The reading challenge I selected for 2023 was to read a dozen of the "classics" that everyone should read before they die. As I mentioned less than halfway through the year, it turns out the classics are not for me. For the sake of formally closing out the challenge, here are the books I read (listed alphabetically by title):
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Catch-22 - Jospeh Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Not one of the books on the list received a 5-star rating from me. Seven of them were 4-star reads, and the remaining five received 3 stars, for an average of 3.58.
As far as reading challenges goes, this one didn't produce any great books that I enjoyed very much, but I still feel a sense of accomplishment in having read some of these "classic" works of literature.
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