The Back to Classics Challenge
(All books must have been written at least 50 years ago; therefore, books must have been written by 1967 to qualify for this challenge. See all the rules at Books and Chocolate, and sign up!)
1. A 19th Century Classic - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
2. A 20th Century Classic - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
3. A classic by a woman author. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. A classic in translation. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
5. A classic published before 1800. Shakespeare OR She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
6. An romance classic. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
7. A Gothic or horror classic. Dracula by Brom Stoker
8. A classic with a number in the title. Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
9. A classic about an animal. Animal Farm by George Orwell
10. A classic set in a place you'd like to visit. Good-Bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton (England)
11. An award-winning classic. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Wikipedia: Nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction of the year (1938). More recently, the book has been recognized as "Most Important 20th-Century Novel (for Older Readers)" in the Children's Books of the Century poll in Books for Keeps.
12. A Russian Classic. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
My Personal Picks
With Ambleside Online Book Discussions or other Pre-reading
Euclid's Elements
Finish The New World, then onto the third volume of History of the English-Speaking Peoples, by Churchill
Health and Education
Smart but Scattered by Dawson and Guare
Food Chaining by Fracker et al
The Adrenal Reset Diet by Christianson
The Living Page by Bestvater
Christianity and Self-Help
Finish The Holy War by Bunyan
Discipline, The Glad Surrender by Elliot
Teach Me to Pray by Murray
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