Sues BookNook | A Victober and Sherlocktober TBR @suemoro | Uploaded September 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
VICTOBER

Hosts:
Ange: Beyond The Pages
Kate Howe
Lucythereader
Katie: Books and Things

Victober is a month long readathon, from 31st October, in which everybody reads Victorian literature.

Victober Goodreads Group:

-Challenges-
1. Ange’s challenge: Read a book by one of the hosts’ favorite Victorian authors (Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, or Thomas Hardy) The Haunted House by Charles Dickens
2. Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book with a proper noun (I.e., a place or person’s name) in the title Carmella by J.Sheridan Lefanu
3. Katie’s Challenge: Read a book that was published in the first ten years of the Victorian Era and/or published in the last ten years. (1837-1847 or 1891-1901)) Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte (1947)
4. Lucy’s challenge: Read a Victorian book written by a woman anonymously or under a pseudonym Silas Marner by George Elliott
5. General challenge: Read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation of it

Bonus: Group Readalong: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Audiobook read by Prunella Scales
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SHERLOCKTOBER

Host: Steve Donoghue

Wk 1:
A Scandal in Bohemia
Red-Headed League
Man With a Twisted Lip
Blue Carbuncle
Speckled Band
Copper Beaches

Wk 2:
Silver Blaze
Cardboard Box
Crooked man
Greek Interpreter
Naval Treaty
The Final Problem

Wk 3:
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Wk 4:
Empty House
Dancing Men
Solitary Cyclist
Abbey Grange
Solitary Stain