2023 Lounge-wide Classics Challenge

[Werner]

Since our 2022 challenge (which still has about a week to go) has been a success, I thought it was time to post a similar thread for 2023! As before, to take part, just post a comment as your "tracking post." Then, starting on Jan. 1, just use the "edit" function to update it with a numbered list of each classic you read. (You can use the tracking posts in the 2022 thread, here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... , as an example of the idea.)

[Werner]

Werner's 2023 Tracking Post

1. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
2. Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
3. The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton.
4. Girls of Silver Spur Ranch by Grace MacGowan Cooke and Anne McQueen.
5. The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology by Snorri Sturluson.
6. Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
8. The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker
9. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
10. Fireside Book of Christmas Stories

[Cosmic]

Cosmic's 2023 Tracking Post

[Bionic Jean]

Jean's 2023 Tracking Post (books written pre-1950)

1. Ghosts And Scholars: Ghost Stories In The Tradition Of M.R. James edited by Rosemary Pardoe
2. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
3. The Twelve Dancing Princesses and other stories from Grimm's Fairy Tales
4. Thomas Hardy Pastoral Muse (poetry)
5. Best SF: Science Fiction Stories edited by Edmund Crispin
6. The Nicholas Thomas Story Book by Kitty Styles
7. The Life of Charles Dickens : Volume II by John Forster
8. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
9. Stories of Children from Dickens by Mary Angela Dickens

Added note:
(view spoiler)[This was tricky, as last year I added books when I had finished them, but this year my reviews got seriously behind. I have 3 or 4 more classics reviews to write, dating back several months. I thought quite a long time about whether to include these titles here, but decided it was best to keep it consistent with my record on GR's bookshelves.

Some people write "review to come" in the review space. However I've found that if I note a book as "read", I am likely to forget to review it, but if I keep it on my "currently reading" shelf at 99% (when I have actually finished reading it) I do get to review it eventually!

So if this thread is repeated in some form in 2024, I will add these as I review them. I do have to scroll through and remind myself a bit anyway!

Otherwise, I have not added short stories or essays unless they are in a collection, most of which are pre-1950. Nor have I added some children's books which could not be called "classics" even though the date fits.

I hope this is OK, and will try to be more diligent about it next year! This explanation is under a spoiler, as I appreciate that this is intended to be simply a list of books.

Edit: And now I look, I see that Werner has 9 entries too! Perhaps you made tricky decisions about short stories and "classic" status etc. in a similar way. (hide spoiler)]

[Reggia]

Reggia's 2023 Tracking Post

1. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
2. The Division and Method of the Sciences
3. Slaughterhouse-5
4. The Giver
5. All Quiet on the Western Front

[Donnally]

Donnally's 2023 tracking Post
1. The method of Archimedes, recently discovered by Heiberg; a supplement to the Works of Archimedes, 1897
2. The Philosophical Works Of Descartes Volume II
3. On Christian Doctrine by Augustine of Hippo
4. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
5. The Upanishads translated by Swami Nikhilananda
6. King Lear from The Riverside Shakespeare
7. Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
8. The Ethics: (Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata) Translated From The Latin By R. H. M. Elwes
9. Romeo and Juliet from The Riverside Shakespeare
10. A Doll House from The Complete Major Prose Plays
11. Elements of Chemistry
12. Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
13. Aristotles History of Animals in Ten Books
14. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
15. Philoctetes from Sophocles II: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes
16. "Joshua", "Judges", "Ruth", "1 Samuel", "2 Samuel", "1 Kings", "2 Kings", "1 Chronicles", "2 Chronicles", "Ezrah", "Nehemiah", "Esther", "Job", "Song of Solomon", "John", "Romans" & "1 Corinthians" in The Holy Bible: King James Version
17. "Parmenides" & "Lysis" in The Collected Dialogues
18. A Mathematician's Apology
19. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
20. The Analects of Confucius
21. Sappho
22. "The Suppliant Maidens" in Aeschylus II: The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Prometheus Bound
23. "On Memory and Reminiscence" in The Basic Works of Aristotle
24. Aristophanes: The Birds
25. Much Ado About Nothing from The Riverside Shakespeare
26. Civilization and Its Discontents
27. English Minor Poems from The Poems of John Milton.
28. "Peace" from Aristophanes: Clouds. Wasps. Peace (Loeb Classical Library No. 488) 1st edition by Aristophanes (1999) Hardcover
29. Mahabharata trans. Will Buck
30. The Bhagavad Gita
31. Tartuffe, by Moliere (By: Richard Wilbur) published: January, 1968
32. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
33. Emma by Jane Austen
34. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism & Notes
35. Ulysses
36. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

[Seth]

Seth’s 2023 tracking post

[JenniferAustin]

JenniferAustin's 2023 Tracking Post
Note to self: Cutoff is 1950

1. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (originally pub. 1889)
2. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (originally pub. 1934)
3. The Devil's Pool by George Sand (orig pub 1834)
4. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (org. pub. 1911)
5. The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel Inspector Hanaud #2 by A.E.W. Mason (orig. pub. 1917) Hanaud is reportedly one of the inspirations for Poirot!
6. The Hound of Death - an Agatha Christie Standalone Short Story by Agatha Christie Pub 1933)
7. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (orig. pub. Feb 1890)
8. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (pub. 1928)
9. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley (pub. 1941)
10. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (pub. 1937)
11. The Spike by George Orwell (pub. 1931)
12. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (1942)
13. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (1934)
14. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (1907)
15. The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut by Mark Twain (1877)
16. Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain (1895)
17. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850)
18. The Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair (1922)
19. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)
20. An Imaginative Woman by Thomas Hardy (1894)
21. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (1894)
22. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (1840)
23. Green for Danger by Christianna Brand (1944)
24. Seabird: A Newbery Honor Award Winner by Holling Clancy Holling (1948)
25. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (1940)
26. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926)
27. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
28. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764)
29. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1836)
30. Hard Times by Charles Dickens (1854)
31. The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie (1925)
32. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
33. The Ministry of Fear (1943) by Graham Greene
34. Christmas: A Story by Eleanor Roosevelt (1940)
35. The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter (1902) (a re-read, and so delightful!)
36. The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie (1925)

[Patti]

Tracking post- ready to start several books this year.

[Janelle]

Janelle’s tracking post
1. Christie's Christmas
2. Not Under the Law
3. Fern's Hollow
4. Station life in New Zealand
5. Lost Diaries
6. Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
7. A Collection of Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord, and for New-Year's-Day