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You may break down this challenge into small manageable chunks, or be a dare devil and read all 75! (No pressure!)

RULES:
Only books read in 2023 count for this challenge.
Only books published before 1973 count (If you are reading a play, child’s book, etc. please consult the group’s rules for dates).

I’ve tried to free up this challenge a bit so you may read any book by one of these authors instead of having to read “Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.�� If you’ve already read it chose another one of their books. I hope this will be a fun challenge you all can get a lot out of!

As always, happy reading!


Read a book by Jane Austen.
Read a book by Harper Lee.
Read a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Read a book by Truman Capote.
Read a book by Jean Rhys.
Read a book by Aldous Huxley.
Read a book by Dodie Smith.
Read a book by Charlotte Bronte.
Read a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Read a book by Jack London.
Read a book by John Wyndham.
Read a book by Herman Melville.
Read a book by C. S. Lewis.
Read a book by Virginia Woolf.
Read a book by Elizabeth Bowen.
Read a book by Thomas Hardy.
Read a book by Mary Shelley.
Read a book by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Read a book by L. P. Hartley.
Read a book by Ken Kesey.
Read a book by George Orwell.
Read a book by Thomas Mann.
Read a book by John Steinbeck.
Read a book by Bram Stoker.
Read a book by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Read a book by Mark Twain.
Read a book by Charles Dickens.
Read a book by Joseph Heller.
Read a book by Edith Wharton.
Read a book by George Eliot.
Read a book by Homer.
Read a book by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Read a book by Evelyn Waugh.
Read a book by J. D. Salinger.
Read a book by Lewis Carroll.
Read a book by Anthony Trollope.
Read a book by James Baldwin.
Read a book by Victor Hugo.
Read a book by Roald Dahl.
Read a book by S. E. Hinton.
Read a book by Alexandre Dumas.
Read a book by James Joyce.
Read a book by Vladimir Nabokov.
Read a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Read a book by Leo Tolstoy.
Read a book by Alessandro Manzoni.
Read a book by Ayn Rand.
Read a book by H. G. Wells.
Read a book by Sun-Tzu.
Read a book by John Galsworthy.
Read a book by Henry Miller.
Read a book by D. H. Lawrence.
Read a book by Kenneth Grahame.
Read a book by Willa Cather.
Read a book by Emily Bronte.
Read a book by Somerset Maugham.
Read a book by Honore de Balzac.
Read a book by Kurt Vonnegut.
Read a book by Louisa May Alcott.
Read a book by Robert Pirsig.
Read a book by Franz Kafka.
Read a book by Robert Graves.
Read a book by J. M. Barrie.
Read a book by Joseph Conrad.
Read a book by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Read a book by Mario Puzo.
Read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Read a book by Ray Bradbury.
Read a book by Jules Verne.
Read a book by Oscar Wilde.
Read a book by Beatrix Potter.
Read a book by Edgar Allan Poe.
Read a book by Isaac Asimov.
Read a book of your choice.

I have unlocked the thread so that you have time to sign up and save your spot!

Wow this is a huge list! Best wishes with this challenge.

I'm interested!

