Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

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

Choose 12 books you want to read and list three alternates, to use as substitutes should one of your choices need to be replaced.

Only six of the 12 books selected are required be Classics based on the Groups definitions, they do not have to come from the groups bookshelf. At least 3 books from the Old School category (published before 1900) and 3 books from the New School category (published between 1900 & 1999). The other six and your three alternates can be any genre or age you wish to read, yes even post 2000.

1899 and earlier/Old School
1 Guy Mannering by Walter Scott - 2/13/22
2 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
3 Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore

1900-1999/New School
1 The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 4/19/22
2 Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
3 The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis - 4/10/22

My Wild Card Six
1 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
2 Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny - 7/16/22
3 The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
4 The Laughing Cavalier by Emmuska Orczy - 3/30/22
5 The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson - 5/14/22
6 The Lake District Murder by John Bude - 1/31/22

Alternates
1 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
2 Greenmantle by John Buchan
3 The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen - 2/17/22

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

Go back through the groups past polls and select seven (7) total books that are of interest to you but lost the poll and to date has never made it to our group bookshelf. Pick two books from New School, two from Old School, two from Short Story/Novella, and one from the Quarterly Long Read.

New School
1. Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
2. These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer

Old School
1. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
2. The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle

Short Story/Novella
1. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
2. The Destructors by Graham Greene

Quarterly Long Read
1. Armadale by Wilkie Collins

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge

The Decade Challenge: Read 10 books from any 10 consecutive years (1 book per year). The authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you. Or you can add a level of difficulty to your challenge by selecting only authors you've never read before.

The Century Challenge: Read 10 books from any 10 consecutive decades (1 book per decade). Authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you. Or you can add a level of difficulty to your challenge by selecting only authors you've never read before.
1 1801 - Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
2 1815 - Guy Mannering - Complete by Walter Scott - 2/13/22
3 1824 - Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
4 1831 - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
5 1844 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
6 1855 - Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
7 1869 - Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
1866 - Armadale by Wilkie Collins
8 1870 - The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
9 1881 - The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
10 1891 - The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Millennium Challenge: Read 10 books from any 10 consecutive Centuries (1 book per century). Authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you. Or you can add a level of difficulty to your challenge by selecting only authors you've never read before.

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge Choose one book per category for a total of 12 books.

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
Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year. Read them all at once or spread them out, it's up to you.

Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge
The challenge is to read 12 of this years group selections. Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new and 12 reread books per year, giving us plenty of choices.

Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, male or female, from any genre or era you want.

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

“Select 10 books from any single year of interest, then select 10 more from 100, 50, or 25 years earlier, for a total of 20 books. List your choices for other members to explore. The challenge is to successfully read 10 of the 20 books selected, five from your year of choice and five from the earlier year chosen.

Pick a year of your choice and then go back in time 100, 50, or 25 years. You can use your birth year, the birth year of a child, a spouse, a parent, or any other year of interest.

Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction

Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Total number of books for this challenge is ten.

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

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

Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

Select five categories of your choice or use some of these sample categories. Once you make your category selections, link the categories by finding and reading an Old School (1899 or older) and a New School book (1900-1999) that contains some part or is all about your selected categories. It will be more interesting and more varied if you come up with your own categories.

A Baker's Dozen Sample Ideas:

Contains a Trial
Has a Murder
Contains Time Travel
Set in or has Winter involved
Coming of Age
Is About a Fallen Woman
Set on or has The Sea involved
Animals
School
Travel
Life Changing Action
Survival
A book that could make you cry

Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge

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