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For 2021, I am targeting the books on the Penguin Top 100 Classic 'Must-Read' booklist that I have not yet read - this is a total of 56 books and I am aiming to complete one-third of these (19) during 2021. The link to the full list is shown below:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/20...

Completed:- 17/19

Books to Read:-
Another Country by James Baldwin
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe -
- FINISHED 6/4/21 - 4* (8.5/10)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
- FINISHED 27/6/21 - 4* (7.5/10)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
I, Claudius by Robert Graves -
- FINISHED 2/10/21 - 3* (6/10)
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy -
- FINISHED 12/11/21 - 4* (9/10)
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Iliad by Homer
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Castle by Franz Kafka -
- FINISHED 23/10/21 - 3* (7/10)
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence -
- FINISHED 13/10/21 - 3* (6.5/10)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London -
- FINISHED 13/6/21 - 4* (8.5/10)
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann -
- FINISHED 25/6/21 - 4* (9/10)
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Beloved by Toni Morrison -
- FINISHED 24/7/21 - 2* (4/10)
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -
- FINISHED 30/8/21 - 4* (8.5/10)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys -
- FINISHED 21/8/21 - 4* (9/10)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Staying On by Paul Scott
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck -
- FINISHED 7/7/21 - 4* (8.5/10)
Dracula by Bram Stoker -
- FINISHED 16/12/21 - 4* (9/10)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope -
- FINISHED 17/8/21 - 4* (8.5/10)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse -
- FINISHED 8/4/21 - 3* (6.5/10)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf -
- FINISHED 29/5/21 - 3* (7/10)
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf -
- FINISHED 20/4/21 - 3* (6/10)
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Good luck Kim! A great challenge :)

Lots of good books, Kim. Good luck with it:)

Good luck. Huge challenge

Finally got round to completing my 1st of this Challenge - although plenty more scheduled in the next couple of months! - with:-

What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe

Rated this one as 4* (8.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A great challenge. Good luck!

Finished my 2nd of this Challenge with:-

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

Rated this one as 3* (6.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

What a great challenge, Kim! There are some heavy times in there... Best of luck!

Finished my 3rd of this Personal Challenge with:-

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

This was my first of three Virginia Woolf reads for this Challenge - thanks to Brenda for the suggestion of which to start with! - rated this one as 3* (6/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

You're welcome Kim - I hope you enjoyed it at least a little bit!

Brenda wrote: "You're welcome Kim - I hope you enjoyed it at least a little bit!"

Yes, it was okay - a bit too convoluted at times but I loved the way it was revealed that the other characters regarded Mrs Dalloway as a 'prig' and a 'snob', even though she didn't really come over like that in her own narration: very cleverly done!

Finished my 4th of this Challenge with:-

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Enjoyed this one a bit more than 'Mrs Dalloway' - rated it 3* (7/10).

Finished my 5th of this Challenge with:-

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Rated this one as 4* (8.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Going well to read through that list, there are a lot of tough books on it. I loved The Call of the Wild though.

Finished my 6th and 7th of this Challenge this week with:-

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann - rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - rated this one as 4* (7.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 8th of this Personal Challenge with:-

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Rated this one as 4* (8.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 9th of this Personal Challenge with:-

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Not for me, this one! Rated it 2* (4/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 10th of this Personal Challenge with:-

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Quite enjoyed this one - very 'Dickensian'! Rated it 4* (8.5/10).
My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 11th of this Challenge with:-

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Completed my 12th of this Challenge with:-

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Rated this one as 4* (8.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 13th of this Challenge with:-

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Rated this as 3* (6/10)).

Completed my 14th of this Challenge yesterday with:-

Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

Rated this one as 3* (6.5/10).

Completed my 15th of this Challenge with:-

The Castle by Franz Kafka

Rated this one as 3* (7/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 16th of this Challenge with:-

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 17th of my Personal Challenge with:-
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Kim wrote: "Finished my 17th of my Personal Challenge with:-
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.good..."

Oh, I remember reading this one as a teenager and it set off a whole streak of vampire fiction reading for me :)