Progress: 8/75

Read a book by Jane Austen.
Read a book by Harper Lee.
Read a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Read a book by Truman Capote.
Read a book by Jean Rhys.
Read a book by Aldous Huxley.
Read a book by Dodie Smith.
Read a book by Charlotte Bronte.
Read a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Read a book by Jack London.
Read a book by John Wyndham.
Read a book by Herman Melville.
Read a book by C. S. Lewis.
Read a book by Virginia Woolf.
Read a book by Elizabeth Bowen.
Read a book by Thomas Hardy.
Read a book by Mary Shelley.
Read a book by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Read a book by L. P. Hartley.
Read a book by Ken Kesey.
Read a book by George Orwell.
Read a book by Thomas Mann.
Read a book by John Steinbeck.
Read a book by Bram Stoker.
Read a book by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Read a book by Mark Twain.
Read a book by Charles Dickens.
Read a book by Joseph Heller.
Read a book by Edith Wharton.
Read a book by George Eliot.
Read a book by Homer.
Read a book by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Read a book by Evelyn Waugh.
Read a book by J. D. Salinger.
Read a book by Lewis Carroll.
Read a book by Anthony Trollope.
Read a book by James Baldwin.
Read a book by Victor Hugo.
Read a book by Roald Dahl.
Read a book by S. E. Hinton.
Read a book by Alexandre Dumas.
Read a book by James Joyce.
Read a book by Vladimir Nabokov.
Read a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Read a book by Leo Tolstoy.
Read a book by Alessandro Manzoni.
Read a book by Ayn Rand.
Read a book by H. G. Wells.
Read a book by Sun-Tzu.
Read a book by John Galsworthy.
Read a book by Henry Miller.
Read a book by D. H. Lawrence.
Read a book by Kenneth Grahame.
Read a book by Willa Cather.
Read a book by Emily Bronte.
Read a book by Somerset Maugham.
Read a book by Honore de Balzac.
Read a book by Kurt Vonnegut.
Read a book by Louisa May Alcott.
Read a book by Robert Pirsig.
Read a book by Franz Kafka.
Read a book by Robert Graves.
Read a book by J. M. Barrie.
Read a book by Joseph Conrad.
Read a book by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Read a book by Mario Puzo.
Read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Read a book by Ray Bradbury.
Read a book by Jules Verne.
Read a book by Oscar Wilde.
Read a book by Beatrix Potter.
Read a book by Edgar Allan Poe.
Read a book by Isaac Asimov.
Read a book of your choice.

My goal is to start with 12 authors and take it from there.

January
1. A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
2. Les Indes noires by Jules Verne
3. The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

February
4. Der Doppelgänger by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. The 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith

March
6. Hard Times by Charles Dickens

April
7. Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
8. La hojarasca by Gabriel García Márquez

June
9. Victory An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

July
10.Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
11. Web by John Wyndham
12. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
13. The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob(08/23) by George Eliot


August
14. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
15. A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy
16. A Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells

November
17. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

December
18. Hadji Murád by Leo Tolstoy

2024

January
19.Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

February
20. The Letters of Jane Austen by Jane Austen

I love this. Let’s see how many I can read.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1/28
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote 5/3
3. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 7/05
4. The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen 9/16

Wow, I like this list.

I will try to read 10 of them, I don't think I ever read 75 in a year. :)

Read a book by Jane Austen: Emma
Read a book by Jean Rhys: Good Morning, Midnight
Read a book by Charlotte Bronte: Shirley
Read a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot
Read a book by Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Read a book by John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Read a book by Bram Stoker: Dracula
Read a book by Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Read a book by Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
Read a book by George Eliot: Middlemarch
Read a book by William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Read a book by J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan
Read a book by Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
Read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago 1918��1956
Read a book by Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Read a book by Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves

Oh my! That is a long list! I will try for 12. One a month should be doable.

Done! I read more than 12 but I have a couple of months left...

