Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

This is Ann's 2021 "Let's get stuffed!" Challenge Buffet.

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR (must read 12)

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. Flowers in the Mirror by Li Ruzhen - published 1818
2. The Women in White by Wilkie Collins - published 1859 - FINISHED 2/5/2021
3. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle - published 1883 - FINISHED 2/19/2021

1900-1999/New School
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - published 1943 - FINISHED 2/7/2021
5. Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories by C.S. Lewis - published 1966 - DID NOT FINISH
6. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs - published 1912 - FINISHED 2/26/2021

My Wild Card Six
7. Hunger by Knut Hamsun - published 1890 - FINISHED 3/7/2021
8. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne - published 1870 - FINISHED 2/4/2021
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - published 1847 - FINISHED 4/26/2021
10. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington - published 1918 - FINISHED 6/26/2021
11. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - published 1949 - FINISHED 6/19/2021
12. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - published 1939 - FINISHED 7/11/2021

Alternates
A-1. Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins - published 1872
A-2. I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki - published 1905
A-3. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth - published 1972

COMPLETED 11/16/2021

Challenge #2 - Does a Century Make a Difference (must read 10 total [5 from each category]))

1945 (my dad's birth year)
1. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren - FINISHED 5/3/2021
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell - FINISHED 7/13/2021
3. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
4. Black Boy by Richard Wright - FINISHED 7/13/2021
5. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis - FINISHED 7/3/2021
6. A Bookshop in Berlin by Françoise Frenkel
7. No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie
8. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by Josephine Leslie
9. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams - FINISHED 4/6/2021
10. Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard

1845
1. Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
2. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen - FINISHED 2/14/2021
3. Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli
4. The Mission; Or, Scenes in Africa by Frederick Marryat
5. The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels
6. Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas - FINISHED 7/29/2021
7. Carmen by Prosper Mérimée - FINISHED 11/16/2021
8. Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer
9. The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens - FINISHED 7/14/2021
10. The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen - FINISHED 2/14/2021

Challenge #3 - Second Place or Worse (must read 7)

New School
1. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan - 9th Place in November 2015 FINISHED 7/18/2021
2. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - 9th Place in September 2014 FINISHED 8/25/2021

Old School
3. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs - 6th Place in December 2017 - FINISHED 1/8/2021
4. Kim by Rudyard Kipling - 2nd Place in July 2013

Short Story/Novella
5. The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov - 3rd Place in August 2017 - FINISHED 11/21/2021
6. Lady Susan by Jane Austen - 4th Place in October 2016 - FINISHED 3/29/2021

Quarter Long Read
7. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James - 2nd Place in 3rd Quarter 2018 - FINISHED 1/24/2021

COMPLETED 8/29/2021

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge (must read 12)

1. 18th Century or older: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - published 1719 - FINISHED 1/30/2021
2. 19th Century: The Awakening by Kate Chopin - published 1899 - FINISHED 5/14/2021
3. 20th Century: Beloved by Toni Morrison - published 1987 - FINISHED 1/18/2021
4. Current or Past Group Read: The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux - published 1910 and Group Read September 2014 - FINISHED 8/29/2021
5. An Author not read before: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - published 1877 - FINISHED 2/22/2021
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - published 1857 - FINISHED 6/20/2021
7. Science Fiction: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - published 1898 - FINISHED 4/19/2021
8. Romance: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - published 1891 - FINISHED 6/18/2021
9. Historical fiction: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - published 1868 - FINISHED 5/18/2021
10. Nonfiction: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx - published 1848 - FINISHED 4/6/2021
11. Mystery/Crime: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - published 1887 - FINISHED 8/19/2021
12. Horror or Humor: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - published 1890 - FINISHED 5/31/2021

COMPLETED 11/16/2021

Challenge #5 - Decade/Century Challenge (must read 10)

My Century Challenge, Authors-Some Old Some New
1900-1909: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - published 1905 - FINISHED 6/11/2021
1910-1919: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - published 1910 - FINISHED 3/1/2021
1920-1929: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - published 1925 - FINISHED 8/2/2021
1930-1939: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - published 1937 - FINISHED 10/7/2021
1940-1949: 1984 by George Orwell - published 1949 - FINISHED 8/13/2021
1950-1959: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis - published 1955 - FINISHED 5/20/2021
1960-1969: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - published 1960 - FINISHED 6/8/2021
1970-1979: The Shining by Stephen King - published 1977 - FINISHED 11/16/2021
1980-1989: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - published 1985 - FINISHED 1/19/2021
1990-1999: The Giver by Lois Lowry - published 1993 - FINISHED 4/26/2021

