Reading Classic Books discussion

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I'm back for the 2021 Reading Classic Books challenge. 2020 was not a good reading year and needless to say I didn't do too well. But now I'm back in the seat and ready to read some classics.

1) Read a classic over 500 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

2) Read a classic by a POC and/or with a POC as the main character
The Street by Ann Petry

3) Read a classic that is not written by a Global North author
The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul

4) Read a classic in translation
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

5) Read a classic by a new to you author
Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono

6) Read a classic Sci/Fi or Fantasy
1984 by George Orwell

7) Read a classic written before 1800
Gulliver’s Travels. By Jonathan Swift

8) Read a classic written by an LGBT author and/or with an LGBT main character

9) Read a classic written by a woman
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

10) Read a classic written by a Nobel Laureate
The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul

11) Read a classic nonfiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

12) Read a classic that has been banned or censored
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

All subject to change. Many probably will.

✅ 1. A Classic Over 500 Pages: The Five Books of Moses, translated by Robert Alter (includes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)

✅ 2, 6. A Classic by a POC, Classic Sci-Fi: Nova (1968), by Samuel R. Delany

✅ 3. Read a classic that is not written by a Global North author: The Declarations of Havana by Fidel Castro

✅ 4, 10. Read a classic in translation, Read a classic written by a Nobel Laureate: Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

✅ 5, 8. A Classic by a New to You Author, An LGBTQ Classic: The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection (1887-1891) by Oscar Wilde

✅ 7. Read a classic written before 1800: Job translated by Edward L. Greenstein

✅ 9. Read a classic written by a woman: People in the Room (1950) by Norah Lange

✅ 11. Read a classic nonfiction: The Travels by Marco Polo

✅ 12) Read a classic that has been banned or censored: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Welcome, Mercedes! I hope you enjoy the challenge.

Mercedes wrote: "My first year!


1) Read a classic over 500 pages: Ulysses
2) Read a classic by a POC and/or with a POC as the main character: The Three Musketeers
3) Read a classic that ..."

Managed 10/12 in 2020, so trying again in 2021! This plan is subject to change:
✔︎1) Read a classic over 500 pages: The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
✔︎2) Read a classic by a POC and/or with a POC as the main character: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
3) Read a classic that is not written by a Global North author -
✔︎4) Read a classic in translation - Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
✔︎5) Read a classic by a new to you author - The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
✔︎6) Read a classic Sci/Fi or Fantasy - Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
✔︎7) Read a classic written before 1800 - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
✔︎8) Read a classic written by an LGBT author and/or with an LGBT main character: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
✔︎9) Read a classic written by a woman: Englishwoman in America by Isabella Bird
10) Read a classic written by a Nobel Laureate -
✔︎11) Read a classic nonfiction - The Yellow Joss: And Other Tales by Ion L Idriess
✔︎12) Read a classic that has been banned or censored - Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

I'm in! But I don't like to pick titles ahead of time, if that's OK :)

Jean wrote: "I'm in! But I don't like to pick titles ahead of time, if that's OK :)"

Absolutely! and welcome. There is no requirement to choose books ahead of time.

Here's my sign-up: https://howlingfrog.blogspot.com/2020...