Read a book by Jane Austen.
Read a book by Harper Lee.
Read a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
�� Read a book by Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories and The Grass Harp, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
Read a book by Jean Rhys.
Read a book by Aldous Huxley.
�� Read a book by Dodie Smith. The Midnight Kittens
Read a book by Charlotte Bronte.
Read a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Read a book by Jack London.
Read a book by John Wyndham.
Read a book by Herman Melville.
Read a book by C. S. Lewis.
Read a book by Virginia Woolf.
Read a book by Elizabeth Bowen.
Read a book by Thomas Hardy.
Read a book by Mary Shelley.
Read a book by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Read a book by L. P. Hartley.
Read a book by Ken Kesey.
Read a book by George Orwell.
Read a book by Thomas Mann.
�� Read a book by John Steinbeck. Breakfast
�� Read a book by Bram Stoker. Lair of the White Worm
Read a book by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Read a book by Mark Twain.
Read a book by Charles Dickens.
Read a book by Joseph Heller.
�� Read a book by Edith Wharton. The Old Maid
Read a book by George Eliot.
Read a book by Homer.
Read a book by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Read a book by Evelyn Waugh.
Read a book by J. D. Salinger.
Read a book by Lewis Carroll.
�� Read a book by Anthony Trollope. Barchester Towers
Read a book by James Baldwin.
�� Read a book by Victor Hugo. The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Read a book by Roald Dahl.
Read a book by S. E. Hinton.
Read a book by Alexandre Dumas.
Read a book by James Joyce.
Read a book by Vladimir Nabokov.
�� Read a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Land of the Blue Flower
�� Read a book by Leo Tolstoy. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Read a book by Alessandro Manzoni.
Read a book by Ayn Rand.
�� Read a book by H. G. Wells. The Island of Dr. Moreau and The War of the Worlds
Read a book by Sun-Tzu.
Read a book by John Galsworthy.
Read a book by Henry Miller.
Read a book by D. H. Lawrence.
�� Read a book by Kenneth Grahame. The Reluctant Dragon
Read a book by Willa Cather.
Read a book by Emily Bronte.
�� Read a book by Somerset Maugham.Before the Party
Read a book by Honore de Balzac.
Read a book by Kurt Vonnegut.
Read a book by Louisa May Alcott.
Read a book by Robert Pirsig.
Read a book by Franz Kafka.
Read a book by Robert Graves.
Read a book by J. M. Barrie.
Read a book by Joseph Conrad.
Read a book by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Read a book by Mario Puzo.
Read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Read a book by Ray Bradbury.
�� Read a book by Jules Verne.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
�� Read a book by Oscar Wilde.An Ideal Husband
�� Read a book by Beatrix Potter. The Fairy Caravan
Read a book by Edgar Allan Poe.
�� Read a book by Isaac Asimov. X Stands for Unknown (Title essay only so far.)
�� Read a book of your choice. The Fall by Albert Camus

I've read all of these authors except Alexandre Dumas, Sun-Tzu, Jean Rhys, Robert Graves and Isaac Asimov........Rhys I might try. Goodbye to All That by Graves is one I'd like to read! Whose read it and what did you think of it? Please clue me in.

Chrissie, that is the best book by Graves, for me anyway.

So many great authors in the list! I’m going to hopefully read Lewis, Hugo, Orwell, Dickens and others!

1. The Gulag Archipelago 1918��1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
3. The Odyssey by Homer
4. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (in progress)
5. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (in-progress)
6. The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso by Dante Alighieri (in-progress)
7. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
8. Aeschylus I: Oresteia by Aeschylus
9. The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton

This is a great list. It’s going to be a huge year for this group but can’t resist so I too will start with 12.

1, Another Country by James Baldwin
2. Dr. Thorne by Anthony Trollope
3. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot finished 16 Feb 23
4. The Odyssey by Homer
5. Eustace and Hilda by L.P. Hartley
6. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Finished 4 Jan 23
7. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen finished 23 June 23
8. The Man of Property by John Galsworthy - finished 18 July 23

Rosemarie wrote: "Chrissie, that is the best book by Graves, for me anyway."

What you say can be interpreted in different ways. Do you think I'll like it?

I really liked it! I generally enjoy his work, Chrissie.

Rosemarie, I will then definitely read it. Had to look around to find an unabridged version. Thanks for your help.

Any time, Chrissie!

This is a great challenge. I will set 12 authors as my goal.

1. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (10/02/23)

Slot saved! There are some here I know I intend to read next year but I think it'll be nice to pick someone (or two) that I haven't read before. I'm going to aim for at least 10.

I’m in. I will go for 12.

I will read 10 of these authors.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Honore de Balzac
The Ball At Sceaux
At The Sign Of The Cat And Racket
The Red Inn

William Makepeace Thackeray
Edith Wharton.

J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit

Thomas Mann
Elizabeth Bowen
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jean Rhys
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

John Steinbeck
The Pearl
The Red Pony
The Moon Is Down

Anthony Trollope

Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess

Kurt Vonnegut
Franz Kafka

I will be doing this one. I'm planning on 12 authors.

