Christian Fiction Devourers discussion

In high school and college English literature classes, we hear about the classics. But how many have we really read?

Level 1: Just a few - 1-5
Level 2: Whew!! - 6-10
Level 3: These are great! - 11-15
Level 4: How did I Miss these? - 16-20
Level 5: Classic Master - 21+

Who's signing up for reading classics?

Participants

Allean26
Bonny
Carissa
Celia
Charlene
Charlotte
Christine
Hannah
Jan
Karen
Kathleen
KC
Leona
Margaret
Michelle
ProseandPetals
Reagan
Staci
Wendy

I got zero read in 2024 but hope to do better in 2025. Level 1 for me.

I'm in. Level 1: Just a few - 1-5

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Level 1, just a few

Level 1

I'm in for level 3.

2/11–15 classics read, so far.



1. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
2. The Misanthrope and Other Plays by Molière

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Planned Books
My First Summer in the Sierra
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Cost of Discipleship
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
The Art of War
Meditations
The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation
The Practice of the Presence of God
Northanger Abbey
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Level 1: Just a few - 1-5
1.The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

I got a few read in 2024, for 2025 I'm in for Level 1: just a few - 1-5.

I'm in for level 1
1. Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith - Jan 2
2. To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite - 1/14
3. The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton - 1/23
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - 2/3
5. Lando by Louis L'Amour - 2/4
6. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare - 2/10
7. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 3/3

I'm in for Level 1: just a few - 1-5.

Links added to here. Please let me know if I've missed anyone.

Please add me. My first time here. Is there a list for each level or any guidelines?

So glad to have you joining us Kathleen! The levels for this challenge are at the top of the thread. There is a general information thread for the 2025 Annual Challenges where you can find basic information and ask questions. I've added your link.

I want to be level 3. I read 5 classics this year. Hopefully I can read more next year.

I'm in for Level 1: Just a Few (1-5 Books)

Got you both added. Welcome!

Thank you. Today I just went to half priced books and bought Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey for $13.

Allean26 wrote: "Thank you. Today I just went to half priced books and bought Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey for $13."

Wow! Awesome deal. Hope you enjoy them all.

Thought I had signed up for this already. Going for Just a Few!

Great! Got you added Christine.

Please add me to Level 1-Just a few.

Welcome Leona! I've got you linked up.

2025 Classics Reading
1/1/25 - 12/31/25

Goal: 50 (Level 5)
Progress: 28

1. 1/21/25
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1935

2. 1/22/25
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1937

3. 1/24/24
The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 1903
(Abridged version - Children's Treasury of Illustrated Classics)

4. 1/25/25
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman, 1966

5. 1/28/25
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1939

6. 1/29/25
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1940

7. 1/30/25
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1941

8. 1/31/25
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943

9. 1/31/25
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1943

10. 1/31/25
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1971

11. 2/5/25
Emma by Jane Austen, 1815

12. 2/6/25
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 1817

13. 2/6/25
Lady Susan by Jane Austen, 1871

14. 2/6/25
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

15. 2/11/25
The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie, 1932

16. 2/11/25
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, 1895

17. 2/12/25
Lord of the Flies by William Golding,1954

18. 2/13/25
Persuasion by Jane Austen, 1817

19. 2/14/25
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis, 1954

20. 2/24/25
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis, 1951

21. 2/25/25
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892

22. 2/25/25
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 1952

23. 2/25/25
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis, 1952

24. 2/26/25
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis, 1953

25. 2/27/25
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis, 1956

26. 3/2/25
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 1872

27. 3/4/25
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932

28. 11/10/25
Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery 1917

Welcome KC! I've got your link added.

I’m in for Level 1: Just a few - 1-5

I read my first classic of the year! The Great Gatsby! I loved it so much.

Allean26 wrote: "I read my first classic of the year! The Great Gatsby! I loved it so much."

Way to go!

@Charlene, sorry for the delay. I've now added your link. Welcome! Welcome!

Allean26 wrote: "I read my first classic of the year! The Great Gatsby! I loved it so much."

Glad you enjoyed it! I re-read it last month after reading it almost 30 years ago. By accident I read the abridged version and then read the full unabridged again when I realized it. Watched the movie too. Unintentionally had a whole Gatsby week :)

Also, (not a classic, but) saw you're reading Tress... looking forward to seeing if you like it. Enjoy!

Staci wrote: "Welcome KC! I've got your link added."

Thank you! (Sorry for the delay)

Thank you I am enjoying Tress of the Emerald Sea. Do you have and recs for classics? I need to find one.

@Allean: Good to hear, looking forward to reading it. Recent classic favorites have been Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne and Persuasion by Jane Austen. Not sure if you've read either of these already but for sure would recommend them.

Oooo. Thank you so much I defiantly going to check those out.

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and sign up for this challenge after all, since I've been reading some classics!
1) The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
2) The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
3) Middlemarch by George Eliot

Great! Got your link added Bonny.

I'm in for Level 5: Classic Master - 21+

Progress: 20/21+

1. The Prince and the Pauper By Mark Twain 2/3/25

2. Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte 2/25/25

3. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text By Mary Shelley 4/4/25

4. And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 7/15/25

5. Pygmalion & Other Plays George Bernard Shaw 7/17/25

6. The Book Thief Markus Zusak 7/20/25

7. The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie 7/21/25

8. Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie 7/24/25

9. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 7/25/25

10. The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux 7/27/25

11. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 9/3/25

12. The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare 9/8/25

13. The King of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany 9/11/25

14. Murder in the Cathedral T.S. Eliot 9/11/25

15. Animal Farm George Orwell 9/14/25

16. Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 9/17/25

17. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 9/19/25

18. The Making of a Marchioness / The Methods of Lady Walderhurst Frances Hodgson Burnett 9/23/25

19. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 9/29/25

20. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne 10/29/25

Glad you are loving the challenges Charlotte! Got your link added.

I am reading Northanger Abby right now and finished Mice and Men, Fahrenheit 451, and The Great Gatsby! I really need to read more classics if I want to complete my goal.

I’m sorta finished Little women, and I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird in school. I am reading the part of Mrs. Maudie

I think I’ll be able to read 11-15 classics this year! So far I have read 9 and I’m reading the Pearl and The Grapes of Wrath
The great gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
The hunger games
Screwtape letters
Northanger Abbey
To Kill a Mockingbird
The murder on the orient express
Little women
Mice and Men

ProseAndPetals wrote: "I think I’ll be able to read 11-15 classics this year! So far I have read 9 and I’m reading the Pearl and The Grapes of Wrath
The great gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
The hunger games
Screwtape letters
Nor..."

Welcome! I've got you linked up.