2025 Classics Reading Challenge

 
Hosted by tea and ink society

All books should have been written / published before 1970.

These are the categories and my committed titles:

JANUARY

A book found at a used bookstore : Clark: The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)

FEBRUARY

Russian novel or short story : Pasternak : Doctor Zhivago (1957)

MARCH

Something about pioneers / immigrants : Parkman : The Oregon Trail (1849)

APRIL 

A book from your own turf (hometown) : Selden : Cricket in Times Square (New York City) (1960)

MAY 

Something you were supposed to read in school : Emerson : The Portable Emerson (1946)

JUNE

A book in or about nature : Muir : My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)

JULY

A sci-fi : Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

AUGUST 

A book by an author you read once : Bainton : Reformation of the 16th Century (1835)

SEPTEMBER

Something about WWI or II : Remarque : All Quiet on the Western Front (1928)

OCTOBER 

A book by Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility (1811)

NOVEMBER

Romantic poetry : Wordsworth 

DECEMBER

A book from or about Medieval or Renaissance : Bulfinch : Bulfinch's Mythology (1959)

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Several of these are re-reads. Re-reads are important to me because if it is a good story, I want to read it again, and maybe again and again. There is so much more to gain and understand when you can revisit a story. I know there are countless more good stories out there that I have not read, but for now, I want to go deeper into the ones I have already fallen in love with. 

Also, there are a couple that are on my unreads list, and I am working on reading all of them out of existence. 

One of these I will listen to an audio version because it was so enjoyable when I listened to it with my kids many years ago. 

I am really excited about this list, and I hope I can complete it. God willing!