2013 Challenges.

Here is where I will keep track of my Challenge Progress throughout 2013. This year, I cut back on the challenges I am participating in, choosing to instead focus on reading events and my own reading lists.

Back to the Classics Challenge 2013

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19th Century Classic: The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
2. 20th Century Classic: All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
3. Pre-19th Century: The Frogs by Aristophanes
4. Classic concerning the African-American Experience: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. Classic Adventure: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
6. Classic Featuring an Animal: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey

Bonus Categories:
Russian Classic: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Classic Children's Book: Jane Austen's Complete Juvenilia
Short Stories (at least 3 by one author): I have a big Mark Twain collection, so I am sure that'll be my focus this coming year!

Progress: 

1. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: Finished 7/9/13

The 2013 TBR Pile Challenge

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The List:
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya AngeloU
2. Cold Sassy Tree: Olive Burns
3. Moll Flanders: Daniel Defoe
4. Sister Carrie: Theodore Dreiser
5. The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner
6. Brighton Rock: Graham Greene
7. Doll's House: Henrick Ibsen
8. On the Road: Jack Kerouac
9. Billy Budd: Herman Melville
10. Going After Cacciato: Tim O'Brien
11. Ivanhoe: Sir Walter Scott
12. The Jungle: Upton Sinclair

Alternates:
1. The Once and Future King: T.H. White
2. Remains of the Day: Kazou Ishiguro

Progress: 

1. Cold Sassy Tree: FINISHED 1/9/13