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2022 Classics Catch Up Challenge
1/1/22-12/31/22

Levels:
Level 1: Casual Reader: 1-2 books
Level 2: Frequent Reader: 3-5 books
Level 3: Bookworm: 6-12 books
Level 4: Scholar: 13-19 books
Level 5: Professor: 20 or more books

1. Memoirs of a Geisha 1/11/22
2. Schindler's List 1/31/22
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Classics Catch Up 2022

Levels:
Level 1: Casual Reader: 1-2 books
Level 2: Frequent Reader: 3-5 books
Level 3: Bookworm: 6-12 books
Level 4: Scholar: 13-19 books
Level 5: Professor: 20 or more books

Rebecca
Editorial Wild Oats
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Secret Garden
North and South
Siddhartha
✔️The Master and Margarita5/25/22
The Three Musketeers
✔️Three Men in a Boat 1/9/22
✔️Foundation.. Rest of series?

Omg, I first need to update my count for 2021 and then figure out books for 2022!
Any gothic-horror/surreal mystery suggestions anyone?

Heena wrote: "Omg, I first need to update my count for 2021 and then figure out books for 2022!
Any gothic-horror/surreal mystery suggestions anyone?"

I have a bit of time right now, so I thought I’d post. All of these can be found at Project Gutenberg as free ebooks.
These could fit your requirements:

The Yellow God: An Idol of Africa

Four Weird Tales

The Red Lady

The Mystery of M. Felix

Tom Ossington's Ghost

Lol Heena, I'm guilty too. I'm holding onto these last weeks of December with my fingernails ;) Thank goodness for audiobooks :) Classics and every other genre :)

I wasn't able to read much of the classics last year, so this year I am planning to finish a series that I started a while back by Anna Katherine Green of Detective Gryce (I guess this is what it is called.) I'll search and add the books here later but I need to write this before I forget.
Also, I am planning to read a couple of classic books I have on my shelf like books by Jane Austin (I have no idea why, but somehow I am never able to pick up her books and read! Maybe the hype is too much and I am worried I'll be disappointed.)
I'm open to any recommendations as I mostly read classics on recommendations only (esp. that of Dagny and Cheryl - thank you guys!!)

Happy New Year and loads of love and light to all <3

Classics Catch Up Challenge
1/1/22-12/31/22

Levels:
Level 1: Casual Reader: 1-2 books
Level 2: Frequent Reader: 3-5 books
Level 3: Bookworm: 6-12 books
Level 4: Scholar: 13-19 books
Level 5: Professor: 20 or more books

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Cheryl wrote: "I have a bit of time right now, so I thought I’d post. All of these can be found at Project Gutenberg as free ebooks.
These could fit your requirements:

The Yellow God: An Idol of Africa

Four Weird Tales

The Red Lady

The Mystery of M. Felix

Tom Ossington's Ghost "


Thanks a lot, Cheryl. And sorry for the late reply, I just read this comment. I'm adding these to my booklist. Again, thanks a ton!

Classics Catch Up Challenge
1/1/22-12/31/22

1. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. Grownup version of Little House on the Prairie. Beautifully written. 3.75 stars. Read 1/13.
2. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr. 2.75 stars. Read 2/1. I was interested in the uncovering of the hidden painting but was underwhelmed by the whole process of discovery and the supposed healing the protagonist was enduring. I just didn't feel it. Obviously, seeing other's ratings, I was in the minority.
3. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. 5 stars. Read 3/23. Sci-fi Classic. Post Apocalyptic. Hundreds of years after an atomic(?) war, society has banned all physical mutations. Interesting philosophical discussions about religion and individual rights.

Heena wrote: "Omg, I first need to update my count for 2021 and then figure out books for 2022!
Any gothic-horror/surreal mystery suggestions anyone?"

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Somehow I have never read this one but I plan to read it this year. I have heard wonderful things about it though!

I have to read more of Wilkie Collins. Of the few I read, I prefer him over Charles Dickens.

1.) Peter Pan (AB) - J.M. Barrie

2.) The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (AB) - Howard Pyle
3.) City Lights Pocket Poetry Anthology; 60th Anniversary (HB) - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1. Three Men in a Boat (HB) by Jerome K. Jerome

Level: Professor - 20 or more books
Type of Books: Paperbacks, Hardbacks, E-Book, Audio

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Level: Professor - 20 or more books
Type of Books: Paperbacks, Hardbacks, E-Book, Audio

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Dagny wrote: "I loved that book, Beth! So much great humor, I was laughing almost the entire time once they left on th..."

