Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

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Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
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1899 and earlier/Old School
1. Madame Bovary by Flaubert Gustave
✔ 2. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

1900-1999/New School
✔ 4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino ★ ★ ★
5. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
✔ 6. The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★

My Wild Card Six
7. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
8. Armadale by Wilkie Collins
9. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
10. Tartuffe by Molière
11. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
12. Lebensansichten des Katers Murr (engl.: The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr) by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Alternates
A-1. The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
A-2. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Challenge #3 - Second Place or Worse

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge
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1. 18th Century or older: The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
2. 19th Century: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3. 20th Century: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
4. Current or Past Group Read: The Warden by Anthony Trollope
5. An Author not read before: Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar
6. Diversity Classic:. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
7. Science Fiction: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8. Romance: Persuasion by Jane Austen
9. Historical fiction: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
10. Nonfiction:
11. Mystery/Crime: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
12. Horror or Humor: The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

Challenge #5 - Decade/Century Challenge
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This was my favourite challenge of last year. Last year I read the 1920s and this year I’m going for the 1900s.

1900 Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (The Diary of a Chambermaid)
1901 Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
1902 The Grand Babylon Hotel
1903 The Ambassadors
1904 The Napoleon of Notting Hill
1905 Les Civilisés or Professor Unrat
1906 Love Among the Chickens
1907 Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune: The Mystery of the Yellow Room, French edition
1908 A Room with a View or The Magician
1909 The Rosary

Challenge #7 - 2020 Group Reads Challenge
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I’m very excited for the group reads this year. I always love to read with the group.

✔ 1. The Captain's Daughter ★ ★ ★ ★
✔ 2. Cranford ★ ★ ★ ★
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Challenge #8 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
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There are still so many new classic authors I want to try, that it is not really a challenge for me. But I love the idea and will just fill out the spots with the first 6 new authors I read, without planning ahead.

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Additional Challenge: Classic Vampires

Read at least one Vampire Story for each decade, starting in the 19th century with some additional poems of the 18th century.

I find it totally interesting to follow a certain topic over the decades and see how it develops. This year I start with vampires.

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✔ 1740: Der Vampir by Heinrich Ossenfelder (poem) ★ ★ ★ ★
1770: Leonore: Poeme by Burger-G (poem)
✔ 1790: Die Braut von Korinth by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (poem) ★ ★ ★ ★
1800: Thalaba the Destroyer: A Rhythmical Romance by Robert Southey (poem)
✔ 1810: The Vampire by John William Polidori ★ ★ ★
1820: The Vampire Or The Bride Of The Isles by James Robinson Planché
Smarra Ou Les Demons de La Nuit by Charles Nodier
Wake Not the Dead by Ludwig Tieck
✔ 1830: La Morte Amoureuse by Théophile Gautier ★ ★ ★ ★
Wij by Nikolai Gogol
✔ 1840: Histoire de la dame pâle by Alexandre Dumas ★ ★ ★ ★
Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer
1850: Une vieille maîtresse
1860: La Vampire by Paul Féval père
Lokis: Le Manuscrit Du Professeur Wittembach by Prosper Mérimée
1870: Captain Vampire by Marie Nizet
1880: Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant
Der Vampir / Die Familie des Wurdalak by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
1890: The Parasite by Arthur Conan Doyle
1900: The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck
The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
1910: Wampir by Władysław Stanisław Reymont
1920: Bewitched by Edith Wharton
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✔ 1940: The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury ★ ★ ★
1950: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
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1970: 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
1980: The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
1990: Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
2000: Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
2010: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
2020:

We seem to have some books in common and some of my favorites like Persuasion and The Pillars of the Earth are on your list for this year...enjoy!

Hi Fee! ( love your name by the way! )
I read Frankenstein: The 1818 Text as well as Fahrenheit 451, and I enjoyed both very much. The Canterville Ghost was rather fun as well, especially because I tend to read quite some gothic fiction and it makes a bit fun of those codes.
And I love your additional challenge! It seems very interesting to follow a certain topic over the decades ( and vampires is an excellent choose in my opinion ;-) ). The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury is a really funny one, by far the weirdest I ever read! XD
Goodluck with your challenge and have a nice time reading!^^

Fee wrote: " Additional Challenge: Classic Vampires

Read at least one Vampire Story for each decade, starting in the 19th century with some additional poems of the 18th century.

I find it totally interestin..."

Interesting challenge!

Susie wrote: "We seem to have some books in common and some of my favorites like Persuasion and The Pillars of the Earth are on your list for this year...enjoy!"
I’m excited to read another book by Austen and Pillars of the Earth has been on my shelf for far too long.

Irphen wrote: "Hi Fee! ( love your name by the way! )
I read Frankenstein: The 1818 Text as well as Fahrenheit 451, and I enjoyed both very much. The Canterville Ghost..."

You have gotten me very interested in The Man Upstairs. I might start with this one tomorrow.

I'm reading Madame Bovary and Bleak House as well this year. I loved the vampire theme

You have a nice start! I like your idea of using Vampire stories as your Century Challenge.