Thursday, January 3, 2008

Classics Challenge

Although I'm hoping to focus a bit more on modern literature this year, I can't pass up doing the Classics Challenge (CL) again, especially after successfully reading 25 classics in 2007. In 2008 I'll be aiming to read 25 books again.

CL reading in 2008: (currently reading)
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Graham Greene: The Third Man & The Fallen Idol
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Richard Matheson: I am Legend
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Charles Webb: The Graduate
Nathanael West: The Day of the Locust
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey


TBR books that qualify for the CL challenge (max 25 listed):
Note: Books in italics have been read.
Richard Adams: Watership Down
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
AB Facey: A Fortunate Life
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale
May Gibbs: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Frank Herbert: Dune
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
CS Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
Charles Webb: The Graduate
Nathaniel West: The Day of the Locust
John Wyndham: The Chrysalids

Other CL books I'd like to own and read (max 10 listed):
Note: Books in italics have been bought.
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
William S Burroughs: Junky
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Graham Greene: The Third Man
James Joyce: Ulysses
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Baroness Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

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