Didn't get off very well on this challenge so I am continuing my classics challenge for 2019.  Hope that's ok with everyone.

"DIY" 2018 Challenge instructions:

1. Set your own goal as to how many classics you'd like to read this year.  Making a list of the books I've been meaning to read and choosing from the list.  All are on my shelf.
2. Choose topics from previous challenge years (or design your own).
   • 2017   A 19th Century Classic - any book published between 1800 and 1899 - The Europeans by Henry James, 10/25/2018, 3 stars
   • 2016  A 19th Century Classic:  A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, in process 6.  An adventure classic:  Treasure Island  7. A fantasy, science fiction, or dystopian classic:   Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein, 3/11/2019, 4.5.stars;  The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, 3/13/2019, 4 stars
   • 2015  A book you haven't read yet by a favorite classic author:  The Castle by Kafka, Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, 8/9/2019, 3/5 stars;  The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier, 4/8/2019, 4 stars.
   • 2014   New-to-you author   Tristana by Benito Perez Galdos  (Story of Tristana. Horacio, and Don Lope), 3/30/2018, 3.5 stars,
   • 2013   Special topics (Russian Literature)  Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 4/6/2019, 3 stars
   • 2012
   • 2011  Poetry collection  The Wisdom of Gibran edited by Joseph Sheban, reading this one since I read The Prophet in college and I think it best fits here.  Completed 6/23/2018, 3 stars  a classic author's first novel:  This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 11/9/2018, 3 stars
   • 2010  Book on your TBR:  Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston, 6/15/2018, 4 stars

1. Set your own goal as to how many classics you'd like to read this year.
2. Choose topics from previous challenge years (or design your own).
   • 2017  A 20th Century Classic - any book published between 1900 and 1967.  The Little Girls (Twentieth Century Classics) by Elizabeth Bowen 1963  2/1  4 stars "The Child is the Father of the man"  How 3 women in their 60's were affected by their childhood together. Modernist and literary.
   • 2016  A classic by a non-white author A House for Mr. Biswas - V. S. Naipaul
   • 2015   lost in translation Dr. Zhivago -  Boris Pasternak
   • 2014  less-famous book Jamaica Inn - Daphne DuMaurier
   • 2013 Other Genres - Mystery Where There's a Will - Rex Stout
   • 2012
   • 2011 novel by an author you've always felt you should read Ulysses - James Joyce
   • 2010
3. Enjoy your reading!

I try to read several classics each year.  Managed to do nine last year so I'll try again this year.  Anyone who wants to join me may do so.  Love to see what others read.