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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, 2019, 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, 2019 through January 1st, 2020

I am in - going for stage Three.

1. A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
3. Suddenly Last Summer
4. A Delicate Balance
5. Three Tall Women
6. Mrs. Dalloway
7. The Glass Menagerie
8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This is just what I need for some extra motivation! I will be aiming for stage three :o will update this post later with books I want to read.

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Classics Challenge 2019

Stage Three

Read 11-15 classics

I read:


Total classics read: 13

I'm in but only for Stage 1. Trying to get to some of those Classics that are on my Want to Read list!

Stage One
Read 1-5 classic books
1.Draculaby Bram Stokercompleted 1/26/19
2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevensoncompleted 2-9-19
3.Lord of the Fliesby William Goldingcompleted 3-13-19
4.
5.

Enter me for a Stage 1 please!

Classic Challenge
1. Anna Karenina
2. For Whom the Bell Tolls
3. The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
5. Sense & Sensibility

Im going for Stage 3

1. Heart of Darkness
2. Rebecca
3. Little Women
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Catch-22
6. 1984
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. The Fellowship of the Ring
9. Anne of Green Gables
10. The Color Purple
11. The Princess Bride

I'm in. Stage three- apparently stage four...

1. Swann's Way
2. Go Tell It on the Mountain
3. Catch-22
Going slooow...
4: The Magician of Lublin
5. The Catcher in the Rye
6. The Little Prince
7. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
8. Play It as It Lays
9. Persuasion
10: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
11. Fahrenheit 451
12. Wide Sargasso Sea
13. The Magic Mountain
14. First Love
15. Story of O
16. Animal Farm
17. The Charterhouse of Parma
18. Middlemarch
19. Anne of Green Gables
20. Seize the Day
21. The Iron Heel
22. Ivanhoe
23. Röda rummet
24. Dracula
25. A Clockwork Orange
26: The Stranger
27: The Time Machine

I'm going to start at stage 1!

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. Antigone

This I will definitely participate in!

Well, a bit of a late comer, but I'm in.

Stage Six

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. Lolita
3. Gone with the Wind
4. The Scarlet Letter
5. Metamorphoses
6. The Histories
7. The Handmaid's Tale
8. The Secret Garden
9. Anna Karenina
10. The Color Purple
11. A Clockwork Orange
12. Mary Poppins (I do want to ''reread'' this whole series this year. Old favorite from middle school.)
13. A Doll's House
14. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
15. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
17. Dracula
18. Persuasion
19. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
20. The Origin of Species
21. The Woman in White
22. Candide
23. Confessions
24. Moll Flanders
25. Die Räuber
26. Don Quixote
27. The Bell Jar
28. In Cold Blood
29. City of God (Please wish me luck on this one, I'm going to need it.)
30. The Arabian Nights

If I drop any of these books, I will have a different classic take their place.

Classics Challenge
Stage 3 11-15 books

READ:
The Giver
The Bell Jar
Jane Eyre
The Princess Bride
Looking for Alaska
The Social Contract
Catch-22

TBR:
The Night Circus
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies
Night
The Master and Margarita
Coraline

1. Beowulf
2. A Wrinkle in Time
3. Henry IV, Part 2
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
5. Henry V
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
7. Henry VIII
8. Middlemarch
9.
10.

Just saw this and I would love to participate. I am at Stage Two right now but I know I will be reading more classics this year.

Read:
1. The Picture of Dorian Grey
2. Anne of Green Gables
3. Anne of Avonlea
4. Interview with the Vampire
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
7. Anne of the Island

8. Anne of Windy Poplars

0o0o0oo Is it too late to join?

Sammy wrote: "0o0o0oo Is it too late to join?"

Never too late to join! 💛