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That's ok Doris, even if you take five at first that's fine too.

So exciting! I'd already planned to read "The Idiot" this year, and I plan to include at least 4 more authors from this list. I'm upping my goal again this year to 40 books. I started with 24 books two years ago, 36 last year, and 40 for the coming year. I've really increased my reading and found such enjoyment from it. Wish I had found Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ a long time ago. So many books and so much time wasted!

That's great Karen!! I plan on reading more this year too!

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

Jane Austen.
Harper Lee. Go Set a Watchman
Charlotte Bronte.
Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and P..."</i>

I really like the book [book:Hard Times . Would love to discuss it with you when you decide to read it.

Pam wrote: "11. Author of choice: Daphne du Maurier - The King's General, Julius


I have this book on my shelf. When you decide to read it (after April please) let me know, and I will read it with you.

I'll aim for 18, but it may be more like 15.

Aldous Huxley, Those Barren Leaves
Dodie Smith, The Town in Bloom
Charlotte Bronte, Villette
Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies
X Mikhail Bulgakov, The Life of Monsieur de Molière
L.P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda
Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks
Bram Stoker, Dracula
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Anthony Trollope, The West Indies and the Spanish Main
Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Alessandro Manzoni, On the Historical Novel
Honore de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

Pat the Book Goblin wrote: "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 ..."
Hello and Happy New Year.
I am new to this group and it is lovely to be part of a community of likeminded folks. I have read quite a few of these authors in 2022 itself, but I am planning to read the following this year.

1. Jane Austen - Emma
2. Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez -One Hundred Years of Solitude
5. Charlotte Bronte - Villette
6. Fyodor Dostoevsky -The Brothers Karamazov
7. Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd
8. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
9. Ken Kesey -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
10. Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
11. John Steinbeck - East of Eden
12. Bram Stoker - Dracula
13. George Eliot - Middlemarch
14. J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
15. James Baldwin -Go Tell It on the Mountain
16. S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders
17. Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage
18. Honore de Balzac - Old Man Goriot
19. Franz Kafka - The Trial
20. Ray Bradbury - Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury

Hi, Kushagri! Welcome to the group!

Great list!

I’d like to join the challenge. Don’t have anything planned yet. But I’ll aim for 6 this year.

A great idea :) But I will try to read at least 10.

1. Bram Stoker: Dracula - 11 Jan
2. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Mar 04
3. Mikhail Bulgakov: Heart of a Dog - Apr 12
4. Jack London: A Thousand Deaths - May 06
5. Isaac Asimov: Robot Dreams - May 09
6. Isaac Asimov: Robot Visions - May 16
7. Isaac Asimov: The Naked Sun - May 30
8. Leo Tolstoy: How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Jul 17
9. Jack London: To Build a Fire - Jul 25
10. Jack London: White Fang - Aug 11
11. Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from Underground - Sep 10
12. Ray Bradbury - Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You - Sep 28
13. Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man - Oct 01

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Hello!

I'd like to start with a doable number of 13.
Status - 1/13

1. Read a book by Jane Austen - Completed
Northanger Abbey
2. Read a book by Jean Rhys.
Voyage in the Dark
3. Read a book by Virginia Woolf.
Orlando
4. Read a book by Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein
5. Read a book by George Orwell.
Books v. Cigarettes
6. Read a book by John Steinbeck.
Of Mice and Men
7. Read a book by Evelyn Waugh.
Brideshead Revisited
8. Read a book by Vladimir Nabokov.
Speak, Memory
9. Read a book by D. H. Lawrence.
Sons and Lovers
10. Read a book by Somerset Maugham.
Creatures Of Circumstance
11. Read a book by Kurt Vonnegut.
Breakfast of Champions
12. Read a book by J. M. Barrie.
Peter Pan
13. Read a book by Ray Bradbury.
Farenheit 451

What a wonderful list! And an incentive to finally read some of the authors that are on my TBR bookshelf. I'm going to aim for 25.

Good afternoon,

I love this, the challenge of all challenges!

Just finished The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Next up is Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Happy Reading!

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Read a book by Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey

1/12

Hello everyone �

Just finished reading Vanity Fair �

10. Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. William Makepeace Thackeray

Happy reading!

Just found your group and would love to join in. My goal is 40 classics for this year and I will choose them as I go and record them here. Thanks for the great list!

