Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Reserving a few spaces to do 4 challenges - now to decide which 4!

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge

Old School
1. Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
✅ 2. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett * READ October *
✅ 3. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov * READ January *

New School
✅ 1. Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse * READ September *
✅ 2. Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym *READ January *
3. The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor

Wild Card choices
1. The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
2. Winter by Ali Smith
3. At Freddie's by Penelope Fitzgerald
✅ 4. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple *READ March *
✅ 5. Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh *READ April *
✅ 6. Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips * READ March *

Alternatives
1. Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
2. Midnight In Sicily by Peter Robb
✅ 3. Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay *READ March *

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

Old School
1. The Black Sheep by Honoré de Balzac

New School
✅ 1. Jazz by Toni Morrison

Short Story/Novella
✅ 1. Youth by Joseph Conrad

Quarterly Long Read
1. Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain

Challenge #3 - Century Challenge

20th century girl does 20th century challenge

✅ 1901-1910 The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers
✅ 1911-1920 Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse
✅ 1921-1930 The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
✅ 1931-1940 To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
✅ 1941-1950 The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
✅ 1951-1960 A Chelsea Concerto by Frances Faviell
✅ 1961-1970 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
✅ 1971-1980 Correction by Thomas Bernhard
✅ 1981-1990 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
✅ 1991-2000 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

✅ 1. Money by Martin Amis * READ July *
✅ 2. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates *READ February *
✅ 3. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn * READ January *
✅ 4. Bullet Park by John Cheever * READ October *
✅ 5. The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens * READ November *
✅ 6. The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay * READ March *

Challenge 6 - Group Reads

Added another challenge Jan 6th - greedy Pamela!

✅ 1. Twelve Angry Men - January Short Story
✅ 2. Breakfast at Tiffany's - January Revisit the Shelf
3. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - February Revisit the Shelf
✅ 4. Electra - March Old School
Read in this edition Antigone, Oedipus the King and Electra
✅ 5. A Dog's Heart - April New School
✅ 6. Into the Wild - June New School
7. The Bear - August Short Story
8. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - August New School
9. Washington Square - August Old School
✅ 10. The Island of Dr Moreau - August Revisit the Shelf
✅ 11. Wuthering Heights - November Revisit the Shelf
12. Sula by Toni Morrison - December New School

Only four, you have a dainty appetite, but your choices look not only look healthy, but terrifically appetizing. Good luck and enjoy!

You have so many here that I don't know, Pamela. I feel my TBR growing! Hope you love Testament of Youth, I found it unforgettable.

Completed Challenge #3 and Challenge #7. I feel I may fall short on the others but I’ll keep going!

Congratulations on your challenges!

Congratulations from me, as well, Pamela.

Great job, Pamela! I've actually only read one of the books in your completed challenges. I hope you enjoyed them!

Great idea to keep going, Pamela--there's still a month to go. Congrats, though, on some wonderful reading!

Pamela, you are doing excellent on your reading! You're an inspiration!