Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I'm working on reducing my physical TBR stacks. The books labeled 📕 were already on my shelves (and coffee tables) before 12/1/25.

B1: 20th Century - Said: Representations of the Intellectual (1994)
B2: Your Native Language - 📕Burgess: The Novel Now: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction (1971)
B3: New Country - 📕Narayan: Malgudi Days (1943) - India
B4: Chosen by the Cover - 📕Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (1962)
B5: Ancient/Old or Future - 📕Euripides: Euripides: Cyclops (-421)

I1: Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2026 - 📕Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) - March 2021
I2: Prize Winning Author - 📕Rich: Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973) - National Book Award
I3: Science - 📕Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
I4: From Your TBR Shelf - 📕Austen: Emma (1815)
I5: Book From the Group's Favorite 2025 Reads - Wells: The Time Machine (1985)

N1: The Americas or Oceania - 📕James: The Ambassadors (1903)
N2: Action & Adventure - Verne: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864)
N3: Free Choice — Classic or Not - 📕Gass: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968)
N4: Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller - King: Dolores Claiborne (1992)
N5: Africa, Asia, or Europe - 📕Pontoppidan: Lucky Per (1904)

G1: Group Poll that Did Not Win - 📕Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
G2: Missing From the Group’s Shelf - Cruse: Stuck Rubber Baby (1995)
G3: History - Sinclair: The Jungle (1906)
G4: Recommended to You - Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day (1989)
G5: Group’s 2026 Bookshelf - 📕Forster: Howards End (1910)

O1: Birth Year - 📕O'Hara: Lunch Poems (1964)
O2: New-to-You or Favorite Author - 📕Knowles: A Separate Peace (1959)
O3: Somewhere Else - 📕Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (2001) - Nollop, a fictional island
O4: Translation - 📕Ernaux: The Possession (2002)
O5: 19th Century - Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground (1864)

Plus...


Audio Book - Wells: The Time Machine (1985)
Children’s Book - 📕Knowles: A Separate Peace (1959)
Epistolary - 📕Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (2001)
Essay - Said: Representations of the Intellectual (1994)
Graphic or Comic Book - Cruse: Stuck Rubber Baby (1995)
Nonfiction - 📕Burgess: The Novel Now: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction (1971)
Novel - 📕Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Play - 📕Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Poetry - 📕O'Hara: Lunch Poems (1964)
Short Story - 📕Gass: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968)

Bingo Board


B1 I1 N1 G1 O1

B2 I2 N2 G2 O2

B3 I3 N3 G3 O3

B4 I4 N4 G4 O4

B5 I5 N5 G5 O5

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I hope you have a great year reading with your Bingo Card in 2026.

Wow, you've got it so well planned out already! I see a handful of books there that I've really enjoyed, like Emma, The Time Machine, Remains of the Day, Fahrenheit 451. Ella Minnowpea is a fun one too. Enjoy!

Great plans, JP. I liked so many of these, I won't list them all, but will say Malgudi Days was a joy! Have fun.