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Jan: Read a classic from your TBR list purchased before 2025 - Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Feb: Read a gothic classic - Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
March: Read a classic children's book - The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
April: Read a classic memoir - The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
May: Reread a favorite classic - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
June: Read a classic book 500 + pages - Men To Match My Mountains by Irving Stone
July: Read a book Jane Austen might have read - Self-Control by Mary Brunton
August: Read a classic in translation - The Red And The Black by Stendahl
Sept: Read a Shakespeare comedy - Much Ado About Nothing
Oct: Read a science fiction classic - Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Nov: Read a classic essay or book of essays - Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Dec: Read a classic Christmas short story - A Christmas Dream, And How It Came To Be by Louisa May Alcott
Thank you to Anne and I love these prompts because they challenge us to read books we otherwise would never have thought of reading.
Hope everyone had a great holiday and a happy and healthy 2025 and alot of good reading!
Now this is sounds very interesting indeed. I like most of the prompts, not so keen on the Shakespeare one but I could probably manage Much Ado About Nothing as I love the film. I'll think about it. Nice to see Dragonflight on your list, one of my all time favourite science fiction books. I certainly have plenty I could read for that prompt!
ReplyDeleteHi Cath: It's such a great challenge. I wanted to put Dragonflight on the list because I have been hearing about McCaffrey series for decades and the fact that the series features dragons is so fascinating. I look forward to seeing your choices for the prompts!
ReplyDeleteThese are great prompts! And fun that you found another Classics challenge. I really miss Karen's. I love Walden, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. And I read Dragonwyck back in 2016 and remember liking it. And I've read and love all of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels, so I hope you enjoy Dragonflight! Happy reading all of these. :D
ReplyDeleteI was searching for another classics challenge and so glad I found this one. I am looking forward to Dragonflight because dragons are such a great subject for a novel and I have heard good things about this series.
ReplyDeleteAnd Walden is a good way to start the New Year.
This is a good challenge. I liked the Back To The Classics Challenge although I never successfully finished it. And I like the prompts for this one. The problem is that I could not schedule particular reads for a month. I will follow your reading in this area. I especially like "Read a classic Christmas short story" in December which should be easy.
ReplyDeleteI liked The Back To The Classics Challenge too but I think the prompts on this one are easier. Agree scheduling a book for a particular month is a chalenge. I hope to be in the mood each month for the book I choose. But I will commit!
DeleteI like your list. Perhaps I will join you for April and The Big Sea. I love Langston Hughes' poetry and I'm curious about his memoir. I think I have an e-book copy from a sale. What a good pick! The Harlem Renaissance must have been a fascinating time & place.
ReplyDeleteI first heard about Langston Hughes' memoir The Big Sea from Jane at Reading Writing Working Playing. And it's a memoir of Langston's early life up to his twenties. He wrote another memoir years later I Wonder As I Wonder. I hope you read the Big Sea and I look forward to your review!
ReplyDeleteI haven't done a classics challenge in a few years, and I 've noticed that my classics reading has taken a nose dive! I may join in on this one, especially since 50 years ago is 1975! Wow!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed The Big Sea when I read it a couple of years ago--I knew very little about Langston Hughes and it was a wonderful way to get to know the man and his early works.
I also loved Men to Match My Mountains--I like Irving Stone, and this was a particularly good book about my home state.
I also am a fan of Wuthering Heights--great, ground-breaking novel.
I will be eager to read your posts as you work your way through these classics.
Hi Jane, this sounded when I first came upon Anne's podcast like a really fun challenge and I will be eager to read your reviews of the books you choose for the Challenge. And thank you for your post about The Big Sea which I would never have known about otherwise. I know Langston Hughes as a poet but didn't know he wrote his memoirs
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about how without a classics challenge our reading of the classics can take a nose dive. And when I look back at the many classics I can now say I have read it was due primarily to the Back To The Classics Challenge and their prompts.