2019 Challenges

The Classics Club. Joined January 2, 2015. Must finish 50 classics by January 1, 2020

1. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (9/17)

2. Our Town by Thornton Wilder (9/18)

3. Washington Square by Henry James

4. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

5. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

6. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (2/16)

7. Neuromancer by William Gibson

8. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (9/17)

9. Night by Elie Wiesel (12/15)

10. Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington (1/16)

11. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (9/16)

12. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (9/17)

13. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  by Roald Dahl (9/17)

14. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (9/18)

15. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlin

16. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

17. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L Baum

18. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (7/15)

19. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

20. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Expury (2/19)

21. The Giver by Lois Lowry

22. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (5/15)

23. 1984 by George Orwell (9/17)

24. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

25. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

25. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (4/17)

26. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (9/18)

27. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines        

28. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

29. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

30. The Chosen by Chaim Potok

31. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

32. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (12/15)

33. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  (2/15)

34. Roll of Thunder Hear, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor  (4/15)

35. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

36. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

37. I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant

38. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (3/18)

39. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

40. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson ( 9/17)

41. A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

42.  Of Human Bondage by Maughan

43. Dracula by Bram Stoker

44. Animal Farm by George Orwell

45. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

46. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (1/15)

47. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

48. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

49. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (10/15)

50. Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck

51. The Once and Future King by TH White

16 thoughts on “2019 Challenges

  1. jennygirl says:

    good luck my friend. No need to enter me, but I have one for Montana: Montana Sky by Nora Roberts. Haven’t read it, but I have a used copy right here if you need it. I would be more than happy to send it to you 🙂

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