Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Going to try my best for a blackout this upcoming year. Had too many adjustments to handle in 2021 for any sort of reading challenge, but now that things are beginning to settle, I feel ready to make an attempt at this again:

B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 - Herzog by Saul Bellow
B2: Classic written in your native language - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
B3: Classic Science or Philosophy - Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard
B4: Classic Banned Book - Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
B5: A Classic NOT on Our Bookshelf that Should be There - Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2022 - The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I2: New-To-You Classic Author - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
I3: Classic Drama or Play - The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco
I4: Classic Over 500 pages - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I5: Literary Prize or Your Country or Region - The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand

N1: Classic Involving Music - The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
N2: Classic Mythology or Folklore - More Celtic Fairy Tales
N3: Free Space
N4: Classic Poetry or Essay Collection - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
N5: Classic by an Author from a Country you didn’t Read in 2021 - The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa

G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
G2: Book from a group poll during your birthday month - Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (May)
G3: Classic Tragedy - Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
G4: Group Bingo Participant Pick The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
G5: Book from the Group’s 2022 Bookshelf - The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

O1: Book Published before 1900 - Dracula by Bram Stoker
O2: Children’s Classic - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
O3: Classic Short Story Collection - The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
O4: Classic in translation - Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 - Spring and All by William Carlos Williams

Have fun reading for your challenge. Glad you have joined us, Gerard.

Potential Plans

B1: Book Published 1950 - 1999 - Herzog by Saul Bellow
B2: Classic written in your native language - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
B3: Classic Science or Philosophy - Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Søren Kierkegaard
B4: Classic Banned Book - Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
B5: A Classic NOT on Our Bookshelf that Should be There - Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2022 - The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I2: New-To-You Classic Author - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
I3: Classic Drama or Play - The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco
I4: Classic Over 500 pages - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I5: Literary Prize or Your Country or Region - The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand

N1: Classic Involving Music - The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
N2: Classic Mythology or Folklore - More Celtic Fairy Tales
N3: Free Space
N4: Classic Poetry or Essay Collection - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
N5: Classic by an Author from a Country you didn’t Read in 2021 - The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa

G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
G2: Book from a group poll during your birthday month - Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (May)
G3: Classic Tragedy - Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
G4: Group Bingo Participant Pick The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
G5: Book from the Group’s 2022 Bookshelf - The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

O1: Book Published before 1900 - Dracula by Bram Stoker
O2: Children’s Classic - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
O3: Classic Short Story Collection - The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
O4: Classic in translation - Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho
O5: Book Published 1900 - 1949 - Spring and All by William Carlos Williams

If anyone has any recommendations for Group Bingo Participant Pick, please feel free to comment!

Hi Gerard. I see that sevrral if us are planning to to read James Baldwin works. Most choosing Go Tell It on the.Mountain. Fir now, I have chosen Notes of a Native Son, but we shall see . . . .

I see you have The Sparrow on your TBR. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Jillian ❀‿❀ wrote: "Best wishes with this, Gerard! :-)"
Thank you!

Finished my reading list for this Bingo challenge! Looking forward to starting in the new year.

I just love your choices, Gerard! Such a great range: Ginsberg and Didion and Stoker and Mansfield. Have fun, and hope to see you in The Gambler discussion.

Welcome to the challenge, and I hope you have a lot of fun with it! Your list seems very serious, but still there is a little humor and adventure built in. Good luck.

Careful with the Sparrow, that book wounded me!