#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge discussion

What are you hoping to read during the first two weeks of January? Share your TBRs here!

I am re-reading Wuthering Heights! It's been a while, and I am so happy to start my year reading it!

I’m really hoping to get to Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte and Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod!

I am planning on reading Little Women and The House of Mirth.

My plans are to start the year of with The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (because I am OBSESSED with her at the moment as I’m sure some of you will be able to tell!!), then read Where Angels Fear to Tread by EM Forster, followed up with our readalong for The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

And then maybe some poetry in between too, but I haven’t decided what yet. Maybe some Christina Rossetti!

It will be a busy fortnight!

I'm planning to read The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie.

"The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" are on my list. I'll go from there.

I want to read Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte.

I'm gonna try to read the illiad and maybe Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

I also want to try reading Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility. I am currently reading Les Mis, so my goal is to reach page 200 by mid-January as well.

I've been reading Bleak House for a while now, so I'm hoping to finish that in the first few weeks of January.

I want to see the movie The Turning so I will be reading The Turn of the Screw

I also want to see the PBS mini series Sanditon so I'll be reading Sanditon.

As well as participating in The Wuthering Heights buddy read.

I’m hoping to finish my reread of The Picture of Dorian Gray for I put it down during the holidays, and plan to reread Pride and Prejudice in Feb for the buddy read

I'm starting with Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier and after that I want to read Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've just started Howards End by E.M. Forster and I'm hoping to read Little Men after that.

My priorities for the first two weeks of Jan are, TPOAL buddy read and finishing the books I’m in the middle of (Pamela by Samual Richardson and Great Expectations).
I’d also like to squeeze in another classic or two but I’m a mood reader so who knows what they will be.

Proust, Brothers Karamazov, Tale of Genji

Dorothy Parker Selected Poems, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women and starting Swann's Way!

I'm reading Wuthering Heights for the first time. I will read The Wizard of Oz after that.

I'm gonna start reading the behemoth that is Count of Monte Cristo right off the bat (just one chapter a day, though) The other behemoth that I need to get back to is War and Peace. I need a refresher on the first 450 pages, and then I'll get back into it, so we'll see if that one is actually picked up in the first 2 weeks. Other than that, the classics I plan on reading fully are I Capture the Castle and That Hideous Strength.

I'm starting with Frankenstein. I thought it would be a good one to ease myself in with as it is a shorter classic.

I am reading The name of the rose by Umberto Eco, which is quite a big book, so that one will take some time to get through. If I can, I am also going to read Don't look now and other stories by Daphne du Maurier :)

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson and perhaps The Lottery and Other Stories.

I'm hoping to read Little Women and Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I'm reading Phineas Redux and then The Prime Minister. Phineas Redux is excellent so far - on Pg 160.

I’m going to read Wives and Daughters!

I just discovered Gaskell last summer when I read North and South, and I fell in love! Since then, I’ve also read Ruth and Mary Barton. I’m hoping to read the rest of her works in the next year, as well as the Brontës. (Jane Eyre is a dear favorite!)

First will be O Pioneers by Willa Cather. I don't know what I'll reading next, but were going out of town for the next few days, so I'll decide the next book when I get back.

I will be reading Romola by George Eliot, The Iliad and Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

My TBR for the next two weeks:

The Hunchback of Notre-dame by Victor Hugo
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Good Wives by Louisa M. Alcott
1984 by George Orwell

Though it might change depending on how difficult I might find some of them as I’m not reading them in my first language. Hope I can manage to read them all :)

I’m hoping to read Tess of the D’Urbervilles for Classicsathon. Fingers crossed!

I will start The Tenant of Wildfell Hall but I will take most of January to finish. I also plan on My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and a couple of short stories that I haven't chosen yet.

I've started Gargantua and Pantagruel in French. I calculated that if I can read five double pages (I have a bilingual edition, with the old text and the modern French translation next to each other) every day, I'll be able to finish the series by the end of April without going mad with fatigue. :) We'll see.

My tbr is:
Finishing Maurice by E.M Forster
Reading The morning gift by Eva Ibbotson
Reading Little women by Louisa May Alcatraz

I'm in the middle of Udolpo by Ann Radcliffe so finishing that one first. Then I might start Lord of the rings trilogy.

my main priorities are: oliver twist by charles dickens, the collected works of georg büchner, and jane eyre by charlotte bronte. as for the rest, i'll see when i get there!

I would love to read Little Women and maybe a German classic as well...probably something by Goethe or Schiller.

Melymbrosia by Virginia Woolf.
It’s a reconstructed early draft of her first novel, The Voyage Out, which I finished a little while ago. I was interested to see what changed.
I’m about half way through, have run out of renewals at the library, and it’s due back Friday.

Pride and prejudice at the very least.

I am currently reading A Room With A View at the moment and I am really enjoying it. It's my very first Forster. I am pretty sure I will finish it in January. I am also planning to complete Oliver Twist in January. I wanted to complete it in December but I sort of lost my momentum. Really want to check it off my TBR in Jan so that I can read more of his works soon. I also want to read Overcoat by Gogol this month.

I am reading Little Women and thoroughly enjoying it.

I’m wondering what I will read next. I don’t know if I will try to finish City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett or try to find a classic. I’m doing another challenge alongside this one and there are three categories that I would love to fill with books from this one. Little Women already fulfills the category “#10 A book everyone is talking about.” What would be good for “#3 An epistolary novel”, “#9 A book that features a strong female lead”, and “#11 A ‘cli-fi’ (climate fiction) novel”???

Re-reading Little Women

My January tbr:

My Antonia by Willa Cather (just finished today!)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m hoping to finish Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. I also want to read East of Eden by John Steinbeck and a Dutch classic, but I’m not sure whether I can finish those three books in two weeks since I have exams coming up.

My January TBR so far :
- re-reading J. Austen : Sense and sensibility, B. Stoker : Dracula and E. Brontë : Wuthering heights ;
- reading Henry James' The portrait of a lady for the first time.
If I'm done by the end of the month, I'll (try to) re-read Pride and prejudice and Mansfield Park...

My TBR

-Currently reading Little Women
-Cold Comfort Farm
-Charlotte Brontë's Unfinished Novels
-Madame Bovary
Through the Looking Glass

I'm so excited for the year ahead!

I’m hoping to finally finish Pride and Prejudice then pick up Northanger Abbey and The romance of the forest as well as a few Agatha Christie mysteries.

I'm currently reading Thackeray's Vanity Fair, and looking forward to read Steppenwolf, Rebecca and The count of Montecristo. Oh and also The great Gatsby, although my main goal is to read as many Victorian classics as possible ⭐

I could read much for the first two weeks of the year. However, I am now reading many classics.

I read my first Charles Dickens ! That was A Christmas carol :)

I’ve just finished reading Indiana by George Sand. I found it ok but the plot and characters weren’t as engaging or interesting as I thought it would be. I’ve just started reading The black tulip by Alexandre Dumas which I am really enjoying so far. I hope to read Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare by the end of this month too.