Nancy's Challenge Buffet # 1, #3, and #5

[Nancy (Colorado)]

Only six of the 12 books selected are required be Classics based on the Groups definitions, they do not have to come from the groups bookshelf. At least 3 books from the Old School category (published before 1900) and 3 books from the New School category (published between 1900 & 1999). The other six and your three alternates can be any genre or age you wish to read, yes even post 2000.

[Nancy (Colorado)]

1899 and earlier/Old School:
Great Expectations
The Prince and the Pauper
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

1900 and Later/New School:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 7/25/22
The Secret History

The Other Six:
The Thorn Birds 5/9/22
Cold Comfort Farm
Tender Is the Night
Romeo and Juliet 7/31/22
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone 7/20/22
Of Mice and Men-06/01/22

The Alternates:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Martian Chronicles
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

The Decade Challenge: Read 10 books from any 10 consecutive years (1 book per year). The authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you. Or you can add a level of difficulty to your challenge by selecting only authors you've never read before.

1960- Green Eggs and Ham-1/2/22
1961- The Winter of Our Discontent- 3/6/22
1962- In the Clearing- 3/29/22
1963- The Bell Jar- 1/9/22
1964- The Giving Tree- 1/12/22
1965- Dune
1966- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
1967- Rosemary's Baby-3/9/22
1968- A Wizard of Earthsea
1969- Slaughterhouse-Five

Challenge#5- Short Story Challenge

1. A Christmas Tree: by Charles Dickens 1/1/22
2. The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems 1/1/22
3. Carmilla 1/3/22
4. The Goblin Market and Other Poems 2/4/22
5. The Country of the Blind 2/5/22
6. Letters to a Young Poet
7. The Little Prince
8. The Tell-Tale Heart
9. Babette’s Feast
10. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
11. Of Mice and Men
12. Uncle Vanya
13. The Gold-Bug
14. Gooseberries
15. A Modest Proposal
16. The Magic Shop
17. The Devil and Tom Walker
16. The Misanthrope
17.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
18. The Happy Prince
19. The Turn of the Screw
20. Berenice

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Would you be willing to put all of your challenges into one thread?

[Nancy (Colorado)]

I can try

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Nancy (Colorado) wrote: "I can try"

Thank you

[Nancy (Colorado)]

Not a problem!