Monday, December 26, 2022

Back to the Classics Challenge 2022 wrap-up post

Hosted by Books and Chocolate

 


I completed all 12 categories.

 

 

19th Century Classic:

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens



 

20th Century Classic:

The Recognitions

by William Gaddis



 

Classic by a woman author:

Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee



 

Classic in Translation (from Italian):

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino



 

Classic by Black, Indigenous, Person-of-Color (BIPOC) author:

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul



 

Classic Mystery/Detective/Crime Story:

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett



 

Classic Short Story Collection:

Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories

by Nathaniel Hawthorne



 

Pre-1800 Classic:

The Pilgrim’s Progress (1684)

by John Bunyan



 

Classic Non-Fiction:

The Prince

by Niccoló Machiavelli



 

Classic that’s been on my list the longest:

The Death of the Heart

by Elizabeth Brown



 

Classic set in a place I’d like to visit:

Nightmare Abbey (England)

by Thomas Love Peacock



 

Wild Card:

Foundation (Sci-Fi)

by Isaac Asimov



 

 

For the challenge hostess...I can be contacted at joseph . fountain2 @ gmail . com

 

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2 comments:

  1. Congratulations on finishing all 12 categories, Joseph! Great books too, you have read. Except for the 20th c category, I've never heard that, and am not interested after reading this...
    I've been meaning to read Maltese Falcon, and am glad that you liked it.

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    1. Yes, I definitely DO NOT recommend The Recognitions, and definitely DO recommend the Maltese Falcon.

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