Read 10 of Penguins Classics

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10 participants (19 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read 10 books from the 100 must read classic books from Penguin.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/essential-penguin-classics/

Challenge Books

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos

Lorelei Lee #1-2

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Anita Loos

243 pages • 1927 • 12 editions

fiction classics funny lighthearted fast-paced
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

The Theban Plays #1–3

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

430 pages • -400 • 189 editions

fiction classics play dark emotional sad fast-paced
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles

Electra and Other Plays

Sophocles

309 pages • -410 • 7 editions

fiction classics play challenging medium-paced
The Symposium by Plato

The Symposium

Plato

144 pages • -380 • 234 editions

nonfiction classics philosophy informative reflective medium-paced
The Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes

Comedies of Aristophanes #04; 08; 09

The Frogs and Other Plays

Aristophanes

236 pages • -422 • 6 editions

fiction classics play challenging reflective medium-paced
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

240 pages • 1886 • 337 editions

user-added

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes

Comedies of Aristophanes #01; 03; 07

Lysistrata and Other Plays

Aristophanes

241 pages • 13 editions

fiction classics play challenging reflective medium-paced
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes

Comedies of Aristophanes #02; 05; 10; 11

The Birds and Other Plays

Aristophanes

336 pages • -414 • 3 editions

fiction classics play challenging funny reflective medium-paced
Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Poor Folk and Other Stories

Fyodor Dostoevsky

271 pages • 1845 • 3 editions

fiction classics short stories reflective medium-paced