Challenges & Events

For 2023 I am going to aim for the lower level of Victorian Reader (5 books), if I read just 5 that will be fine by me and if I read more, well that will just be a bonus:

20th Century Reader (2 books)

1.Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1958) 
2. The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley (2021)

Victorian Reader (5 books)

3. The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson (2008) ⭐⭐
4. In the Shadow of Queens by Alison Weir (2021) 
5. The Queen’s Lady by Joanna Hickson (2022) ⭐⭐⭐

Renaissance Reader (10 books)

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Here are the 10 books I hope to read this summer (2023):

1. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (1850)
2. King Solomon’s Mine by H. Rider Haggard (1885)
3. Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson (2001)
4. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)
5. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley (2008)
6. Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown by Alison Weir (2023)
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (2003) [re-read]
8. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948) [re-read]
9. Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came by M.C. Beaton (2002)
10. Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett (1998)

My aim is to read 50 books from this list (links in titles will take you to my reviews):

1. Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott 
2. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott 
3. Emma by Jane Austen [re-read] 
4. Lady Susan by Jane Austen 
5. The Watsons by Jane Austen 
6. Sanditon by Jane Austen 
7. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen [re-read]
8. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen [re-read] 
9. Persuasion by Jane Austen [re-read] 
10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen [re-read]
11. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen [re-read] 
12. The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum 
13. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
14. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 
15. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë 
16. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
17. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan 
18. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 
19. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
20. The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
21. The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
22. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
23. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
24. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 
25. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens [re-read]
26. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle 
27. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
28. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 
29. This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald 
30. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 
31. Howards End by E. M. Forster 
32. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster 
33. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 
34. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
35. King Solomon’s Mine by H. Ryder Haggard
36. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy [re-read]
37. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 
38. The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling 
39. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
40. Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
41. Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery ⭐⭐⭐
42. The Enchanted Castle by E Nesbit 
43. Sandokan, The Pirates of Malaysia by Emilio Salgari 
44. The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari 
45. The Queen of the Caribbean by Emilio Salgari
46. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott [re-read] 
47. Heidi by Johanna Spyri ⭐⭐⭐
48. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 
49. The Time Machine by H G Wells 
50. War of the Worlds by H G Wells 

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