Read a book by Jane Austen. Northanger Abbey
Read a book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Smith of Wootton Major
Read a book by Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist
Read a book by Edith Wharton. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Read a book by Homer. The Iliad
Read a book by Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited
Read a book by Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Read a book by Roald Dahl. Fantastic Mr. Fox
Read a book by S. E. Hinton. That Was Then, This Is Now
Read a book by Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers
Read a book by James Joyce. Dubliners
Read a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden
Read a book by H. G. Wells. The War of the Worlds
Read a book by D. H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover
Read a book by Louisa May Alcott. Little Women
Read a book by Franz Kafka. The Castle
Read a book by Robert Graves. Goodbye to All That
Read a book by Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness
Read a book by Ray Bradbury. I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories
Read a book by Jules Verne. Journey to the Center of the Earth
Read a book by Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Read a book by Beatrix Potter. The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
Read a book by Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems
Read a book by Isaac Asimov. The Caves of Steel
Read a book of your choice.

Wow, that's a great list! I'll be aiming for 12.

A wonderful list and a great way to include these authors in my reading year.

I will read 10 authors and hopefully get some more in.
��1. Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
��2. John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
��3. Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse
��4. J. R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
��5. Isaac Asimov - The Fun They Had, Tales of the Black Widowers
��6. Ray Bradbury - The Veldt
��7. John Steinbeck - The Moon Is Down
��8. H. G. Wells - The Magic Shop
��9. D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterly's Lover
��10. Jules Verne - A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Others I hope to get to:

��11. Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
��12. Oscar Wilde - Lady Windemere's Fan
��13. Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
��14. Roald Dahl - Skin and Other Stories
��15. Anthony Trollope - Doctor Thorne

Welcome everyone to Patrick's Challenge! It will be a wonderful year for reading next year.

what a list
let's see how much i can read 😝

2025 Giants of Literature - To Read
🟦Currently reading ✅Finished
2/3 I'll probably add more
��1. Jane Austen - The Annotated Sense and Sensibility
��1a Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice.
🟦Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov


__________________________________________________
Finished 7 authors and 11 books in 2024
2024 Giants of Literature - To Read
��1. Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders
��2. Anthony Trollope - Miss Mackenzie 1/10/24
��2a Anthony Trollope - Linda Tressel
��2b Anthony Trollope - Nina Balatka
��2c Anthony Trollope - Rachel Ray
��3. James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
4. L.P. Hartley - The Go-Between
��5. D.H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
��5b. D.H. Lawrence - Women in Love
6. Jane Austen - Emma (reread)
��7. Henry James - Portrait of a Lady [I think he's a Giant of literature, even though he's not on the list.]
��8. Honore de Balzac - Letters of Two Brides
��9. Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days


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Finished 15 authors - October 26, 2023
+ 1 more = 16 authors 12/23

��1. Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
��2. Jack London - The Call of the Wild
��3. William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
��4. Thomas Mann - Death in Venice 9/29/23
��5. Mark Twain - The Innocents Abroad
��6. Edith Wharton - The Custom of the Country 3/19/23
��7. George Eliot - Adam Bede
��8. John Galsworthy - On Forsyte 'Change
��9. Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
��10. George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
��11. Honore de Balzac - The Ball At Sceaux
��11a. Honore de Balzac - At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
��11b. Honore de Balzac - The Red Inn
��12. W. Somerset Maugham - Cakes and Ale
��13. Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
��14. Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart
��15. Book of choice: Henry James - The Europeans
��16. J.R.R. Tolkien - J.R.R. Tolkien

I am saving my spot and will come back later to winnow this list down since I'm not planning to read all 75 authors.

partly winnowed down, but I will be removing more since there are still some authors I don't like, might not want to read at this time or might not want to reread.

I'll try for six but am leaving all of the names I have left for now

9/6

🥁 Read a book by Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice
🥁 Read a book by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird
Read a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Read a book by Truman Capote.
🥁 Read a book by Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea
Read a book by Aldous Huxley.
Read a book by Dodie Smith.
Read a book by Charlotte Bronte.

