The Novel Nomad | Victober 2022 TBR @TheNovelNomad | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
#Victober
VICTOBER IS UPON US! And I am ready to read!

I am beyond excited for a month-long celebration of Victorian literature, so please share what you intend to read or if you enjoyed/disliked any of the books I have selected.

If you don't know:

Victober is a month-long readathon hosted by me and several other wonderful booktubers, all about celebrating Victorian literature. (Victorian literature is British and Irish literature published and/or written between 1837 and 1901.)

The Hosts:
@Books and Things youtu.be/h-rqG8KGluE
@Kate Howe youtu.be/IGWgG8DKcus
@Blatantly Bookish youtu.be/JJgQnhHi5PU
@Petra U. youtu.be/dZdO1ERQ8yo
@Scallydandling about the books youtu.be/QLlSe3O0Jts

Goodreads group: tinyurl.com/y4am2kac

---Challenges---

Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work with chronic illness or disability representation
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian Bildungsroman/coming of age story
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian short story
Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation of it
Ros’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian poetry, long or short

Group Read: The Mayor of Casterbridge, 2 chapters a day 1st to 23rd October

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

Olive - Dinah Craik
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Adaptation starring Dev Patel -
Oscar Wilde - The Complete Short Stories
Cousin Phillis and other stories - Elizabeth Gaskell
Bronte Poems
Goblin Market and Other Poems - Christina Rosetti
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Wyllard's Weird - Mary Elizabeth Braddon