Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
My Victober TBR for 2025 includes:
1- Dracula
2- The Great God Pan
3- The People of the Mist
Thanks to @booksimnotreading for encouraging me to make this video. I also mentioned @saintdonoghue when I was talking about Book critics.
Learn more about Victober below:
HOSTS and CHALLENGES
1. Kate @katehowereads Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured.
2. Katie @katiejlumsden : Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem or work of non-fiction).
3. Marissa @BlatantlyBookish : Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in social status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.)
4. Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks : Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading.
5. Elizabeth @elizabethaliteraryprincess : Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer (meaning not the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, or Christina Rossetti).
6. Hannah @HannahsBooks : Read a Victorian work that discusses education.
7. Jess @dickens-and-docks : Step back in time—read a Victorian work set in a different era.
8. Milena @MilenaReads : Spin a (digital) colourwheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that colour. You can pick any edition.
9. Roy @royreadsanything : Read a Victorian work of fantasy.
10. Catherine @takingteawithcatherine : Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen.
GROUP READ
Hester, Margaret Oliphant 2 chapters a day, 1st to 22nd October (with 3 chapters on the final day) https://bookshop.org/a/115310/9780199...
CHALLENGE ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS
1–3 challenges = Mr. Micawber level
4–6 challenges = Jane Eyre level
7–9 challenges = Sherlock Holmes level
10 challenges = Dracula level
My Victober TBR for 2025 includes:
1- Dracula
2- The Great God Pan
3- The People of the Mist
Thanks to @booksimnotreading for encouraging me to make this video. I also mentioned @saintdonoghue when I was talking about Book critics.
Learn more about Victober below:
HOSTS and CHALLENGES
1. Kate @katehowereads Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured.
2. Katie @katiejlumsden : Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem or work of non-fiction).
3. Marissa @BlatantlyBookish : Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in social status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.)
4. Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks : Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading.
5. Elizabeth @elizabethaliteraryprincess : Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer (meaning not the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, or Christina Rossetti).
6. Hannah @HannahsBooks : Read a Victorian work that discusses education.
7. Jess @dickens-and-docks : Step back in time—read a Victorian work set in a different era.
8. Milena @MilenaReads : Spin a (digital) colourwheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that colour. You can pick any edition.
9. Roy @royreadsanything : Read a Victorian work of fantasy.
10. Catherine @takingteawithcatherine : Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen.
GROUP READ
Hester, Margaret Oliphant 2 chapters a day, 1st to 22nd October (with 3 chapters on the final day) https://bookshop.org/a/115310/9780199...
CHALLENGE ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS
1–3 challenges = Mr. Micawber level
4–6 challenges = Jane Eyre level
7–9 challenges = Sherlock Holmes level
10 challenges = Dracula level
