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Challenge #1 – Old & New TBR ChallengeOld School (before 1900):
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
New School (1900 – 1999)
1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
3. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Others
✔ 1. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
2. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
3. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
4. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
✔ 6. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Alternates
1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
2. The Trial by Franz Kafka
3. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Challenge #5 – 24 Short Stories1. Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Duel: by Joseph Conrad
4. In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
5. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
7. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
9. Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
10. Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
11. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
12. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
13. Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
14. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
15. The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe
16. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
17. The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
18. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
✔ 19. First Love : by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
20. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
21. The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
22. The Death of Oliver Becaille by Émile Zola
23. Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
24. Philomel Cottage: A Short Story by Agatha Christie
Challenge #6 – 12 Group Reads1. Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott
2. The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power (other topics)The Gentle Spirit (other topics)
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (other topics)
Don't Look Now and Other Stories (other topics)
Double Indemnity (other topics)
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At first, I will be attempting the Challenges #1, #5 and #6, but this may (or may not) vary later, it depends on how it goes during the year. Wish me luck!!!