Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I haven't tried the buffet before, but it sounds like fun. I'll start posts for all of them and see how it goes.

Challenges completed

Challenges in progress
Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge
Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Challenge #8 - Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge
Final count: 5/12


1899 and earlier/Old School
✅ The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
⚪ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)
✅ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)

1900-1999/New School
⚪ Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
✅ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)
⚪ Justine by Lawrence Durrell (1957)

Wild cards
✅ One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
✅ Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
⚪ Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
⚪ A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
⚪ Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
⚪ Maurice by E.M. Forster

Alternates
A-1. Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. by Jonathan Swift
A-2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A-3. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

New school
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (Nov. 2021)
Maurice by E.M. Forster
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Old school
✅ All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare (March 2021)


Short story/novella
✅ Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (July 2021)
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (Aug. 2021)

Quarterly long read
1. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (3Q 2020)

Challenge #3 - Century Challenge

TBD

(I'm just going to list the books I finish here for now and figure out which challenge to do later.)

2021 - The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
2021 - All's Well by Mona Awad
2020 - The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
2019 - The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
2016 - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
2015 - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
2009 - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
2007 - Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko
1950 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
1944 - The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
1942 - The Stranger by Albert Camus
1905 - The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge

1. 19th Century,
2. 20th Century,
3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic,
4. Current or Past Group Read,
5. An Author not read before,
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours.
7. Science Fiction,
8. A book originally written in a language other than your own,
9. A Banned Book,
10. Nonfiction,
11. Mystery/Crime,
12. Horror or Humor

Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge

✅ 1. Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy [Jan. 13]
✅ 2. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol [Jan. 13]
✅ 3. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Jan. 18]
✅ 4. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote [Feb. 12]
✅ 5. House of Flowers by Truman Capote [Feb. 14]
✅ 6. A Diamond Guitar by Truman Capote [Feb. 16]
✅ 7. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote [Feb. 16]
8. Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov
9. Alyosha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy



Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Carmen by Prosper Mérimée
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Dead by James Joyce
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benét
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells
The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories by William Faulkner
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
The Swimmer by John Cheever
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge

TBD

Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

TBD

Challenge #8 – Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?

TBD

Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction

TBD

(I'm going to list possible topics for any books I finish for now.)

Vietnam in the 20th century - The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Korea in the 20th century - The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult

TBD

Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

TBD

Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge

✅ A - Tahmima Anam (The Startup Wife) [Jan. 15]
B
✅ C - Albert Camus (The Stranger) [Mar. 7]
✅ D - Marina Dyachenko (Vita Nostra) [Mar. 1]
E
F
G
H
I
✅ J - Jonas Jonasson (The 100-Year-Old Man Who...) [Jan. 24]
K
✅ L - C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) [Jan. 6]
✅ M - W. Somerset Maugham (The Razor's Edge) [Feb. 13]
✅ N - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (The Mountains Sing) [Jan. 5]
O
P
Q
R
✅ S - Lisa See (The Island of Sea Women) [Feb. 2]
T
U
V
✅ W - Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth) [Jan. 18]
X
✅ Y - Rachel Yoder (Nightbitch) [Jan. 21]
Z

Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge

✅ A - All's Well (Mona Awad) [Mar. 3]
B
✅ C - Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata) [Mar. 7]
D
E
✅ F - The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin) [Feb. 15]
G
✅ H - The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) [Jan. 18]
✅ I - The Island of Sea Women (Lisa See) [Feb. 2]
J
K
✅ L - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis) [Jan. 6]
✅ M - The Mountains Sing (Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai) [Jan. 5]
✅ N - Nightbitch (Rachel Yoder) [Jan. 21]
O
P
Q
✅ R - The Razor's Edge (W. Somerset Maugham) [Feb. 13]
✅ S - The Startup Wife (Tahmima Anam) [Jan. 15]
T
U
✅ V - Vita Nostra (Marina Dyachenko) [Mar. 1]
W
X
Y
Z

The house of mirth and Jane Eyre are wonderful choices Joe. All the best

Good luck Joe. I hope you have fun with the challenge!