Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

After skipping the challenge last year, due to overwhelming real life, I'm excited to participate again in 2023.

Bakers Dozen Menu for the 2023 Buffet:

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium
Challenge #4 - Members Choice
Challenge #5 - Short Story
Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Challenge #8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. Madame Bovary 1856 (329 pages)
2. Le Rouge et le Noir 1830 (608 pages)
3. Vanity Fair 1848 (867 pages)

1900-1999/New School
✔ 4. The Grand Babylon Hotel 1976 (219 pages)
✔ 5. The Sun Also Rises 1926 (189 pages)
6. Old Masters: A Comedy 1985 (156 pages)

My Wild Card Six
7. The Vicar of Wakefield 1766 (197 pages)
8. Framley Parsonage 1860 (573 pages)
9. The Brothers Karamazov 1879 (796 pages)
10. The Code of the Woosters 1983 (272 pages)
✔ 11. The Razor's Edge 1944 (314 pages)
12. The Grand Sophy 1950 (328 pages )

Alternates
A-1. Doomsday Book 1992 (578 pages)
A-2. The Kreutzer Sonata 1889 (128 pages)
✔ A-3. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins 1878 (228 pages)


Other possible alternatives until December 31
The Castle of Otranto (1764)
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr 1819
Deerbrook 1838 (656 pages)
Ethan Frome (1911)
Bengal Nights 1933
At Freddie's 1982
The Door 1987 (262 pages)
Travels with My Aunt 1991 (272 pages)
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text 1818 (260 pages)

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium

Around the world in the 1940s

✔ 1940 The Invention of Morel (103) - Argentina 1/4/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
✔ 1941 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (181) - Russia
1942 L'Étranger (The Stranger) (184) - France
✔ 1943 Schachnovelle (Chess Story) (112) - Austria 1/5/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
1943 Iceland's Bell (425) - Iceland
1944 The 14-Carat Roadster (221) - Hungary
1945 The Bridge on the Drina (314) - Yugoslavia
✔ 1946 The Moving Toyshop (208) - UK
1947 Midaq Alley (286) - Egypt
1948 The Ides of March (282) - USA (set in Rome)
1949 The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille (328) - Ireland

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Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

1. Magda Szabó
2. William Makepeace Thackeray
3. Arnold Bennett
4. Oliver Goldsmith
5. Stendhal
6. Harriet Martineau
7. Georgette Heyer

Challenge 8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year 1944

Ten books of interest for 1944

1. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
2. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
3. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
4. No Exit Jean-Paul Sartre
5. Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
6. Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
7. Harvey by Mary Chase
8. Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
9. The Crows of Pearblossom by Aldous Huxley
10. Hidden Faces by Salvador Dalí

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Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

Hotels
✔ Old: The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice 1878
✔ New: The Grand Babylon Hotel 1976
✔ Contemporary: The Hotel Nantucket 2022

You have some wonderful ones. Hope you like Madame Bovary, The Grand Sophy, and The Red and the Black. All the best!

Welcome back, nice choices so far. I am a big fan of The Razor’s Edge. Happy reading!