Classics Books || Reading Challenge 2022

Hey Booktube! 2022 is approaching so it's time to share some of my reading challenges! I've been wanting to read more classic books and thought that it would be motivating to do it with you and the book club!

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Official schedule:

Jan-Feb: Persuasion by Jane Austen

Mar-Apr: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

May- June: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

July-Aug: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sept-Oct: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Nov-Dec: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

[lynn]

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky is one of the greatest novels ever written! You should try it, even if you don't like Crime and Punishment--they're quite different in subject matter! East of Eden is also fantastic.

[asmikannan]

I don't think I'm that terrified of reading crime and punishment because I really like the whole mental anguish trope. I'm very excited to read it with youuu.

[genresandjournals]

Persuasion is SO GOOD! Hope you enjoy all of your classics this year !

[EGaborovna]

The spine text direction: this is how it's taught in Europe, typography rule. Because if you put the book down with the cover facing up you can read the title on the cover, if you put it down with the cover facing down you won't have a title visible anywhere except the spine. So when the cover is face down the spine is where you can find the title information and it has to be readable (not up-side-down).

[AliceGraeupl]

Persuasion is one my all time favourites. I hope you like it. I do think it works better when you read it when you're a bit older, it just resonates better when you know how dumb things you've done when you were young can really screw you over.

[mariamaria]

Master and Margarita from Bulgakov and i enjoyed also Fathers and suns from Turgenev, i love russian classics

[ianthereader]

I am literally doing the same challenge on my channel! One classic every two months seems reasonable, to me. We only have one book we share, but this is my list:

1. Crime & Punishment
2. The Count of Montie Cristo
3. Anna Karenina
4. Don Quixote
5. Leaves of Grass
6. David Copperfield

East of Eden is my favorite novel of all time! I hope you love it!

[trinityf]

Alexandre Dumas is one of my favorite authors. I'm obsessed with The Count of Monte Cristo 😍

[StoneBubbles]

East of Eden is one of my all time favorites. Multi generational family drama combined with John Steinbecks beautiful writing is just perfection.
I loved the character Lee

[michele]

Might I suggest some German classics? One you should definitely read (and rant about) is Goethe's "Faust" - an absolute classic, and it very loosely inspired The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue!
Another one you might like for its progressive views is "L'adultera" (I'm sure you know what that means 😉) by Theodor Fontane. It's about a woman who decides to leave her husband. People at the time were very unsatisfied with Fontane's portrayal of the woman's life after her decision, so he was more or less forced to write the same story again, but with a much less fortunate ending for the main character: "Effi Briest".

[mariet]

Steinbeck in general is great! I read "The Grapes of Wrath" this year and I loved it!

[tara]

My fav classic is The Master and Margarita by Mihail Afanasjevič Bulgakov I read it for school and loved it 💕💕

[thejenmath]

I'm doing this too! I need to read more classics, so one of my resolutions this year is to read one classic each month.

[giadavallone]

A favourite classic author that I hardly ever hear people mention is Stefan Zweig. He's a master of words and I loved every single book I read by him!😍

[jackiesliterarycorner]

Favorites: Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby, Crime and Punishment, Emma, David Copperfield, Barchester Towers, Age of Innocences, Middlemarch, Rebecca.

[katariinablom]

Besides Crime and Punishment, one of other favourite Russian classics is Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. It basically follows a family during WWII, and is about 900 pages 😰 but it’s worth getting through, because the writing is soo gorgeous!!

[bellamommareads]

Favorite classic of all time: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. It’s a sensationalist novel with twists and turns and one character that you’ll want to punch in the face : )

[tokyoreads]

I’m currently reading War and Peace and am loving it. It’ll be fun to read more classics in 2022

[thrptn]

I so, so hope that you'll love Persuasion! It's my favourite Austen by far, I reread it every few months (at least once a year) and I appreciate it more and more as I get older. Sense and Sensibility was my favourite as a teen because I related so much to the main characters and their sufferings, haha. I still like it today, though, it is really funny after all and a great parody when it comes to the side characters.

As for Russian novels, I've been reading Doctor Zhivago for at least two years now. I haven't finished it, yet, but I pick it up once in a while and read a few chapters. If you're ever interested in reading German classics, I'd recommend Effie Briest by Theodor Fontante (not sure if there's translations out there). Anything by Thomas Mann is also great, especially his shorter stuff, if early 20th century literature counts as classics. I think someone in this comment section already mentioned Stefan Zweig. And last but not least I really want to recommend 1920s author Irmgard Keun, Gilgi and The Artificial Silk Girl are really good.