2021 Reading Classic Books Challenge - hosted by brokenspine

Read a classic in translation
All books added
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

Don Quixote (2 Volumes) #1-2

Miguel de Cervantes

940 pages • first pub 1615 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy literary adventurous funny reflective slow-paced
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

464 pages • first pub 1857 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) by Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics)

Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoevsky

671 pages • first pub 1866 (editions)

fiction classics crime literary dark reflective tense slow-paced
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

319 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary reflective slow-paced
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

1392 pages • first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

505 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary magical realism adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

The Blind Owl

Sadegh Hedayat

148 pages • first pub 1935 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark slow-paced
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles, Sophocles

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

The Theban Plays #1–3

Bernard Knox, Robert Fagles, Sophocles

430 pages • first pub -450 (editions)

fiction classics play dark emotional sad fast-paced
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination by James B. Harris

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

James B. Harris

222 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

Nawal El Saadawi

128 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

fiction feminism memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced