Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Challenge 1: Old and New TBR Challenge
Completed 14/12

Old School
✓1. Moby-Dick or, the Whale-Herman Melville Finished 06/08/22 ****
✓ 2. The Three Musketeers-Alexandre Dumas Finished 10/28/22 ****
✓3. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ-Lew Wallace Finished 01/21/22 ***

New School
✓4. Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak Finished 05/05/22 ***
✓5. The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck Finished 04/14/22 ***
✓6. The Maltese Falcon-Dashiell Hammett Finished 05/22/22 ***

My Wild Card Six
✓ 7. Joan of Arc-Mark Twain Finished 07/06/22 ***
✓ 8. Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe Finished 07/16/22 ***
✓9. Dracula-Bram Stoker Finished 01/30/22 *****
✓10. The Canterville Ghost-Oscar Wilde Finished 05/19/22 ***
11. The Pickwick Papers-Charles Dickens
✓12. Catch-22-Joseph Heller Finished 02/20/22 ****

✓A-1 Howards End-E.M. Forster Finished 10/23/22 ***
✓A-2 Beloved-Toni Morrison Finished 03/23/22 ****
✓A-3 Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass-Isak Dinesen Finished 02/27/22 *****

Challenge #5: Short Story Challenge
Completed 24/24

✓1. A Christmas Memory-Truman Capote Finished 01/01/22 *****
✓2. The Cricket on the Hearth-Charles Dickens Finished 01/05/22 ***
✓3. 84, Charing Cross Road-Helene Hanff Finished 02/09/22 *****
✓4. The Fire Next Time-James Baldwin Finished 02/13/22 *****
✓5. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete-Emily Dickinson Finished 02/22/22 ****
✓6. There Will Come Soft Rains-Ray Bradbury Finished 02/24/22 ****
✓7. White Nights-Fyodor Dostoevsky Finished 03/04/22 ***
✓8. The House on Mango Street-Sandra Cisneros Finished 03/29/22 ***
✓9. Ten Days in a Mad-House-Nellie Bly Finished 03/31/22 ***
✓10. The Return of the Soldier-Rebecca West Finished 04/02/22 ****
✓11. The Magic Shop-H.G. Wells Finished 04/03/22 ****
✓12. Dr. Faustus-Christopher Marlowe Finished 04/06/22 ***
✓13. A Modest Proposal-Jonathan Swift Finished 05/10/22 ***
✓14. The Body Snatcher-Robert Louis Stevenson Finished 05/15/22 ***
✓15. The Thanksgiving Visitor-Truman Capote Finished 05/17/22 *****
✓16. The Lover-Marguerite Duras Finished 06/03/22 **
✓17. The Witness for the Prosecution-Agatha Christie Finished 06/04/22 ****
✓18. The Happy Prince-Oscar Wilde Finished 06/08/22 ***
✓19. The Postman Always Rings Twice-James M. Cain Finished 07/07/22 ***
✓20. The Ballad Of Reading Gaol-Oscar Wilde (Versions 1 & 2) Finished 07/08/22 ***
✓21. Summer-Edith Wharton Finished 07/12/22 ***
✓22. The Chess Story-Stefan Zweig Finished 07/31/22 *****
✓23. The Last Day of a Condemned Man-Victor Hugo Finished 08/07/22 ***
✓24. The Murders in the Rue Morgue - a C. Auguste Dupin Short Story-Edgar Allan Poe Finished 08/07/22 ***

Challenge#6: 2022 Group Reads Challenge
Completed 19/12

1. The Wasteland and other poems Finished 01/31/22 ***
2. Cyrano de Bergerac-Edmond Rostand 02/07/22 *****
3. Bartleby the Scrivener Finished 02/28/22 ****
4. The Library of Babel Finished 03/29/22 ***
5. Persuasion Finished 04/08/22 ***
6. The Hand Finished 04/28/22 ***
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Finished 05/27/22 ***
8. how the poor die Finished 05/31/22 ****
9. Mrs Dalloway-Virginia Woolf Finished 06/10/22 ***
10. The House of the Dead Finished 06/14/22 ***
11. Oedipus Rex Finished 08/22/22 ***
12. Villette Finished 09/19/22 ***
13. The Tempest Finished 09/21/22 ***
14. Thérèse Raquin Finished 09/30/22 ***
15. Berenice Finished 10/08/22 ***
16. The Mark on the Wall Finished 10/28/22 ***
17. The Blithedale Romance Finished 11/04/22 ***
18. Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker-E.T.A. Hoffmann Finished 12/03/22 ***
19. Before the Party-W. Somerset Maugham Finished 12/03/22 ****

Challenge #9: Fiction/Non-fiction
Completed 5/5

✓Vietnam Conflict
F: The Things They Carried-Tim O'Brien 06/19/22 ****
NF: The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey-Gregory L. Vistica 01/24/22 ****

✓U.S. Army Air Force
F: Catch-22-Joseph Heller 02/20/22 ****
NF: Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team-John Steinbeck 07/27/22 ***

✓The Great Depression
F: The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck 04/13/22 ***
NF: The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck 07/29/22 ****
NF: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl-Timothy Egan 09/02/22 ****

✓Russia
F: Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak 05/05/22 ***
NF: The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book-Peter Finn 08/19/22 ****

✓Men & Whales
F: Moby-Dick or, the Whale-Herman Melville 06/08/22 ****
NF: Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex-Owen Chase 07/31/22 ****
NF: The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale-Thomas Nickerson 08/05/22 ****
NF: Why Read Moby-Dick?-Nathaniel Philbrick 08/10/22 ***

Challenge #11: Old and New Linked Categories
Completed 5/5

✓Human Experiments:
OS: The Invisible Man-H.G. Wells 01/26/22 ***
NS: Flowers for Algernon-Daniel Keyes 06/25/22. ****

✓Detectives:
OS: The Sign of Four-Arthur Conan Doyle 11/07/22 ****
NS: The Maltese Falcon-Dashiell Hammett 05/22/22 ***

✓Aliens:
OS: The War of the Worlds-H.G. Wells 06/22/22 ****
NS: The Martian Chronicles-Ray Bradbury 02/24/22 *****

✓Marine Hunting
OS: Moby-Dick or, the Whale-Herman Melville 06/08/22 ****
NS: The Sea Wolf-Jack London 03/28/22 ****

✓Ancient Rome
OS: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ-Lew Wallace 01/21/22 ***
NS: Claudius the God-Robert Graves 07/30/22 ****

Challenge #12: A-Z Title Challenge
Completed 26/26

A: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Arthur Conan Doyle 02/16/22 *****
B: Bleak House-Charles Dickens 05/24/22 *****
C: Cry, the Beloved Country-Alan Paton 12/09/22 ****
D: The Duchess of Malfi-John Webster 11/05/22 ***
E: The End of the Affair-Graham Greene 08/13/22 ***
F: Flush-Virginia Woolf 09/10/22 ***
G: Giovanni's Room-James Baldwin 10/31/22 *****
H: The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood 11/20/22 ***
I: The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoevsky 02/14/22 **
J: Joan of Arc-Mark Twain 07/06/22 ***
K: The Kreutzer Sonata-Leo Tolstoy 05/19/22 ***
L: Leaves of Grass-Walt Whitman 10/25/22 ***
M: The Moonstone-Wilkie Collins 11/16/22 ****
N: The Name of the Rose-Umberto Eco 03/09/22 ***
O: Of Human Bondage-W. Somerset Maugham 11/27/22 ***
P: Picnic at Hanging Rock-Joan Lindsay 09/24/22 ***
Q: Don Quixote-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 10/19/22 **
R: Romeo and Juliet-William Shakespeare 11/10/22 ***
S: Sent for You Yesterday-John Edgar Wideman 12/11/22 ***
T: Twelfth Night-William Shakespeare 01/05/22 ***
U: Uncle Vanya-Anton Chekhov 07/06/22 ***
V: The Vicar of Wakefield-Oliver Goldsmith 07/21/22 ***
W: A Wizard of Earthsea-Ursula K. Le Guin 08/16/22 ***
X: Xingu-Edith Wharton 03/30/22 ****
Y: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze-Elizabeth Foreman Lewis 08/21/22 ****
Z: Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak 05/05/22 ***