Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Bingo Book- June

N1- South American Classic

Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis


Which completes this year's Bingo Challenge!

Rosemarie wrote: "Bingo Book- June

N1- South American Classic

Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis


Which completes this year's Bingo Challenge!"

Congratulations on your completed Bingo!! I think the South American Classic is the last block for a lot of us!

Congrats on finishing and in less than half the year!

Thanks, Pink and Lynn.
Quincas Borba was a strange little book set in Brazil, by the author of Dom Casmurro, among others.

Thanks, Carrie. I enjoyed most of them. I hope you do too.

I have read 430 books from the Boxall 1001 list so far, over a period of 40+ years. I didn't learn about the list until I joined goodreads in 2016, so a fair number were read in the past three and a half years. I am going to start tracking books from the list from now on.

Boxall 1001 books read starting August 25, 2019:
See below.

Rosemarie wrote: "I have read 430 books from the Boxall 1001 list so far, over a period of 40+ years. I didn't learn about the list until I joined goodreads in 2016, so a fair number were read in the past three and ..."

Impressive. I used to track these, but I grew bored of it after a while. It would be interesting to know where I'm at currently.

One of the other groups I'm in has an updated list of the books. The group is around the world in 80 books, so the setting of the book is also given.
I know there are some books I am never going to read, but that still leaves enough to keep me busy for a long time.

I am carrying over a couple of challenges from 2018 and 2019 into 2020 and hope to finally finish them.

The Eyre Affair Challenge has one book remaining:
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.

My goodreads TBR challenge has the following books remaining:
Oliver Twist Completed April 22, 2020
The Souls of Black Folk Completed Feb. 12, 2020
The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
Saints and Villains
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Middlesex Completed on Feb. 4, 2020

It looks like I won't be reading them in 2020, so I am ending this challenge.

Years of the Century Challenge

Completed as of October 2020

1850-1859
1860-1860
1870-1879
1880-1889
1890-1899

1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2019

My 2020 goodreads challenge goal is 211 books.

2020: DNF books

1."Wir Sind Die Liebermanns": Die Geschichte Einer Familie by R. Scheer p. 25
2. Stoner by John Williams p. 116
3. Die Memoiren Ludwigs II.: Oder, Schwierigkeiten Im Umgang Mit Kitsch p. 46
4. A Modern Utopia by H.G. Wells p. 67
5. The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi p. 18
6. Ravenstone by Deborah Cannon p. 49
7. A Short Residence in Sweden / Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft p. 30 of the introduction
8. Die grossen Meister Europäische Erzähler des 20. Jahrhunderts Band II by Rolf Hochhuth p. 150
9. Power in the Blood: An Odyssey of Discovery in the American South by John Bentley Mays p. 84
10. The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor p. 213
11. Ein fliehendes Pferd by Martin Walser p. 51
12. El Señor Presidente by Miguel Ángel Asturias p. 77
13. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih p. 36
14. Österreichische Erzählungen des 20. Jahrhunderts p. 104
15. July's People by Nadine Gordimer p. 6
16. Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle by Simone Schwarz-Bart p. 43
17. Montenegro: A Modern History by Kenneth Morrison p. 14
18. La ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas Llosa p. 17
19. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore second chapter
20. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing p. 162
21. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell p. 84
22. The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt p.127

2020: New Authors January, February

1. Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (Picture Book)
2. Paul M. Buhle (Non-fiction)
3. Amie Jane Leavitt (Non-fiction)
4. Robert Gernhardt (Poems)
5. Joan G. Robinson (Children's lit)
6. Jonathan Gottschall (Non-fiction)
7. George Selden (Children's Lit)
8. Julian Huxley (Non-fiction)
9. Sully Prudhomme 1839-1907 (Poetry)
10. Jeffrey Eugenides (Fiction)
11. Israel Zangwill (Mystery)
12. Chris Claremont (Graphic novel)
13. Thomas Harding (Non-fiction)
14. Jack Schaefer (Western)
15. Anita Loos (Fiction)
16. Rita Williams-Garcia (Children's lit)
17. Theodor Mommsen (History)
18. Jan Karon (Children's book)
19. Bandi (North Korean fiction)
20. Guillaume de Lorris (13th century Romance)
21. Vicente Aleixandre (Poetry)
22. Gregory M. Levin (Non-fiction)

