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Inspired by the YouTube channel Tristan & The Classics, I decided to start working on that list of "classics I should read". The trick that's been working for me, is that I read a short bit of a classic every day, and then I can read other books, that feels a bit "lighter". I started in April, and since then I've finished several classics.

But I started to wonder - what is a classic, really? Google gives me this list:
- Timeless relevance
- High quality language
- Universal themes
- Long standing influence
- Part of a literary canon

So far I have read:
- Dubliners by James Joyce
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquin Maria Machado de Assis
- End of the Game by Julio Cortazar
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Right now I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell, and next in line are Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and Return to Ithaca by Eyvind Johnson.
Yay! I love that you used this challenge to document your method for reading more classics and WOW, you've made some serious progress! Way to go! I love your page and that you include a picture of you reading. The blue accent elements are great too!

There are a bunch in your list that I haven't read yet!
 
Love this personal challenge of yours, and I love your book cover photos and the one of you with the book! Nice to see this template set in action, too...very cool! So different!
 
Great challenge of reading the classics, Eva, and I love how you scrapped this! Well done!
 
Great challenge and great documentation of your progress!! Ohhh I've read 1984 four times with my kids and this last time really freaked me out. My youngest is 7 years younger than the next sibling and times have changed so much in the the last 7 years that the premise of this book doesn't seem so far out there anymore!
 

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