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Amanda's 2017 overly ambitious challenge in 3 parts
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Women Across the Centuries (12+2)19th Century
1. Emma (1815)
2. Wives and Daughters (1865)
3. The Mill on the Floss (1860)
20th Century
1. The Waves (1931)
2. The House of the Spirits (1982)
3. Gone with the Wind (1936)
21th Century
1. The End of Days (2012)
2. A God in Ruins (2015)
3. Gazelle (2003)
Any Century
1. The Tale of Genji (1021)
2. Housekeeping (1980)
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)
Alternates
1. The Lover (1984)
2. What I Loved(2002)
Victorian Challenge 12 + 2Victorian
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Victorian Sensation
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Neo Victorian
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
The Master by Colm Tóibín
+2 Victorian Era
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
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Wow, you officially put Tale of Genji on there! I guess I'll be reading it too, then? ;)It looks great, Amanda! I love your formats.
I lover your different challenges. Especially Women across the centuries.
Wow, I'm so impressed. You have some great books that I'll have to check out too.
Certainly ambitious! But impressive! Good Luck :)
Thanks all! Took a "go big or go home" attitude for this :-)
Inspiring. Looking forward to your reviews!
Great list(s) - read several, and can't wait to hear what you think of them and the others
Hah, this is ambitious, but they all look so good! Enjoy your challenge(s)!
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Agnes Grey (other topics)North and South (other topics)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (other topics)
The Red and the Black (other topics)
David Copperfield (other topics)
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Anne Brontë (other topics)Stendhal (other topics)
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OLD SCHOOL (1899 AND EARLIER)
1. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
2. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
3. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
NEW SCHOOL (1900-1999)
1. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
3. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
ANY SCHOOL
1. Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
2. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
3. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
4. The Hunger Angel byHerta Müller
5. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos
6. Purity by Jonathan Franzen
ALTERNATES
1. Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier
2. Hunger by Knut Hamsun