The Classic Six Challenge

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42 participants (92 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
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

4 hours • first pub 1911 (editions)

fiction classics dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The Secret Adversary

Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries #1

Agatha Christie

268 pages • first pub 1922 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

Adrienne Rich

320 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism poetry informative reflective medium-paced
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

240 pages • first pub 1905 (editions)

fiction classics middle grade emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

179 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

fiction classics science fiction dark funny reflective fast-paced
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Blade Runner #1

Philip K. Dick

244 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

fiction dystopian science fiction adventurous dark reflective medium-paced
The Odyssey. Translated By Robert Fagles. Introduction and Notes By Bernard Knox. by Homer

The Odyssey. Translated By Robert Fagles. Introduction and Notes By Bernard Knox.

Homer

560 pages • missing pub info (editions)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

80 pages • first pub 1899 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging dark slow-paced
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard

15 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 1980 (editions) user-added

fiction classics historical literary
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

432 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction classics literary magical realism challenging reflective slow-paced