2025 Reading Challenge discussion

CLASSICS CHALLENGE
Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2015

Most of us have plenty of classic books on our to-read lists for longer than we'd like to admit. May's theme is "classics," so it's the perfect time to check some of those books off of our lists! If you're interested, simply sign up with the number of classic books you plan to read this month.

If you need ideas, there are a couple of listopias that might help:
Must Read Classics
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Also, if you're participating in this month's group read, don't forget to count The Bell Jar toward your goal.

Scott has volunteered to lead this challenge. Thank you, Scott!

Okay I'm in for four.


Challenge Status

Alex 0/1
Alicia 4/4 ★
Allison 0/2
Anna 0/3
Anna 0/4
Ariel 7/7 ★
Ashley 5/5 ★
Cassandra 4/5
Charity 5/3 ★
ChrisP 4/2 ★
Daisys 0/3
Elsbeth 0/4
Emma 9/5
Erika 0/4
Fallon 1/2
Hala 4/4 ★
Ilona 0/1
Jenny 3/5
Jodi 0/3
Joanne 1/3
Kadijah 3/3 ★
Kathryn 1/4
Karin 3/3
Kimberly 2/2 ★
Laurie 4/4 ★
Lulu 2/2 ★
Lynn 5/5 ★
Jenny 5/5 ★
Jodie 0/10
Joanne 3/3 ★
Maria 5/5 ★
Mary Pat 2/2 ★
Melissa 5/5 ★
Michele 3/3 ★
Natalie 3/3 ★
Rachel 0/2
Sally 0/3
Sarah 1/1 ★
Scott 5/4 ★
Stephanie 4/4 ★
Susan 4/4 ★
Terah 1/1 ★
Titiana 0/4
the-perks-of-war 0/2
Winter 3/3 ★

Put me down for four as well.

Planning to read:
Gone with the Wind ✔
The Woman in White ✔
Zuleika Dobson ✔
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ✔

3/4 complete

Ill try for five.

I'll go for four (wish I'd held off on reading The Bell Jar - I read it March...)


1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle read 5/4/2015
2. The Secret Garden read 5/6/2015
3. Cold Comfort Farm read 5/10/2015
4. The Daughter of Time read 5/11/2015

4/4
Challenge completed!

I don't know how many I'll read for sure aince I'm in the hospital but this is one of my goals. Put me down for 2.

Here's a link to the books I intend to read for this challenge. As it turns all four are part of other challenges for this year.

Put me down for 3 for now.

5/3

1. Death of a Salesman 5/6/15
2. Pride and Prejudice 5/9/15
3. The Time Machine 5/11/15
4. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 5/25/15
5. Lord of the Flies 5/27/15

Put me down for 1 book

To Kill a Mockingbird completed

Awesome! Is anyone interested in leading? It's fun and not hard to do even if you haven't led a challenge before.

I'm going to be ambitious and try five. I have so many classics on my to-read list!

[7|7] Completed - DONE


1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
3. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
4. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
6. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
7. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

I'm gonna try 4, since I'm planning to read:
1. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

finished: 0/4

Put me down for 2

I'll try 5.

Winter: 3 books

Classics Challenge

Duration: May 1 - May 31, 2015

Goal: Read three classics in May.

1. Thaïs, Anatole France
2. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

3/3

I'll lead the challenge unless someone else really wants to

Thank you, Scott! Let me know if you have any questions about leading, but you can track progress however you want.

Ariel (mots_femme) wrote: "I'd like to go for 6 to begin with, please.

[0|7] Completed


1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. The War of the Worlds by [author:H.G. Wells|880..."

And the 1001 list ? ;)

Put me down for 2

Put me down for 3. I've been meaning to read more classics and this will also help me with my listopia challenge!

I'll try 5.
5/5

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (May 01
Hamlet - William Shakespeare (May 17)
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (May 10)
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Art of War - Sun Tzu (May 29)
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare (May 31)

Okay I added everybody's status to the top of the thread.

Winter wrote: "And the 1001 list ? ;) "

Exactly! lol

I would like to try for 4 please!

Erika I added you to the challenge

Your in Stephanie

I'll do 3.

1) To Kill A Mockingbird
2) One Hundred Years Of Solitude
3) Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone

I would like to try to read 3 classics, please.

I'd like to sign up for 5 classics....but some of the books I'd choose are not on the suggested lists. I haven't seen any definition of what makes a book a classic. Could we consider books 30-50 years old classics (same as cars) or do we mean great books only?

Added Daisys, Michele and Lynn

Lynn feel free to use whatever definition you like. I think the lists above are just for suggestions.

I have so many classics on my tbr list. Unfortunately, I hardly have time to read these days, so my goal will be to read at least one.

I also have lots of classics on my TBR list. I'm going to try for 3 this month.

3/3 COMPLETE

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - 14/5/15
2. Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie - 26/5/15
3. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - 28/5/15

I'll try for 2.

2/2

✔1. The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
✔2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Added Ilona, Joanne and Lulu

Scott wrote: "Added Daisys, Michele and Lynn

Lynn feel free to use whatever definition you like. I think the lists above are just for suggestions."

Thanks Scott.....then it's easy to pick classics from my shelves that aren't too virtuous to be fun.

✔True Grit by Charles Portis -- 05/18/15
✔The Getaway by Jim Thompson -- 05/07/15
✔A Death in the Family by James Agee -- 05/17/15
✔The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien -- 05/05/15
✔Persuasion by Jane Austen -- 05/13/15

5/5 Challenge complete on 5/18!

Put me down for 5 please.


✔1. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
✔2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
✔3. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
✔4. The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
✔5. Behind a Mask -Or- A Woman's Power, A.M. Barnard (Louisa May Alcott)

5/5

Challenge Completed

Ariel (mots_femme) wrote: "I'd like to go for 6 to begin with, please.

[0|7] Completed


1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. The War of the Worlds by [author:H.G. Wells|880..."

I'm planning to read The Picture of Dorian Gray too. Good luck!

Added Jenny

Nice picks Lynn I like to see Western, Crime and Southern classics included.

Thanks Scott. I'm in for 5 though, not seven. :-)

Put me down for 3, please.

#1. Pride and Prejudice
#2. The Bell Jar.
#3. Till We Have Faces
#4. The Portrait of Dorian Gray (I'm hoping to start soon).

3/3 done...hoping to make it 4/3 by the end of the month!

okay corrected Jenny and added Kadijah

Put me down for 10.

1. the adventures of huckleberry fin
2. Oliver twist
3 the secret garden
4. Emma
5. the three musketeers
6. crime and punishment
7. hobbit
8. The Bell Jar
9. the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
10 around the world in eighty days

list done going to be busy this month I think.

I'm in for 3:

1. The Alchemist
2. Peter Pan
3. The Bell Jar

Jodie and Anna have been added

So far 28 people in the challenge

I'll try for 2!

I will try for 4.

update - read 9/5.
1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
2.The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3.Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
4. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L Baum
5. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
6. War Horseby Michael Morpurgo
7. Number the StarsLois Lowry
8. Love's Labour's Lostby shakespeare
9. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Updated Allison, Kathryn, and Emma

One way to see if other goodreads users think a book is a classic or not is to look at the classics bookshelf. If you think a book should be a classic just add it to your classics bookshelf so other users see this.

May Challenge 2015-Classics
I will try for 3