2012 Classic's Challenge

[Rach , Moderator]

For this challenge, challenge yourself to read old classics. There are four different stages for the Classic's challenge:

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

Rules
Books MUST be classic books.
You must post what stage you will "falling" under. You may change your stage if you like

Duration
Until December 31st

Enjoy xx

[Rach , Moderator]

I am joining in on stage two!

1.Frankenstein
2.Brave New World
3. The Catcher in the Rye
4. Richard III
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6. Heart of Darkness
7. Twelfth Night

[Nicolette]

Gosh, I would love to make it to stage 4 but that is highly unlikely. Let's go with stage 2.

[Nicolette]

Oh, and just a question, how are we defining classic? I mean, transdiscursiveness is kind of a hard thing to decide.

[Rach , Moderator]

Nicolette wrote: "Oh, and just a question, how are we defining classic? I mean, transdiscursiveness is kind of a hard thing to decide."

Any book that you would find classified as a classic book. Normally classics have their own section in say Barnes and Nobles or other book stores. If you have any questions on a certain book, let me know! There really isnt a true definition of "classic", but if you have one in mind, ask :)

[Catherine]

I must be insane...but I will give it a go!

stage 2 for now...but I may change it!

1. Atonement..Ian McEwan
2. Love in the Time of Cholera..Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles..Thomas Hardy
4. Pride and Prejudice..Jane Austen
5. Anna Karenina..Leo Tolstoy
6. Madame Bovary..Gustave Flaubert
7. War and Peace..Leo Tolstoy
8. Journey to the Centre of the Earth..Jules Verne
9. Nicholas Nickleby..Charles Dickens
10. The Secret Garden..Frances Hodgsen Burnett(8 June)
11. Ivanhoe..Walter Scott
12. American Gods..Neil Gaiman
13. The Sun Also Rises..Ernest Hemingway
14. For Whom the Bell Tolls..Ernest Hemingway
15. A Farewell to Arms..Ernest Hemingway
16. The Old Man and the Sea..Ernest Heminway
17. The Count of Monte Cristo..Alexandre Dumas

[Jessa]

Count me in for Stage 2, maybe I will get further but for now that is doable

[Carrie]

stage 1

1.Irish Fairy and Folk Tales 3/20
2.Animal Farm 5/14
3.The Secret Garden 5/30
4.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass 5/31

[Jenn]

I will do stage 1 (for now)


Pride and Prejudice
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Dracula

[Zoe Elizabeth (Booksatlunch)]

I'm going to aim for stage 1 for now. I always put off reading classics.

[Nicolette]

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[Thalia]

Count me in for stage two; I'm already participating in so many challenges, I don't want to overwhelm myself, hahah.

Completed: 3/10

1) Jane Eyre
2) Sense and Sensibility
3) The Fellowship of the Ring
4) The Two Towers
5) The Return Of The King
6) The Hobbit
7) The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
8) To Kill a Mockingbird
9) The Giver
10) Hamlet



Got me plenty of Tolkein!

[Jenny]

I'm upgrading to Stage 3 :)

1. Mansfield Park
2. The War of the Worlds
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. Ender's Game
5. The Bell Jar
6. A Princess of Mars
7. The Creatures That Time Forgot
8. Journey to the Centre of the Earth
9. The Man in the High Castle
10. The Iliad
11. King Lear
12. A Christmas Carol
13. Paradise Lost

[Esther]

I will go for stage 3 because I planned to read more Classics this year.

Completed - 6/12

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. Rebecca
3. De Profundis
4. The Bell Jar
5. The Woman in White
6.East of Eden
7.Anna Karenina
8. Sense and Sensibility
9. Brave New World
10. Persuasion
11. The Grapes of Wrath
12. Atonement

[Michelle]

Stage 3 :)

1. North and South
2. Where Angels Fear to Tread
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
6. Sense and Sensibility
7. Northanger Abbey
8. The End of the Affair
9. Villette
10. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
11. The Awakening
12.

[Kel]

Stage 1 for now.
4/5

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass 04/11/12
2. Animal Farm 06/10/12
3. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
4. To Kill a Mockingbird 07/08/12
5. The Wind in the Willows 09/01/12

[Linda]

I'm in for stage two...

