24 Classic Works

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31 participants (222 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

By the end of the year read 24 classic reads. Think about classic novels, classic writers, banned books etc. 

Challenge Books

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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

Zora Neale Hurston

304 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction classics short stories reflective slow-paced
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

736 pages • paperback • 1994

nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

The Ways of White Folks

Langston Hughes

248 pages • hardcover • 1934

fiction classics short stories challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

197 pages • hardcover • 1974

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

The African Trilogy #1

Chinua Achebe

181 pages • hardcover • 1958

fiction classics historical challenging dark reflective medium-paced
The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath

The Collected Poems

Sylvia Plath

386 pages • paperback • 1981

fiction classics poetry dark emotional reflective slow-paced
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Elizabeth Smart

240 pages • paperback • 1945

fiction classics literary poetry emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus

212 pages • paperback • 1942

nonfiction classics essays philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced
Kipling's Works Vol. I: Plain Tales From The Hills. by Rudyard Kipling

Kipling's Works Vol. I: Plain Tales From The Hills.

Kipling's Works #1

Rudyard Kipling

346 pages • hardcover

fiction classics short stories
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works

Gerard Manley Hopkins

429 pages • paperback • 2002

fiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced