Victober 2024 | Announcement and Recommendations

#Victober
In which we announce Victober!

Victober is a month-long readathon celebrating Victorian literature (i.e. British and Irish literature published and/or written between 1837 and 1901.)

Victober Discord Server:   / discord  

The Other Hosts

‪@katehowereads‬
‪@BlatantlyBookish‬
‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬

The Challenges

Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialised
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play
Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This final challenge is in honour of Jennifer Brooks and Alice and the Giant Bookshelf
Jenny talking about Wilkie Collins:    • all about Wilkie Collins | I’ve read ...   &    • Chatting Wilkie Collins | Ranking, Wh...  
Alice talking about Sherlock Holmes:    • A Reader's Guide to Sherlock Holmes |...   &    • Celebrating Sherlock Holmes! The Holm...  

The Group Read

The Doctor’s Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon:   / 3204192  

Reading from 1 October to 18 October
2 chapters a day every day, except for 18 October, where we read 3 chapters

Books Mentioned

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë:   / 6185  

The Time Machine, H.G. Wells:   / 2493  

The Turn of the Screw, Henry James:   / 12948  

The Rebecca Rioter, Amy Dillwyn:   / 5478065  

The House by the Churchyard, J. Sheridan Le Fanu:   / 1814793  

The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson, Anthony Trollope:   / 427343  

The Grey Woman, Elizabeth Gaskell:   / 6059410  

The Poor Clare, Gaskell:   / 16156339  

Wylder’s Hand, Le Fanu:   / 2533794  

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë:   / 337113  

Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith:   / 535856  

Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Elizabeth Von Arnim:   / 1140698  

Dracula, Bram Stoker:   / 17245  

The Beetle, Richard Marsh:   / 54815297  

Bleak House, Charles Dickens:   / 31242  

Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning:   / 817993  

The Ring and the Book, Robert Browning:   / 867406  

Erewhon, Samuel Butler:   / 516570  

The Pickwick Papers, Dickens:   / 229432  

Cranford, Gaskell:   / 182381  

My Flirtations, Ella Hepworth Dixon:   / 1041244  

Round the Sofa, Gaskell:   / 4727236  

Mugby Junction:   / 922870  .

A House to Let:   / 922862  

The Haunted House:   / 28515081  

The Fate of Fenella:   / 4081419  

Wilkie Collins:
Armadale:   / 777108  
The Moonstone:   / 6138  
The Woman in White:   / 5890  
Man and Wife:   / 720016  
Poor Miss Finch:   / 1293687  

Arthur Conan Doyle:
A Study in Scarlet:   / 102868  
The Sign of Four:   / 608474  
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:   / 3590  
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes:   / 194373  
The Hound of the Baskervilles:   / 8921  
The White Company:   / 93063  

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