2017 Classics challenge

[Blueberry]

Thanks. I thought i just needed to sign up on the thread and count myself. I'm now officially signed up on top of threads. Great how it will count it for you.

[Shannan Lee]

I just signed up for the challenge. I think I put 12 but I know that I will surpass that. I am trying to keep it low because some of the books are chunksters. I currently reading The Woman and White, Nicholas Nickelby, The Haunting at Hill House, Can You Forgive Her, Little Men and Turn of the Screw

[Nina]

How is everyone doing with one month left in the challenge?

[Meghan]

I'm on book 11 of 12. It's been a mad dash to finish but I think it's going to happen!

[Dj]

Nina wrote: "How is everyone doing with one month left in the challenge?"
Its been an intense year at work, so most of my reading was shorter books including Anton Chekov's plays and Agatha Christie and now Raymond Chandler's page turners.
They do technically qualify as classics taking my tally to a decent 20 out of the 23 I've read this year so far. Would love to reach 25 classics by the year end including at least one Dostoyevsky and my first Virginia Woolf.
Other books read worth mentioning:
The Trial
Anthem
We
The Call of the Wild
I had planned to read One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, their crisp copies have been staring back from my bookshelf for the past 2 years, but i guess those will have to wait till 2018.

[Heather L]

I increased my goal a few months ago, and believe I have one more to go. Sadly, I have not been able to get to some of the longer books read in this group, but I have tried to do as many as I could. Sadly, I've had to set aside Mary Barton as it was too slow-going and I didn't want to spend an entire month on one novel. Since setting it aside I've managed to complete three or four other books. :-|

[Tania]

I finished my goal of 18 books when I finally finished Mary Barton. I also found it rather slow-going, I didn't find it as compelling as other books of hers I've read. Next year I'd like to carry on with the Barcetshire Chronicles by Trollope and finish off the Sherlock Holmes books.