Books Acquired in 2020
*ebook

*1. With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
2. Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
*3. The Runaway Skyscraper by Murray Leinster finished
*4. Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter finished
*5. The Poison Belt by Arthur Conan Doyle finished
*6. The Mystery of the Green Ray by William Le Queux finished
7. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos finished
*8. Vergänglichkeit by Sigmund Freud finished
*9. Complete works of Thomas Hardy
*10. Sagen und Legenden aus Saarbrücken: Saarbrücken Sagen und Legenden by Christine Giersberg finished
*11. The Little Duke by Charlotte Mary Yonge finished
*12. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
*13. Plays by August Strindberg: Second Series: There Are Crimes and Crimes, Miss Julia, the Stronger, Creditors, Pariah read Miss Julie
*14. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde finished
*15. Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde finished
*16. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter finished
*17. Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter finished
*18. The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
*19. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson finished
*20. A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde finished
*21. Gesammelte Werke Gottfried Kellers: Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen read Züricher Novellen
*22. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens finished
*23. Wilhelm Tell byFriedrich Schiller finished
*24. A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe finished
*25. The Skylark of Space & Skylark Three: 2 Sci-Fi Books in One Edition finished The Skylark of Space Skylark Three
*26. Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
*27. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne finished
*28. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven finished
*29. Nathan der Weise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing finished
*30. Clearvigil in Spring Clarivigilia Primaveral by Miguel Ángel Asturias finished
*31. Willa Cather: The Complete Novels read Shadows on the Rock, The Professor's House
*32. Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka finished
*33. To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens finished
*34. Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick finished
*35. The Secret of Greylands by Annie Haynes finished
*36. Hunted Down by Charles Dickens finished
*37. The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen finished
*38. Doctor Marigold by Charles Dickens finished
*39. The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason finished
*40. The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens
*41. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins finished
*42. The Ambassadors by Henry James finished
*43, Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens finished
*44.The Lady of the Barge and Other Stories by W.W. Jacobs finished
*45. Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum finished
*46. Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós finished
*47. L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert
*48. The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*49. Love's Comedy by Henrik Ibsen finished
*50. Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões
*51. A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins
*52. The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace finished
*53. Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
*54. Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians by Woislav M. Petrovitch
*55.Complete Works of George MacDonald
*56. The Were-Wolf by Clemence Housman finished
*57. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
*58. Klee Wyck by Emily Carr

Boxall Books

1. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. Amerika by Franz Kafka
4. Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli
5. She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
6. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
7. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
8. Evelina by Frances Burney
9. Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
10. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
11. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
12. The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
13. The Professor's House by Willa Cather
14. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
15. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
16. In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
17. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. The Successor by Ismail Kadare

Toronto Public Library 2020 Challenge

1. A book about something that scares you:
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

2. A book of short stories:
Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy

3. A book by an independent publisher:
Winter: Atlantic Canadian Stories by Dan Soucoup

4. An experimental or unusual book:
Amerika by Franz Kafka

5. Not in my first language:
The Accusation by Bandi

6. Utopia or dystopia:
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

7. Books that celebrate books, reading or libraries:
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene
Hanff

8. A classic:
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

9. A book that made me laugh:
Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse

2021 Goals

Read more of my ebooks, especially collected works.
Do fewer challenges.
Have fun reading!

I finally have read the last book mentioned in The Eyre Affair, Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

I read your post that you had plowed ahead and finished Dombey. So glad you enjoyed it. I like your resolution to do fewer challenges and have fun. I am trying to read without pressure this year myself.

I loved that book!
I find that I am reading more spontaneously this year.
It's good to hear from you!

I allowed myself to pause in the midst of everything and read Hamnet just because I wanted to; so maybe I am being a bit more spontaneous as well.

