2014 Challenges.

Back to the Classics Challenge

For this challenge, I will be reading books in the following categories:

1. A 20th Century Classic: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
2. A 19th Century Classic: Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (1872)
3. A Classic by a Woman Author: The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (1915)
4. A Classic in Translation: Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (1927-translated in 1929)
5. A Classic About War: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (1895)
6. A Classic by an Author Who Is New To You: Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1862)

Optional Categories:

1. An American Classic: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
2. A Classic Mystery, Suspense or Thriller: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
3. A Historical Fiction Classic: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
4. A Classic That's Been Adapted Into a Movie or TV Series: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
5. Extra Fun Category:  Write a Review of the Movie or TV Series adapted from Optional Category #4:  I have a couple of options for this-BBC adaptation or film...I'll decide later!

 Progress:

2014 TBR Pile Challenge

For this challenge, I will be reading from the following list of titles:

12 Titles:
1. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
3. Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
4. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. John Adams by David McCullough
6. Truman by David McCullough
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
8. The Dark Mirror by Juliet Marillier 

9. Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
10. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
11. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
12. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Alternates:
13. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
14. Beloved by Toni Morrison

Progress: 
1. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin: Post 1/15/14
2. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: Post 1/23/14