Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I’m new to the group so I’ll just try two challenges. I don’t want to take too much from the buffet and not finish!

Challenge #1 - 2021 Old & New TBR Challenge

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen

1900-1999/New School
4. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Finished March 5, 2021
5. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
6. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Wild Card
7. Run by Ann Patchett
8. Longing by J.D. Landis
9. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
10. Becoming Queen by Kate Williams
11. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
12. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Alternates
1. The Doll and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
2. The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle

Challenge #7 - 2021 Group Reads Challenge

The challenge is to read 12 of this years group selections. Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new and 12 rereads books per year, giving plenty of choices.

✓1. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Finished 1/30/21
2. A Streetcar Named Desire Finished 3/25/21
3. Jane Eyre Finished 5/17/2021
4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Welcome to the group and the challenge. You have some really good selections, I always enjoy Hardy and du Maurier. Have fun.

Bob wrote: "Welcome to the group and the challenge. You have some really good selections, I always enjoy Hardy and du Maurier. Have fun."

Thanks Bob. I have a special TBR shelf at home where most of my challenge books reside. I'm determined to clear most of it by the end of next year.