Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge
Most are books on my shelf, many for my own Pulitzer goal.

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
2. ✅ Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 5/8/24
3. The Invisible ManH.G. Wells

1900-1999/New School - Pulitzer winners
4. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 1921
5. Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener, 1948
6. ✅Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller, 1934 2/13/2024

My Six Bookshelf Dust Collectors - Pulitzer winners
7. The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson, 2012
8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2007
9. ✅ March by Geraldine Brooks, 2006 4/27/24
10. Tinkers by Paul Harding, 2010
11. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, 2017
12. The Known World by Edward P. Jones, 2004

Alternates
A-1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 2003
A-2. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, 1977
A-3. Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction by Edith Wharton, 1911

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge

1. 1808 -Faust, First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. 1812 - The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
3. 1826 - The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
4. 1836 - The Little Mermaid byHans Christian Andersen
5. 1842 - The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
6. ✅ 1852 - Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 5/8/24
7. 1865 - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
8. 1877 - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
9. 1884 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
10. ✅ 1899 - The Awakening by Kate Chopin 2/17/2024

Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads Challenge
Read 12 total books/stories from this year's group poll winners, any categories
1. ✅ Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery 1/3/24
2. ✅ The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine of Hippo 1/10/24
3. ✅ Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller 2/13/24
4. ✅ The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 2/19/24
5. ✅ Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 2/29/24
6. ✅ Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 3/18/24
7. ✅ The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges 3/31/24
8. ✅ On the Beach by Nevil Shute 4/18/24
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Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon with New Authors
Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read. They've been waiting on my bookshelf patiently!

1. Ulysses by James Joyce1922, 783p
2. The Sound and the Furyby William Faulkner 1929, 366p
3. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 1913, 654p
4.Rabbit, Run by John Updike 1960, 337p
5. Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Kurt Vonnegut Jr.., 1969, 275p
6.Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955, 368p

You have a great Old and New list. Lamb in His Bosom is on my reread list. I hope you like it. I remember it fondly. I also have Ulysses and Sons and Lovers. Have a good year!

Have fun with your buffet reading!

Matt wrote: "Good luck on your buffet EvenB!"

Thanks Matt!

Bob wrote: "You have a great Old and New list. Lamb in His Bosom is on my reread list. I hope you like it. I remember it fondly. I also have Ulysses and Sons and Lovers..."

Thanks Bob! I keep chiseling away at the various lists of "great / masterpieces / best / prize winning" literature.

Happy reading!

Wobbley wrote: "Have fun with your buffet reading!"

Thanks Wobbley! Enjoy your buffet reading too!

Nice list, EvenB! I will also be reading Lamb in His Bosom. There is a Buddy Read planned for February -- hope you can join in! :)

Terris wrote: "Nice list, EvenB! I will also be reading Lamb in His Bosom. There is a Buddy Read planned for February -- hope you can join in! :)"

I've never participated in a Buddy Read. This sounds like a good time to try it. Thanks!