The Classic Six Challenge

suey Host

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.

The Classic Six Challenge

suey Host

42 participants (131 books)

STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 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

All books added

Sense and Sensibility: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin
Jane Austen with Marjolein Bastin (Illustrator)

296 pages • hardcover • 1811 • 1.3k editions

fiction classics literary romance emotional lighthearted slow-paced

fiction classics literary romance emotional lighthearted slow-paced

Sense and Sensibility: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin

Jane Austen with Marjolein Bastin (Illustrator)

296 pages • 1811 • 1.3k editions

fiction classics literary romance emotional lighthearted slow-paced

fiction classics literary romance emotional lighthearted slow-paced

Iphigenia Among the Taurians by Euripides

Iphigenia Among the Taurians
Euripides with Anne Carson (Translator)

74 pages • paperback • -414 • 9 editions

fiction classics play challenging reflective medium-paced

fiction classics play challenging reflective medium-paced

Iphigenia Among the Taurians by Euripides

Iphigenia Among the Taurians

Euripides with Anne Carson (Translator)

74 pages • -414 • 9 editions

fiction classics play challenging reflective medium-paced

fiction classics play challenging reflective medium-paced

First Love by Ivan Turgenev

First Love
Ivan Turgenev with Mary Albon (Contributor), Constance Garnett (Translator)

70 pages • digital • 1860 • 204 editions

fiction classics literary romance short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

fiction classics literary romance short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

First Love by Ivan Turgenev

First Love

Ivan Turgenev with Mary Albon (Contributor), Constance Garnett (Translator)

70 pages • 1860 • 204 editions

fiction classics literary romance short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

fiction classics literary romance short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

Vegas: A Memoir Of A Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne

Vegas: A Memoir Of A Dark Season
John Gregory Dunne

288 pages • hardcover • 1974 • 3 editions

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced

Vegas: A Memoir Of A Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne

Vegas: A Memoir Of A Dark Season

John Gregory Dunne

288 pages • 1974 • 3 editions

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced

The Colossus, and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

The Colossus, and Other Poems
Sylvia Plath

84 pages • paperback • 1960 • 22 editions

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nonfiction classics poetry dark emotional reflective slow-paced

nonfiction classics poetry dark emotional reflective slow-paced

The Colossus, and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

The Colossus, and Other Poems

84 pages • 1960 • 22 editions

user-added

nonfiction classics poetry dark emotional reflective slow-paced

nonfiction classics poetry dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages
Shirley Jackson

240 pages • paperback • 1953 • 19 editions

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages

Shirley Jackson

240 pages • 1953 • 19 editions

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced

nonfiction memoir funny reflective medium-paced

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
Georges Simenon

192 pages • paperback • 1946 • 15 editions

fiction mystery mysterious reflective slow-paced

fiction mystery mysterious reflective slow-paced

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon

Three Bedrooms in Manhattan

Georges Simenon

192 pages • 1946 • 15 editions

fiction mystery mysterious reflective slow-paced

fiction mystery mysterious reflective slow-paced

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh

224 pages • paperback • 1928 • 43 editions

user-added

fiction classics challenging funny reflective slow-paced

fiction classics challenging funny reflective slow-paced

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall

224 pages • 1928 • 43 editions

user-added

fiction classics challenging funny reflective slow-paced

fiction classics challenging funny reflective slow-paced

Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope with David Skilton

825 pages • paperback • 1862 • 27 editions

fiction classics funny lighthearted slow-paced

fiction classics funny lighthearted slow-paced

Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm

Anthony Trollope with David Skilton

825 pages • 1862 • 27 editions

fiction classics funny lighthearted slow-paced

fiction classics funny lighthearted slow-paced

Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz

The Egyptian Trilogy #1

Khufu's Wisdom
Naguib Mahfouz with Raymond Stock (Translator)

220 pages • paperback • 1939 • 17 editions

fiction historical adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

fiction historical adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz

The Egyptian Trilogy #1

Khufu's Wisdom

Naguib Mahfouz with Raymond Stock (Translator)

220 pages • 1939 • 17 editions

fiction historical adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

fiction historical adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

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