How Many Classics in a Year?

[Jojobean, Bookworm Challenger]

How Many Classics in a Year?
Jan 1, 2015- Dec 31, 2015

This challenge is all about the classics books. Just pick as many classics you want to read and see how many of them you can read in a year!

Helpful Links to choose your classics
Must Read Classics
Classics Book Lists
The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list
The Big Book List

Happy Reading!

[Jojobean, Bookworm Challenger]

Participants

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Diane L (Evana)

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I'll join in for this one! I'd really like to read one classic each month in 2015.


How Many Classics in a Year? Challenge
Duration: Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2015
Completed: 1/12



1. Great Expectations
✔ 2. Slaughterhouse-Five - finished on 01/10/15
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[Diane L]

I'd like to read 20 classics this year.

How Many Classics in a Year? Challenge
Duration: Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2015
Completed: 23/20

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, 14 Jan 15
2. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 18 Jan 15
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 7 Feb 15
4. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, 27 Feb 15
5. Kim by Rudyard Kipling, 15 Mar 15
6. The Odyssey by Homer, 23 Apr 2015
7. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 10 May 15
8. The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly, 29 Jul 2015
9. Persuasion by Jane Austen, 17 Aug 15
10. Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs, 8 Sep 2015
11. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 18 Sep 2015
12. Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker, 23 Sep 2015
13. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, 28 Sep 2015
14. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, 6 Oct 2015
15. Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery, 12 Oct 2015
16. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 29 Oct 2015
17. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 14 Nov 2015
18. Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton, 29 Nov 2015
19. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, 29 Nov 2015
20. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, 7 Dec 2015
21. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, 8 Dec 2015
22. The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong, 19 Dec 2015
23. No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton, 27 Dec 2015