Classics 25

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01 Jan 2025—01 Jan 2026

Overview

Read 25 classics in 2025! 

In effort to branch out from my usual reading genres, I created this challenge with a very simple goal in mind: read 25 classics. Any genre or decade of publication counts but it has to be widely considered a classic. 

Challenge Books

All books added
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor

The Violent Bear It Away

Flannery O'Connor

256 pages • 1960 • 20 editions

fiction classics dark reflective slow-paced
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville

Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale

Herman Melville

654 pages • 1851 • 1k editions

fiction classics literary adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

236 pages • 1952 • 23 editions

fiction classics dark reflective medium-paced
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

230 pages • 1951 • 327 editions

fiction classics literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper

Fuzzy Sapiens #1

Little Fuzzy

H. Beam Piper

252 pages • 22 editions

fiction science science fiction adventurous reflective fast-paced
On Agriculture by Cato the Elder, Marcus Terentius Varro

On Agriculture

Cato the Elder, Marcus Terentius Varro

576 pages • -160 • 8 editions

nonfiction classics history philosophy reference challenging informative medium-paced
The History of the Holy Grail by Unknown

Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation #1

The History of the Holy Grail

Unknown

348 pages • 2010 • 1 edition

fiction classics historical informative reflective slow-paced
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

1011 pages • 1936 • 204 editions

fiction classics historical romance emotional sad slow-paced
The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick. by François Rabelais
The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick.
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François Rabelais

The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick.

François Rabelais

970 pages • 1532 • 2 editions

user-added

fiction
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

83 pages • 1943 • 1.1k editions

fiction childrens classics fantasy emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced