Spin #45 for the Classics Club, August 2026

The latest Classics Club Spin has been announced. To join in, I choose twenty unread books from my classics list and list them in a post before Sunday, August 16th, 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 October 4th, 2026.So, here is my list of 20 books for the spin...Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana (1958) Edna Ferber – Giant (1952)Edna Ferber – Show Boat (1926)Virginia Woolf – Flush (1933) Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles (1950)Ray Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451 (1953)Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre (1847)Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five (1955)John Steinbeck – Cannery Row (1945)Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)J. D. Salinger – Catcher in the Rye (1951)J. D. Salinger – Franny and Zooey (1961)Chinua Achebe –…