Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Challenge #1: Old and New TBR

Completed 10/12

Old School
1. The Canterbury Tales-Geoffrey Chaucer 04/26/25 ****
2. Silas Marner-George Eliot 10/03/25 ***
3. Northanger Abbey-Jane Austen

New School
1. Ragtime-E.L. Doctorow
2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 11/14/25 ***
3. Pale Fire-Vladimir Nabokov

Wild Cards
1. North and South-Elizabeth Gaskell 02/24/25 ***
2. Obasan-Joy Kogawa
3. A Room with a View-E.M. Forster 11/25/25 3.5*
4. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man-James Weldon Johnson 11/15/25 ***
5. No-No Boy-John Okada 1/18/25 ****
6. Dreaming in Cuban-Cristina García 11/20/25 2.5*

A-1: Vanity Fair-William Makepeace Thackeray 01/16/25 ***
A-2: The Divine Comedy-Dante Alighieri 01/31/25
A-3: The Mysteries of Udolpho-Ann Radcliffe

Challenge #1: Old and New TBR

Completed 10/12

Old School
1. Edward II: The Troublesome Reign And Lamentable Death Of Edward The Second, King Of England-Christopher Marlowe
2. The Taming of the Shrew-William Shakespeare 11/26/25 ***
3. A Woman of No Importance-Oscar Wilde 11/16/25 ***

New School
1. The Emperor Jones-Eugene O'Neill 11/08/25 ***
2. The Night of the Iguana-Tennessee Williams 11/21/25 ***
3. True West-Sam Shepard 11/07/25 ***

Wild Cards
1. Riders to the Sea-J.M. Synge 11/09/25 ***
2. The Real Inspector Hound-Tom Stoppard 11/10/25 ****
3. The American Dream, a Play-Edward Albee 11/06/25 ***
4. Peer Gynt-Henrik Ibsen
5. Candida-George Bernard Shaw 11/22/25 ***
6. Watch on the Rhine-Lillian Hellman 11/24/25 ****

Challenge #2: Member's Choice

Completed 9/9

19th Century: Sylvia's Lovers-Elizabeth Gaskell 06/10/25 ***
20th Century: Death in Venice-Thomas Mann O4/21/25 ***
21st Century: The Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger 04//29/25 2.5*
Non-fiction: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster-Svetlana Alexievich 11/30/25 *****
An Author Never Read Before: Carlos Ruiz Zafón-The Shadow of the Wind 06/17/25 ****
Diversity: The Seagull-Anton Chekhov 02/16/25 ***
Member's Choice Genre (SciFi): Childhood’s End-Arthur C. Clarke 04/27/25 ****
Member's Choice Genre (Historical Fiction): Augustus-John Williams 02/12/25 ****
Member's Choice Genre (Psychological Horror): Stepford Wives-Ira Levin 09/11/25 ****

Challenge#4: Short Stories

Completed 15/18

1. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse-James Weldon Johnson 04/29/25 ****
2. "Lost Face"-Jack London 06/0/25 ****
3. Trust-Jack London 06/09/25 ****
4. That Spot-Jack London 06/10/25 *****
5. Flush of Gold-Jack London 06/12/25 ***
6. Beyond the Bayou-Kate Chopin 06/18/25 ***
7. Ma'ame Pelagie-Kate Chopin 06/20/25 ***
8. "El Patron"-Nash Candelaria 07/20/25 ***
9. "Janus"-Ann Beattie 10/12/25 ****
10. Entropy.-Thomas Pynchon 11/05/25 ***
11. The Half-Skinned Steer-Annie Proulx 11/06/25 ***
12. " Miranda's Gift"-Rudolfo Anaya 11/07/25 ***
13. Average Waves in Unprotected Waters-Anne Tyler 11/08/25 ***
14. "Exchange Value"-Charles Johnson 1109/25 ****
15. Desiree's Baby-Kate Chopin 11/11/25 ****

Challenge #6: Group Reads, Buddy Reads, or Moderators Run Amok

Completed 12/12

1. The Angel at the Grave-Edith Wharton 01/01/25 ***
2. Meditation-Franz Kafka 02/18/25 **
3. Never Let Me Go-Kazuo Ishiguro 02/22/25 ***
4. The Magician-W. Somerset Maugham 02/26/25 **
5. The House on the Strand-Daphne du Maurier 03/05/25 ***
6. The Queen of Spades-Alexander Pushkin 03/05/25 ****
7. A Lost Opportunity-Leo Tolstoy 03/17/25 ****
8. Call Me Joe-Poul Anderson 03/23/25 ***
9. Mimsy Were The Borogoves-Lewis Padgett 04/22/25 ****
10. The Machine Stops-E.M. Forster 04/22/25 ***
11. "Regret"-Kate Chopin 10/06/25 ***
12. The Invisible Girl-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 10/10/25 ***

Challenge #7: Series Books

I will start Chaim Potak's "Reuven Malther" series:
The Chosen

I will continue Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" series:
The Return of Sherlock Holmes 05/31/25 ****

I will complete Robert Louis Stevenson's "David Balfour" series:
Catriona: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad

I plan to complete Erich Marie Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front" series:
The Road Back
Three Comrades

Challenger #9: Rereading-Some Do, Some Don't

Completed 2/2

Kidnapped-Robert Louis Stevenson 07/01/25 ***
All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque 11/28/25 ****
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway
The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Challenge #10: Most Popular Goodreads Books by Year
Completed 0/3

1962
1. Pale Fire-Vladimir Nabokov
2. A Room with a View-E.M. Forster
3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4. A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
5. The Woman in the Dunes-Kōbō Abe
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes-Ray Bradbury
7. The Man in the High Castle-Philip K. Dick
8. The Guns of August-Barbara W. Tuchman
9. The Reivers-William Faulkner
10. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings-Jorge Luis Borges

Challenge #15: Award Winners
Completed 0/2

Challenge #8: Travel the World One Continent at a Time---Maybe
Complete 6

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Are you doing 2 versions of Old & New TBR, one for plays and one for non-plays?? That's so ambitious! Enjoy your reading. :)