Roof Beam Reader
Adam Burgess
Back to the Classics 2013
This is the second of two year-long challenges that I’ll be participating in during 2013 (the other being my own 2013 TBR Pile Challenge). I’m taking part in this one because 1) Sarah is awesome; 2) The challenge has some great twists, including selecting books based on categories within the massive “Classics” canon; and 3) it will help me make progress toward completion of my Classics Club list.
THE CATEGORIES:
The Required Categories:
- A 19th Century Classic: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- A 20th Century Classic: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- A Pre-18th or 18th Century Classic: Emma by Jane Austen
- A Classic that relates to the African-American Experience: Beloved by Toni Morrison
- A Classic Adventure: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- A Classic that prominently features an Animal: Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Optional Categories:
- Re-read a Classic: Animal Farm by George Orwell
- A Russian Classic: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A Classic Non-Fiction title: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- A Classic Children’s/Young Adult title: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- Classic Short Stories: Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
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