2021 Classics Challenge

[Rach , Moderator]

Many have asked about what a "classic" is and what is classified as a classic or not: a Classic novel is one in which that is note-worthy, well-known and exemplary. There are many ways to classify one, one by the book, one by the author... it just depends on what you are looking at. They are widely recognized as a classic as they are timeless, taught through the years and are essentials in that median.

Here are a few lists in which you can scroll through and see if you can pull a few books from!

Required Reading for High School
- I know it is for high schoolers, but most and a lot of these books are the top classified classic novels.

Popular Classics
- More of a wider genre of classics

Stages
Please pick from a stage, you can edit as you read more!

Stage One
Read 1-5 classic books

Stage Two
Read 6-10 classic books

Stage Three
Read 11-15 classic books

Stage Four
Read 16- 20 classic books

Stage Five
Read 21-25 classic books

Stage Six
Read 26-30 classic books

Stage Seven
Read 30 books and more.

Rules
If you are/were within 50 pages of completion on January 1st, 2019, the books is all game!
You can use classics for other challenges! So yes - double up on books!

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Duration
January 1st, 2021 through January 1st, 2022

[Rach , Moderator]

I am in! Going for stage 2!

[amber]

I'll start with stage one.

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2021 Classic Challenge
1st January 2021 ~ 1st January 2022

Stage 1

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[Margot]

Stage 1

[Lois]

Stage 1

[Anna]

I'm in and going for stage 2.

1) Emily Bronte: Sturmhöhe
2) A. A. Milne: Pu der Bär
3) E.T.A. Hoffmann: Der Sandmann
4) Erich Kästner: Das doppelte Lottchen
5) Adalbert Stifter: Bunte Steine: Ein Festgeschenk
6) Georg Büchner: Woyzeck

[Lee at ReadWriteWish]

Stage One for now please

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[CJ]

Stage 5 completed 12/30/21

1. Jane Eyre
2. Moonstone
3. Great Expectations
4. Silas Marner
5. Hound of the Baskervilles
6. 1984
7. Peter Pan
8. Animal Farm
9. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
10. A Little Princess
11. Wide Sargasso Sea
12. Black Skin White Masks
13. The Call of the Wild
14. The Handmaid’s Tale
15. The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
16. Frankenstein
17. Black Beauty
18. Prince Caspian
19. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
20. The Silver Chair
21. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[Jo]

Stage 1:
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[Linda]

Stage 2

★ - this means I'm currently reading it
✔ - this means I finished reading the book

✔ 1. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison

✔ 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude,by Gabriel García Márquez

✔ 3. Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

✔ 4. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass

✔ 5. Persuasion, by Jane Austen

✔ 6. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

★ 7. The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso , by Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (Translator)

[Jane]

I'm in with stage 3