Progress: 5/40

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:
The Call of the Wild 1/25/23
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Read a book by Thomas Hardy.
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Read a book by L. P. Hartley.
Read a book by Ken Kesey.
*Read a book by George Orwell
Animal Farm 1/31/23
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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.
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Read a book by John Galsworthy.
Read a book by Henry Miller.
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Read a book by Kenneth Grahame.
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Read a book by Somerset Maugham.
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Read a book by Kurt Vonnegut.
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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
Peter Pan 2/5/23
Read a book by Joseph Conrad.
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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
The Tell-Tale Heart 1/20/23
Read a book by Isaac Asimov.
*Read a book of your choice:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1/20/23
Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery 1/29/23
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder 2/4/23

Good to have you with us, KC!

Hello everyone �

Just finished The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton �

Year to date:

10) Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Possessed
30) Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
33) William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Happy Reading!

Bonita

1. Edgar Allan Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum

Welcome everyone! What a great start that some of you have already!

2. Read a book by Elizabeth Gaskell.
North and South

2/12

Hello everyone �

Just finished reading Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck �

Year to date:

10). Fyodor Dostoevsky- The Possessed
24). John Steinbeck - Cup of Gold
30). Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
33). William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Happy reading!

Bonita

Hello everyone �

Year to date:

10). Fyodor Dostoevsky- The Possessed
18). Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
24). John Steinbeck - Cup of Gold
30). Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
33). William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Happy reading!

Bonita

Hello everyone �

Adding another author to my list:

40). Roald Dahl - Skin and Other Stories

Happy Reading!

Bonita

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Read a book of your choice
Du côté de chez Swann (Swann's way) by Marcel Proust. I think Proust can be counted as a Giant of Literature.

3/12

Read a book by Alexandre Dumas. La Reine Margot

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Read a book by Jane Austen.
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Read a book by Jean Rhys : La prisonnière des Sargasses
Read a book by Virginia Woolf : Mrs Dalloway

6/12

I started reading The Idiot today. Long book with small print! I'm only into it 50 pages; but, so far so good.

Read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn : Une journée d'Ivan Dennissovitch

7/12

I'm almost finished with Part I of The Idiot. It was slow starting, but I'm beginning to be really into it. I'm reading it with two other friends, neither of whom are in goodreads--one of them is Russian. I like being able to discuss this book with others also reading it.

Lorraine wrote: "Read a book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn : Une journée d'Ivan Dennissovitch

I read that book in English several years ago. I really liked it. Hope you did, too.

7/12"

Abyssdancer (Hanging in there!) wrote: "Hello everyone �

Just finished The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton �

Year to date:

10) Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Possessed
30) Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
33) William Makepeace Thackeray -..."

How did you like The House of Mirth? It's on my TBR list.

I love this challenge. Going for at least half.

What I've read so far (6):
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Roald Dahl - The Gremlins (and all the rest of his works)
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy
H. G. Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
Kenneth Grahame - The Reluctant Dragon
Beatrix Potter - Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Modern library classics


Read a book by Honore de Balzac. - in progress Honoré de Balzac: The Complete 'Human Comedy' Cycle (100+ Works) (Manor Books)

I'm beginning Part III of The Idiot

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Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

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I have read these:

Charles Dickens Hard Times Finished March 2023

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The Last Man Finished March 2023

Fyodor Dostoevsky Finished Jan 2023

Post #3

3. Souls Belated by Edith Wharton

Good luck! Happy reading!!

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4. Silas Marner by George Eliot

Read a book by Elizabeth Bowen. To the North
8/12

Read a book by Franz Kafka. Le château (The Castle)
9/12

I'm on the last 100 pages of The Idiot.

Read a book by Anthony Trollope. Can you forgive her?
10/12

Read a book by Jules Verne. Vingt mille lieues sous les mers.
11/12

This year I've re-read a Melville (Moby-Dick or, the Whale), read a Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo) and a Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), and I've started a Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov).

I've never read 75 books in a year and I'm not formally doing the challenge, but for this year I do have my eye on Gabriel Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Ms. Woolf (Orlando), Austen (Lady Susan), maybe a few others.

I’m glad everyone is enjoying their books!

Read a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "L'incroyable et triste histoire de la candide Erendira et de sa grand-mère diabolique."

12/12
I liked this challenge. It made me discovered some authors. Thank you to the moderator.

Karen wrote: "Abyssdancer (Hanging in there!) wrote: "Hello everyone �

Just finished The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton �

Year to date:

10) Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Possessed
30) Edith Wharton - The House of..."

How did you like The House of Mirth? It's also on my TBR list

The Brothers Karamazov is my all-time favourite! If I were marooned on an island, I'd want to have that book with me.