Victorian Reading Challenge 2018

Host: Becky's Book Reviews

Duration: January - December 2018

Goal: Read a minimum of 4 Victorian books

1. _ A book that was originally published serially
2. _ book published between 1837-1840  Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
3. _ book published between 1841-1850 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
4. _ book published between 1851-1860  The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
5. _ book published between 1861-1870 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
6. _ book published between 1871-1880 Far From the Maddding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
7. _ book published between 1881-1890 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
8. _ book published between 1891-1901 Dracula by Bram Stoker
9. _ nonfiction published between 1837-1860
10. _ nonfiction published between 1861-1901 
11. _ A book published between 1902-1999 with a Victorian setting
12. _ A book published between 2000-2018 with a Victorian setting 
13. _ A fiction or nonfiction book about Queen Victoria
14. _ Biography of a Victorian
15. _ Nonfiction book about the Victorian era
16. _ free choice
17. _ place name in the title 
18. _ character name in the title Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
19. _ book in a series
20. _ drama or melodrama
21. _ gothic, suspense, mystery
22. _ romance or historical
23. _ comedy 
24. _ science fiction or fantasy The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
25. _ adventure, crime, western
26. _ poetry collection OR story collection 
27. _ happily ever after
28. _ unhappily ever after 
29. _ children's book
30. _ translated into English from another language
31. _ a book under 250 pages
32. _ book over 500 pages 
33. _ a book over 800 pages Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
34. _ A book that has been filmed as movie, miniseries, or television show
35. _ memorable heroine
36. _ memorable hero
37. _ British author
38. _ Irish author OR Irish setting
39. _ Scottish author OR Scottish setting Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
40. _ American author The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. _ reread
42. _ book with a subtitle (the longer the better!)

Rules: 

• I'll have quarterly check-in posts. I'll be posting check-in posts March 25, June 24, September 23, and December 30. You may leave links to your reviews on any of those four posts. If you want to share your review with me BEFORE that, AND if you have twitter, feel free to tweet me a link @blbooks.
  
  Option A.  Read alphabetically A-Z with authors OR titles OR a blend of authors/titles. I've decided that from now on X in reading challenges stands for multiple authors. I'm flipping my "x" to a "+".
  
  Option B. Choose one author to read exclusively for this challenge; perhaps challenge yourself to read chronologically OR to read through an entire series in one year.
  
  Option C. Do as many books from the checklist as you can.
  
  Option D. Make the challenge completely your own and read as YOUR whimsy dictates.

I am choosing Option C.