Read a book by Jack London.
Read a book by John Wyndham.
Read a book by Herman Melville.
Read a book by C. S. Lewis.
Read a book by Elizabeth Bowen.
Read a book by L. P. Hartley.
Read a book by Ken Kesey.
Read a book by George Orwell.
Read a book by Thomas Mann.

Read a book by Bram Stoker.
Read a book by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Read a book by Mark Twain.
🥁 Read a book by Charles Dickens. Hard Times
Read a book by Joseph Heller.
Read a book by Edith Wharton.
Read a book by George Eliot.
Read a book by Homer.
Read a book by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Read a book by Evelyn Waugh.

Read a book by Lewis Carroll.
🥁 Read a book by Anthony Trollope. Barchester Towers finished in July
Read a book by James Baldwin.
Read a book by Victor Hugo.
Read a book by Roald Dahl.
Read a book by S. E. Hinton.
Read a book by Alexandre Dumas.
Read a book by James Joyce.

🥁 Read a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden
Read a book by Alessandro Manzoni.
Read a book by Ayn Rand.
Read a book by H. G. Wells.
Read a book by Sun-Tzu.
Read a book by John Galsworthy.
Read a book by Henry Miller.
Read a book by D. H. Lawrence.
Read a book by Kenneth Grahame.
Read a book by Willa Cather.
Read a book by Emily Bronte.

Read a book by Somerset Maugham.
Read a book by Honore de Balzac.
Read a book by Louisa May Alcott.
Read a book by Robert Pirsig.

Read a book by Robert Graves.
Read a book by J. M. Barrie.
Read a book by Joseph Conrad.
Read a book by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Read a book by Mario Puzo.

Read a book by Ray Bradbury.
🥁 Read a book by Jules Verne. Around the World in Eighty Days
🥁 Read a book by Beatrix Potter. read 2 collections, Giant Treasury of Beatrix Potter and The Beatrix Potter Treasury
Read a book by Isaac Asimov.
🥁 Read a book of your choice. Native Son

ill try for 20

Relying on Rosemarie's advice I will be reading Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves this year or next.

The remaining three authors (Alexandre Dumas, Sun-Tzu and Isaac Asimov) I don't think will thrill me. I feel kind of bad about not reading Dumas, but I have read books about him. If I am making a huge mistake please explain why somebody. You see......I don't really go for Dickens either, and I have tried many! I'll choose Trollope any day over Dickens!

Wow! I'll give this a try and do one a month.

Saving a spot! There's not a single author on this list that I wouldn't want to read.

I'll try for 12

I will try for 11
If anyone would like to Twin read any of these books friend and message me.
Read a book by:

Aldous Huxley or

Thomas Hardy

Pearl S BuckPearl S. Buck

Robert Penn Warren

Victor Hugo

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

J.D. Salinger

George Orwell

Daphne du Maurier

Honoré de Balzac

Mary Renault The King Must Die

Charles Dickens Hard Times Finished March 2023

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The Last Man Finished March 2023

Fyodor Dostoevsky Finished Jan 2023

I’ll aim for 12, a mixture of favourites, new reads & some that I need to reread.

Jane Austen. Mansfield Park
Harper Lee. Go Set a Watchman
🔹F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tales of the Jazz Age
Charlotte Bronte.
🔹Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment
Jack London.
John Wyndham.
C. S. Lewis.
Virginia Woolf.
🔹Thomas Hardy. The Woodlanders
Mary Shelley.
George Orwell.
Thomas Mann. Buddenbrooks
John Steinbeck.
J. R. R. Tolkien.
Mark Twain.
🔹Charles Dickens. Hard Times
🔹Edith Wharton. The Glimpses of the Moon
George Eliot.
Anthony Trollope.
🔹Victor Hugo. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
S. E. Hinton.
Alexandre Dumas.
James Joyce. Dubliners?
Read a book by Vladimir Nabokov.
Read a book by Leo Tolstoy.
Read a book by H. G. Wells.
Willa Cather.
Read a book by Emily Bronte.
🔹Honore de Balzac. The Black Sheep
Read a book by Louisa May Alcott.
Read a book by Joseph Conrad.
Elizabeth Gaskell.
Read a book by Jules Verne.
Read a book by Oscar Wilde.
Read a book by Beatrix Potter.
Read a book by Edgar Allan Poe.

