#ClassicsCommunity2020 : wrap-up

At the beginning of 2020, Lucy the Reader initiated the following challenge : 

 

 

(basically, a year-long readathon where we read as many classics as possible.)
The #ClassicsCommunity is an Internet-based reading group and challenge for anyone who loves classics or wants to read more of them.

You could set your own goals - or take part in the baseline challenge to read at least 12 classics during the year - such as 'read 3 Victorian classics' or 'read 25 classics during 2020' or 'read 5 Russian classics'. The number one aim was to have fun ! And I had !

 

During this year 2020, I have read/re-read 64 novels and short stories, classics and modern classics - each title is linked to the review :

 

- Jane Austen : The beautiful Cassandra, Emma, Love and freindship, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sanditon, Sense and sensibility, The Watsons

- Boccaccio : Mrs Rosie and the priest and other stories

- Ray Bradbury : The machineries of joy

- The Brontës : Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell

- Anne Brontë : Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

- Charlotte Brontë : The professor

- Emily Brontë : Poems, Wuthering heights

- Frances Hodgson Burnett : The secret garden

- Samuel Butler : The way of all flesh

- Agatha Christie : The ABC murders, Elephants can remember, The man in the brown suit, Poirot investigates, The secret of Chimneys, Hercule Poirot's Christmas

- Wilkie Collins : The haunted house

- Dinah Craik : Olive

- Thomas de Quincey : On murder considered as one of the fine arts

- Charles Dickens : A Christmas carol, The Pickwick papers

- Arthur Conan Doyle : Memories and adventures, A study in scarlet, The sign of four, The adventures of Conan Doyle

- Daphne du Maurier : The doll, The loving spirit

- Elizabeth Gaskell : The life of Charlotte Brontë

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : The yellow wall-paper

- George Gissing : The odd women

- Anna Katherine Green : The affair next door

- Gerald Manley Hopkins : As kingfishers catch fire

- Molly Hughes : A London child of the 1870s

- James Joyce : Dubliners

- Lucy Maud Montgomery : Anne of Green Gables

- Barbara Pym : Excellent women

- The saga of Gunnlaug serpent tongue

- Mary Shelley : Frankenstein

- Robert Louis Stevenson : Treasure island

- Bram Stoker : Dracula

- Jonathan Swift : A modest proposal

- J.R.R. Tolkien : The Hobbit, The lord of the rings

- Anthony Trollope : The warden, Barchester towers, Doctor Thorne, Christmas at Thompson Hall, Christmas day at Kirby Cottage

- Mary Wesley : The camomille lawn

- Rebecca West : The return of the soldier

- Oscar Wilde : The ballad of the Reading gaol

- P.G. Wodehouse : Jeeves and the feudal spirit

- Virginia Woolf : Londres (in French)

- Emile Zola : Germinal

I loved it so much that I intend to follow through with #ClassicsCommunity2021 !

If you want to join, even for just one book, please click on the link that will take you to the Goodreads group.