The Classic Six Challenge

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42 participants (131 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read six classics in 2025! Pace yourself to read about one every two months. Classics are books published at least 50 years ago, so anything published in 1975 or before.

Challenge Books

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The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

36 pages • 1839 • 163 editions

fiction classics horror short stories dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe

30 pages • 1845 • 2 editions

fiction classics horror poetry dark medium-paced
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dracula

Bram Stoker

402 pages • 1897 • 1.9k editions

fiction classics horror literary adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell

Notes on Nationalism

George Orwell

52 pages • 2012 • 11 editions

nonfiction classics essays politics informative reflective medium-paced
Um Quarto Só Seu by Virginia Woolf

Um Quarto Só Seu

Virginia Woolf

176 pages • 1929 • 431 editions

nonfiction classics essays feminism informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Dream Work by Mary Oliver

Dream Work

Mary Oliver

90 pages • 1986 • 11 editions

nonfiction classics nature poetry reflective slow-paced
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale #1

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

326 pages • 1985 • 398 editions

fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
Persuasion by Jane Austen

Persuasion

Jane Austen

250 pages • 1817 • 952 editions

fiction classics literary romance emotional slow-paced
Uma Vindicação dos Direitos da Mulher by Mary Wollstonecraft

Uma Vindicação dos Direitos da Mulher

Mary Wollstonecraft

312 pages • 1792 • 234 editions

nonfiction classics feminism philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Problem That Has No Name by Betty Friedan

Penguin Modern #41

The Problem That Has No Name

Betty Friedan

55 pages • 1963 • 1 edition

nonfiction classics essays feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced