My list for The Classics Club Spin 44 #ccspin

It’s time for another Classics Club Spin. If you’re wondering how it works, read on:

Before 17th May, create a post listing twenty books that remain to be read on your Classics Club list. This is your Spin list. On 17th May the folks at The Classics Club will post a number from 1 through 20. The challenge is to read whatever book falls under that number on your Spin list by 5th July 2026.

My Spin List

I enjoyed the book chosen for me in the last Classics Club Spin – Thunderball by Ian Fleming – so I have my fingers crossed for this one. The perfect scenario would be that the number chosen is either 4 or 18 as those two books are also on my 20 Books of Summer list. Kill two birds with one stone and all that…

1. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
2. The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
3. The Hound of Death and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
4. Victoria Four-Thirty by Cecil Roberts
5. The Smiler with the Knife by Nicholas Blake
6. The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier
7. A Maigret Christmas and Other Stories by George Simenon
8. The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
9. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
10. Beyond the Black Stump by Nevil Shute
11. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
12. Trial by Terror by Paul Gallico
13. The Story of Esther Costello by Nicholas Montserrat
14. The Red Rock Wilderness by Elspeth Huxley
15. The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
16. Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
17. Lord Hornblower by C. S. Forester
18. Creatures of Circumstance by W. Somerset Maugham
19. The Satanist by Denis Wheatley
20. Stephen Morris by Nevil Shute

If this was your list, which book would you be hoping for?