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I'm totally in!
I'll take level 3: 3-8 books. Though I'm sure I'll read more! ;)

Dagny please post some recommendation also (atleast 10, as I have no clue for these amazing books.)

Also I'm designing logos for all challenges, so I'll design for this as well :)

Here's the logo for this challenge:

Dagny wrote: "Here's the first recommendation. Don't worry, I won't make a separate post for each one, but this one deserves special attention since it is THE book that shouldn't be missed. One possible problem ..."

Best book ever!

If both of you (Dagny and Simona) like it so much, then I'm totally game for TCOMC.
I'll get the e-book asap but I'll try and see if my library has it, cause I strongly think that great books should be read in paperback! Thanks Dagny for such great recommendations... I'll try and read as much as possible... hopefully all :)

Dagny wrote: "Heena wrote: " I'll try and read as much as possible... hopefully all :) "


Good for you, Heena! I still have some more I could add, some Russian authors and some more French authors (my favorites..."

That's great Dagny! I look forward to read them :)

Wow! Great reccs Dagny...
I'll take out time and sit and go through the blurbs of all these books :)
Thanks :D

I downloaded almost all the books ;)
Thanks Dagny...

Dagny wrote: "Heena wrote: "I downloaded almost all the books ;)
Thanks Dagny..."

You're so welcome! Ambitious, too. That's one of the great things about the older classics, they're almost all free to the takin..."

Hahah! Indeed!

I'm gonna read Journey to the Center of the Earth and The War of the Worlds for RMFAO 2015 Genre Challenge from the classics for Science-Fiction this month :)

Hi Dagny :)
Can you please suggest some Mystery Classics...?
Also I wanted to know whether Agatha Christie's books can be counted under this challenge???

Heena wrote: "Can you please suggest some Mystery Classics...?"

Hey Heena,
Agatha Christie's are definitely Mystery Classics as are Arthur Conan Doyles, and some of Wilkie Collins'

Check this list out

/shelf/show/...

Dagny wrote:"You know, they probably should. Agatha's first book wasn't published until 1920 though, ..."

I totally agree. We should include works of the '20s/30s

Simona wrote: "Heena wrote: "Can you please suggest some Mystery Classics...?"

Hey Heena,
Agatha Christie's are definitely Mystery Classics as are Arthur Conan Doyles, and some of Wilkie Collins'

Check this lis..."

Great list Simona! Thanks a lot :D
I'll read as many as I can!

Dagny wrote: "SPECIAL NOTICE: Our time frame for the Classic Catchup Challenge has been extended to 1940."

That's great... I'm reading all Hercule Poirot books, as well as Miss Marple books :)
THANKS :D

Dagny wrote: "Another great classic mystery is The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. It's the first in his Richard Hannay series.
Ebook:
Audio: ..."

Thanks for all the reccs Dagny... you're the best!
Also thanks a ton for the links... I'll download 'em all! ha ha ha! I guess I'm gonna go crazy reading all books from Project Gutenberg alone! lol!

Dagny wrote: "Heena wrote: "Also thanks a ton for the links... I'll download 'em all! ha ha ha! I guess I'm gonna go crazy reading all books from Project Gutenberg alone! lol!"

LOL, that's the great thing about..."

Hehehe! I agree! :)

Dagny wrote: "Heena wrote: "I'm reading all Hercule Poirot books, as well as Miss Marple books :) "

If you don't already have it, the first Hercule Poirot book, The Secret Adversary, is at Project Gutenberg."

I'll have to check it. Actually I issued this big book of the entire Hercule Poirot series...
This is the one...

Oh, I just noticed that technically I did not yet sign up on a level for this challenge. Well, I am going to do it now: I will go with level 5 - 12 or more books;

So far I have read Claude's Confession and Le Voeu D'Une Morte;

Next I will tackle some Arthur Conan Doyle and probably some of Agatha Christie's (wheter it's going to be Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple I don't know...)

Dagny wrote: "I now have two classics read this year since the January book at the French Literature group counts under our new guidelines.

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2. The Haunted Hotel"


¹ó²¹²Ô³Ùô³¾²¹²õ seems to be a pretty cool read. I think I will read that one, too! :)

Two Zola books! I've read a lot of Zola including all the Rougon-Macquart novels. ..."

They are both quite enjoyable.
I definitely will read more Zola books. I read some L'Assommoir excerpts when I was in highschool but I never got to read it before.

