The Novel Nomad | Recommendations for the Spooky Season | Victober 2021 @TheNovelNomad | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
#Victober
It is the time of the month to pick up a Victorian gothic short story or a sensationalist novel and be thoroughly absorbed in tales of immortality, supernatural, and secrets.

There is still time to read a Victorian classic this October!

The Hosts:
Katie @Books and Things
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Lucy @lucythereader
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Kate Howe @Kate Howe
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Goodreads group: tinyurl.com/y4am2kac

---Challenges---

Lucy’s Challenge: Read a Victorian novel with a female main character.
Katie’s Challenge: Read a Victorian novel set in the countryside and/or the city.
Kate’s Challenge: Read a Victorian sensation novel.
Group Challenge: Read a popular Victorian novel.
Bonus Challenge: Read aloud a section of a Victorian novel or have it read aloud to you via a friend or an audiobook.

Group Read: Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell

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“As far as I am concerned, all reading is for pleasure.” - Nancy Mitford
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-BOOKS-

Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
The Beetle - Richard Marsh
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Paul Clifford - Edward Butler Lynton
Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The String of Pearls - Thomas Peckett Prest
The Monk - Matthew Lewis
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Anne Radcliffe
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Tales of Mysteries and Imagination - Edgar Allen Poe
In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu