Erica from The Broken Spine is hosting a new reading challenge, Reading Classic Books. I’ve been loving the classics I’ve been reading but a bit of a push never hurts. You can find out more about the challenge at her post. Our hashtag will be #readclassicbooks2020.
THE CATEGORIES: (My potential reads are in italics, but they’re open to change. Books may be used for up to two prompts.)
- Read a classic over 500 pages: Dune by Frank Herbert
- Read a classic by a POC and/or with a POC as the main character: A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
- Read a classic that takes place in a country other than where you live: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Read a classic in translation: Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Read a classic by a new to you author: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
- Read a book of poetry: The Odyssey by Homer
- Read a classic written between 1800-1860: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Read a classic written by an LGBT author and/or with an LGBT main character: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Read a classic written by a woman: The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Read a classic novella: The Man Who Was Thursday by GK. Chesterton
- Read a classic nonfiction: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Read a classic that has been banned or censored: Ulysses by James Joyce