Here are my tentative choices for the Back to the Classics Challenge, 2017: The book I eventually choose, for categories with more than one title listed, will be in bold with a link to the review.
1. A 19th century classic – any book published between 1800 and 1899.
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) – Thomas Hardy
- Daniel Deronda (1876) – George Elliot
- The Woman in White (1859) – Wilkie Collins
2. A 20th century classic – any book published between 1900 and 1967.
- East of Eden (1952) – John Steinbeck
- Of Human Bondage (1915) – W. Somerset Maugham
3. A classic by a woman author.
- Little Women (1868) – Louisa May Alcott
4. A classic in translation.
- The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) – Stendhal
- Kokoro (1914) – Natsume Soseki
5. A classic published before 1800.
- Tom Jones (1749) – Henry Fielding
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) – Ann Radcliffe
6. A romance classic.
- Dr. Thorne (1858) – Anthony Trollope
- Emma (1815) – Jane Austen
7. A Gothic or horror classic.
- The House of the Seven Gables (1851) – Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. A classic with a number in the title.
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859) – Charles Dickens
9. A classic about an animal or which includes the name of an animal in the title.
- Moby Dick (1851) – Herman Melville
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) – Arthur Conan Doyle
10. A classic set in a place you’d like to visit.
- Zeno’s Conscience (1923) – Italo Svevo [Italy]
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) – Ernest Hemingway [Spain]
11. An award-winning classic.
- Silence (1966) – Shusaku Endo – Tanizaki Prize, 1966
12. A Russian classic.
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