Intend to read:

Anna Karenina
Candide
Jane Eyre
Love In The Time Of Cholera
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Wuthering Heights
and... non-fiction:
Unveiled Mysteries

...and probably a few more.

[Clio (Bemuzed)]

ok, last year I read 9 classics, so I'm going to go for stage three.

Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Finished in January
To Kill a Mockingbird Finished in January
Anna Karenina Finished in April
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror Finished in April
The Old Man and the Sea Finished in February
Love and Friendship Finished in May
Naked Lunch Finished in May
Animal Farm Finished in June
Rebecca Finished in June
10.David Copperfield
11.A Tale of Two Cities
12.Villette
13.The Three Musketeers
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[Jennifer]

Stage II, please =)

(Read 6-10 Classic Novels)

Planned reads for the year.

1. Great Expectations
2. The Idiot
3. The Hobbit
4. The Sun Also Rises
5. V.
6. The Odyssey

[Jen Lynn]

I'll join in for Stage Two.


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[Riya]

ill be doing stage 3. Im keeping track of classic books i have read in the Personal Challenges part of this group

[Petra]

I'll try this. I'll go for Stage 4 (16-20).


1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Feb 3)
2. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Mar 1)
3. Kristin Lavransdatter (Mar 7)
4. Troilus and Cressida (Mar 8)
5. King Solomon's Mines (Mar 19)
6. Macbeth (Apr 8)
7. Bel-Ami (Apr 20)
8. The Monk (Apr 29)
9. Nicholas Nickleby (May 9)
10. Hunger (June 6)
11. The Sound and the Fury (July 6)
12. Sense and Sensibility (Aug 8)
13. Persuasion (Sept 2)
14. The Painted Bird (Sept 7)
15. The Man Who Laughs (Nov 4)
16. On the Road (Nov 13)
17. A Christmas Carol (Dec 12)
18. Lolita (Dec 23)
19. A Lost Lady (Dec 29)

[Sarah]

I'm in for stage 1. Not sure what books I'll be reading yet though.

[Soad]

stage one since i love russian literature and im reading classics in another group.

[MicheleinNJ]

I'll try for Stage 2. Will post books as read.

[Angie]

I belong to a Classics group on Goodreads, so this challenge is doubly good!
I'm going to be brave and aim for Stage Four!
I hope it is OK to list the classics I have read from the start of 2012.

Read 7/20



Interestingly, I had quite a debate with my other group as to whether Love in the Time of Cholera should be classified as a classic. I went with yes!

TO READ...

North and South
The Outsiders
A Room with a View
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Villette
The Secret Garden

[KF]

There are tons I'd like to read, but for now I will go with stage one:

1. Jane Eyre
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[KF]

Rachel Skye wrote: "Stage One
Jenn
Zoe
Kel
Sarah
Soad
Karen

Stage Two
Rachel Skye
Nicolette
Catherine
Jessa
Carrie
Thalia
Jenny
Linda
Jannifer
Jen Lynn
Petra
Michele

Stage Three
Esta
Michelle
Clio
Mariya

Stage Four
Chri..."

[mary ❀]

I'd love to join at stage one for now. (I'll have to read some for school anyway.)

1.) Hamlet 3/3/12
2.) Frankenstein
3.)
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5.)

I'll be adding more books as I go, so I may or may not move up a stage later on.

[[deleted user]]

I'll join in for stage 4. So far this year I've read:

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
2.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. Slaughterhouse Five
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
6. The Hobbit
7. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
8. The Hound of the Baskervilles
9. The Bell Jar
10. Elizabeth and Her German Garden
11. Animal Farm
12. Something Wicked This Way Comes
13. The Return of Sherlock Holmes
14. Mansfield Park
15. Frankenstein
16. Dracula
17. The Day of the Triffids
18. The Valley of Fear
19. The Moonstone
20. A Christmas Carol

[Normandy]

Put me down for Stage 1

I am already reading:

1. The Catcher in the Rye
Will also read:
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Villette
4. The Bell Jar
5. Mrs. Dalloway

[Heather]

I'll start at Stage 1 and see where I go from there...

