Back to the Classics Challenge:
A 19th century classic: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
A 20th century classic: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A classic by a woman author: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
A classic in translation: Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem Aleichem
A children's classic: Teddy’s Button by Amy Lefeuvre
A classic crime story, fiction or non-fiction: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A classic travel or journey narrative, fiction or non-fiction: Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, or Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
A classic with a single-word title: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius or, Shirley by Charlotte Brontë or, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin or, Pensées by Blaise Pascal
A classic with a colour in the title: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
A classic by an author that's new to you: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell or, Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
A classic that scares you: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe or, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Re-read a favourite classic: The Iliad by Homer
TBR Pile Challenge:
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son by Sholem Aleichem
- Lives by Plutarch
- City of God by Saint Augustine
- Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Le Rêve by Émile Zola
Alternates:
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Victorian Challenge:
I will the books as I read.
Deal Me In Challenge:
Clubs – Short Stories
A – Cabbages and Kings - O’Henry
3 – The Queen of Spades – Alexander Pushkin
4 – The Story of A Farm Girl - Guy Maupassant
5 – The Hammer of God (Father Brown) - G.K. Chesterton
6 – Doubtful Happiness - Guy Maupassant
7 – The Honest Thief – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8 – The Unpresentable Appearance of Colonel Crane - G.K. Chesterton
9 – The Diary of a Madman - Guy Maupassant
10 – The Birds - Anton Chekhov
J – The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Gilman
Q - Love - Leo Tolstoy
Q - Love - Leo Tolstoy
K - Signs and Symbols - Vladimir Nabakov
Spades – Essays
A – Milton - Charles Williams
2 – England, Your England - George Orwell
3 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream - G.K. Chesterton
4 – On A Faithful Friend – Virginia Woolf
5 – A Note on Jane Austen - C.S. Lewis
6 – In Defence of Literacy - Wendell Berry
7 – The Tyranny of Bad Journalism - G.K. Chesterton
8 – The Hotel of the Total Stranger - E.B. White
9 – An Apology for Idlers - Robert Louis Stevenson
10 – Sense - C.S. Lewis
J – Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community - Wendell Berry
Q – What I Demand of Life - Frank Swinnerton
K – Death of a Pig - E.B. White
Diamonds – Poetry
A – A Sea Dirge - Lewis Carroll
2 – Gesang Der Geister Über Den Wassern - Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
3 – Nothing But Death - Pablo Neruda (from Poetry Soup)
4 – Sonnett XXIII - Garcilaso de la Vega
5 – Love Sonnet XIII - Pablo Neruda
6 – Resolution and Independence – William Wordsworth
7 – Ode III – Fray Luis de León
8 – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas
9 – To A Mouse – Robert Burns
10 – From Milton [Jerusalem] - William Blake
J – Easter Wings – George Hebert
Q – On His Blindness - John Milton
K – Phoenix and the Turtle - William Shakespeare
Hearts – Children’s Classic
A – A Triumph for Flavius – Caroline Dale Snedeker
2 – Three Greek Children - Alfred Church
3 – The Story of the Treasure Seekers – E. Nesbit
4 – Detectives in Togas – Henry Winterfeld
5 – The Spartan - Caroline Dale Snedeker
6 – Shadow Hawk Andre Norton
7 – City of the Golden House - Madeleine Polland
8 – Red Sails to Capri – Ann Weil
9 – Sprig of Broom - Barbara Willard
10 – Teddy’s Button - Amy LeFeuvre
J – Call It Courage – Armstrong Sperry
Q – Just David - Eleanor H. Porter
K – Beyond the Desert Gate – Mary Ray
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