It’s time for another Classics Club Spin! What is the spin?
It’s easy. At your blog, before next Sunday 19th March, 2023 , 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 19th, March , 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 30th April, 2023 .
We’ll check in here on Sunday the 30th April 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, 19th March.
We’ll announce a number from 1-20.
Read that book by 30th April .
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 something like:
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 30th April 2023 .
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
