2013 Back to the Classics Challenge

Back to the Classics Challenge

Now, for the Back to the Classics Challenge 2013:

 Click HERE for details and to sign up.

The Required Categories:

1. A 19th Century Classic  Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
2. A 20th Century Classic  The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
3. A Pre-18th or 18th Century Classic:  The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
4. A Classic that relates to the African-American Experience - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 
5. A Classic Adventure  Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
6. A Classic that prominently features an Animal - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Optional Categories:

    A.  Re-read a Classic  Animal Farm by George Orwell 

   B.  A Russian Classic  The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   C.  A Classic Non-Fiction title  The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

   D.  A Classic Children's/Young Adult title  The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

   E.  Classic Short Stories - Tales of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe

2013 TBR Pile Challenge

Hosted by Adam at RoofBeamReader.com

Click HERE for official rules and info.  The bottom line is that I pledge to read my list of 12 books (or substitute either of the two alternates) by the end of 2013.  The books on my list have been in my TBR pile for at least a year!



My official Sign Up Post.

My List:

1.  A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
2.  The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (DNF)
3.  The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
4.  O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
5.  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
6.  Looking for Alaska by John Green
7.  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenistsyn
8.  Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
9.  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
10.  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
11.  When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
12.  The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Alternates:

1.  Divergent by Veronica Roth
2.  The Lord of the Flies by William Golding