Joining the 2020 Back to the Classics Challenge

Hello again, dear readers! I’m back with another post about yet another book challenge! Am I in need of an intervention? Haha, maybe! But I don’t care. Bring on the books!

Last year I didn’t participate in the Back to the Classics Challenge hosted by Karen at Books and Chocolate like I had in 2018. This year I wasn’t even sure if she was going to host again. It certainly must be a great deal of work to follow up on all the entries at the end of the year. But I checked, and sure enough, she is back at it again! This year’s categories looked like they would fit nicely with the other challenges I am doing. So I decided to dive in! Here are my choices. (You may notice some overlap from my 20 for 2020 challenge list, and that was entirely intentional!)

Back to the Classics 

• 19th Century Classic: The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
• 20th Century Classic: Til We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
• Classic by Woman Author: The Cross by Sigrid Undset
• Classic in Translation: Agamemnon by Aeschylus
• Classic by a Person of Color: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
• Genre Classic: The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• Classic with a Person’s Name in Title: Silas Marner by George Eliot
• Classic with a Place in the Title: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
• Classic with Nature in the Title: By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Classic about a Family: Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody
• Abandoned Classic: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Classic Adaptation: A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

Last year my reading was all over the place, and sometimes I felt like it was just too scattered for my liking. So having a few reading lists to keep me on track has already been really helpful. Of course, with the Back to the Classics Challenge the other part of the challenge is to keep up with writing the reviews! So I will have to actually come here and write now and then as I finish each book. I sure hope I can keep that going, too! Until next time…