2018 Reading Challenges

I'm only going to try a couple reading challenges this year because I want to focus on finishing up my Classics Club list. However I do love challenges and I want to sign up for at least a couple challenges that will fit in with my reading list.

Back to the Classics 2018 Challenge 

Hosted by Karen at Books and Chocolate and you can sign up HERE.
This is one of my favorite challenges and last year I fell one short of completing it. :( Since may focus is on completing the Classics Club this year anyways this will go perfectly with this challenge.
1. A 19th century classic -  The Way we Live Now by Anthony Trollope
2. A 20th century classic - The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. A classic by a woman author- The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot 
4. A classic in translation- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
5. A children's classic- Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane by P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins and the House Next Door by P.L. Travers
6. A classic crime story, fiction or non-fiction- The 39 Steps by John Buchan
7. A classic travel or journey narrative, fiction or non-fiction- The Epic of Gilgamesh
8. A classic with a single-word title- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
9. A classic with a color in the title- The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10. A classic by an author that's new to you- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
11. A classic that scares you- Moby Dick by Herman Melville, East of Eden by John Steinbeck
12. Re-read a favorite classic- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

2018 TBR Pile Challenge

Hosted by Roof Beam Reader and you can sign up HERE. 

This is one of the first challenges I ever signed up for but it's been on hiatus for the last couple years so I'm excited to see it back. 

1. The 39 Steps by John Buchan 
2. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevesky 
4. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
5. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 
6. Cyarno de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 
7. Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 
8. Beau Geste by P.C. Wren 
9. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
10. Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson 
11. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 
12. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 

Alternates

1. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevesky
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh

Mount TBR Pile Challenge

Hosted by My Reader's Block and you can sign up HERE. I'm signing up for the Mount Blanc level, which is 24 books.
This will go well with my goal to complete my Classics Club list as I own several of the books on my list. Here's the books I'm planning to read and no not all of them are off my Classics Club list.

1. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
2. The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
3. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
4. Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 
5. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 
6. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
7. Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare 
8. Richard III by William Shakespeare 
9. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 
10. Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
11. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
12. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
13. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes 
14. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 
15. Intensity by Dean Koontz
16. Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz
17. Tick Tock by Dean Koontz
18. To Fly Again by Gracia Burnham 
19. Shepherding a Child's Heart by Ted Tripp
20. Cherish by Gary Thomas 
21. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 
22. Because of Winn Dixie by Kate diCamillo
23. Love and Friendship by Whit Stillman 
24. Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth
25. Farewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth
26. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
27. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
28. Master and Commander by Patrick O Brien 
29. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth 
30. All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
31. All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot
32. James Herriot's Dog Stories by James Herriot
33. The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot
34. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
35. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer 

Read it Again Sam Challenge

Hosted by My Reader's Block and you can sign up HERE.  I'm signing up for the Déjá Vu Level which is 4 books. 

Here's a few books I'd like to re-read this year. 

1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
2. Redwall by Brian Jacques
3. The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence