Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge Completed 13/12

Old School:
√1. Twelve Years a Slave (1853) by Solomon Northrup Finished 2/19/21
√2. Dred: A tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1855) by Harriet Beecher Stowe Finished 10/25/21
√3. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs Finished 01/14/21

New School:
√4. Up From Slavery (1901) by Booker T. Washington Finished 03/12/21
√ 5. The Souls of Black Folks (1903) by W. E. B. Du Bois Finished 05/21/21
√6. John Brown (1909) by W. E. B. Du Bois Finished 07/25/21

Wild Cards:
√7. Hospital Sketches (1863) by Louisa May Alcott Finished 04/13/21
√8. The Grandissimes (1880) by George Washington Cable Finished 08/08/21
√9. Andersonville (1955) by MacKinlay Kantor Finished 03/22/21
√10. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) by William Styron Finished 05/22/21
√11. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) by Ernest J. Gaines Finished 08/27/21 5*s
√12. The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead Finished 01/07/21

Alternates:
√A-1. A Voice from the South (1892) by Anna Julia Cooper Finished 04/30/21
A-2. Jubliee (1966) by Margaret Walker

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge

√1.18th Century or older: King Lear-William Shakespeare Finished 08/20/21 3*s
√2. 19th Century: Shirley-Charlotte Brontë Finished 09/06/21 2*s
√3. 20th Century: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie-Muriel Spark Finished 08/09/21 3*s
√4. Current or Past Group Read: The Last of the Mohicans (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper Finished 02/24/21 3*s
√5. An author not read before: Honoré de Balzac-Père Goriot. Finished 07/06/21 4*s
√6. Diversity Classic: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Finished 06/26/21 2*s
√7.Science Fiction: Journey to the Center of the Earth-Jules Verne Finished 07/22/21 3*s
√8. Romance: The Merchant of Venice-William Shakespeare Finished 08/23/21 3*s
√9. Historical fiction: Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Finished 08/15/21 3*s
√10. Nonfiction: Walden by Henry David Thoreau Finished 08/12/21 3*s
√11. Mystery/Crime: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle Finished 05/31/21 4*s
√12. Horror or Humor: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-Robert Louis Stevenson. Finished 07/12/21 4*s

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge: Will finish up some anthologies on my bookshelf
Completed 24/24

√1. "An Angel on the Porch"-Thomas Wolfe Finished 01/03/21
√2. "A Memory" from The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Finished 01/03/21
√3. The Swimmer-JohnCheever Finished 01/15/21
√4. The Mourners-Bernard Malamud Finished 02/13/21
√5. "Screwtape Proposes A Toast"-C. S. Lewis Finished 02/17/21 4*s
√6. The Conversion of the Jews-Philip Roth Finished 03/02/21 5*s
√7. Lost in the Funhouse (title story only)-John Barth Finished 03/31/21 4.5*s
√8. The Man to Send Rain Clouds-Leslie Marmon Silko Finished 04/01/21 4*s
√9. " The Man in a Case"-Anton Chekhov Finished 04/28/21 3*s
√10. "About Love"-Anton Chekhov Finished 04/28/2 3*s
√11. A Small, Good Thing-Raymond Carver Finished 05/05/21 4*s
√12. Neighbor Rosicky-Willa Cather Finished 05/28/21 5*s
√13. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg-Mark Twain Finished 07/06/21 3*s
√14. Bookshop Memories-George Orwell Finished 09/10/21 4*s
√15. House of Flowers-Truman Capote Finished 09/25/21 3*s
√16. A Diamond Guitar-Truman Capote Finished 09/26/21 3*s
√17. "Hunted Down"-Charles Dickens Finished 09/27/21 3*s
√18. "An Old Woman and Her Cat"-Doris Lessing Finished 09/27/21 5*s
√19. The Star-Arthur C. Clarke Finished 09/27/21 3*s
√20. The Lifted Veil-George Eliot Finished 09/28/21 4*s
√21. " Brother"-Graham Greene Finished 09/29/21 3*s
√22. "The Defeated"-Nadine Gordimer Finished 09/29/21 3*s
√23. Mr. Marmaduke and the Minister-Wilkie Collins Finished 09/30/21 3*s
√24. The Story Of A Panic-E.M. Forster Finished 09/30/21 3*s

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge (For current group reads and from the group bookshelf)
Completed 24/24

√1. Songs of Innocence and Experience Finished January 2021
√2. The Captain's Daughter Finished January 2021
√3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Finished January 2021
√4. The Country of the Blind-H.G. Wells Finished February 2021
√5. The Nose Finished April 2021
√6. The Snows of Kilimanjaro Finished April 2021
√7. Gooseberries: Short Story by Anton Chekhov Finished April 28 3*s
√8. An Ideal Husband Finished 05/02/21 5*s
√9. Babette’s Feast Finished 05/07/21 5*s
√10. At the Mountains of Madness Finished 05/27/21 2*s
√11. Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' Finished 06/25/21 3*s
√12. The Raven and Other Poems Finished 06/25/21 3*s
√13. The Pit and the Pendulum Finished 06/30/21 3*s
√14. Goblin Market Finished 06/30/21 4*s
√15. The Little Prince Finished 08/26/21 3*s
√16. The Call of Cthulhu-H.P. Lovecraft Finished 09/07/21 3*s
√17. The Misanthrope-Molière Finished 09/08/21 4*s
√18. Lady Susan-Jane Austen Finished 09/20/21 4*s
√19. The Stranger-Albert Camus Finished 09/23/21 4*s
√20. "Breakfast at Tiffany's"-Truman Capote Finished 09/25/21 3*s
√21. "The Gold Bug"-Edgar Allan Poe Finished 10/02/21 3*s
√22. Siddhartha-Hermann Hesse Finished 10/11/21 3*s
√23. The Last Question-Isaac Asimov Finished 10/26/21 4*s
24. " A Christmas Tree"-Charles Dickens Finished 11/28/21 3*s

Challenge #7 - 2021 Group Reads Challenge
Completed 12/12

√1. Ender's Game Finished 01/04/21
√2. Cranford Finished 01/09/21
√3. The Warden Finished 02/05/21
√4. I, Claudius Finished 02/10/21
√5.A Study in Scarlet Finished 02/27/21
√6. Don Juan Finished 03/01/21
√7. The Portrait of a Lady Finished 03/30/21
√8. Wives and Daughters Finished 04/20/21
√9. Dune Finished 04/30/21
√10. Anna Karenina Finished 05/15/21
√11. Tess of the D'Urbervilles Finished 05/26/21
√12. Moll Flanders Finished 06/03/21

Challenge #3 - Second Place or Worse
Completed 7/7

√1. The Prince and the Pauper-Mark Twain Finished 01/27/21 3*s
√2. The Deerslayer-James Fenimore Cooper Finished 02/21/21 2*s
√3. A Voice from the South-Anna Julia Cooper Finished 04/30/21 4*s
√4. Nathan Coulter-Wendell Berry Finished 09/16/21 5*s
√5. Passing-Nella Larsen Finished 09/19/21 3*s
√6. Civil Disobedience-Henry David Thoreau Finished 01/02/21 2*s
√7. The Mysterious Stranger-Mark Twain Finished 10/13/21 3*s

Challenge #8 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors Completed 6/6

√1. Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto Finished 02/02/21
√2. Ann Petry: The Street Finished 02/13/21
√3. Dante Alighieri: Inferno Finished 02/19/21
√4. Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Finished 07/11/21
√5. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions-Edwin A. Abbott Finished 08/12/21
√6. Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Finished 08/22/21