Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I haven't done the Bingo challenge for the last few years, but this looks like a particularly great set of categories, so here I go...

...B I N G O

1 X X O O X
2 X O X O O
3 X O O O O
4 X X X X O
5 X X X O X

✔️30/12/20 Level One: Four outside corners (B1, B5, O1, O5)
✔️30/12/20 Level One: Five-in-a-row (B1 - B5)

B1: Classic of Asia : The Book of Tea 30/12/20
B2: Classic Tragedy : Wide Sargasso Sea 13/1/20
B3: A Book Published at Least 200 Years Ago: Sanditon 9/2/20
B4: Memoir, Autobiography, or Biography: Levels of the Game 18/5/20
B5: Classic of Europe: The Innocence of Father Brown 24/2/20

I1: Classic Mystery or Crime: The Four Just Men 9/1/20
I2: Group Bingo Participant Pick
I3: Classic Drama or Play
I4: Book From Group’s 2020 Bookshelf: My Cousin Rachel 27/12/20
I5: Classic Gothic or Horror: We Have Always Lived in the Castle 15/2/20

N1: Book From Group’s Old School Classic Shelf prior to 2020
N2: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize: Never Let Me Go 7/2/21
N3: Reader’s Choice
N4: Classic Short Story : A Simple Heart 30/11/20
N5: Book From Group’s New School Classic Shelf prior to 2020: The End of the Affair 4/2/20

G1: Classic Science Fiction or Fantasy
G2: The Bigger Read List by English Pen
G3: Poetry or Essay Collection
G4: Banned Book: Valley of the Dolls 15/3/20
G5: Classic Science or Philosophy

O1: Classic of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, or Oceania: Arrow of God 28/2/20
O2: Classic Western
O3: Book Published the Year You Were Born
O4: Classic Adventure
O5: Classic of the Americas: The Awakening 7/2/20

Book Covers


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I could use some recommendations for:

B1: Classic of Asia
G5: Classic Science or Philosophy

if anyone would care to chip in?

Lagullande wrote: "I could use some recommendations for:

B1: Classic of Asia
G5: Classic Science or Philosophy

if anyone would care to chip in?"

I recommend The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima for B1 and The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois for G5.

For G5, I really enjoyed Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and I am currently reading and enjoying The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang (which would also qualify as a classic of Asia).

Thanks very much, Aubrey and Kaila. I will definitely have a look at those.

So nice to see you doing the challenge, Lagullande. Have fun.

Glad you decided to do the challenge, Lagullande!

Here's some ideas:
Science - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Philosophy - The Book of Tea
Classic of Asia - Interpreter of Maladies