The Novel Nomad | Victober 2023 TBR @TheNovelNomad | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day 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---

Group Read: The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope

Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work featuring a stranger/outsider
Katie’s challenge: Read a piece of Victorian ‘New Woman’ fiction
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work by an author who is new to you
Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian first-person narrative
Ros’s challenge: Read a Victorian work in which class features strongly

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

Silas Marner - George Eliot
Struggle for Fame - Charlotte Riddell
Hester - Margaret Oliphant
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning