As 2018 approaches I have been looking at the various Reading Challenges out there and I have decided to try the one hosted by Karen K who runs the Book review website Books and Chocolate. The challenge is to read 12 Classics in 2018 one from each category listed below and here are my choices:
A 19th Century Classic - New Grubb Street by George Gissing. I read his book The Odd Women years ago in which the lead character is a 19th century suffragette and Gissing portrays both her and women's suffrage in an understanding and respectful light. Very impressed with the Odd Women so now time to read the classic that Gissing is most known for, New Grubb Street.
A 20th Century Classic - There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. My niece Brianna gave me this book over Thanksgiving. Always meant to read it and based on the first few pages that I skimmed, it's good.
A Classic by A Woman Author - Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte. Read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and I don't want to leave Anne out.
A Classic In Translation - The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. It's a great classic and written in the 14th century. I have a pretty good translation too which is key.
A Classic of Children's Literature - Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I love the series and now its time to read the books.
A Classic Crime Story (Fiction or Non Fiction) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Haven't read her in decades but I remember how much I enjoyed her books and this book is considered one of her best.
A Classic Travel or Journey Narrative (fiction or non fiction) Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyon. One of the many yet to be read books stored in my kindle and so it's now or never.
A Classic With A Single Word Title - Belinda by Maria Edgeworth. Jane Austen was a fan of this author.
A Classic With A Color in The Title - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Newberry Award Winner set in Puritan New England in the 1600's. .
A Classic by An Author that's New To You - The Trial by Franz Kafka. Never read him but have become curious based on a review of his diaries in Literary Hub.
A Classic that Scares You - Sound and Fury by William Faulkner. Heard his books are difficult but we'll see.
Reread A Favorite Classic - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Read this in high school and loved it. Big Steinbeck fan.
I plan to read and review many other books in 2018 but the above books are definitely on my to do list.
Good choice of books! I love a lot of these: Belinda, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Little House in the Big Woods, and of course, Witch of Blackbird Pond. Looks like you're going to have a good year of reading. :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Lark. These challenges a good way to prompt us to read books we never would have thought of.
ReplyDeleteNice list! I might also include There Eyes Were Watching God and Tenant of Wildfell Hall in my 2018 list. And MAYBE also a Faulkner title. He terrifies me too!
ReplyDeleteHi Ruthiella, Good luck with your list! I was going to put Ulyssees by Joyce in books that scare me but the size of that book and I also heard it was stream of conscience filled with run on sentences scared me too much but its a great novel.
DeleteI have read a few classics and not loved them, I do aim to try and read more, I have Of Mice and Men on my tbr xxx
ReplyDeleteLainy http://www.alwaysreading.net
Hi Lainy,
DeleteI would recommend Of Mice and Men. Not a very long book and its the book many who become lifelong Steinbeck fans, myself included, first read and fall in love with.