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2020 Personal Challenge
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✅ 1. Classic Over 500 Pages: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (1885) by Ulysses S. Grant✅ 2. A Classic By a Person of Color: The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
✅ 3. A Classic Set in Another Country: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
✅4. A Classic in Translation: History of Rome, Volume 1 by Livy
✅ 5. A Classic by an Author New to You: The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
✅ 6. A Book of Classic Poetry: Selected Writings by Guillaume Apollinaire
7. A Classic Written Between 1800-1860: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
✅ 8. An LGBTQ Classic: Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
9. A Classic Written by a Woman: People in the Room by Norah Lange
✅ 10. A Classic Novella: Voyage Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre
✅ 11. A Non-Fiction Classic: Capital by Karl Marx, The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
✅ 12. A Censored Classic: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
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2. A Classic By a Person of Color: Cane by Jean Toomer
3. A Classic Set in Another Country: A Sport..."
I loved Cane when I read it in college. Faust is on my reread list and at some point I'll read Dead Souls.
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There are a few challenges I'm doubling up on.
✅Prompts 1 & 7: A classic over 500 pages & A classic written between 1800-1860 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte [Read Jan. 1-31, 2020]
📚Prompt 2: POC author/MC - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
📚Prompt 3: Set in another country
📚Prompt 4: Classic in translation
📚Prompt 5: New to you - Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
📚Prompt 6: Poetry - Beowulf
📚Prompt 8: LGBTQIA+ author/MC -
📚Prompt 9: Written by a woman - To Kill a Mockinbird by Harper Lee
✅Prompt 10: Novella - Passing by Nella Larsen [Read Feb. 2-3, 2020]
📚Prompts 11 & 12: Classic Nonfiction & Banned/Censored - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The cheat: Bless Me, Ultima was published in 1972, two years later than the 50 year cutoff date. I'm only reading books that are already on my physical TBR or eReader. And, he is new to me because well, I've never read anything by him before.