Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Going for BLACKOUT! Completed 30/6/2020
(25/25)

Still working on my list-it's very roughly organised at the moment!

B1: Classic of AsiaA Passage to India by E.M. Forster
✔15/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

B2: Classic Tragedy
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
✔26/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

B3: A Book Published at Least 200 Years Ago
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
✔16/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

B4: Memoir, Autobiography, or Biography
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James L. Haley
✔7/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

B5: Classic of Europe
Random Harvest by James Hilton
✔22/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I1: Classic Mystery or Crime
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
✔6/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★


I2: Group Bingo Participant Pick-by all means "suggest away!"
J_BlueFlower suggestion:On the Beach by Nevil Shute
✔14/6/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I3: Classic Drama or Play
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
✔24/1/20 ★ ★ ★

I4: Book From Group’s 2020 Bookshelf
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
✔25/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I5: Classic Gothic or Horror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
✔27/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

N1: Book From Group’s Old School Classic Shelf prior to 2020
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
✔3/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

N2: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize
(I am British,as such I am looking for prizewinners outside of the UK.)M.C. Higgins, the Great, first published in 1974, is a realistic novel by Virginia Hamilton that won the 1975 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature
✔21/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

N3: Reader’s Choice
Thomas Merton's Great Sermons by Thomas Merton
✔21/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

N4: Classic Short Story
An Ivy Spray and Ladies' Slippers
✔10/2/20 ★ ★ ★

N5: Book From Group’s New School Classic Shelf prior to 2020
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
✔9/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

G1: Classic Science Fiction or Fantasy
Logan's Run by William F. Nolan
✔29/1/20 ★ ★ ★

G2: The Bigger Read List by English Pen
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
✔9/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★

G3: Poetry or Essay Collection
-Poems of Thomas Hardy, A New Selection by Claire Tomalin
✔30/6/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

G4: Banned Book
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
✔22/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

G5: Classic Science or Philosophy
Practice the Presence of God.: A Contemporary Interpretation of the Words of Nicholas Herman (Brother Lawrence). by Mark Bilton and Brother Lawrence
✔20/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

O1: Classic of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, or Oceania
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
✔23/6/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

O2: Classic Western
-The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
✔20/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

O3: Book Published the Year You Were Born (1960)
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
✔30/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★

O4: Classic Adventure
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
✔27/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

O5: Classic of the Americas
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
✔16/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I'm glad to see you joined the challenge. I marked one of your books, Poems of Thomas Hardy, A New Selection as to-read.

Vicky wrote: "Going for BLACKOUT! -at least that's the theory!..."

Good for you! Welcome to the challenge.

Vicky wrote: "...O5: Classic of the Americas
-Anything by James Fenimore Cooper !..."

You have a great list here. And I think I will go with your O5 author choice myself.

I recommend Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis for I2.

Vicky wrote: "B5: Classic of Europe
Anything by Alexandre Dumas !

I1: Classic Mystery or Crime
The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles Dickens"

Anything by Dumas made me smile. I love him too, and need to read the Musketeer sequels. You also gave me an idea for Mystery or Crime. I have to read one of the copies I have of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Looking forward to the rest of your choices. Good luck with your challenge!

Renee wrote: "...and need to read the Musketeer sequels. .."

Me too!

Aubrey wrote: "I recommend Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis for I2."

Aubrey,just as I finish my Classic Bingo Challenge,I'd like to thank you for your kind recommendation which is certainly on my wish list.After Lockdown ends I hope to order it from my public library.Best wishes!

Matt wrote: "Congratulations Vicky."

Many thanks,Matt,I've enjoyed this challenge which introduced me to six new classic authors.It's certainly been well worth doing :)