Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challeng

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
✔️2. Persuasion by Jane Austen 1/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. Candide by Voltaire⭐️⭐️⭐️
1900 - 1999/New School7/13
✔️1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
My Wild Card Six
✔️1. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 5/17⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell 2/8 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. Song of a Captive Bird Jasmin Darznik 2/28 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
✔️5. The Gift of Rain by Tan TwanEng 7/11 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
6. A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Alternates
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge

1. 18th Century or older - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
2. 19th Century Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Vol 1 by Mark Twain
3. 20th Century My Ántonia by Willa Cather
4. Current or Past Group Read As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
5. An Author not read before Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different from yours Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
✔️7. Science Fiction Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 01/04 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️8. Romance Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge 7/31 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. Nonfiction The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
10. Nonfiction - Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
11. Mystery/Crime The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
12. Horror or Humor Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Challenge 6 - Short Story Challenge

From Selected Stories of Anton Chekov

1. The Death of a Clerk
2. Small Fry
3. The Huntsman
4. The Malefactor
5. Panikhida
6. Anyuta
7. Easter Night
8. Vanka
9. Sleepy
10. A Boring Story
11. Gusev
12. Pleasant Women
13. The Fidget
14. In Exile
15. Ward No. 6
16. The Black Monk
17. Rothschild's Fiddle
18. The Student
19. Anna on the Neck
20. The House with the Mezzanine
21. The Man in the Case
22. Gooseberries
23. A Medical Case
24. The Darling
26. On Official Business
27. The Lady With the Dog
28. At Christmastime
29. In the Ravine
30. The Bishop
31. The Fiancee

Donna wrote: "Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challeng

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
✔️2. Persuasion by Jane Austen 1/21 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐..."
I’m pleased with my progress on the Old & New challenge. Don’t know if I’ll actually bite the bullet with War and Peace but I guess that’s what alternates are for!