Here we go with the last Classics Club Spin of 2026. I’m just squeaking in with my list before the result is declared.
The rules are the same as always:
- List 20 books still to be read from our Classics Club list.
- Read whichever number is picked when the wheel is spun on Sunday November 15 (yes that’s today) .
I’ve rejigged my list a little from the last spin because I’ve since read two of the books — The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas which was the book I landed in Spin #45 and Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan.
Those slots will now be taken by Farewell my Lovely by Raymond Chandler and The Hills Were Joyful Together by the Jamaican author Roger Mais.
Here’s my new spin list.
- The Nose by Nikolay Gogol (1836)
- A Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert (1869)
- The Sin of Father Mouret by Emile Zola (1875)
- A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1886)
- New Grub Street by George Gissing (1891)
- What Maisie Knew by Henry James (1897)
- Oh Pioneers by Willa Cather (1913)
- The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham (1925)
- The Well of Loneliness by Radcylffe Hall (1928)
- They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple (1934)
- Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan (1938)
- On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža
- Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
- Farewell my Lovely by Raymond Chandler (1940)
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
- The Far Cry by Emma Smith (1949)
- The Hills Were Joyful Together by Roger Mais (1953)
- In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming (1953)
- The Bitter Glass by Eilis Dillon (1958)
- A Toy Epic by Emyr Humphreys (1958)
Whichever of these books “wins” the spin, I’ll be aiming to read it before the “deadline” of 3rd of January 2027.
If this list was yours, which titles would you be hoping to see come up in the spin??
We’re all friends here. Come and join the conversation