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Many have asked about what a "classic" is and what is classified as a classic or not: a Classic novel is one in which that is note-worthy, well-known and exemplary. There are many ways to classify one, one by the book, one by the author... it just depends on what you are looking at. They are widely recognized as a classic as they are timeless, taught through the years and are essentials in that median.

Here are a few lists in which you can scroll through and see if you can pull a few books from!

Required Reading for High School
- I know it is for high schoolers, but most and a lot of these books are the top classified classic novels.

Popular Classics
- More of a wider genre of classics

Stages
Please pick from a stage, you can edit as you read more!

Stage One
Read 1-5 classic books

Stage Two
Read 6-10 classic books

Stage Three
Read 11-15 classic books

Stage Four
Read 16- 20 classic books

Stage Five
Read 21-25 classic books

Stage Six
Read 26-30 classic books

Stage Seven
Read 30 books and more.

Rules
If you are/were within 50 pages of completion on January 1st, 2015, the books is all game!

You can use classics for other challenges! So yes - double up on books!

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Duration
January 1st, 2018 through January 1st, 2019

I am in and I am going for Stage Five

09/25 - Currently at Stage Two

1. The Blue Hotel
2. The Open Boat
3. Ariel: The Restored Edition
4. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
5. Caleb Williams
6. Lyrical Ballads
7. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
8. Mary: A Fiction
9. Matilda

Stage One
Read 1-5 classic books

I’m in for Stage 1

The Count of Monte Cristo byAlexandre Dumas

I'm in!

Stage Two: 6-10 Books
1. Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
2. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
3. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
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I am in!
Stage 2 also!
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
6. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
7. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
10. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi
11. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
13. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
14. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
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I would like to read more classics (I enjoy them and have read more than I realize). Aiming for one a month which leads me to...

Stage 3
1. Grendel by John Gardner
2. Dubliners by James Joyce
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I'm in!!!!


Stage 1
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I’m in

I'm in!

Stage 1

1. Peter Pan 2/10/18; 4 stars
2. The Catcher in the Rye 2/11/18; 4 stars - reread

I'm in for stage 2!

1. Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
2. Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Thomas Mann
3. Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit, Gabriel García Márquez
4. Kabale und Liebe, Friedrich Schiller
5. Die Jungfrau von Orleans, Friedrich Schiller
6. A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond
7. Der Richter und sein Henker, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
8. Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte, Charles Dickens
9. Kloster Northanger, Jane Austen
10. Das fliegende Klassenzimmer, Erich Kästner

I'm so in. Stage 3/4:
1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
2. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey Not sure if this counts..??
4. Dead Souls
5.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
6. Atonement
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
9. A Room with a View
10. Vanity Fair
11. Fathers and Sons
12. Lolita
13. A Farewell to Arms
14. Sons and Lovers
15. Breakfast at Tiffany's
16. The Secret Garden
17. The Handmaid's Tale
18. The Lord of the Rings
19. Lady Chatterly's Lover
20. A Room of One's Own
21. Of Mice and Men
22. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
23. Eugénie Grandet
24. War and Peace

I'm in:
Stage 1
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
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Yay! Glad to see more people getting into classics!

Good morning!

I would like to join. Not sure which stage, but have some ideas.

1. Les Misérables (published 1862) by Victor Hugo (1802-85). I've been reading this off and on since January 1, 2018, after three previous attempts and not finishing. Finished February 22, 2018 on my fourth attempt.
2. Free-Range Lanning (1921) by Max Brand (1892-1944). Western. Max Brand is billed as the most celebrated Western writer. . Finished February 26, 2018.
3. Fathers and Sons (1861) by Ivan Turgenev (1818-83). I have an "alternate cover" version of this Russian classic published by Penguin Books. Finished March 5, 2018.
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (1931) by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970). This is arguably the greatest war novel of all time. Finished March 1, 2018.
5. War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). I know I'm nuts, but I'm male so can't help it.
6. Anne of Green Gables (1908) by L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942). I've wanted to read this Canadian classic since going to Prince Edward Island in 2006 for my great-aunt Margaret's 90th birthday party, and finding out that I'm a second cousin twice removed of the author. ETA 3/20/2018: Finished 3/12/2018.
7. The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope (1815-82).
8. The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas (1802-70).
9. Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton (1608-74).
10. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger (1919-2010).

More anon.

Jim

I’m in for stage 1 The first one I already know I’ve always wanted to read.

Catcher in the rye by Salinger

Excellent! Loving all the books!

Jim wrote: "I know I'm nuts"

Admitting you have a problem is the first step :)

The Catcher in the Rye is actually a reread from high school. I now don't know which book to start; I'm torn among Free Range Lanning, Fathers and Sons, and All Quiet on the Western Front.

Jim

The Catcher in the Rye was a re-read for me too - I upped it from 3 to 4 stars second time around. Again, probably because I was too young to appreciate the message. :)

Good morning!

I have updated my message #15 to reflect my reading of Les Miserables (January 1-February 22, 2018); Free Range Lanning (February 23-26, 2018); and All Quiet on the Western Front (February 27-March 1, 2018). I am on page 134 of 294 (or is it 295?) of Fathers and Sons (which, according to Orlando Figes in his book Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, is in the Russian, *Fathers and Children*).

Jim

Good morning!

Sitting in my wife's house, hunkering down for Winter Storm Quinn, our second nor'easter in less than a week, I finished an alternate cover edition of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.

Jim

Jim wrote: "Good morning!

Sitting in my wife's house, hunkering down for Winter Storm Quinn, our second nor'easter in less than a week, I finished an alternate cover edition of Fathers and Sons ..."

Nice!

Trying to get my classics on!!! Going to really start getting into this

I am going to try for a few more before the end of the year!

Got a few to add in May!! I beat my stage commitment for the year. I wasn't sure I could have completed that many.

Awesome :)

Classics are such good reads

Rachel Skye wrote: "I am in and I am going for Stage Five

09/25 - Currently at Stage Two

1. The Blue Hotel
2. The Open Boat
3. Ariel: The Restored Edition
4. [book:Songs of..."

Got some more in - thank goodness for grad school ;)

Almost over my friends. How did you do?