Back to the Classics Challenge

I just found out about this challenge from Books and Chocolate and I'm excited to participate.

All books must have been written at least 50 years ago; therefore, books must have been written by 1967 to qualify. See all the rules at Books and Chocolate and join me! Watch for me to write about each of these books this year. :)

I haven't actually nailed down which titles I will use for each so watch for this post to be updated as I figure it out. (It is permitted to shuffle books into different slots later if need be.)

1.  A 19th century classic - I'm sure I'll find something to fit this slot.

2.  A 20th century classic - The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (1945)

3.  A classic by a woman author. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

4.  A classic in translation.  Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1830)

5.  A classic published before 1800. Book I of Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queene (1590)

6.  A romance classic. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)

7.  A Gothic or horror classic. I'm not sure what I'm putting here. I did look at the list linked to for inspiration and discovered that I've actually read two gothic novels in the last couple years (Jane Eyre and Northanger Abbey). I just finished Northanger Abbey. That doesn't count. Shoot. I'm thinking either Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte or The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. My husband just read that one and told me I should read it. We'll see.

8.  A classic with a number in the title. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

9.  A classic about an animal or which includes the name of an animal in the title.  Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)

10. A classic set in a place you'd like to visit. Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald (1879). Scotland!

11. An award-winning classic. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931) winner of the Pulitzer Prize

12. A Russian classic. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1880)

I also learned of Tim Challies' challenge and am intrigued (but I already have 30 books in my currently reading pile so we'll see if I come back around to this one).