RMFAO 2020 Classics Catchup

[Fran]

So, here's the catchup list for the year so far:

3.) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (AB) - Ernest Hemingway
4.) Endless Night (PB) - Agatha Christie
5.) The Haunting of Hill House (AB) - Shirley Jackson
6.) The Innocence of Father Brown (AB) - G. K. Chesterton
7.) Jane Eyre (AB) - Charlotte Bronte
8.) Candide (AB) - Voltaire
9.) Kidnapped (AB) - Robert Louis Stevenson
10.) The Razor's Edge (AB) - W. Somerset Maugham
11.) A Farewell to Arms (AB) - Ernest Hemingway
12.) The Glass Menagerie (PB) - Tennessee Williams

[Ashley]

4. Gulliver's Travels
5. The Time Machine/The Invisible Man
6. The Grapes of Wrath

[Fran]

13.) 1984 (AB) - George Orwell

[Cheryl]

19.) The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
4 stars

[Fran]

14.) Hamlet (AB) - William Shakespeare

[Cheryl]

20.) The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
5 stars. Such a fun book!

[Cheryl]

21.)The Kidnapped President by Guy Newell Boothby
2 stars

[Fran]

15.) The Swiss Family Robinson (AB) - Johann David Wyss

[Fran]

16.) The War of the Worlds (AB) - H.G. Wells

[Cheryl]

22.) Lady Susan by Jane Austen
3 stars

[Cheryl]

Dagny wrote: "#9 Le marquis de Villemer

Loved it! English translation coming soon to Project Gutenberg."

Dagny,

Thanks for telling us about the upcoming Project Gutenberg ebook. I will look and download it when it appears there.

[Cheryl]

Dagny wrote: "Wow, The Marquis de Villemer by George Sand is already up. That was so fast! This link should be good:
https://dev.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63083"

I have downloaded it! I will be reading it for September’s World Fiction challenge, as well as for the Classics Catch Up.

[Cheryl]

23.) First Love by Ivan Turgenev
3 stars

[Fran]

17.) Jude the Obscure (AB) - Thomas Hardy

[Cheryl]

24.) Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
3 stars

[Fran]

18.) The Woman in White (AB) - Wilkie Collins

[Fran]

19.) Things Fall Apart (AB) - Chinua Achebe

[Fran]

20.) The Horror in the Museum (PB) - H.P. Lovecraft

[Fran]

21.) The Halloween Tree (HB) - Ray Bradbury
22.) Far From the Madding Crowd (AB) - Thomas Hardy

[Fran]

23.) A Streetcar Named Desire (PB) - Tennessee Williams

[Fran]

24.) Howl and Other Poems (PB) - Allen Ginsberg
25.) The Prisoner of Zenda (AB) - Anthony Hope
26.) Antigone (PB) - Sophocles
27.) Barracoon (AB) - Zora Neale Hurston

[Cheryl]

25.) Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
4 stars

[Fran]

Dagny, I was hoping to complete 40 this year but.... haven't had much luck. Thanks for the encouragement. (And we both know what a blessing audio books are:)

[Fran]

28.) The ABC Murders (HB) - Agatha Christie

[Fran]

29.) The Collected Poems (PB) - Sylvia Plath

[Fran]

30.) Tender is the Night (AB) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
31.) Profiles in Courage (AB) - John F. Kennedy

[Cheryl]

26.) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
3 stars

[Fran]

32.) Anne of Green Gables (PB) - L. M. Montgomery
33.) Anne of Windy Poplars (AB) - L. M. Montgomery
34.) The Secret of the Old Clock (HB) - Carolyn Keene

[Heena]

Oh, no. I completely forgot to update my count for this challenge...

#10 The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson - 4/5
#11 Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis - 4/5
#12 The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson - 3/5
#13 Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway - 4/5
#14 The Woman in Black by Susan Hill - 5/5
#15 Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin - 4/5
#16 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 5/5
#17 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - 4/5
#18 Faust by Goethe - 4/5

It wasn't a good year for me for Classics as I wasn't able to read many, but some of the ones that I did read were pretty good!
I'm planning to read more in the next year.

[Fran]

35.) Barabbas (PB) - Par Lagerkvist
36.) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (AB) - Betty Smith

[Heena]

Dagny wrote: "It wasn't a good year for me and the classics either, Heena. I got caught up in other books and projects and barely have over one a month. You have read more classics than I have this year so your ..."

Let's hope we can make up for this year in 2021! :)

[Ashley]

7. A Christmas Carol
8. The Odyssey

[〰️Beth〰️]

Made it all the way through Don Quixote! The “mini adventures”did help to break it down into manageable sections.