Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Challenge 1: Old and New TBR

Before 1900:
1) Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
2) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
3) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Between 1900 and 1999:
4) Island of the Doomed by Stig Dagerman
5) Carol by Patricia Highsmith
6) Vipers' Tangle by François Mauriac
My Wild Card Six:
7) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
8) The Collector by John Fowles
9) On the Beach by Nevil Shute
10) City of Glass by Paul Auster
11) The Ruined Map by Kōbō Abe
12) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Alternates:
13) Valerie; or, The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
14) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
15) The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma AF Klint and Her Creative Circle by Sofia Lundberg/Alyson Richman/M.J. Rose

Challenge 4: Members Choice

1) 19:th century: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2) 20:th century: On the Beach by Nevil Shute
3) A book originally written in another language than my own: Carol by Patricia Highsmith
4) A current or past group read:The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
5) An author not read before: Occasion for Loving by Nadine Gordimer
6) Diversity classic, read a book from a culture other than mine: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
7) Science fiction/Fantasy: Aniara by Harry Martinson
8) Action/adventure: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
9) Childrens/young adult: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
10) Non-fiction: Gandhi: An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi
11) Mystery/thriller: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
12) Horror or humor: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Challenge 7: Expand your Horizon with new Authors

1) Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
2) Valerie; or, The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
3) Occasion for Loving by Nadine Gordimer
4) Outline by Rachel Cusk
5) On the Beach by Nevil Shute
6) The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Challenge 9: Fiction/Non-fiction

1 Native Americans
a) Fools Crow by James Welch
b) The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of North America by Colin F. Taylor
2 Art
a) The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma AF Klint and Her Creative Circle by Sofia Lundberg/Alyson Richman/M.J. Rose
b) Dada: En antologi by Ingemar Johansson
3 Feminist approach
a) Valerie; or, The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
b) Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
4 In some way involving edible maritime animals
a) Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
b) Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
5 Author from India
a) Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
b) Gandhi: An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi

Challenge 11: Old and New Linked Categories

1 Horror:
a) Sällsamma historier by Edgar Allan Poe
b) The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft
2 Travel:
a) Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
b) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
3 Rivers:
a) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
b) Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
4 Knights:
a) Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
b) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
5 World Metropolis:
a) The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
b) City of Glass by Paul Auster

Looking forward to your selections, have fun.

Bob wrote: "Looking forward to your selections, have fun."

Thank you so much 🙂

Challenge 1 Updated

Great choices, I have read several, but On the Beach and The Road are both excellent.

Bob wrote: "Great choices, I have read several, but On the Beach and The Road are both excellent."

Thankyou Bob 🙂. I am so looking forward to reading the two of them.

Challenge 4 updated

Challenge 9 updated

I am listening to To Kill a Mockingbird now. The movie is also on You Tube.

Leona wrote: "I am listening to To Kill a Mockingbird now. The movie is also on You Tube."

Thanks for mentioning that, Leona 🙂

Challenge 11 updated

Some goodies on here!

You have been updating with some delicious choices!

This year starts promisingly. I've read two books from my buffet🙂

Well done Nike for the first two books of your buffet challenge! Lot of intereting/good books on it ( Tolkien, Lovecraft, Poe and Le Guin are part of my fave authors )! :-) Good luck and have fun reading!^^

Irphen wrote: "Well done Nike for the first two books of your buffet challenge! Lot of intereting/good books on it ( Tolkien, Lovecraft, Poe and Le Guin are part of my fave authors )! :-) Good luck and have fun r..."

Thank you Irphen 💜 and Good Luck with your challenges as well. Looking forward to our Buddy read later on 🙂

You're doing so well so far, I'll give you a boost up!



Help yourself!

Jazzy wrote: "You're doing so well so far, I'll give you a boost up!



Help yourself!"

Oh, how kind of you dear Jazzy 💜. I'm reading first of all for Around the The Year in 52 Books - group, but I've tried to synchronise my other reading challenges to it.

Even though I'm reading a lot all the time I'm so ill this year (I'm having chronic conditions that can be better or worse, this year a lot worse) so I miss out a lot of the social communications at Goodreads (except for Back to the Classics which is a small enough and cozy group).

So it means a lot to have a few friends here like you. Thank you 🌺🌷📚

Oh i'm in that group too!
I finished my 52 books here -
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...



it is my greatest pleasure to be friends with such a booklover as yourself xxx