I haven't been as present as usual lately, but things are getting a bit more "normal" for me lately. I love keeping up with your reading and sharing your thoughts.

Thanks!

Sara, I am pausing with my challenges to read The Four Winds by Kristin Hanna. I want to read contemporary work too, but I am fussier about now than I used to be. I loved The Nightingale and hope this is as good. I may pause again soon to read The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and then my Sister’s book club has contemporary books. Pausing can be a good thing!

Terry, I'm fussier too. There are so many good books to read, why read something you don't like!

Rosemarie, it looks like you had an outstanding reading year in 2020. Do you review all the books you read?

Also, I wasn’t aware of the Peter Boxall list. Interesting. Have you found it to be rewarding to read the books on his list? I will need to investigate this, because it might make choosing what to read a little easier.

I don't necessarily review all the books I read, but I do rate them with the star system. Three stars means I liked the books, four stars means it was really good and five stars means outstanding or I loved it.

Ebook Compilations, by Author: Status

Completed before January 1, 2021:

Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft

In Progress in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

🔷E.T.A. Hoffmann- completed on July 1 2023
♦️Elizabeth von Arnim -completed on June 29 2021
Karl May
H.G. Wells
Gottfried Keller
Jules Verne
Algernon Blackwood
John Fox Jr.
🔶Thomas Hardy -completed on Sept. 22, 2024
Theodor Storm
Ambrose Bierce
Alfred Tennyson
Leo Tolstoy
♦️Saki - completed August 29, 2021
Wilhelm Hauff
Jerome K. Jerome
Arthur Machen
Fyodor Dostoevsky
George MacDonald
Maxim Gorky
🔶Thorne Smith-completed August 22, 2024

Added in 2023:
🍀Novalis- Completed March 1, 2025
Italo Svevo
Selma Lagerlöf
J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Added in 2024:
A.E.W. Mason
William Hope Hodgson
Grazia Deledda

Doing great Rosemarie

Thank you, Ila!

Rosemarie wrote: "Ebook Compilations, by Author: Status

Completed before January 1, 2021:

Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft

In Progress in 2021:

E.T.A. Hoffmann
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I love Edgar Allen Poe and H P Lovecraft. <3 (I can't see which books or stories you read by them though.)

I've read all of them! I own the complete works of each author in ebook form.
I never thought I'd enjoy this genre-but I love it!

Rosemarie wrote: "I've read all of them! I own the complete works of each author in ebook form.
I never thought I'd enjoy this genre-but I love it!"

Wonderful! =)

😊 Thanks!

Author ebook Collections I didn't get to reading in 2021 are Thorne Smith, William Morris, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
I plan to make a start with them in 2022.

I own a number of ebooks that I haven't read yet.
I will be recording the books read and the date in this thread, starting today, November 23, 2021.
I will keep track of books acquired after today in a different thread.

List of ebooks read in 2021:
1. Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather November 23
2. O Alienista by Machado de Assis November 27
3. Christmas Tree Land by Mrs. Molesworth December 3
4. The Little City of Hope: A Christmas Story by F. Marion Crawford December 10
5. The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft December 17
6. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward December 19
7. The Chimes by Charles Dickens December 20
8. Christmas at Kirkby Cottage by Anthony Trollope December 23
9. The Christmas Angel by Abbie Farwell Brown December 25
10. Malachi's Cove, The Two Generals, Not if I Know it by Anthony Trollope December 26
11. Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs December 28
12. The Silent Pool by Patricia Wentworth December 30

Ebooks acquired(and read) after November 23, 2021:
By Voltaire:
1. De l'horrible danger de la lecture December 9
2. Le Monde Comme Il Va: Vision de Babouc December 21
3. Jeannot et Colin, Les Deux Consolés December 25

