Classics Club Spin #44

I have never before participated in the Classics Club spins, but as I have recently joined the Club with this list of 50 classic books, I thought it would be a great idea to start my challenge with a spin. The rules are: go to your blog; pick twenty books that you listed as “to read” for the Classics Club challenge; and post the list, numbered 1-20, on your blog by 17th May 2026. The number will be announced on that day, and the challenge is to read the book that falls under the announced number by 5th of July 2026.

So, here is my list:

1. The Masterpiece by Émile Zola
2. The Illustrious House of Ramires by Eça de Queirós
3. The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. The Tragedy of the Street of Flowers by Eça de Queirós
5. Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
7. Roderick Hudson by Henry James
8. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
9. Jezebel’s Daughter by Wilkie Collins
10. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
11. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina
12. New Grub Street by George Gissing
13. A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque
14. The Village by Ivan Bunin
15. The Song of the World by Jean Giono
16. Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
17. The Comedians by Graham Greene
18. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
19. Salka Valka by Halldór Laxness
20. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

📜 Only time will tell if I am too ambitious with this list. Are you participating? With what classic books?