#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge discussion

What classics are you hoping to read in April? Share your TBR here!

In April I will be reading The Wind in the Willows, Death on the Nile, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Meditations (by Marcus Aurelius).

I'll probably read Middlemarch and Great expectations

I'm planning on reading Eugene Onegin by Pushkin, then rewatching the Metropolitan Opera's production to see how it compares.

I will be reading Persuasion by Jane Austen, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

I'm hopefully going to be reading "Middlemarch," "The Scarlet Letter," "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain, and something by Thomas Hardy. I haven't decided what yet!

I want to read Anne Of Green Gables in April.

The classics I’m hoping to read in April are Wuthering Heights, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, & Lolita!

April will be Middlemarch for me, it has already been very intimidating to me!

Right now, I'm currently reading Ten Plays by Euripides and loving it, so that's a definite one to finish in April.

And I'm reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, which is arguably a modern classic (published in 1980), though if someone wants to dispute the point I'm happy to concede to them.

I'm also getting back in the saddle for Ian Doescher's Shakespeare 2020 Project, and the plays and poems for this month are:

Richard II (April 3 - 9)
Venus and Adonis (April 13 - 17)
Hamlet (April 19 - 28)
The Rape of Lucrece (April 30 - May 4)

Though I've linked to individual editions, the only edition I actually own is that of Hamlet. The rest I'll be reading in The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works.

The books I haven't started with yet are The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The latter I'd like to read in April because of the first lines of the prologue:

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale fowles maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open yë,
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The holy blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen, whan that the were seke.

Reading the book during the month it's set seems delightful. Besides, with all the Shakespeare reading I'll be doing, making the jump from Early Modern English to Middle English will be easier.

I’m going to read The Small House of Allington, Middlemarch and hopefully A Passage to India.

probably northanger abbey and a room with a view

In April I'm participating in #magicalreadathon2020 but I managed to squeeze some classics in it too. So I will continue on War and Peace, then will add Lord of the Flies, Metamorphosis and A Room of One's Own

I am aiming to finish Dracula! I'm about 100 pages in and so far so good. I also might be reading 1984 by Orwell, but we'll see.

I'm planning to read The Mayor of Casterbridge, which will be my first Hardy. Possibly finish Dracula and Emma. Maybe read The Warden, by Anthony Trollope. I also want to read some Shakespeare and Agatha Christie, but don't not what yet.

I might read some chapters from Monte Cristo. I want to start David Copperfield and Barchester Towers, but I'm also participating in The OWLs readathon and they don't necessarily fit.

I’m currently finishing North and South and plan to make a start on Middlemarch

hoping to read pride and prejudice this month. ive been meaning to read it for ten years so now's the Time!

I’m reading Peter Pan and The Wind In The Willows. I’m also planning on reading something written by a female author. Debating between Jane Eyre and Sense And Sensibility...

I’m definitely looking to finish Anna Karenina in April - the first half of it really disappointed me but now I’m absolutely loving it. After that, I think I want to read Howard’s End and then maybe something by Joyce - either Ulysses or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

I’m participating in the #MiddlemarchChallenge as well as a joined reading of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I don’t think I’ll have time for another read!

I’ve already deviated from my tbr because I started Wuthering Heights which is shaking my world completely and I’m enthralled. So my Tbr is likely just shifting to every Brontë novel on my shelf which is currently the one I’m reading, Jane Eyre and Shirley but I’m not sure where to go after this. Also I enjoy having something lighter and contemporary to read when I’m not doing something more heavy like a really deep classic so there will likely be a couple of those.

Les Misérables is the book I am going to try to read this month. I have tried to read this 2 or 3 times already, maybe this will be the time.

I just started The Great Gatsby and I'm planning to read A Tree grows in Brooklyn, too.

Joining April’s children’s classics buddy read with The Wind in the Willows. I also plan to read Night by Elie Wiesel, does this count as a modern classic?

I see some of you have Anne of Green Gables on your list. I was thinking about it too. Anyone up for a buddyread?
Also I will probably read The Scarlet Pimpernel, but I'm not sure yet. I think I need some Stephen King this month so I probably won't read so many classics in April.

If already read a couple classics in the past few days, the first one is The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell by Jorge Amado, the second one is The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers. I didn't really enjoy them though.

For the rest of the month I'm planning to read In Evil Hour by Gabriel García Márquez and Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig.

I will also try to finish Pride and Prejudice and slowly make my way through War and Peace 🙄

Two that I'm interested in reading this month are The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, and The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. Maybe The Great Gatsby.

I NEED to finish reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I started reading it a while back but can’t get through it.

I think I’ll also read Emma by Jane Austen because Jane is my ultimate comfort writer. Also I really want to watch the newest adaptation.

Currently reading:
Agnes Grey byAnne Brontë;
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe;
The Way We Live Nowby Anthony Trollope;
Zofloya, or The Moor by Charlotte Dacre
and,
Angelique and the King by Anne Golon

I’m absolutely loving Wives and Daughters! I’m trying to pace myself so I can savour Mrs Gaskell’s writing. I’ve also got Anna Karenina in the go and was going to start the Mayor of Castorbridge for a classics read-a-long. But I honestly don’t think I can do Mr Hardy some justice right now, as I’m getting drawn to comfort reads.

I'm currently reading Of Mice and Men and also planning to read The Grapes of Wrath this month.

I started reading the Pickwick papers by Charles Dickens, then I intend to read :
- The doll by Daphne du Maurier (short stories, modern classic),
- then happily re-read Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen,
- The man in the brown suit by Agatha Christie (modern classic),
- Excellent women by Barbara Pym.
Here's my reading list so far, depending on how long we'll have to stay home !

I read Eugene Onegin by Aleksander Pushkin and I, Claudius by Robert Graves in April. I loved Eugene Onegin, but I, Claudius dragged in parts. I feel like it may be one of the rare cases where the TV adaptation was better than the book.

I am reading The odd women by George Gissing, and planning to read A room with a view by E. M. Forster and Emma by Jane Austen.

I'm reading An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and planning to read Moby-Dick.