The Classic Six Challenge

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42 participants (158 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 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

All books added
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dracula

Bram Stoker

16 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 1897

fiction classics horror literary adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

Professor Challenger #1

Arthur Conan Doyle

272 pages • paperback • 1912

fiction classics science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (Illustrated, Translated): The Classic Edition; Children's Picture Book by Alexander Pushkin

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (Illustrated, Translated): The Classic Edition; Children's Picture Book

Alexander Pushkin

40 pages • digital

fiction childrens classics
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

25 hours, 22 minutes • audio • 1859 user-added

fiction classics mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

51 minutes • audio • 1963

nonfiction classics politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

The Drowned World

J.G. Ballard

198 pages • paperback • 1962

fiction science fiction speculative fiction adventurous slow-paced
I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Lois Duncan

4 hours, 53 minutes • audio • 1973

fiction horror mystery young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck

291 pages • paperback • 1961

fiction classics dark reflective slow-paced
Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour

Reilly's Luck

Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures

Louis L'Amour

218 pages • paperback • 1970

fiction historical adventurous fast-paced
The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

381 pages • paperback • 1892

fiction classics short stories dark reflective slow-paced