June 2020
June is Jazz Age June, a new event set up by Laurie @ Relevant Obscurity and Fanda at ClassicLit. This reading event runs from June 1st to 30th, aiming to explore the 1920s through literature and other arts.
Summer
Here is an invitation to read something in another language this summer, and if you wish, challenge yourself to meet one of the following goals:
Level 1: Tourist
Read one book in a language other than your mother tongue.
Level 2: Long-term visitor
Spend an entire month reading books in another language (total of two or more).
Level 3: Immersion
Spend the whole summer reading books in another language.
To join in, sign up at The Emerald City Book Review.
Sue at Book by Book is hosting the Big Book Summer Challenge. For more information and to sign up, visit her post about the challenge here.
All Year
Nick at One Catholic Life has chosen one book for 2020 for his Chapter-a-Day Read-Along: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. If you would like to join in, get a copy of the book. Then post about it on your blog. Download the daily schedule and commit to reading a chapter a day all year.
The aim of the Nonfiction Reader Challenge is to encourage you to make nonfiction part of your reading experience during the year. The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st 2020. Participants may join at any time until December 1st 2020. Create a blog post committing to your participation in this challenge. Link up at Book’d Out.
Keely at A Common Reader is hosting a Russian Literature Challenge for 2020.
Gather Together and Read is hosting the 1000 Books Project: Non-Fiction 2020. For more details, take a look at the post here.
Later in 2020
Words and Peace and The Emerald City Book Review are planning to together host a readalong of Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction novel, Foundation, in July.
If you’re a Classics Clubber, please leave details about classic book blogger events you’d like to share with the group in the comments below. The most recent will be at the top if you’re on the hunt for something. Please let us know the start and end date for the event, some details, and a link to the home site. It’s fine to do this whether you’re the host of the event or simply want to share one you’ve discovered, as long as you’re a clubber. If you want to be notified of new events, subscribe to the comments below. (Also check out any events our members on Twitter may have tweeted about at hashtag #cceventsched.) 🙂 – The Club
I’m hosting a Russian Literature Challenge in 2020:
https://achaemenids.blogspot.com/2019/12/russian-literature-challenge-2020.html
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I’m hosting a Reading Classic Books Challenge. The plan is to do the 12 challenge prompts to help me read the books on my Classics Club list. So, I hope others will join in.
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I forgot to say it’s a year long challenge that starts January 2020. And, will you add to the Events page? Thanks!
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Are there any events people are planning for next year?
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I’m hosting a Reading Classic Books Challenge, which can be done in conjunction with The Classics Club Challenge. There are 12 prompts, Instagram challenges, and giveaways. So, hopefully people can find books from Classics Club reading list to fit the prompts.
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A little last minute but I’m hosting a The House of Mirth Read-along beginning Nov 1st and going until Dec 15th. Here’s a link to my post: https://classicalcarousel.com/the-house-of-mirth-read-along/
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Spotted this June 2019 event Deb – http://inthebookcase.blogspot.com/2019/05/louisa-may-alcott-reading-challenge.html
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And I have a #MobyDickReadalong coming up in August
http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com/2019/05/moby-dick-readalong.html?m=1
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I’m hosting a read-along of C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves if anyone would like to join me. Here’s my initial post: https://classicalcarousel.com/four-loves-read-along/
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Hello,
I’m hosting a read-along for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft, for the month of April. If anyone is interested, check it out here:
https://greatbookstudy.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-vindication-of-rights-of-womenread.html
Thanks!
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Hi!
I’m hosting a readalong for Gone with the Wind from March 1-31 if anyone is interested!
I know many Classics Club members have this book on their TBR and it might be a good chance to knock it off once and for all!
For more info: https://thebookcorps.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/gone-with-the-wind-readalong-march/
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Not to be pushy, but Brona, dear Brona, is the Moby Dick read-along still happening in February??
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2019 year of Shakespeare anyone? Maybe one play a month?
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I could possibly get behind that.
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We could even make it into a 3 year project to get all the plays, if people got really excited. Though that seems long. 😁
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Part of me says, “Absolutely!” and part of me says, “Yeah, prolly not gonna happen.” Maybe make a poll and have people vote on what they’d like to have included? Or let everyone choose their own things and just have it be a “read some Shakespeare” event like the Women Authors event from a year or two ago?
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I was thinking more aling the lines of voting for the plays, and everyone reading the same. But we could also split it into 4 month tragedy, comedy, history and let people read however many they want.
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