Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Victober Hosts and Challenges:
Group Read: Hester by Margaret Oliphant
@katehowereads
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured.
@katiejlumsden
Katie’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem or work of non-fiction).
@BlatantlyBookish
Marissa’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in class status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.).
@scallydandlingaboutthebooks
Ros’s challenge: Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading.
@elizabethaliteraryprincess
Elizabeth’s challenge: Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer.
@HannahsBooks
Hannah’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that discusses education.
@dickens-and-docks & tinyurl.com/mr3y3rzy
Jess’s challenge: Step back in time – read a Victorian work set in a different era.
@MilenaReads
Milena’s challenge: Spin a (digital) colourwheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that colour. You can pick any edition.
@royreadsanything
Roy’s challenge: Read a Victorian work of fantasy.
@takingteawithcatherine
Catherine’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen.
Other People Mentioned:
@cozycottagechapters
@insearchofwonder
Brandi - instagram.com/brandis.bookish.escape
@AustenintheOzarks
Gothic October: youtube.com/watch?v=s5jzLuma9ws
Books Mentioned:
The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
Hester by Margaret Oliphant
Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Lorna Doon by RD Blackmore
Tennyson The Major Works
Thomas Hardy’s Short Stories
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Gaskell
Gothic Tales by Gaskell
Love and Life by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Dr. Wortle’s School by Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Princess and the Goblin by George McDonald
#victober
Victober Hosts and Challenges:
Group Read: Hester by Margaret Oliphant
@katehowereads
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured.
@katiejlumsden
Katie’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem or work of non-fiction).
@BlatantlyBookish
Marissa’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in class status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.).
@scallydandlingaboutthebooks
Ros’s challenge: Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading.
@elizabethaliteraryprincess
Elizabeth’s challenge: Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer.
@HannahsBooks
Hannah’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that discusses education.
@dickens-and-docks & tinyurl.com/mr3y3rzy
Jess’s challenge: Step back in time – read a Victorian work set in a different era.
@MilenaReads
Milena’s challenge: Spin a (digital) colourwheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that colour. You can pick any edition.
@royreadsanything
Roy’s challenge: Read a Victorian work of fantasy.
@takingteawithcatherine
Catherine’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen.
Other People Mentioned:
@cozycottagechapters
@insearchofwonder
Brandi - instagram.com/brandis.bookish.escape
@AustenintheOzarks
Gothic October: youtube.com/watch?v=s5jzLuma9ws
Books Mentioned:
The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
Hester by Margaret Oliphant
Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Lorna Doon by RD Blackmore
Tennyson The Major Works
Thomas Hardy’s Short Stories
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Gaskell
Gothic Tales by Gaskell
Love and Life by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Dr. Wortle’s School by Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Princess and the Goblin by George McDonald
#victober
