Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I'm greedy so I'm going to try for them all!
(but will try and choose books that work for more than one challenge at a time)

COMPLETED 28/1/21

Challenge #1: 2020 Old & New Classics
Read: 12/12

Old School (pre-1900)
1. ✔️9/2/20 Sanditon by Jane Austen (1825)
2. ✔️31/3/20 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
3. ✔️7/2/20 The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

New School (1900-1999)
1. ✔️28/1/21 Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (1979)
2. ✔️28/2/20 Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe(1964)
3. ✔️15/2/20 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962)

Wild Cards
1. ✔️27/12/20 My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (1951)
2. ✔️9/1/20 The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace (1905)
3. ✔️6/3/20 Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (1926)
4. ✔️7/6/20 The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson (1932)
5. ✔️4/4/20 Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith (1933)
6.✔️ 7/1/20 Augustown by Kei Miller (2016)

Alternates
A-1. A Nobel laureate I haven't read before
A-2. A Nobel laureate I haven't read before

Challenge #2 - The Year You Were Born and 100 Years Earlier
Read: 3/5 1966, 2/5 1866

1966
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea 13/1/20
✔️Valley of the Dolls 15/3/20
Flowers for Algernon
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
✔️The Fixer 23/1/22
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Third Girl
The Jewel in the Crown
Silence


1866
Crime and Punishment
✔️Armadale 31/3/22
✔️The Signal-Man 8/5/20
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
The Gambler
Wives and Daughters(serialised 1864-1856, first published as a book in 1866)
Felix Holt: The Radical
The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers
Broad Arrow Jack
A Long Fatal Love Chase

Challenge #3 Your Birth Year Top 10 Best Sellers
Read: 2/5

✔️Valley of the Dolls 15/3/20
The Adventurers by Harold Robbins
The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
Capable of Honor by Allen Drury
The Double Image by Helen MacInnes
✔️The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 23/1/22
Tell No Man by Adela Rogers St. Johns
Tai-Pan by James Clavell (already read)
The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss
All in the Family by Edwin O'Connor

COMPLETED 6/3/21

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge List and read 12 books for each of the following categories.
Read: 12/12

✔️6/3/21 18th Century or older: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
✔️13/1/20 19th Century: Sanditon by Jane Austen (1825)
✔️ 28/2/2020th Century: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe (1964)
✔️13/1/20 Current or Past Group Read: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
✔️7/2/20 An Author not read before: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
✔️7/1/20 Diversity: Augustown by Kei Miller (Jamaica, Rastafarianism)
✔️ 28/1/21Science Fiction: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
✔️4/2/20 Romance: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
✔️27/12/20 Historical fiction: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
✔️18/5/20 Nonfiction: Levels of the Game by John McPhee
✔️9/1/20 Mystery/Crime: The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
✔️13/1/20 Horror or Humor: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Challenge #5 - Decade/Century Challenge
I'm going to do (mostly) classic crime for my decade challenge
Read: 5/10

✔️1905 The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace 9/1/20
1906 Tracks in the Snow by Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood
1907 Israel Rank by Roy Horniman
✔️1908 The Blotting Book by E.F. Benson 10/5/20
1909 Griselda by Gerhart Hauptmann OR The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster OR A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
✔️1910 At the Villa Rose by A.E.W. Mason 10/4/20
✔️1911 The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton 24/2/20
1912 The Singing Bone by R. Austin Freeman
1913 The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
✔️1914Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah 11/4/21

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge
Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year.
Read: 2/24

1. ✔️The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens 8/5/20
2. ✔️A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert 30/11/20

Challenge #7 - 2020 Group Reads Challenge
Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new books per year to go on our book shelf. This challenge is to read 12 of these forty.
Read: 4/12

1. ✔️15/2/20 Jan 2020 Revisit the Shelf: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
2. ✔️30/11/20 Dec 2020 Short Story/Novella: A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
3. ✔️27/12/20 Feb 2020 Revisit the Shelf : My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
4. ✔️19/2/22 Mar 2020 New School : Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Challenge #8 - A-Z Author Challenge
Read: 23/26

✔️A Jane Austen, Sanditon 9/2/20
✔️B E.F. Benson, The Blotting Book 10/5/20
✔️C J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country, 12/2/20
✔️D Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted 12/2/20
✔️E Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad 19/1/20
✔️F Gustave Flaubert, A Simple Heart 30/11/20
✔️G Graham Greene, The End of the Affair 4/2/20
✔️H Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle 31/5/20
✔️I Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go 7/2/21
✔️J Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle 15/2/20
✔️K Kim Yideum, Blood Sisters 25/2/21
✔️L Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem 2/5/20
✔️M Anne Meredith, Portrait of a Murderer 4/4/20
✔️N Irène Némirovsky, Dimanche and Other Stories 24/4/20
✔️O Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea 30/12/20
✔️P Ann Patchett, The Dutch House 22/4/20
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✔️R Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 13/1/20
✔️S Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds Of Witness 6/3/20
✔️T Sara Taylor, The Shore 29/10/21
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✔️V Birgit Vanderbeke, The Mussel Feast 9/10/21
✔️W Edgar Wallace, The Four Just Men 9/1/20
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✔️Y Kim Yideum, Blood Sisters 25/2/21
✔️Z Zsófia Bán, Night School: A Reader for Grownups 17/1/21

Challenge #9 - A-Z Title Challenge
Read: 20/26

✔️A Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe 28/2/20
✔️B The Blotting Book by E.F. Benson 10/5/20
✔️C Clouds Of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers 6/3/20
✔️D The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson 7/6/20
✔️E The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 4/2/20
✔️F The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace 9/1/20
✔️G The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers 23/2/20
✔️H Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 18/4/20
✔️I The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton24/2/20
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✔️K Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo8/11/20
✔️L Levels of the Game by John McPhee 18/5/20
✔️M A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, 12/2/20
✔️N North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 31/3/20
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✔️P Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith, 30/3/20
✔️Q The Quiet American by Graham Greene, 15/12/20
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✔️S Sanditon by Jane Austen 9/2/20
✔️T The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 2/5/20
✔️U The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 28/1/20
✔️V Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 15/3/20
✔️W Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 13/1/20
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I look forward to seeing all of your books for challenge #2 since we were born the same year. 1866 looks like a tough year since it didn't have much to choose from that I could find. I read Crime and Punishment this year and there is no way I would tackle it again in 2020. Best of luck on all of your challenges.

Good luck with your challenges. Your lists look really good.

Great list for your Old & New challenge. I've only read one of them, but most are also on my TBR. Very jealous of your books published the year you were born. Many on there that I want to read. I had trouble finding something in my birth year. Good luck with all your challenges, and I hope you enjoy your reading!