Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I love these challenges as they help me to focus my reading. I have gotten more loose with them over the years, and have quit trying to attempt them all.

This year I will attempt around 8 challenges - but some of them have more than one challenge in one - stay tuned

#1 New & Old TBR

Old School Classics
1. Dekameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1349)
2. Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola (1867)
3. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1839)

New School Classics
4. A Separate Peace by John Knowles (1959)
5. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (1987)
6. Larry's Party by Carol Shields (1998)

Wildcards
7. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (2018)
8. Trust by Hernan Diaz (2022)
9. Helsen & Co. by Erna Juel-Hansen (1900)
10. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998)
11. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1000)
12. The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin (1972)

Alternatives
A1. One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (2013)
A2. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (2010)
A3. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (2024)

#5 Century Challenge

My own take on this challenge doesn't fullfil the requirements totally. I am using this prompt to get through the lists of prize winners, and as some of those lists are getting shorter they don't include all the years.

De Gyldne Laurbær/The Golden Laurels
1950's: Tosserier i udvalg (Tosserier 7.) by Halfdan Rasmussen (1957)
1960's: Perleporten by Erik Aalbæk Jensen (1964)
1970's: Løgn over løgn by Henrik Stangerup (1971)
1980's: Christine by Helle Stangerup (1985)
1990's: Kun en pige by Lise Nørgaard (1993)
2000's: Børnene by Ida Jessen (2009)

Status
De Gyldne Laurbær: 42/76

Booker Prize/Booker International Prize
1970's: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (1974)
1980's: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (1984)
1990's: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (1995)
2000's: The Gathering by Anne Enright (2007)
2000's: Ismail Kadare
2010's: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (2013)
2010's: Break It Down by Lydia Davis
2020's: Orbital by Samantha Harvey (2024)
2020's: The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld

Status
Booker Prize 24/60
Booker International Prize 6/16

Women's Prize for Fiction/Pulitzer Prize
1950's: The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (1959)
1970's: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (1978)
1990's: A Crime in the Neighbourhood by Suzanne Berne (1999)
2000's: Home by Marilynne Robinson (2009)
2010's: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (2018)
2020's: James by Percival Everett (2025)
2020's: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (2022)

Status
Women's Prize for Fiction 16/30
Pulitzer Prize 94/99

#6 Group Reads

#7 Series Challenge(s)
Last year I included four different series in this challenge, two of which I managed to finish. This year I will continue with my two unfinished series (Agatha Christie) and have included a new series (Discworld).

Agatha Christie Miss Marple Series
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Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot series
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Terry Pratchett Discworld series
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#15 Award Winners

#16 Book Chain

This really sounds like fun!
I've decided I want to start it off by randomnly choosing a book from my own bookshelf

And the first book will be....
1. The Lying Game

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You have so many interesting choices, and I love your take on the century challenge. Happy reading!