Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

2022 CHALLENGE BUFFET - A Baker's Dozen


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

The Challenges I will attempt to work on in 2022 - and possibly beyond!


I love the diversity of these challenges - something for every palate. I especially love the "now and then" and "this and that" linked challenges. So very interesting. Thank you, Bob!

Will work on these 10 challenges:
Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
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

Not on my plate at this time:
Challenge #2 -
Challenge #13 -

CHALLENGE #1: New & Old TBR


1899 and earlier/Old School
1.  Bleak House (1853: 1,017 pp) by Charles Dickens -
   Finished 05/24/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2.  The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831: 510 pp) by Victor Hugo -
   Finished 03/06/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Crime and Punishment (1895: 565 pp) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1900-1999/New School
4. Winnie-the-Pooh (1926: 161 pp) by A.A. Milne
5.  A Little Princess (1905: 242 pp) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
   Finished 11/12/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
6.  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900: 200 pp) by L. Frank Baum
   Finished 06/16/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My Wild Card Six
7. Beowulf (900: 245 pp) by Unknown
8.  The Time Machine (1926: 94 pp) by H.G. Wells -
   Finished 02/12/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
9. The Innocents Abroad (1869: 560 pp) by Mark Twain
10. The Song of Roland (1115: 194 pp) by Anonymous
11.  Romeo and Juliet (1597: 281 pp) by William Shakespeare
   Finished 10/22/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
12.  The Awakening (1899: 195 pp) by Kate Chopin
   Finished 09/18/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Alternates
A-1. Moby-Dick or, the Whale (1851: 628 pp) by Herman Melville
A-2.  The Pilgrim's Progress (1684: 324 pp) by John Bunyan
     Finished 10/03/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A-3:  Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975: 262 pp) by Elizabeth Peters -
     Finished 05/05/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

CHALLENGE #3: Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge

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.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.

CHALLENGE #6: 2022 Group Reads Challenge


1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.

CHALLENGE #7: Expand Your Horizon with New Authors


1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

CHALLENGE #8: Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?


Select 10 books from any single year of interest.

Read 5 books from this list.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.


Select 10 more books from 100, 50, or 25 years earlier.

Read 5 books from this list.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

CHALLENGE #9: Fiction/Non-Fiction


Select five different subjects of interest and read one fiction and one non-fiction book about that subject.

Read 10 books.


The Siege of Leningrad (WWII):

Fiction: The Siege (2001: 291 pp) by Helen Dunmore
Non-Fiction: The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (1969: 672 pp) by Harrison E. Salisbury


TOPIC 2
Fiction:
Non-Fiction:

TOPIC 3
Fiction:
Non-Fiction:

TOPIC 4
Fiction:
Non-Fiction:

TOPIC 5
Fiction:
Non-Fiction:

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

Select five books from five different centuries, using the same decade for each century you select. They do not have to be consecutive centuries, but they must be the same decade.

Read 5 books:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

CHALLENGE #11: Old and New Linked Categories


Select five categories of your choice. Then select one Old School book (1899 or older) and one New School book (1900-1999) that contains some part or is all about your selected categories.

Example:

Category: Has a murder

Old School: Crime and Punishment
New School: Murder on the Orient Express



CATEGORY 1:
Old School:
New School:

CATEGORY 2:
Old School:
New School:

CATEGORY 3:
Old School:
New School:

CATEGORY 4:
Old School:
New School:

CATEGORY 5:
Old School:
New School:

CHALLENGE #12: A-Z Author Challenge


A:
B:
C:
D:
E:
F:
G:
H:
I:
J:
K:
L:
M:
N:
O:
P:
Q:
R:
S:
T:
U:
V:
W:
X:
Y:
Z:

CHALLENGE #2: Second Place or Worse


A great challenge to discover hidden gems. I may decide to take up this challenge later.

CHALLENGE #13: A-Z Title Challenge


Another great challenge. I may just decide to fill this one in as I go.

Nice to see you joining the challenge Shirley! Good luck and have fun.

Lynn wrote: "Nice to see you joining the challenge Shirley! Good luck and have fun."

Thank you so much, Lynn! I am really looking forward to participating in it again this year. Good luck to you as well!

And here we go again! So glad to see this post...love following you all year long.

Sara wrote: "And here we go again! So glad to see this post...love following you all year long."

How sweet, Sara! Thank you so much! I always enjoy seeing what you pick out to read as well. You are very instrumental in growing my TBR shelf. ☺️