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Subject: 2020 Challenge
Date Posted: 1/11/2020 6:22 PM ET
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DIY" 2018 Challenge instructions:

  1. Set your own goal as to how many classics you'd like to read this year.  For ideas, see Charles K.'s Read any good books lately (classics of course.
  2. Choose topics from previous challenge years (or design your own).  Anything goes!  Include books from later years as well.


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  1. Set your own goal as to how many classics you'd like to read this year.  For ideas, see Charles K.'s Read any good books lately (classics of course.)
  2. Choose topics from previous challenge years (or design your own).  Anything goes!  Include books from later years as well.
    • 2017     A classic by a woman author   Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
    • 2016   A classic by a woman author  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
    • 2015 Made into film  Parade's End by Ford Maddox Ford
    • 2014   Made into film   East of Eden by John Steinbeck
    • 2013  Made into film  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
    • 2012  Book you consider short   Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
    • 2011 Classic written by a woman  Romola by George Eliot
    • 2010  Lost in Translation (a book translated to English)  Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes


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