I have read many authors from the list. Those I haven't read yet will try to read atleast one book from each of them. This list is quite interesting so saving it for future purpose.

Read a book by Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
Read a book by Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle
Read a book by John Wyndham
Read a book by Herman Melville.
Read a book by C. S. Lewis.
Read a book by Thomas Hardy.
Read a book by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Read a book by L. P. Hartley.
Read a book by Ken Kesey.
Read a book by Thomas Mann.
Read a book by Bram Stoker.
Read a book by Mark Twain.
Read a book by George Eliot.
Read a book by Homer.
Read a book by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Read a book by Evelyn Waugh.
Read a book by Anthony Trollope.
Read a book by James Baldwin.
Read a book by Victor Hugo.
Read a book by Alexandre Dumas.
Read a book by James Joyce.
Read a book by Alessandro Manzoni.
Read a book by John Galsworthy.
Read a book by Henry Miller.
Read a book by Kenneth Grahame.
Read a book by Willa Cather.
Read a book by Somerset Maugham.
Read a book by Honore de Balzac.
Read a book by Robert Pirsig.
Read a book by Robert Graves.
Read a book by Mario Puzo.
Read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Read a book by Jules Verne.
Read a book by Beatrix Potter

Will decide books by remaining authors as I read by.

Well, I'm not as ambitious as most of y'all (or is that just more realistic :-) ), so I'm going to shoot for 6. I have no idea *which* 6; I'll just see how the whim takes me.

Read a book by Jane Austen.
Read a book by Harper Lee.
Read a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Read a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Read a book by Truman Capote.
Read a book by Jean Rhys.
Read a book by Aldous Huxley.
Read a book by Dodie Smith.
Read a book by Charlotte Bronte.
Read a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Read a book by Jack London.
Read a book by John Wyndham.
Read a book by Herman Melville.
Read a book by C. S. Lewis.
Read a book by Virginia Woolf.
Read a book by Elizabeth Bowen.
Read a book by Thomas Hardy.
Read a book by Mary Shelley.
Read a book by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Read a book by L. P. Hartley.
Read a book by Ken Kesey.
Read a book by George Orwell.
Read a book by Thomas Mann.
Read a book by John Steinbeck.
Read a book by Bram Stoker.
Read a book by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Read a book by Mark Twain.
Read a book by Charles Dickens.
Read a book by Joseph Heller.
Read a book by Edith Wharton.
Read a book by George Eliot.
Read a book by Homer.
Read a book by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Read a book by Evelyn Waugh.
Read a book by J. D. Salinger.
Read a book by Lewis Carroll.
Read a book by Anthony Trollope.
Read a book by James Baldwin.
Read a book by Victor Hugo.
Read a book by Roald Dahl.
Read a book by S. E. Hinton.
Read a book by Alexandre Dumas.
Read a book by James Joyce.
Read a book by Vladimir Nabokov.
Read a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Read a book by Leo Tolstoy.
Read a book by Alessandro Manzoni.
Read a book by Ayn Rand.
Read a book by H. G. Wells.
Read a book by Sun-Tzu.
Read a book by John Galsworthy.
Read a book by Henry Miller.
Read a book by D. H. Lawrence.
Read a book by Kenneth Grahame.
Read a book by Willa Cather.
Read a book by Emily Bronte.
Read a book by Somerset Maugham.
Read a book by Honore de Balzac.
Read a book by Kurt Vonnegut.
Read a book by Louisa May Alcott.
Read a book by Robert Pirsig.
Read a book by Franz Kafka.
Read a book by Robert Graves.
Read a book by J. M. Barrie.
Read a book by Joseph Conrad.
Read a book by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Read a book by Mario Puzo.
Read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Read a book by Ray Bradbury.
Read a book by Jules Verne.
Read a book by Oscar Wilde.
Read a book by Beatrix Potter.
Read a book by Edgar Allan Poe.
Read a book by Isaac Asimov.
Read a book of your choice.