Dagny wrote: "Simona wrote: "I definitely will read more Zola books."

It's still a work in progress, but here's a Zola site with some good information.
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Great! Thanks :)

I'll join in for the Bookworm level - it's possible I'll read more than 8 since I'm planning to read some Dickens, some Austen and some sci-fi classics this year but I'd rather beat my target than miss it...

Starting with a re-read of A Tale of Two Cities.

Dagny wrote: "Leah wrote: "I'll join in for the Bookworm level - it's possible I'll read more than 8 since I'm planning to read some Dickens, some Austen and some sci-fi classics this year but I'd rather beat my..."

Haha! Good plan for the knitting! I would knit hats, but I don't suppose there would be much call for them...

1940's great - some of the sci-fi I'm planning to read will probably fit in then, and it's an odd year where I don't read at least a couple of classic mysteries. I'll have a little look ahead and see if I might stretch to Scholar level then.

Shellii wrote: "For the Classics Challenge, I have set my goals at Level 4-10 books.For this challenge I have chosen:
The Communist Manifesto
The Sun Also Rises
[book:The White Stag|298523..."

Wow, great selection!

I started Around The World In 80 Days... but I'm getting horrifically annoyed by Verne's writing! It's a DNF for me. Don't wanna waste my time reading (slogging through) just half of it for the entire month!

On to Greenmantle by John Buchan.

Hahaha! Yea... Even I love all his movies! lol!
And I have no clue who Nelly Bly is! Was it in the book?

Wow! That is fast Dagny! Great ya...
I wanted to ask you wether Project Gutenberg has non-fiction books also?
I wanna read about Napoleon and Hitler... do you know any books that I should read?

Thanks a lot Dagny... I'm sorry for troubling you, but you're the only person I know who has so much knowledge about classics... :)

I'll check all of 'em out and will let you know which one I'm gonna read first.

And by the sounds of it, it does sound good! I'll read it as well!

And we have both the months- non fiction (in june) and historical (in nov.)

In classics I'm currently reading Mr. Standfast

I've read some Sherlock Holmes novels/short stories, but for this challenge I am going to consider them only as 1 book. So, I've read 3 classics accountable for tha challange.

Dagny wrote: "Heena wrote: "Thanks a lot Dagny... I'm sorry for troubling you, but you're the only person I know who has so much knowledge about classics... :)"


It's no trouble at all, Heena! I am happy to hel..."

Hahaha! I understand... Generally, even I'm not interested in such books, but my dad's name is Napoleon so wanted to read about him :)
And My great-great Grandfather was in the German Army and fought for Hitler, so I wanted to read about him as well...

Thanks for the recs. :)

Nope... No one in the entire India has that name, but my father!
Actually his birth name was different (it was Abhay) but when my grandfather told him about Napoleon at the age of 4, he changed his name to Napoleon. We have a huge arms and ammunitions factory and so my father became the Emperor of our own small kingdom of guns and bullet. It started as a joke, but later everyone realised that he actually changed his name that day and no one knows him by his real name till now... lol!
So basically I'm the daughter of Napoleon... heheheh! I have always been very proud of him to have chosen the name he likes... I guess I've got my creative bugs from him only ;)

Hehe! Thanks for saying that Dagny! You're so sweet :)
I just wanna read the books to understand what he liked about Napoleon so much that he changed his birth name.

Can you recommend me some romantic classics?

Thanks a lot Dagny! You're saviour! :)
I'll read atleast 2 classics for the romance month as I have a lot of books already on my hands (all mystery...lol!)

Thanks again!

And I wanted to ask that I downloaded an audio book of Three Men In A Boat but it was only 20 minutes long. As it is my first audio-book, I don't have any clue about how much long they are supposed to be. What do you think? Is it the complete book or just part of it?

Thanks a lot Dagny... i'll check it out and let you know... :)

Dagny wrote: "The ONE book that I recommend for a classic romance is Madame Bovary. A super good book that I think I may have mentioned..."

Dagny, I went with your recommendation for Madame Bovary and I gotta say I very much enjoyed it. I wrote a review, though I really am not big on reviewing classics since I always feel like I cannot make them justice. Bottom line, I think it truly is a beautiful story; so I decided to go on with the adulterous and pick up Lady Chatterley's Lover as my 5th classic for this year.

Dagny wrote: "Simona wrote: "Dagny, I went with your recommendation for Madame Bovary and I gotta say I very much enjoyed it. I wrote a review, though I really am not big on reviewing classics since I always fee..."

