Coffee & Books discussion

As we have done many years now: The Classics are back.

Many have asked about what a "classic" is and what is classified as a classic or not. Basically, a Classic novel is one in which that is note-worthy, well-known and exemplary. There are many ways to classify one, one by the book, one by the author... it just depends on what you are looking at. They are widely recognized as a classic as they are timeless, taught through the years and are essentials in that median.

Here are a few lists in which you can scroll through and see if you can pull a few books from!

Required Reading for High School
- I know it is for high schoolers, but most and a lot of these books are the top classified classic novels.

Popular Classics
- More of a wider genre of classics

Duration: January 2014- January 2015

Please pick from a stage, you can edit as you read more!

Stage One
Read 1-5 classic books

Stage Two
Read 6-10 classic books

Stage Three
Read 11-15 classic books

Stage Four
Read 16- 20 classic books

Stage Five
Read 21-25 classic books

Stage Six
Read 26-30 classic books

Stage Seven
Read 30 books and more.


Enjoy xx

I of course am in. I will probably shoot for stage 5.

1. Where Angels Fear to Tread

I didn't get any read last year going for stage 1 this year.

This year I'm aiming for Stage Three!
12/11

1. And Then There Were None
2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
3. Rip Van Winkle
4. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
5. Rappaccini's Daughter
6. Prince Caspian
7. Twenty Years at Hull House
8. Murder on the Orient Express
9. Benito Cereno
10. The Island of Dr. Moreau
11. The Secret Sharer
12. The Sign of Four

Classic Challenge - 2014
Duration: January 1, 2014 thru January 1, 2015
Stage Four - Read 16 - 20 classic books
Books Read: 4/20

1.The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1/2/14)
2. A Christmas Memory including One Christmas and A Thanksgiving Memory by Truman Capote (1/13/14)
3. The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain (1/13/14)
4. I Capture the Castle by Dobie Smith (2/13/14)


My Classic Bookshelf

CLASSICS: 2014
Duration: January 2014- January 2015

Stage One
Read 1-5 classic books (Starting small because my track record wasn't good last year)
Books Read: 1/5

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell Jan06/14 ✔
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Stage Four - Read 16-20.

1. Bleak House
2. The Horse and His Boy
3. My Family and Other Animals
4. The Railway Children
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray
6. The Innocence of Father Brown
7. The Fellowship of the Ring
8. The Magician
9. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
10. Prince Caspian
11. Persuasion
12. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
13. The Hobbit
14. The Diary of a Nobody
15. Around the World in Eighty Days
16. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
17. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
18. The Invisible Man
19. The Secret Garden
20. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
21. The Fellowship of the Ring
22. Five Children and It
23. Murder on the Orient Express
24. The Silmarillion
25. The Midwich Cuckoos
26. Tom's Midnight Garden
27. Little Women
28. The Turn of the Screw
29. Beatrix Potter Illustrated Collection
30. Mr. Popper's Penguins

I'll try this one again :)

Ok i'm in: Stage 2 for me....i have a lot of other challenges going on too....

Classics Challenge
Duration: January 2014 - January 2015

2/10 Completed

1. Pride and Prejudice 3/26/14
2. The Help 2/23/14 (didn't think this was one but it was on the popular classics list...
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I'm going to join in here too.
Stage 2 for me I think
Adding the Classics Challenge as it ties in nicely with some of my other challenges

Going to start at stage 2
1. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand ✔
2 . The beautiful and damned - F Scott Fitzgerald ✔
3 . Hamlet - William Shakespeare
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Can we do re-reads of Classics we've previously read?

I am going to do Stage 7 as I have at least 30 in total on kindle/audio/books.

If so, I plan on re-reading the following:

1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2.The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
3.Great Expectations - Charles DickensCharles Dickens
4.Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
5.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
6.Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7.Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
8. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
9. Middlemarch - George Eliot
10. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
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Fiona (Titch) wrote: "I am going to do Stage 7 as I have at least 30 in total on kindle/audio/books.

If so, I plan on re-reading the following:

1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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Of course! Classics are important and we tend to revisit them and they are so well written!

So on the list of POpular classics there is one of a series listed, is it safe to assume that the rest of the series is considered it as well (ie Game of Thrones, Earth Children Series, etc)?????

I will aim for Stage Three- 11-15 books!

Duration: January 1 2014- January 1 2015

COMPLETED!! WOOT WOOT
Based on the two aforementioned lists, these are the books I have read:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. The Giver by Lois Lowry
4. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
5. Gossamer by Lois Lowry
6. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
7.Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8.The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
9.A Separate Peace by John Knowles
10.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum,
11.Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
12.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
13.Emma by Jane Austen
14.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
15.The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Ooh I love classics so I'm in! I'm aiming for stage 3 (11 books). There's always room for improvement on the classics front :)

1. Jane Eyre
2. The Help - this is on one of the lists at the start of this discussion, but I'm still not sure if I should include it? Has it been around long enough to be "timeless"?
3. The Time Machine
4. The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Here is the link to my Challenge page! :)

I'm a late joiner, but I've read a few classics this year so I'll add them! :)

Stage 3: 11-15 books

13/15 Completed

1. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
2. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
3. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
4. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
5. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
6. My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
7. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
8. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
9. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
10. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
11. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
12. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
13. Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies

Because I'm joinging late and haven't read too many classics (I would say) since the beginning of 2014, I only set my goal to Stage 2 and read at least 6 up to 7 "classics" until the end of 2014.

Stage 2 - 6/7 completed

1. Nora (aka "The Dollhouse") by Henrik Ibsen ✔
2. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf ✔
3. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan ✔
4. Das Urteil und andere Prosa (aka "The Judgement") by Franz Kafka ✔
5. Der weiße Dominikaner: aus dem Tagebuch eines Unsichtbaren (aka "The White Dominican") by Gustav Meyrink ✔
6. The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll ✔
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

This challenge is now closed! You can rejoin or continue on during the 2015 year: Third Annual Classics Challenge!