The Classic Six Challenge

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42 participants (74 books)

01 Jan 202531 Dec 2025

Overview

Read six classics in 2025! Pace yourself to read about one every two months. Classics are books published at least 50 years ago, so anything published in 1975 or before.

Challenge Books

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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

1350 pages first pub 1869 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

The Iliad

Homer

699 pages first pub -750 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging slow-paced

352 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction classics philosophy poetry adventurous slow-paced

Utopia

Thomas More

176 pages first pub 1516 (editions)

fiction classics philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced

5 hours, 1 minutes first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian science fiction dark reflective tense medium-paced

288 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

fiction classics historical science fiction speculative fiction dark emotional tense medium-paced

174 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced

320 pages first pub 1908 (editions)

fiction classics middle grade funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

249 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

fiction childrens classics fantasy adventurous fast-paced

206 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction classics play challenging informative reflective medium-paced