Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I know others who have started these topics tend to post with more pizazz! I really don't keep up with which special reading month it is, but if you are focused on a special genre feel free to list that along with your books! What do you think you might read in the month of June?

Like I said, no special genres are in my focus, but I did make a list of all the books I actually own that are on our group bookshelf that I have not read yet. Shockingly, there are 47 books on that list! Ooops. Here's to all of us who buy 3 books when there is only time to read one, then do it again over and over.


June Books

A Midsummer's Night Dream by William Shakespeare
Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham (1950)

There is a book I have listed too many times. Each time I list it, I don't read it. I don't want to jinx it, so maybe there is a mystery book.

June Short Stories

"The Red Inn" by Honore de Balzac (1831)
"Green Tea" by J. Sheridan le Fanu (1872)

My plans for June:

finish up from last month:
in progress 19% 1. Ruth (Elizabeth Gaskell)
in progress 25% 2. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

very likely:
1. The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yōko Ogawa)
2. The Magic Fish (Trung Le Nguyen)
3. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
4. Noor (Nnedi Okorafor)

probably:
1. White Tears (Hari Kunzru)
2. Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
3. Wool Omnibus (Hugh Howey)

possibly:
1. Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Mizuki Tsujimura)
2. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
3. Moby-Dick or, the Whale (Herman Melville)
4. Queen of Sorcery (David Eddings)
5. Daisy Jones & The Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
6. The Weird of the White Wolf (Michael Moorcock)

unplanned:

Lynn wrote: "...Here's to all of us who buy 3 books when there is only time to read one, then do it again over and over...."

Guilty

I hope to read the following:
1] "In Evil Hour" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2] "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac
3] "The Pastures of Heaven" by John Steinbeck
4] "Midsummer Night's Dream" byb William Shakespeare
5] "The Moon and Sixpence" by W.Somerset Maughn

I intend to read these but if a book appears that I can't resist then things might change!

I agree--it's always good to be ready for change, Jane! Here's my plan.

Continue:
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence

Group and Buddy Reads:
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, Paula Byrne
Malgudi Days, R.K. Narayan
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare

Plus a handful of short stories, and I now have The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart in hand, and will be starting soon--at long last!

Kathleen wrote: "I agree--it's always good to be ready for change, Jane! Here's my plan.

Continue:
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence..."

I am so overdue for a dive into D.H. Lawrence, especially rereading Women in Love. I hope you enjoy it.

Sam wrote: "I am so overdue for a dive into D.H. Lawrence, especially rereading Women in Love. I hope you enjoy it."

Thank you, Sam--I hope you dive in soon! I read Sons and Lovers first, then The Rainbow and now this, one each year. I'm a big fan, but Women in Love would not be a good place to start--I was about 1/3 of the way before it started to flow.

Finish:
The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams ★★★1/2
Salvage This World Michael Farris Smith ★★★
Reflections in a Golden Eye Carson McCullers★★★
Children of the Corn Stephen King ★★★
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer★★★
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and ElephantsMathias Énard translated by Charlotte Mandell ★★★1/2
Moby-Dick or, the Whale Herman Melville ★★★★★
Why Read Moby-Dick? Nathaniel Philbrick ★★★★
Seabird: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Holling Clancy Holling ★★★
Blacktop Wasteland S.A. Cosby ★★★
The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese ★★★★
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse translated by Hilda Rosner ★★★★★
Phineas Finn Anthony Trollope★★★

Continue or begin:
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors Peter Ackroyd
The Analects Confucius translated by D. C. Lau
Tirra Lirra by the River Jessica Anderson★★★1/2
Marzahn, mon amour Katja Oskamp translated by Jo Heinrich ★★★★
The Life of Charles Dickens John Forster
The Tradition Jericho Brown ★★★1/2

So far, I have only Mansfield Park by Jane Austen for The Literary Society group. (it's for May and June).
But I am sure I will add some more to this list. :)

I plan to read only a few books, but I don't want to post their titles. Others might copy me ;)

My tentative plans for June

Currently reading:
Andersonville (pulitzer prize challenge)
The Second Sex (old & new challenge)

To read:
Sisters of the Snake (audiobook, sync)
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (graphic novel)
Looking for Alaska (ongoing birth year challenge)
Lethal Remedies
Truly Devious (audiobook, sync)
Møghund
Top Secret Twenty-One - started
The Omega Factor
Arv (Tænkepauser Book 96) (audio)
Rabbit Is Rich (pulitzer prize challenge)
And Now You're Back
Mørkeskov
The Maid (audio)
De bedste familier
Uvejr
Natjæger
Sarum: The Novel of England - started
Lessons in Chemistry (audio) - started
Children of the Corn (group read)
The Man Who Died Twice
The Blazing World (bingo challenge, serial reader) - started
Den Farlige Alder
Superskurk

June plan:

To Read:
The Farm in the Green Mountains
Children of the Corn

Hope to read:
The Unknown Soldier
The Moon Is Down
Siddhartha

Continue:
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Currently reading:
The Crystal Cave
The Tale of Genji

Still left on my bingo card:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pride and Prejudice
Love Medicine
The History of Love
West with the Night
I own all but 1 of these. We'll see what I am able to get to.