Yeah, me too. Like War and Peace or Crime and Punishment. Wonderful stories, but complicated style. But I like it when I have to concentrate. That's what "classic" means to me. They are always the books I read with the most attention.

However, Madame Bovary was actually an easy very pleasant read. I am really happy I decided to read it.

So far, I am really enjoying Lady Chatterley's Lover.

OMG! I'm lagging far far behind!!!
I'll start with my classic reads next month.

Anyways, @Dagny sorry for getting back to you so late, but seems like no one I know reads Indian literature! lol! But here's a list of some great Indian classic reads: /shelf/show/...
I hope it'll help you pick up atleast one.

I'm sure this list has Ramayana and Mahabharata... they are our holly books. Mythology and all. Mahabharata is full of Game Of Thrones type stuff: love, violence, morals, family, The Ultimate War, good, evil, loyalty, etc.
Ramayana is more like an intense fairytale... I'll recommend Ramayana for sure. :)

Dagny wrote: "I've ordered The Leopard which Simona recommended. Not sure if it was originally published long enough ago to qualify, but I've heard of it before and want to read it anyway at some point"

Yeah, The Leopard dates back to the 1950s, so technically it does not qualify. It's still a great Italian classic, a must read in our schools (or at least it was considered as such by my teachers). But of course I am partial to it ;) I hope you enjoy it when you eventually get to read it, Dagny. It's one of my all time favourites. When I was 16 I was obsessed with the movie and madly in love with Tancredi...

Yeah, it's historical. It's set in the period when Garibaldi and his 1000 marched on Sicily to unify the whole of Otaly under the Savoia kings.
My teacher used to brag that he (Garibaldi) slept in her ancestors' town home.

Glad you can squeeze it in fpr historical month. Didn't occur to me.

#6, The Mysteries of Marseille by Zola.

I really am enjoying my Zola moments )though sometimes I have trouble keeping my attention trained on the story when all that political stuff comes up) so I am pretty sure I will read a lot more of his in 2015. Next in line Madeleine Férat which is the last of his early novels.

I don't think I can manage to squeeze some more Classics in for this month,but I have whole bunch on hand for May's Classic challange. I am trying to mix it up as much as I can.

Ivanhoe
Suite Française
The Brothers Karamazov
Some Zola, of course. I'd like to read at least two of the The Rougon-Macquart Cycle.
Probably some Fairy-Tales, too.

Should I manage to go through this selection, I will tackle the ever-growing pile of Classics I keep next to my bed ;)

I got my hands on the Delphi Classics edition of the Complete Works of Zola. It isn't really handy to drag around, but it makes due to the fact that there are all his novels, short stories and essays.

Your going full on French Literature, then :) very cool.

It gets tedious, doesn't it? Sometimes I am tempted to skip some pages, but I drag myself through it - wouldn't feel right otherwise.

I will definitely start with The Fortune of the Rougons, thanks :)
I aim to read as many as I can.

Dagny wrote: "You can check the translators. Any that are Vizetelly, you can probably find eBooks at Project Gutenberg. The public domain translations are very satisfactory for most of Zola's books, but if that's what you'd be reading anyway, you can give yourself a break from the monster-sized book.
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It's getting warm and sunny here. I love to read outside, maybe even at the beach and such a big book hardly fits into my purse. Checking out Project Gutenberg would be the smartest thing to do. Thanks again!

Dagny wrote: "Simona wrote: "Dagny wrote: "You can check the translators. Any that are Vizetelly, you can probably find eBooks at Project Gutenberg. The public domain translations are very satisfactory for most ..."

Oh, well, no harm done ;)

Turns out there's always time for another Zola. #7 Madeleine Férat. Reminds me of Thérèse Raquin which so far is my favourite.

#8 The Fortune of the Rougons

@Dagny, I hadven't read that many of Zola's books, but Therese Raquin is my favourite so far.
I liked The Fortune of the Rougonsvery much and it's a close second

Dagny wrote: "My very favorite Zola novel is L'Assommoir."

Looking forward to it :)

#9 La Curée by Zola (Rougon-Macquart #2);

Hi y'all!
I've been reading Lolita and The Old Man and the Sea. Since we are counting only classics up until the 40s I won't consider them for the challange. I am well on track anyways and I just wanted to read them.

Anyways, I came across this article, , and wanted to share it with you guys.

#10 La signora delle camelie by Alexandre Dumas fils