I'll read:
1. Brave New World
2. 1984
3. The Giver 23/01/12
(finished series but I don't think the other two are considered classic)
4. The Chrysalids 11/03/12
5. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 19/03/12

[Jenn]

Rachel Skye wrote: "Nicolette wrote: "Oh, and just a question, how are we defining classic? I mean, transdiscursiveness is kind of a hard thing to decide."

Any book that you would find classified as a classic book. ..."

Is The Giver a classic? I'm currently reading and I see it on somone's list for classics but I'm not sure.

[Heather]

Jenn wrote: "Rachel Skye wrote: "Nicolette wrote: "Oh, and just a question, how are we defining classic? I mean, transdiscursiveness is kind of a hard thing to decide."

Any book that you would find classifie..."

To quote Rachel Skye in the June Classic Nomination, "And yes, Classics have SO many definitions and to be honest there isnt one set definition. I would consider "older" books as classics, possibly ones you read in highschool/ school or maybe one your children read in school. Something that may possibly be on he Classics shelf in a bookstore.

And of course if you have any doubts or questions, please feel free to ask ".

I asked this question as well and it's one that a friend of mine read in her school.

[Kel]

I use Barnes and Noble , they have a classics section and if I'm not sure I check on there to see what they consider a classic.

[Rach , Moderator]

Jenn wrote: "Rachel Skye wrote: "Nicolette wrote: "Oh, and just a question, how are we defining classic? I mean, transdiscursiveness is kind of a hard thing to decide."

Any book that you would find classifie..."

Yes, I would say the Giver is a classic

[Melissa (ladybug)]

I will try Stage IV and see how I do.

Rachel, can they be dated back to January 1st? or from when you start this challenge?

Stage Four
Read 16- 20 classic books

★ 01) Oliver Twist 
★ 02) Gulliver's Travels
★ 03) Little House on the Prairie 
★ 04) The Wind in the Willows 
★ 05) Heart of Darkness 
★ 06) Pinocchio
★ 07) Little Dorrit
★ 08) The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
★ 09) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
★ 10) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
★ 11) Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories
★ 12) Silas Marner
★ 13) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
★ 14) Androcles and the Lion 
★ 15) Pygmalion 
★ 16) The Phantom Tollbooth
★ 17) Charlotte's Web
★ 18) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
★ 19) Misty of Chincoteague
★ 20) Oedipus Rex

[Katharine]

I'm gonna go for Stage 2, hopefully I can pull it off!

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. Catcher In The Ry3
3. Catch-22
4. Anna Karenina
5. The Great Gatsby
6. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
7. North And South
8. 1984
9. Don Quixote
10. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

[M.T.]

Wonderful classical selection! I would love to go back and read the classics, plus those I haven't read yet.

[Petra]

I've changed my goal from Step 2 to Step 4.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Rachel, I noticed that you didn't see my post. :D I am doing step 4. Here is the link

[Rach , Moderator]

Melissa wrote: "Rachel, I noticed that you didn't see my post. :D I am doing step 4. Here is the link"

Oh my! I do apologize for that! Added on of course!

[Catherine]

I've gone up to stage 3 now...just so you know! that may change again as I get through my books!

[Jessa]

I am on stage 3 as well

[Debbie]

I'm gonna try stage 1

[Morgan Olivia]

I will try stage 1.

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Sense and Sensibility
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Dracula
5. Animal Farm

[Michelle]

In for stage II

1. Interview With the Vampire 04/2012
2. Nemesis 04/2012
3. Fahrenheit 451 (05/2012)
4. Bel-Ami(05/2012)
5. The Bell Jar (06/2012

[Chloe]

I have a HUGE pile next to me, but I'll be (somewhat) realistic for myself and start with Stage 2!

1. The Sun Also Rises Finished August 5, 2012
2. The Bluest Eye
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Wuthering Heights
6. The Stranger
7. Little Women
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
9. Lolita
10. Ulysses

[Cathie]

3/4 of the year is over with and I just stumbled on this gem. I will start off with level 1 and might upgrade later.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Completed: Post #38 ~ 20/20