Definitely, from the start I began to think of all the hypochondriacs I knew then just went along for the ride!

4.) The Island of Dr. Moreau (AB) - H.G. Wells
5.) Fairy & Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (EB) - W.B. Yeats
6.) Another Country (AB) - James Baldwin
7.) The Adventures of Wisteria Lodge (EB) - Arthur Conan Doyle

1.) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
3 stars

8.) Invisible Man (AB) - Ralph Ellison

9.) Germinal (AB) - Emile Zola

10.) Crossfire Trail (AB) - Louis L'Amour
11.) Sackett's Land (AB) - Louis L'Amour
12.) The Secret of a Happy Home (EB) - Marion Harland (1896)

2.) The Magic Egg and Other Stories by Frank R. Stockton
3 stars

Dagny wrote: "Almost shocking to see that this is my first classic for 2022. I used to read so many of them!"

Dagny,

I think you’ve read most of the famous classics, so there’s probably less for you to choose from. Also, you probably want to read more types of books than you did before. I know my reading selections have changed.

Dagny, I completely agree with Cheryl. Sometimes it's more difficult to find them either in print or as e-books. You're reading accomplishments are inspiring regardless of the number of classic you read a year :)

3.) An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope
2 stars. Not very good, but it fits into my Theme Challenge.

2, The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen. It’s been awhile since I read a play but liked the character dynamics in this one.

13.) The Christmas Books - Charles Dickens (AB)
14.) Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray (PB)
15.) Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand (PB)
16.) Wildfire - Zane Grey (EB)
17.) Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie (PB)

4.) A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
3 stars

5.) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
4 stars

6.) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2 stars
My review can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Wow! Cheryl! Those are impressive classics. Which was your favorite out of the most recently posted?

18.) Death of a Salesman (PB) - Arthur Miller
19.) Book of Haikus (PB) - Jack Kerouac
20.) The Witch of Blackbird Pond (AB) - Elizabeth George Speare (this was originally published in 1958!)

Fran wrote: "Wow! Cheryl! Those are impressive classics. Which was your favorite out of the most recently posted?"

Fran,

I liked War and Peace the best. Very long, but pretty readable with interesting characters. (Skip the Epilogue Part 2. It's Tolstoy's philosophical essay on History etc. . Most of it went over my head.)

7. Sight Unseen by Mary Roberts Rinehart
3 stars

21.) Death in the Afternoon (AB) - Ernest Hemingway
22.) Five Children and It (AB) - E. Nesbit

23.) Uncle Fred in the Springtime (AB) - P.G. Wodehouse

8. The Scarecrow and Other Stories by G. Ranger Wormser
2 stars

24.) A Man For All Seasons (PB) - Robert Bolt
25.) All Quiet on the Western Front (AB) - Enrich Maria Remarque

26.) The Jungle Book (AB) - Rudyard Kipling
27.) The Prince (AB) - Niccolo Machiavelli

9. My Arctic Journal: A Year among Ice-Fields and Eskimos by Josephine Diebitsch-Peary

10. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Two and a half stars.

28.) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (AB) - Lewis Carrol
29.) The Rainbow Trail (AB) - Zane Grey
30.) Basho; The Complete Haikus (PB) - Matsuo Basho
31.) The Story of My Life (PB) - Helen Keller
32.) The Town (AB) - William Faulkner
33.) Otto of the Silver Hand (AB) - Howard Pyle
34.) The Art of War (AB) - Sun Tzu
35.) The Iliad (HB) - adapted by Gareth Hinds

11. Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
4 stars

12. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
2 stars

36.) Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (AB) - Zora Neale Hurston
37.) As I Lay Dying (AB) - William Faulkner
38.) As You Like It (AB) - William Shakespeare
39.) The Journals of Lewis and Clark (AB) - Merriweather Lewis
40.) A Princess of Mars (AB) - Edgar Rice Burroughs

13. The Angel of Terror by Edgar Wallace
3 stars

14. Coralie by Charlotte M. Brame
3 stars

15. Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins
3 stars

41.) The Divine Comedy, Vol. 3 (AB) - Dante Aligheri
42.) Gift from the Sea (PB) - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
43.) The Complete Sherlock Holmes (AB) - Arthur Conan Doyle
44.) The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (HB) - Gwendolyn Brooks
45.) The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel (PB) - Gareth Hinds
46.) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (PB) - Edward Albee

16. The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
4 stars