Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

B1 A book set in an Old or Ancient Empire.
B2 A book from our Old School Bookshelf
B3 A book in translation
B4 A book you read for another Challenge
B5 A book with a Goodreads rating of 4.0 or better

I1 A story from our Short Story Group Shelf
I2 A book from your Personal Bookshelf
I3 A Historical Fiction or a Nonfiction History
I4 A book by a new-to-you author.
I5 A book one of our Group members read in 2024

N1 A book by a male prize winning author
N2 A book by a female prize winning author.
N3 Free Space
N4 A book written by an author born during the 19th Century
N5 A book found by using Literature-map.com

G1 A book by one of your favorite authors.
G2 A book by an author found on our Group Bookshelf
G3 A book with an imaginary setting (not a real place on Earth).
G4 A book by an author who was born during the 20th Century
G5 Three short stories by the same author.

O1 A Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller
O2 A book about a journey
O3 A book written by Anonymous or Author Unknown.
O4 A book from our New School Group Shelf
O5 A book you would recommend to others

B1 Augustus
B2 Metamorphoses
B3 One Hundred Years of Solitude
B4 Possession
B5 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

I1 A Very Easy Death
I2 The Bookshop
I3 The Mountains Sing
I4 The Savage Detectives
I5 The Brothers Karamazov

N1 Blindness
N2 The Years
N3 Austerlitz
N4 Little Women
N5 All That’s Left in the World

G1 The Pearl
G2 Far From the Madding Crowd
G3 Watership Down
G4 The Hour of the Star
G5 The Stories of John Cheever

O1 Rebecca
O2 Master and Commander
O3 The Story of a New Name
O4 Orlando
O5 They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

Good luck with your first Bingo!

Looks like you're off to a great start. Good luck!
The Bingos are fun.
If you want to reserve some comments for your I N G and O columns, I can delete this comment after you read it so you have space.

Good Luck and have fun!

Thanks everyone, I'm excited :)

No need to delete comments, I will edit the first one to add more books.

Enjoy your planning -- this is one of my favourite parts!

Xaph so many of us enjoy this month of planning and chatting about what might be!

Half a year has gone and though I haven't progressed as much as I hoped, there has been some progress, and I will try to focus on this list a bit more going forward, in the hopes of maybe still making it in time.

So far I've read:
1. Augustus by John Williams - *****

Loved reading the story mostly because of the beautiful prose, and also I liked learning about the rich historical period in which so many fameous poets flourished.

2. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector - ****

I can see I gave this book 4 stars a few months ago, but I remember feeling like it went completely over my head. I might revisit sometime in the future.

3. The Bookshoop by Penelope Fitzgerald

I only started this one, and even though I liked it well enough, I didn't finish it. I remembered I had watched the movie recently so I lost interest sometime in the middle, probably will not be finishing this one.

I read the "wrong" books by both Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment instead of The Brothers Karamazov) and Woolf (To the Lighthouse instead of Orlando), and I might replace them since otherwise I will not be able to make it for sure.

I will read the short stories next, and work my way from the shortest to the longest work of the list. A strategy to at least get most of them :)

Don't worry, there is still a lot of year left. And yes, it's a great idea to swap out books for ones you've read. Happy reading!

As Wobbley says, still lots of time. You are making progress and hopefully enjoying what you are reading (the important part of the challenges).

Thanks guys, I wasn't sure if swapping books that was allowed :)

And yes, Sara, I have been enjoying all of them, even the ones I didn't quite get, as I am looking forward to a reread in the future for both To the Lighthouse and The Hour of the Star.

Crime and Punishment was fantastic, I'm so glad I read that one.

Glad you you to hear you are enjoying your bingo card Xaph! Crime and Punishment grows on me as I continue to think in it.

Xaph wrote: "Half a year has gone and though I haven't progressed as much as I hoped, there has been some progress, and I will try to focus on this list a bit more going forward, in the hopes of maybe still mak..."

Sounds like you read several good selections. Nice job. I never read my planning lists. I just throw out a few possible titles, but there are always so many books to choose from I rarely complete my list.

I'm going over my list and can't help notice most of the books I've chosen are doorstoppers :D Don't know what I was thinking lol. In the meantime I've read a fourth book from the list,

4. Far from the Madding Crowd


- and I loved it so much I almost ordered a few more books from Hardy upon finishing it. It took some time to get used to his writing style, the sentences are long, and he makes a point by inverting it multiple times.
There's a lot of empathy, wisdom, intelligence and lyricism emanating from the text and those are qualities which made him instantly one of my favorite authors. I didn't even care for the plot that much, though there's a more than enough drama and plot twists to keep you interested.

Lynn wrote: "Xaph wrote: "Half a year has gone and though I haven't progressed as much as I hoped, there has been some progress, and I will try to focus on this list a bit more going forward, in the hopes of ma..."

Thank you Lynn, that reminds me, there's no end goal in reading, at least not for me, these list are there to be taken as suggestions, not a hard rule lol :)

How lovely that you have discovered you love Hardy. He is one of my very favorite authors and I think one who benefits for re-reads. I'll be looking forward to which of his works you choose next.

You are absolutely right that the lists are suggestions/thoughts and not cut in stone. Enjoy!

Amazing -- it's always wonderful to find a new favourite!