1st Quarter - Must Read Books

[Jennifer]

Update msg 9

1/3

[Lindsay]

Update msg 3

3/3 completed

[Julie]

I'm in. I've read 3 so far. I'll say 7 and see what happens.

3/7

1. The Fall of the House of Usher
2.The Purloined Letter
3.1984

[Paula]

Three for me please!

Running Total: 0/3

1. Burmese Days by George Orwell (13/02/18)
2.
3.

[JoJo]

1984 by George Orwell

2/3

[Vikki-Booksie]

I’ll be joining with 3. First 2 decided will come back for me third

Gone with the wind
Life of Pi

For my third Far From The Madding Crowd

[Ilona]

Updated message 16

I read The Picture of Dorian Gray this month

1/2

[Krystsina]

Update message 91: 1/7

[Margie]

Updated message 18: 1/2

In January I read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Now to make some progress on The Count of Monte Cristo.

[Diane]

Put me down for 3! I'll add the titles later.

[Jennifer]

Updated message 128
2/4
Things Fall Apart

[L A i N E Y (will be back)]

Update #50

I’ll be raising my goal from 2 to 4 books. Fingers-crossed!

Mindy, good luck with Middlemarch! Are you enjoying it? I haven’t read anything by George Eliot (yet), which one do you think is the easiest to initiate me, so to speak? :)

Read 1/4
Sense and Sensibility

[Becky]

Updated message 45

3/4

Thanks!!

[Diane]

Diane wrote: "Put me down for 3! I'll add the titles later."

❌Goal: 1/3

1. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
2. xx
3. xx

[Winter, Group Reads]

Can you change my goal to 3 Mindy ? I ended up reading more fantasy and less classics than planned :)

[Mary]

I'm reading 2 books from the list: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and Crime and Punishment

[Susan]

4. Pippi Longstocking

4/5 finished

[Clare]

Updated message 117
2/3

[Clare]

Margie wrote: "Updated message 18: 1/2

In January I read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Now to make some progress on The Count of Monte Cristo."

Hope you're making better progress with the Count than I am

[Rachael]

Updated message 17: 1/3

[Heather]

A bit late joining this challenge, but a lot of these are on my TBR list.
I'll try to finish 6 by March 31 (titles TBD).

1) The Robber Bride
2) The War of the Worlds
3) The Yellow Wallpaper
4) Ethan Frome
5) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6) Notes from Underground

[Kade]

First time
Doing this

I'm going to try for ten.

1). The little prince
2). Lolita
2). One flew over the cuckoos nest
The shining
Never let me go
The virgin suicides
The hours
Veronica decides to die
Trainspotting
Junky by william s Burroughs

[Katya]

Fun! I'm going to try for three.

1.) Great Expectations
2.) Love in the Time of Cholera
3.) A Prayer for Owen Meany

[Jennifer]

update message 9

finished 1/3

Gone With The Wind

[Kacey]

I'll try for 2.

1:
2:

[Aisha]

I'll read 7!

The Godfather
To Kill a Mockingbird
If Not Now, When?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Shining
The Color Purple
Notes from Underground

[Ranmali]

Completed 1/2

1. Love in the Time of Cholera

[Mindy]

Lindsay is our second finisher. Nicely done!

I've upped my own goal since I found Yellow Wallpaper was on the list. :-) Read it without realizing.

Lainey -- I am LOVING Middlemarch! I wasn't sure I was going to since it has a reputation for being a slog, but I don't agree. It is charming. If you like Jane Austen, I think you'll like Eliot. I'm no help with what's easiest to start with because Middlemarch is my first of hers. I do highly recommend the Serial Reader app, though. I've used it for several classics including Les Miserables and I'm reading Middlemarch on it. It breaks books down into daily chunks and is very positive and fun. I like Middlemarch so much that I also bought the Penguin Classics Deluxe edition, though. haha

Winter -- LOL, you got it.

Katherine -- is your goal 60 books?

[Jennifer]

Updated message 128.
3/4
Wide Sargasso Sea

[Jill]

Updated message # 22

Completed: 2/3

1. Anna Karenina...Finished 1/18/18
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray...Finished 2/5/18

[Dania]

It's a bit halfway through the first quarter, but I'd like to join for 3 books!

I've read The Picture of Dorian Gray in January but I'm just joining this today, so I'm wondering if it counts?

Edit: It counts!
Completed: 1/3

1. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray - 15.01.2018

[Mindy]

Dania, welcome! You can definitely count Dorian Gray. :-)

[Dania]

Mindy wrote: "Dania, welcome! You can definitely count Dorian Gray. :-)"

Thank you Mindy!

[[deleted user]]

Message #13 update!

1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 08.02.2018 ★★★★☆

1/3

[Abhi]

Quarterly Challenge:

Update!!

1/2

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ✔️


Just finished reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for the Quarterly Challenge and now I know why Jane Austen is revered so much. For her sheer class in writing style and how ahead she was in her time. A classic novel to the core.

[Katie]

Update for message 131: 2/3 complete

[Margie]

Updated message #18. I finished my two books and am updating goal to 3.

[Tahera]

Update msg#15: 1/2
Completed Mansfield Park

[Elena]

Just joined this group but I'm up for the challenge. I've already read a few items from this list (this year) interspersed with other books. I've just finished the Woman in White (Wonderful book - read it!) and a couple of others so I'll list them below.

I'll try for 15 by the end of March!

Read
1) Fear & Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
2) The Godfather - Mario Puzo
3) 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clark
4) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
5) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
6) Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
7) The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
8) The Trial - Franz Kafka
9) Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
10) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
11) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Currently Reading
12) The Awakening - Kate Chopin

[Heather]

updated msg 177 - 1/6 complete

[Michelle]

Alrighty, I'm going to try for 5, but might only get 4 done since I am joining so late. I've read some of these already and am trying not to do any rereads, but there are quite a few on this list that I have not read. Some are even on my other challenge's list already.
1. The Little Prince ~ Finished 2-18-18
2. The Handmaid's Tale ~ Finished 2-20-18
3. Catch-22 ~ Finished 3-7-18
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's ~ Finished 2-6-18
5. The Woman in White - Finished 2-25-18

[Amanda]

updated message 2
1/3

1. The Hobbit

[Lynnette]

I'm going to aim for 3

1.
2.
3.

[Lucian]

Aight, let's try this! New around, so hopefully will be able to get it done (it's midway through the quarter already).

Will aim to get 3 completed:
1. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
2. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

[[deleted user]]

Oh, can't believe I didn't see this challenge before now.

I've quite a few classics (old and modern) I want to tick off my list so I'm going to aim for 3 too.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier ✔️
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. (DNF) I tried to like this one as I've liked other Gaskell novels but this was a slog, and it felt like it was trying to hard to be Pride and Prejudice.

Edit: only managed Rebecca. I know it is not the 31st when I am typing this but between the two books I'm currently reading, there is no way I'll get to the Handmaid's Tale. Oh well.

[Mindy]

Yay, welcome to the new folks who have accepted this challenge.

I had to set aside Secret History so I could finish my RL book club book, but I'll get back to it and get finished in time. I love it. Middlemarch also continues to be great and I'll get it read, too.

Anybody read The Golden Notebook? I am finding it to be a real slog and might abandon it soon.

[Celia]

I will go for 2. still unsure of which 2...

[[deleted user]]

Message #13 update!

3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 19.02.2018 ★★★★☆

2/3

[Kimberly]

updated message 21

3/7

[Frida]

I wanna read 3.
1. Picture of Dorian Gray

1/3