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles (1950)
5. Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
6. Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre (1847)
7. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five  (1955)
8. John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (1945)
9. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein (1818)
10. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
11. J. D. Salinger – Catcher in the Rye (1951)
12. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (1958) 
13. Dashiell Hammett – Red Harvest (1929)   
14. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
15. Lewis Carroll – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
16. James Thurber – The 13 Clocks (1950)
17. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
18. Ford Madox Ford – The Good Soldier (1915)
19. Edna Ferber – Giant (1952)
20. Edna Ferber – Show Boat (1926)

The three books I would most like to read for this spin are Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Talented Mr.Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, or Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. But, really, any of the books on my list would be fine.