2015 Challenges/Projects

This is the projection of what I’ll be doing in my bookish life during 2015. I put all projects/events/challenges that I’ll be hosting and participating. If you find many books appear in more than one project/event/challenge, it’s because I’ve limited myself to join only events/challenges that can serve one another. I will try to read them on schedule, but I may change/substitute the books and/or schedule, and the list may be extended throughout the year.

This serves as the master page for all my projects/events/challenges both in this blog AND Fanda Classiclit blog.

Occasional Events

Play On (Jan - Apr 2015) - by Listra

A challenge to read plays from medieval, renaissance, post-renaissance, to modern era. Hosted by Listra, it will take four months to complete it. I'll read:

Jan - Ancient:                  Agamemnon by Aeschylus

Feb - Renaissance:          Macbeth by William Shakespeare

                                        Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Mar - Post-Renaissance: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

April – Freebie:              Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie

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Year Long Challenges

Literary Movement Reading Challenge 2015

My yearlong journey to study the literary movement from medieval to modern era. Here the books I will read:

Jan - Medieval:               The Confessions (St. Augustine Hyppo)

                                        Le Morte d’Arthur (Thomas Malory)

Feb - Renaissance:         Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)

                                        Macbeth (William Shakespeare)

Mar – Enlightenment:     Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)

                                        The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe)

Apr- Romanticism:         Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)

                                        The Black Tulip (Alexandre Dumas)

May - Transcendentalism: The Walden (Henry David Thoreau)

                                       Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

Jun - Victorian:              Bleak House (Charles Dickens)

                                        Far From A Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)

Jul – Realism:                Pere Goriot (Honore de Balzac) - READ but not reviewed

                                      The Golden Bowl (Henry James)

Aug – Naturalism:        The Fortune of the Rougons (Emile Zola)

                                      The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)

Sep - Existentialism:     Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - READ but not reviewed

                                      The Stranger (Albert Camus)

Oct - Modernism:          The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)

                                      For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

Nov - Bloomsbury:        Howard’s End (E.M. Forster)

          Beat Generation: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kessey)

Dec - Post-Modernism: Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)

                                      The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)

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2015 TBR Pile Challenge (by Adam)

This would be my 3rd year of this challenge. Books on my TBR pile which would surely get their new places after I completed this challenge are:

• The Last Dickens – Matthew Pearl (2010)
• True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey (2006) – Ind. translation - READ but not reviewed
• The Bleak House – Charles Dickens (1994)
• The Ringmaster’s Daughter – Jostein Gaarder (2006) – Ind. translation
• The Confessions – St. Augustine Hyppo (2002)
• Empress – Shan Sa (2012) – Ind. translation  READ but not reviewed
• Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (2012)
• Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2001)  READ but not reviewed
• The Fortune of the Rougons – Emile Zola (2012)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone (1987)  READ but not reviewed
• The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (2001)
• The Golden Bowl – Henry James (2000)

Alternates:

• The Call of the Wild – Jack London (1992)  READ but not reviewed
• Siddhartha – Herman Hesse (1999)

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Reading England 2015 (by o)

o challenges us to read books set in England, at least one book per however many counties of England we decide to read. It's interesting, but unfortunately I would only read four English novels next year (Level 2):

• Leicestershire: Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 
• London: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Dorset: Far From A Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
• Shropshire: Howards End by E.M. Forster

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Back to the Classics Challenge 2015 (by Karen)

There will be twelve categories this year, and I took all of them. Here is my list:

1. A 19th Century Classic – Far from a Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
2. A 20th Century Classic – Howards End by E.M. Forster
3. A Classic by a Woman Author – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 
4. A Classic in Translation – Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac - READ but not reviewed
5. A Very Long Classic Novel – Bleak House by Charles Dickens 
6. A Classic Novella – The Stranger by Albert Camus
7. A Classic with a Person's Name in the Title – Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
8. A Humorous or Satirical Classic – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde 
9. A Forgotten Classic – The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
10. A Nonfiction Classic – The Walden by Henry David Thoreau
11. A Classic Children's Book – Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift  
12. A Classic Play – Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

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Asia and Pacific History Reading Challenge 2015 (by Helvry)

I will read:

Empress by Shan Sa - READ but not reviewed



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Lucky No. 15 Reading Challenge (by Astrid)

 Reading 15 books (or more) from 15 categories below:

Chunky Brick: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (637 pages)

Something New: The Life and Times of  Émile Zola by F.W.J. Hemmings

Something Borrowed: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey

It’s Been There Forever: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey - READ but not reviewed

Freebies Time: Dunia Anna (Anna) by Jostein Gaarder 

Bargain All The Way: Vita Brevis by Jostein Gaarder 

Favorite Color: Empress by Shan Sa  - READ but not reviewed

First Initial: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - READ but not reviewed

Super Series: The Moor by Laurie R. King (#4 of Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series) - READ but not reviewed

Opposites Attract: The Walden by Henry David Thoreau (this is the easiest category so far!)

Randomly Picked: The Golden Bowl by Henry James

Cover Lust: Far From A Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Who Are You Again?: Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac - READ but not reviewed

One Word Only!: Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Dream Destination: Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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Themed Reading Events

Baca Bareng BBI 2015 (by Blogger Buku Indonesia)

Together with my Indonesian blogger fellows, I would join at least three of our themed reading program:

Jan: Book from Secret Santa: Dunia Anna (Anna) by Jostein Gaarder

Mar: Book adapted to movie: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 

Sep: European Literature: The Stranger by Albert Camus 

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Long Term Projects

The Classics Club (until March 2017) - @ Fanda Classiclit

All classics I’ll be reading this year will be included in this project. Please navigate to my project list to check my whole progress.

Books I've read for 2015:
1. The Confessions by St. Augustine Hyppo
2. Agamemnon by Aeschylus
3. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
4. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
5. A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen
6. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
7. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
8. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
9. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
11. Far from A Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
12. The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola

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WEM (Well Educated Mind) Self Project (@ Fanda Classiclit)

From my own list, I hope to get through these books during 2015:
1. The Confessions by St. Augustine Hyppo

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

My list is here.

Books I have read for 2015:

1.

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Historical Fiction Challenge 2013 - 2015 (@ Fanda's Historical Fiction)

Hosted by Maria, my list is here. Level: Curator (read 15 - 20 books/3 years)
Result: 2013 = 8 books
           2014 = 4 books
           2015 = 2 books

Books I have read for 2015:
1. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
2. The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl