24 Classic Works

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31 participants (186 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

By the end of the year read 24 classic reads. Think about classic novels, classic writers, banned books etc. 

Challenge Books

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus

212 pages • 1942 • 152 editions

nonfiction classics essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
Kipling's Works Vol. I: Plain Tales From The Hills. by Rudyard Kipling

Kipling's Works #1

Kipling's Works Vol. I: Plain Tales From The Hills.

Rudyard Kipling

346 pages • 1 edition

fiction classics short stories
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works

Gerard Manley Hopkins

429 pages • 2002 • 2 editions

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
The Collector by John Fowles

The Collector

John Fowles

320 pages • 1963 • 88 editions

fiction classics thriller dark tense medium-paced
The Poems of Gerald Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Poems of Gerald Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

362 pages • 1948 • 22 editions

nonfiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

Delta of Venus

Anaïs Nin

271 pages • 1969 • 64 editions

fiction classics erotica short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki

I am a Cat #1-3

I Am a Cat

Natsume Sōseki

581 pages • 1905 • 81 editions

fiction classics funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced
And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems by Maya Angelou

And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems

Maya Angelou

64 pages • 1978 • 12 editions

nonfiction classics feminism poetry emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

Castle Rackrent

Maria Edgeworth

127 pages • 1800 • 54 editions

fiction classics historical challenging funny medium-paced
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others by Anonymous

Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

Anonymous

369 pages • -2000 • 4 editions

nonfiction classics religion adventurous medium-paced