Back to the Classics Challenge 2017

Karen at Books and Chocolate is hosting a Back to the Classics Challenge for 2017 (I was so late finding out about it that sign-ups are now closed, but I still plan to do it.) Because of the original challenge (50 Classics in 5 years ), I read 48 books on my list! I loved having the gentle pressure to keep chipping away at my goals. As I neared the end of the challenge, I looked around for a new one and found Karen's today. I have many classics I still want to read so I'm adapting some of them to her requirements.

1.  A 19th century classic - The Scarlet Letter (1850). 4/25/17
2.  A 20th century classic - My Antonia (1918) 6/22
3.  A classic by a woman author. - Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery 6/20/17
4.  A classic originally published in another language.  - The Iliad 10/24

5.  A classic originally published before 1800. - Shakespeare play/Merchant of Venice 11/12
6.  A romance classic. by Trollope or Gaskell (Mary Barton?) 12/20
7.  A Gothic or horror classic. – Picture of Dorian Gray 5/21/17

8.  Classic with a Number in the Title – Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 3/16/17
9.  A classic about an animal  - Old Yeller 10/15/17
10. A classic set in a place you'd like to visit. (real or imaginary) - Secret Garden (re-read)  4/18
11. An award-winning classic - John Adams by David McCullough (Pulitzer)
12. A Russian classic. – Anna Karenina by Tolstoy 4/21

Other classics I hope to read in the next ten years:
13. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
14. Augustine's Confessions 12/18
15. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace DNF
16. The Betrothed by Manzoni 2/24
17. Bleak House by Dickens
18, 19. Two Brazilian Classics (O Alienista 2/18, Iraçema by Alencar 11/17)
20. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
21. Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
22. Chronicles of Wasted Time by Muggeridge
23. The Daughter of Time by Tey
24. Water Babies by Kingsley (re-read) 8/23

25. The Way We Live Now - Trollope
26. Purgatorio by Dante (Ciardi's version) 2/22
27. Dombey and Son by Dickens 12/15/17
28. Everlasting Man by Chesterton 12/18
29. Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy 1/22
30. Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
31. Holy Living and Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor
32. The Inferno by Dante (Longfellow) 11/21
33. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
34. Journal of a Plague Year by Defoe
35.  A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn 10/18
36. Journals of Lewis and Clark
37. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 10/20
38. Kon-Tiki by Heyerdahl
39. Paradiso by Dante 8/23
40. Lilith by George MacDonald 3/18
41. Jungle Book by Kipling 10/17
42. Lark Rise to Candleford 6/18
43. War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
44. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
45. Martian Chronicles by Bradbury
46. Morte d'Arthur by Malory DNF - made it halfway
47. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
48. Phantastes by George MacDonald 2/24
49. Princess and Curdie (re-read) 5/20
50. Red Badge of Courage by Crane
51. Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells
52. Swallows and Amazons by Ransome 11/21








Blessings,