Back to the Classics Challenge 2011 hosted by Sarah Reads Too Much.
This challenge is open to anyone who would like to participate. You can join in at any point. If you do not have a blog of your own, please feel free to update using the Comments section of this post. This is intended to be a stress-free challenge to be completed within 6 months. The Challenge will be open from January - June 2011. You can list you book choices before the challenge starts, or as you go along.... whatever works best for you.
The goals to complete:
The titles I plan to read will be listed in red.
Completed titles will be listed in blue, with links to the review.
A Banned Book... The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
A Book with a Wartime Setting (can be any war)... For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (on hold), Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
A Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) Winner or Runner Up... Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A Children's/Young Adult Classic... Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
19th Century Classic... Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Gambler by Feodor Dostoyevsky
20th Century Classic... This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, On the Road by Jack Kerouac
A Book you think should be considered a 21st Century Classic... A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Re-Read a book from your High School/College Classes... The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
19th Century Classic... Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Gambler by Feodor Dostoyevsky
20th Century Classic... This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, On the Road by Jack Kerouac
A Book you think should be considered a 21st Century Classic... A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Re-Read a book from your High School/College Classes... The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
