Litwit Lounge discussion

Our annual Lounge-wide Classics Challenge has become something of a tradition; so I thought it was time to post a similar thread for 2025! As before, to take part, just post a comment as your "tracking post." Then, starting on Jan. 1, just use the "edit" function to update it with a numbered list of each classic you read. Remember, we use 1950 as a rough terminal date, after which books are considered too recent to be classics (though exceptions can be made in some cases).

Werner's 2025 Tracking Post:

1. Case for Mr. Fortune by H.C. Bailey
2. The Complete Poems by Thomas Hardy
3. The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
4. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
5. Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
6. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
7. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
8. Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

Vickie's 2025 Tracking Post:

1. Pride and Prejudice by Austen (Jan)
2. Jane Eyre by Bronte (Feb)
3. 1984 by Orwell (Feb)
4. Sense and Sensibility by Austen (May)
5. Mansfield Park by Austen (June)
6. Northanger Abbey by Austen (June)
7. Persuasion by Austen (July)

Reggia's 2025 Tracking Post:

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (April)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (May)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (June)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (July)

Jean's 2025 Tracking Post

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens illustrated by Roberto Innocenti
2. Tragedy at Law by Cyril Hare
3. Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin