Classics for Beginners discussion

I just set up a 2018 Classics Challenge as it seems that challenges are much loved, by some of us at least. The challenge runs from 01 January - 31 December 2018. You define which shelf will count towards your challenge, all books that are shelved as read on this shelf between those dates count towards the challenge. I, for example, have a general 'classics' shelf where all my read classics books are shelved. All books I add during 2018 will count towards my 2018 challenge.

When the challenge is created and when you join it doesn't matter. Any book you have put on the shelf that you define will count towards the challenge as long as you shelved it while the challenge was running. So, books you shelved earlier this year will still count towards the challenge.

In this thread you can keep track of your reads or plans for the challenge, you can share with others your thoughts or anything else related to the challenge.

Happy reading!

Thanks, Nina. This looks like fun.

I’ll track my 2018 Classics Reads here:

1, Neighbour Rosicky by Willa Cather. (Finished 9Jan)
2. The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler. (Finished 22Jan)
3. The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton. (Finished 29Jan)
4. A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert. (Finished 29Jan)
5. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Finished 2Feb)
6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Finished 13Feb)
7. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks (Finished 14Feb)
8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Finished 28Feb)
9. The Finishing School by Muriel Spark (Finished 2Apr)
10. The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate. (Finished 11Apr)
11. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. (Finished 16Apr)
12. Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair. (Finished 29Apr).
13. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence. (Finished 24May).
14. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. (Finished 6June).
15. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edogawa Rampo. (Finished 7June).

I set my goal as 10. I don’t think I’ll read that many, but I’m really gonna try.

2018 Classics

1. The Hiding Place
2. Kidnapped
3. Agnes Grey
4. Lonesome Dove
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
6. My Cousin Rachel
7. The High Window
8. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
9. The Two Faces of January
10. Swallows and Amazons
11.
12. Farewell to Manzanar
13. Their Eyes Were Watching God

My goal is 12:
1. Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. Dubliners by James Joyce
3. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
5. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
6. Night by Elie Wiesel
7. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
9. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
11. Dracula by Bram Stoker
12. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain.

I made it! :)

How is everyone doing on the challenge?

I've got 7 done so far but keep forgetting to update my post. Doing that now!

Well, I’ve finished 11 books this year. But, unfortunately, they’re not classics. I’m working on the monthly read right now though.