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge (must read 24)

1. On The Gull's Road by Willa Cather - FINISHED 11/19/2021
2. Eve's Diary by Mark Twain - FINISHED 1/21/2021
3. The Copy Cat by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - FINISHED 11/19/2021
4. The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen - FINISHED 2/14/2021
5. The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde - FINISHED 11/19/2021
6. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling - FINISHED 11/20/2021
7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - FINISHED 11/22/2021
8. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin - FINISHED 11/19/2021
9. Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. Barn Burning by William Faulkner
11. Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor
12. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway - FINISHED 11/19/2021
13. A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker - FINISHED 11/19/2021
14. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant - FINISHED 11/19/2021
15. The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty - FINISHED 11/19/2021
16. The New Dress by Virginia Woolf - FINISHED 11/20/2021
17. The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - FINISHED 11/21/2021
18. Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell - FINISHED 11/20/2021
19. Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood - FINISHED 11/21/2021
20. Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler - FINISHED 11/21/2021
21. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald
22. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez - FINISHED 11/21/2021
23. Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin - FINISHED 11/22/2021
24. The Open Window by Saki FINISHED 11/19/2021

COMPLETED 11/18/2021

Challenge #7 - 2021 Groups Reads Challenge (must read 12)

JANUARY
1. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs - FINISHED 1/8/2021
2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - FINISHED 1/19/2021
3. The Portrait of a Lady; Volume 1 and The Portrait of a Lady; Volume 2 by Henry James - FINISHED 1/24/2021

FEBRUARY
4. The Warden by Anthony Trollope - FINISHED 2/12/2021
5. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - FINISHED 3/1/2021

MARCH
6. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams - FINISHED 3/12/2021

APRIL
7. The Giver by Lois Lowry - FINISHED 4/26/2021
8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - FINISHED 4/26/2021

JUNE
9. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - FINISHED 6/18/2021

SEPTEMBER
10. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - FINISHED 9/15/2021
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - FINISHED 9/15/2021

NOVEMBER
12. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain - FINISHED 11/18/2021

COMPLETED 11/13/2021

Challenge #8 - Expand Your Horizon with New Authors (must read 6)

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - published 1963 - FINISHED 7/2/2021
2. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin - published 1968 - FINISHED 7/12/21
3. The Warden by Anthony Trollope - published 1855 - FINISHED 2/12/2021
4. And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle - published 1949 - FINISHED 9/14/2021
5. The Third Man by Graham Greene - published 1935 - FINISHED 11/13/2021
6. The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen - published 1928 - FINISHED 10/19/2021

Wow, Ann. You are going to have some good reading in the coming year. I enjoyed just reading your lists.

You sure have been working, this is an outstanding list of books. I do hope you enjoy every one.

You have so many great books on these lists. I, too, have "Hunger" on my New and Old TBR Challenge. Have a wonderful "reading year".

@Bob - you were so right about The Woman in White. It is fabulous. I am listening to audio (28 hours) but picked up the printed copy to follow along. I restarted it today when I got the printed copy and I am 96 pages in (3.50 hours audio) of the tiniest copy and script I have seen. It literally fits in the palm of my hand. Loving it!!

Wow, this is impressive! Enjoy the reading!

I have some absolutely AMAZING reads this year!!! So enjoying my time catching up on the classics.

You've made excellent progress! And really nice books.

Congratulations!! You selected and read some really great books.

Congrats from me, as well. You really are rocking this!

Congratulations! You've read some interesting books this year.

Finished Challenge #4 on 8/29/2021.
Finished Challenge #8 on 11/13/2021.
Finished Challenge #5 on 11/16/2021.
Finished Challenge #2 on 11/16/2021.
Finished Challenge #7 on 11/18/2021.

Wow, congrats! This is impressive! So many interesting books

Wow, you are closing these now like dominoes. Congrats, Ann.