Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I am joining about halfway through the year and I am going to see if what I already read in 2021 for other groups, or for myself will fit into some of the challenges.


Challenge #1- Old & New TBR - DONE
1899 and earlier/Old School
X1. Sylvia's Lovers - 1863
X2. Oblomov - 1859
X3. Twenty Years After - 1845
1900-1999/New School
X4. Helen with the High Hand - An Idyllic Diversion- 1912
X5. Whose Body? - 1923
X6. True Grit - 1968

My Wild Card Six
X1. Anxious People
X2. A Brightness Long Ago
X3. Driftless
X4. Klara and the Sun
X5. Project Hail Mary
X6. The Summer Before the War


Alternates
XA-1. The Longest Journey
XA-2. The Bostonians


Challenge 4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge

X1. 18th Century or older - The Rover
X2. 19th Century - Basil by Wilkie Collins, Fiction, Classics
X3. 20th Century - Death of a Busybody
X4. Current or Past Group Read - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
X5. An Author not read before - Nothing to See Here
X6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. - Homeland Elegies
X7. Science Fiction - Binti
X8. Romance - Don't Forget to Smile
X9. Historical fiction - The Gown
X10. Nonfiction - Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
X11. Mystery/Crime - Watery Grave
X12. Horror or Humor - How the Penguins Saved Veronica

Challenge * 8 - New to me Authors (published before 2000) - DONE
X1.The Year of the Hare - 1975
X2.Something to Hide - 1996
X3. True Grit - 1968
X4. Miss Marjoribanks
X5. Grey Mask
X6. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

Challenge 9 - A-Z Author Challenge

A - Bruce Alexander -
B - Arnold Bennett
C - Michael Chabon
D - Alexandre Dumas
E - Tom Ellen
F - Christopher Fowler
G - Yaa Gyasi
H - C.S. Harris
I - Kazuo Ishiguro
J - Craig Johnson
K - T.J. Klune
L - Peter Levine
M - Heather McGhee
N - Janice Nimura
O - Ijeoma Oluo
P - Hazel Prior
Q Spencer Quinn
R - Lucy Ribchester
S - Kathleen Gilles Seidel
T - Olga Tokarczuk
U
V - Charles Veley
W - Andy Weir
X
Y
Z - Jamil Zaki

Challenge #10 - A-Z Title Challenge - Pretty good halfway through the year, I am unlikely to get XYZ but I got Q!

A - Ask Again, Yes
B - Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
C - The Case of the Canterfell Codicil
D - Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
E - Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
F - Force of Nature
G - The Goblin Emperor
H - Homeland Elegies
I - Iron Lake
J - Janesville: An American Story
K - Klara and the Sun
L - Libertie
M - Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
N - Nothing to See Here
O - Oona Out of Order
P - Person or Persons Unknown
Q - Queen of Hearts
R - Remember the Ladies
S - So You Want to Talk About Race
T - True Grit
U - Unnatural Death
V - Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
W - Watery Grave
X
Y - You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Z

Wow Robin you jumped right in! Planning challenges is one of the most fun things we do here. Feel free to check out other people's threads. I hope you enjoy it!

Welcome to the group and this challenge, Robin! You have some great choices. I loved True Grit. I read a Dorthy Sayers mystery as part of a woman's challenge and I really liked her writing. I've also read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and have been wanting to read more. If The Moonstone makes our revisit the shelf poll then I'll have to make time for it.

I'll be watching to see what you think of all of these. Have fun!

Sue wrote: "Welcome to the group and this challenge, Robin! You have some great choices. I loved True Grit. I read a Dorthy Sayers mystery as part of a woman's challenge and I really liked her wr..."

Thanks, I have read several by Wilkie Collins but The Woman in White is my favorite. Lord Peter Wimsey, the detective in Dorothy Sayers' mysteries, is my literary crush. Others adore Mr. Darcy or Jamie from Outlander, but I love how Lord Peter acts like a bumbling rich jerk while brilliantly outsmarting everyone, being a really decent human being, and keeping a sense of humor. I read the whole series years ago but decided to do a reread this year. I have forgotten all the mystery parts so they are like new books to me!

You're already well on your way to completing these. Have fun.

You are doing great. You might try Xingu, a really good short story for challenge #10. Enjoy!