2022 Ebooks Read: Jan/Feb

January:
1. Das Gelübde by Jan 7
2. Michel Strogoff Jan 10
3. The Well-Beloved Jan 13
4. Solaris Jan 18
5. La Fortune des Rougon Jan 24
6. Das steinerne Herz Jan 29
7. Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses Jan 19
February:
8. Hector Servadac Feb 4
9. The Festival Feb 5
10. The Insanity of Jones Feb 6
11. De kleine Johannes Feb 10
12. The Door in the Wall Feb 12
13. The Shunned House Feb 12
14. The Glamour of the Snow Feb 13
15. The Wendigo Feb 14
16. Sand Feb 17
17. Castle Craneycrow Feb 19
18. The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices Feb 22
19. The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing Feb 28

That's a good idea. I have "compiled" a heap of e-books but since I never see them in front of me I often tend to forget them. I read both physial books, e-books and listen sometimes to audio-books. But now I have decided that I have to start reading through my e-books because they tend to behave like my physical books = they multiply some how in a speed which surpasses my reading speed. I frankly don't know how that happens =D. But I think that 2023 must be a year for e-books.

And it's very easy to get ebooks- you don't have to leave the house.
I find the Delphi authors series to be very good value and quality. But I tell myself that I don't need any more right now!

You are right about books! Good for reading down tbr. Enjoy.

Thank you,Cynda! I'll do my best!

E.T.A. Hoffmann:

1. Das Gelübde
2. Das steinerne Herz
3. Seltsame Leiden eines Theaterdirektors
4. Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober
5. Die Serapions-Brüder - erster Band
6. E.T.A. Hoffmanns Sämtliche Werke, Vol. 6: Die Serapions-Brüder, Zweiter Band
7. Die Serapions-Bruder: Gesammelte Erzahlungen Und Mahrchen; Bd. 3, Aus: Ausgewahlte Schriften
8. Die Serapionsbrüder, Band 4
9. Meister Floh: Ein Märchen in sieben Abenteuern zweier Freunde
10. Letzte Erzählungen: Die Doppeltgänger, Die Räuber, Der Elementargeist und andere

Finished the collection on July 1, 2023

Jules Verne:

1. Michel Strogoff
2. Hector Servadac
3. Robur-le-Conquérant
4. Le Phare du bout du monde
5. Le Superbe Orénoque
6. Mathias Sandorf
7. Deux ans de vacances
8. Les Indes noires
9. Un capitaine de quinze ans
10. Le Sphinx des glaces
11. Les revoltes de la Bounty
12. Claudius Bombarnac
13. Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum
14. L'école des Robinsons
15. La Jangada: Huit cent lieues sur l'Amazone (Classiques)
16. Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
17. Le Rayon vert
18. Les Frères Kip
19. Dix heures en chasse
20. Kéraban le Têtu
21. L'Étoile du Sud
22. L'archipel En Feu
23. Seconde Patrie
24. Frritt-Flacc
25. Un hivernage dans les glaces
26. Un billet de loterie: Le numéro 9672
27. Gil Braltar

Thomas Hardy:

1. The Well-Beloved
2. Time's Laughingstocks And Other Verses
3. The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing
4. A Group of Noble Dames
5. Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces
6. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
7. Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses

Completed on September 23, 2024

George MacDonald:

1. David Elginbrod
2. A Hidden Life and Other Poems
3. The Giant's Heart
4. The Light Princess
5. Uncle Cornelius, His Story
6. The Cruel Painter
7. The Gray Wolf
8. The Gifts of the Child Christ

H.G. Wells:

1. The Door in the Wall
2. The Chronic Argonauts
3. A Modern Utopia
4. The First Men in the Moon

Algernon Blackwood:

1. The Insanity of Jones
2. The Glamour of the Snow
3.The Wendigo
4. Sand
5. The Centaur
6. A Prisoner in Fairyland
7. Day and Night Stories
8. Karma: A Reincarnation Play In Prologue, Epilogue And Three Acts
9. The Extra Day
10. Julius LeVallon an Episode
11. The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories
12. The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath
13. The Promise of Air

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1. Der Doppelgänger
2. The Heavenly Christmas Tree

Leo Tolstoy

1. The Cossacks
2. The Raid
3. Hadji Murád
4. Lucerne