Hello people! This is my first joining a only classics challenge. I think I could read 9 of them, due to other challenges I'm already in. They will be: Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Brönte, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, J. R. R. Tolkien, Homer, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Welcome everyone!

I like how there are different approaches to this challenge.
Honest committments are hard to determine, my eyes are usually many steps larger than reality.

I’m planning on reading 10.
Completed: 6/10
*- Currently Reading

*1. Gabriel García Márquez- Finish One Hundred Years of Solitude
��2. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, After the Fireworks
*4. Thomas Mann - Finish The Magic Mountain
*5. Alexandre Dumas - Finish The Count of Monte Cristo
��6.H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
��7. Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
��8. S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
��9. Kenneth Grahame - The Reluctant Dragon
��10. Author of choice: Arthur C Clarke - Dolphin Island and Rendezvous with Rama

Some maybes:

*Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Willa Cather - O Pioneers!
Ayn Rand - We the Living
Vladimir Nabokov
author:Franz Kafka|5223] - The Trial, The Castle

I'll try reading 12 of these!

�� Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle
�� Jane Austen: Emma
F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
C.S. Lewis: The Horse and His Boy
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
J.R.R. Tolkein: The Hobbit
Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
H.G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Isaac Asimov: Foundation

This will be the first time I read any large works by Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, J.R.R. Tolkein, Emily Bronte, and Kurt Vonnegut.

A really nice list of Classics Marissa!

Ooh I like the list! Wish I could read one or two authors each month but I think I'll be too busy in 2023 so I'll go for 9, nice, non-threatening one-digit 😂

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Homer: The Iliad
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lolita's a favorite of mine! Such great writing! Enjoy.

Chrissie wrote: "Lolita's a favorite of mine! Such great writing! Enjoy."

I liked more Laughter in the Dark.

Hi, Marissa! I'm so happy to see Wuthering Heights on your list, I just finished it in November and it went straight to my favorite shelf! Emily Brontë's writing got me out of a 5-year long reading slump 😳💖

Chrissie wrote: "Lolita's a favorite of mine! Such great writing! Enjoy."

I love those opening lines in chapter one, creepy and brilliant right from the start! 😂

����� wrote: "I liked more Laughter in the Dark."

I'll definitely need to check it out *puts it on the growing to-read list*

Chrissie wrote: "Lolita's a favorite of mine! Such great writing! Enjoy."

Well I gave Laughter in the Dark four rather then five stars. I am also partial to long over short novels. I do agree it was very good but for me the wordplay, which I love, didn't hit me as being equally strong.

Meow, aren't you new to the group? I have not been a member very long either. Welcome.....if you are new that is!

Chrissie wrote: "Meow, aren't you new to the group? I have not been a member very long either. Welcome.....if you are new that is!"

Yes, I'm new to both the group and ŷ������. Still confused about how things work most of the time. Nice to meet you 😳

MeowReads wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Meow, aren't you new to the group? I have not been a member very long either. Welcome.....if you are new that is!"

Yes, I'm new to both the group and ŷ������. Still confused abo..."

I get annoyed at Amazon, but the people at GR make the site wonderful. Personally, I am a fan of classics so this particular group fits me to a T.

Chrissie wrote: "I get annoyed at Amazon, but the people at GR make the site wonderful. Personally, I am a fan of classics so this particular group fits me to a T."

Thank you for accepting my friend request! 😳 GR is so much fun because of the people here. I've been enjoying reading discussions and reviews about the books I'm interested in (especially the 1-2 stars ones lol)

Great list, and I'd like to play. I'm not even going to try to plan anything right now, though!