I have a busy June, so I probably won't get to all of these, but this is my general plan:

Finishing up:
The Way We Live Now
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Book Club Reads and/or Buddy Reads:
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Siddhartha

For My Challenges:
Cold Comfort Farm
Kilmeny of the Orchard
The Amateur Gentleman
something by Elizabeth Gaskell, maybe Cousin Phillis or The Grey Woman

RJs JUNE 2023 READS

Will finish this month:

The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Dead Man's Blues by Ray Celestin

Will read but will not finish this month:

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard
Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Martin Eden by Jack London
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 edited by Robert Silverberg
The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Asimov's Chronology of the World: The History of the World From the Big Bang to Modern Times by Isaac Asimov

I bit off a little more than I could chew for May, so I'm carrying a few books forward to read/finish...so that I can have too much on my plate in June, too!
Here's the plan:

Buffet
✔️1. Bombeck: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? (1971)
✔️2. Besson: Lie With Me (2017) <- TBR Challenge
✔️3. Doyle: "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" (1923)
✔️4. King: Children of the Corn (1977)
✔️5. Urquhart: The Butcher and the Wren (2022) <- TBR Challenge
✔️6. Nesbo: The Bat (1997)
✔️7. Oyeyemi: Peaces (2021) <- TBR Challenge
✔️8. Pratchett: The Unadulterated Cat (1989)
9. Quin: Berg (1964)
10. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

Extracurricular
✔️11. Wodehouse: A Prefect's Uncle (1903)
✔️12. Wodehouse: Psmith in the City (1910)
✔️13. Wodehouse: My Man Jeeves (1919)
✔️14. McIntyre: Dreamsnake (1978)
✔️15. Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (1886)
✔️16. E. Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
17. Aristotle: Lysistrata and Other Plays (425-411 BCE)
✔️18. Austen: Mansfield Park (1814)
✔️19. Nash: Marriage Lines: Notes of a Student Husband (1964)
✔️20. Rushdie: Victory City (2023)

Long reads
I'm reading these slowly with various groups. I don't think any are scheduled to finish in June.
21. Dickens: Oliver Twist (1838)
22. Lewis: The Monk (1796)
23. Gaskell: Mary Barton (1848)
24. Conrad: Nostromo (1904)

Added later
✔️Stout: The Black Mountain (1954)
✔️Pratchett: Snuff (2011)

my "Core 8" for June:

Debacle, La Zola, Emile 1892 - to finish
Taras Bulba Gogol, Nikolai 1835
Alexiad, The Comnena, Anna 1148 - first half
Once Upon A Time In America (oka Hoods, The) Grey, Harry 1952
Late Mattia Pascal, The Pirandello, Luigi 1904
Power And the Glory, The Greene, Graham 1940
Mulatta and Mister Fly, The ("Mulata") Asturias, Miguel Ángel 1963
Baron In The Trees, The Calvino, Italo 1957 - group read

Will finish reading
The Far Country (completes my Bingo Card-Blackout)
The Man Who Laughs (completes Challenge #11)
The Orphan's Tale (non-group read, been on my shelf awhile)

Start Reading-finish ??
A Confederacy of Dunces (7th for Old & New)

I can’t plan beyond these. When I finish the above, I will just have to look at my list and pick something that feels right. That’s how I picked The Orphan’s Tale last month, I just felt it was time to give it a go.

In June I am most wanting to read

c. 1595A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
read June 09--rated 5⭐
1851 Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville
read June 11--rated 5⭐
presented 1967 This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges
read June 11--rated 4⭐
1964 Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung: Mao's Little Red Book Original Version
read June 20--rated 3⭐
1928 Morphology of the Folktale by Vladimir Propp read June 21--rated3⭐

2022 Neom by Lavie Tidhar
read June 21--rated 3⭐
2020Anna Komnene and the Alexiad: The Byzantine Princess and the First Crusade
read June 22--rated 4⭐
2019 Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands by Dan Jones
read June 30--rated 3⭐

The Alexiad by Anna Comnena
Medea by Euripides
The White Mountains by John Christopher

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

June plans:

Attempt to finish:
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
The Art of Always Being Right

Reread:
The Invention of Morel

Make progress:
The History Of World Literature
The Aleph and Other Stories

Klowey, that is a worthy and challenging task those 48 lectures on World Lit!

Julie wrote: "My tentative plans for June

Currently reading:
Andersonville (pulitzer prize challenge)
The Second Sex (old & new challenge)

To read:
[book:Sisters of the Snake|5533897..."

Well, with the month coming to a close, I can tell that I had the best reading month of the year so far :)

Julie wrote: "Well, with the month coming to a close, I can tell that I had the best reading month of the year so far :)"

Wow! You sure did. Congrats!

Julie wrote: "Julie wrote: "My tentative plans for June

Currently reading:
Andersonville (pulitzer prize challenge)
The Second Sex (old & new challenge)

To read:
[book:Sisters of the..."

Congratulations on having such a great month!!

So my final list of books actually read was:

Six short stories -

"Blackberry Winter" by Robert Penn Warren (1946) 4 *
"Looking for Mr. Green" by Saul Bellow (1951) 4*
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin (1894) 4*
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" by H. G. Wells (1898) 5*
"The Lovely House" by Shirley Jackson (1950) 3*
"The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen (1845) 4*


A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1595) 5*

I also read half of The Crow Trap ( Vera Stanhope Mysteries #1) by Ann Cleeves

I had a somewhat low-pagecount-month in June,
so of my "Core 8" I only completed 4 tasks:

Debacle, La Zola, Emile - to finish - 4.5 Stars
Taras Bulba Gogol, Nikolai - 3 Stars
Alexiad, The Comnena, Anna - first half
Baron In The Trees, The Calvino, Italo - group read - 3.5 Stars

I nearly finished P&G as a e-loan, except my internet connection broke right at the end of the month!
Power And the Glory, The Greene, Graham

I reached half way in:
Once Upon A Time In America (oka Hoods, The) Grey, Harry

and I only barely started 2:
Late Mattia Pascal, The Pirandello, Luigi
Mulatta and Mister Fly, The Asturias, Miguel Ángel