It’s time for another Classics Club Spin! If you’re not sure what the Spins are, here’s a reminder:

The rules for Spin #46:

* List any twenty books you have left to read from your Classics Club list.
* Number them from 1 to 20.
* On Sunday 15th November the Classics Club will announce a number.
* This is the book you need to read by 3rd January 2027.

And here’s my list:

1. The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
2. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
3. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
4. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
5. The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
6. The Dancing Bear by Frances Faviell
7. The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope
8. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
9. Lord Tony’s Wife by Baroness Orczy
10. The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins
11. The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham
12. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
13. The Women’s War by Alexandre Dumas
14. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
15. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
16. A Harp in Lowndes Square by Rachel Ferguson
17. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
18. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
19. The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
20. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

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I think winter is a good time for reading long Victorian novels, so I would like to get one of those, particularly either of the Dickens, but I would be happy with anything, really.

Which number do you think I should be hoping for on Sunday?