Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I'm going to give a couple challenges a try. I haven't participated in years but have been missing some of my classic reading.

Challenge 1 - New & Old TBR

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. Can You Forgive Her?
3. Wives and Daughters

1900-1999/New School
4. A Passage to India
5. Passing
6. Lonesome Dove

My Six Bookshelf Dust Collectors
7. Lolita
8. Anne of Green Gables
9. The Swiss Family Robinson
10. Jane Eyre
11. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
12. The Hobbit

Alternates:
A-1. Shōgun
A-2. Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
A-3. Animal Farm

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge

Century Challenge
1910 (1915) - The Song of the Lark
1920 (1929) - Passing|Nella Larsen
1930 (1938) - Our Town|Thornton Wilder
1940 (1948) - I Capture the Castle|Dodie Smith
1950 (1959) - Brown Girl, Brownstones|Paule Marshall
1960 (1964) - Harriet the Spy|Louise Fitzhugh
1970 (1970) - The Bluest Eye|Toni Morrison
1980 (1985) - Lonesome Dove|Larry McMurtry
1990 (1997) - The God of Small Things|Arundhati Roy

Decade Challenge - 1970's
1970 - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.|Judy Blume
1971 - The Winds of War|Herman Wouk
1972 - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman|P.D. James
1973 - The Other Side of Midnight|Sidney Sheldon
1974 - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek|Annie Dillard
1975 - Shōgun|James Clavell
1976 - Roots: The Saga of an American Family|Alex Haley
1977 - The Thorn Birds|Colleen McCullough
1978 - The World According to Garp|John Irving
✅1979 - The Dead Zone|Stephen King - Completed 12/1/24

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge

0/12

1. 19th Century
2. 20th Century
✅3. 21st Century
Leaving Lymon|Lesa Cline-Ransome - Completed 3/15/24
4. A book originally written in a language other than your own
✅5. An Author never read before
Hondo|Louis L'Amour - Completed 5/16/24
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours
✅7. Science Fiction/Fantasy
Neverwhere|Neil Gaiman - Completed 5/29/24
8. Action/Adventure
✅9. Childrens/Young Adult
Little House On The Prairie|Laura Ingalls Wilder - Completed 2/28/24
10. Nonfiction Memoir/Biography
11. Mystery/Thriller
12. Horror or Humor
The Dead Zone|Stephen King - Completed 12/1/24

Challenge 6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads Challenge

The challenge is to read 12 total books/stories from this year's group poll winners or Buddy Reads, in any combination. Your reads can be from the upcoming 53 poll winners, or from the 2024 Buddy Reads thread. Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, Quarterly Long Read, and Buddy Reads there should be plenty of choices.

0/12

1. Anne of Green Gables|L.M. Montgomery
Revisit the shelf - Jan 2024

2. Cannery Row|John Steinbeck
New School - Feb 2024

✅3. Neverwhere|Neil Gaiman - Completed 5/29/24
New School - March 2024

4. In This House of Brede|Rumer Godden
Buddy Read March 2024

5. A Tale of Two Cities|Charles Dickens
April - Old School Classic

6. Oliver Twist|Charles Dickens
Old School classics June 2024

7. Sense and Sensibility|Jane Austen
June Revisit the Shelf

8. The Body in the Library| Agatha Christie
August New School

9. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City|Matthew Desmond
October Buddy Read

10. The Three Musketeers|Alexandre Dumas
November Old School Classics

11, A Christmas Carol|Charles Dickens
Short Story Classics - December

12. Christmas at Thompson Hall and Other Christmas Stories|Anthony Trollope
Old School Classics - December

Welcome Kris! You're off to a great start with your planning. I Capture the Castle and Wives and Daughters were two of my favourite discoveries this year!

I'm glad you have decided to return to the buffet, enjoy your challenges. Lonesome Dove is a favorite. I read Shōgun this year, lots of pages, but really good. I am starting this year with The Winds of War and so far I'm loving it. Have a good year;

Midyear check-in....

Making some progress on a couple of challenges.
I need to focus on my decades challenge and my old & new challenge.

Overall, better than previous years. 😊

Hooray! All improvement is worthwhile. Personally I'm having a less successful reading year than last year, so well done having a better year this time around!