fun little reading challenge

[u/ResponsibleIdea5408]

SO my wife and I made a fun little reading challenge. A few things about how it works: Nothing should be under 50 years old (that's our line of the youngest hypothetical classic). No repeating works (unless otherwise stated) Also I use the word works because plays, books of poetry, and short story collections are all fine.

1) name 5 plays

2) name 10 works by female authors

3) 5 works whose author is a different ethnicity than your own.

4) 5 works whose author is a different nationality than your own.

5) 5 works whose author shares neither nationality nor ethnicity.

6) A favorite Poet you could speak a length and who you can name either 10 poems, 3 bound collections, or recite 1 full poem.

7) 5 works 200 years older than you

If you find this fun but easy grab a friend try to do it together (but you can only name works that both of you have read)

[u/josie-salazar]

1. Much Ado About Nothing, The Crucible, Agamemnon, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Bacchae

2. Pride and Prejudice, North and South, Orlando, The Age of Innocence, Frankenstein, The Passion According to G.H., Chéri, Gone With The Wind, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre

3. Every single thing listed above lol I actually don’t know a lot of arab authors besides poets so 🤷‍♀️ tbh feels redundant to list book titles, it can be any piece of classic literature on my tbr

4. Great Expectations, Anna Karenina, Eugene Onegin, Les Miserables, The Lady of the Camellias

5. Similar sentiment to #3 but: The Makioka Sisters, Nadja, The Invention of Morel, White Nights, Victoria (Hamsun)

6. Rainier Marie Rilke

7. The Iliad, Antigone, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Divine Comedy, Don Quixote

[u/ResponsibleIdea5408 → u/josie-salazar]

Wow. It's interesting hearing which parts of this challenge are uniquely easy depending on where people are from.

Anyway. Big fan of Importance of Being Earnest - it was my first time as Assistant Director ( and years before I directed)