There are three categories in my personal reading challenge with all books identified beforehand. I might have more success with these categories and the first two will at least attack my TBR pile. There'll be individual reviews for the books in those categories then one master post detailing my thoughts on the rereads of the third category.
This post will be updated throughout the year with links. Theoretically.
Challenge One - TBR Pile
Twenty books taken from my TBR bookcase. Only stipulation is that they can't be classics - they get a list of their own.
- The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
- Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas
- Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg
- Author, Author by David Lodge
- Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
- The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens ed. Jenny Hartley
- Love Game: A History of Tennis by Elizabeth Wilson
- Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth
- Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
- The Debs of Bletchley Park by Michael Smith
- Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010 ed. Ruth Winstone
- The Walk by Robert Walser
- Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard
- Underworld London by Catharine Arnold
- The Bletchley Girls by Tessa Dunlop
- Virginia Woolf by Mary Ann Caws
- Cathedrals and Castles by Henry James
- The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders
- Too Many Mothers by Roberta Taylor
- The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
Challenge Two - Classics Challenge
Twenty books taken from my TBR classics Kindle list and bookcase. I should really have read some of these already and several of these have been on TBR lists for the last few years.
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells
- Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
- The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins
- Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- The Europeans by Henry James
- Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The Evil Guest by J.S. Le Fanu
- Born in Exile by George Gissing
- The Whirlpool by George Gissing
- The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume
- Charlotte's Inheritance by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Henry Dunbar by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
- In the Days of My Youth by Amelia Edwards
Challenge Three - Rereading Challenge
I don't reread enough and I want to. Reorganising my books a few months ago reminded me how many fantastic books I have that I'd like to read again. This list is longer than the first two for a very good reason - Harry Potter has seven books in itself!
- Tell it to the Bees by Fiona Shaw
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Green Mile by Stephen King
- The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
- Westwood by Stella Gibbons
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
- Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
- Emma by Jane Austen
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
- Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal
- Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Little Face by Sophie Hannah
- Hurting Distance by Sophie Hannah
- The Point of Rescue by Sophie Hannah
- The Other Half Lives by Sophie Hannah
- A Room Swept White by Sophie Hannah
- Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah
- Kind of Cruel by Sophie Hannah
- The Carrier by Sophie Hannah
- The Telling Error by Sophie Hannah
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