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Topic: 2016 Classics Challenge --Lists Only

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Subject: 2016 Classics Challenge --Lists Only
Date Posted: 12/29/2015 1:36 PM ET
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Choose 6 for a Light Challenge or 12 for the full Challenge. 1.  A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899.2.  A 20th Century Classic - any book published more...
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Date Posted: 12/29/2015 2:12 PM ET
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 Light Challenge - aiming for 6 from the list below... 1.  A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899: Carmilla by Le Fanu (2/19/16) more...
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Date Posted: 12/29/2015 10:38 PM ET
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I'm going to commit to 12.  We shall see.... Choose 6 for a Light Challenge or 12 for the full Challenge. 1.  A 19th Centu more...
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Date Posted: 12/30/2015 1:29 PM ET
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RE Kristen K: Lao She also wrote The Drum Singers, one of the saddest novels I've ever read. The Great Beastly Cultural Revolution drove Lao She to suicide in 1966. RE Susan K: The Rubber Band was a really good choice. I read it for a ch more...
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Date Posted: 12/30/2015 3:52 PM ET
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Date Posted: 12/31/2015 12:48 PM ET
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Good job Susan!  It's August 29, the day before my birthday and I've finished a full challenge.  It was fun and enlightening.  My favorite book was Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston but I also really enjoyed Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Row more...
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Choose 6 for a Light Challenge 1.  A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899.2.  A 20th Century Classic - any book published between 1900 and 1966. 3. more...
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Date Posted: 1/2/2016 4:28 PM ET
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Choose 6 for a Light Challenge or 12 for the full Challenge. 1.  A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899.2.  A 20th Century Classic - any book published more...
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1.  A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899.   2.  A 20th Century Classic - any book published between 1900 and 1 more...
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1.  A 19th Century Classic -   The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins. Completed June 2016.***** 2.  A 20th Century Classic - any bo more...
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Date Posted: 1/4/2016 12:28 PM ET
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I'm doing 6 books for a Light Challenge this year. As you can see, most of them are Westerns. I might increase it to a 12-book-challenge la more...
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Choose 6 for a Light Challenge or 12 for the full Challenge. 1.  A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899. 2.  A 20th Century Classic - any book published between 1900 and more...
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Choose 6 for a Light Challenge or 12 for the full Challenge. 1.  A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899.  The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain2.  A 20th Century Classic more...
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Subject: 2016 Classic List
Date Posted: 2/19/2016 10:54 PM ET
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1.  A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899. Notes from Underground by Fodor Dostoevsky 2.  A 20th Century Classic - any book published between 1900 and 1966.  The Power and the Glory  more...

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