Back to the Classics 2019

Back to the Classics is hosted at Books and Chocolate and the idea is to read at least 6 classics (at least 50 years old) that fit different categories. I am hoping to fit some of my Classics Club list titles into this challenge during 2019. Listed below are the categories for 2019 and below each are some options from my Classics Club list that I might choose.

1. 19th Century Classic. Any classic book originally published between 1800 and 1899. (listed below are titles from my list that don't fit other categories)

She: A History of Adventure, H. Rider Haggard, 1886
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells, 1898
Walden, Henry David Thoreau, 1854
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, 1890
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1882

2. 20th Century Classic. Any classic book originally published between 1900 and 1969. (listed below are titles from my list that don't fit other categories)

Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley, 1921
The Innocence of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton, 1911
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, G.K. Chesterton, 1908
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting, 1920
Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953
Lust for Life, Irving Stone, 1934
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, 1950
The Deep Blue Goodbye, John D. MacDonald, 1964
The Spy who Came in from the Cold, John le Carre, 1963
Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey, 1918
The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer, 1968
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick, 1968
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler, 1939
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant, 1926

3. Classic by a Woman Author.

Some Tame Gazelle, Barbara Pym, 1950
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers, 1946
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier, 1951
The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922
Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty, 1946
The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O'Connor, 1960
The Grand Sophy, Georgette Heyer, 1950
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen, 1937
Seven Gothic Tales, Isak Dinesen, 1934
The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith, 1952
Grey Mask, Patricia Wentworth, 1928
Harriet Hume, Rebecca West, 1929
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969
The Waves, Virginia Woolf, 1931
Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather, 1931

4. Classic in Translation. Any classic originally written in a language other than your native language. (My native language is English.)

Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957 (Russian)

The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353 (Italian)
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, 1856 (French)
Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, the Brothers Grimm (German)

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, 1949 (French)

Swann's Way, Marcel Proust, 1913 (French)

5. Classic Comic Novel. Any comedy, satire, or humorous work.

Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis, 1955

A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift, 1704

Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding, 1742

6. Classic Tragic Novel. Tragedies traditionally have a sad ending, but just like the comedies, this is up for the reader to interpret.

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, 1856 

My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier, 1951
Delta Wedding, Eudora Welty, 1946
The Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O'Connor, 1960

7. Very Long Classic. Any classic single work 500 pages or longer, not including introductions or end notes.

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, 1844 (625 pages)
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957 (592 pages)

Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965 (604 pages)

New Grub Street, George Gissing, 1891 (560 pages)

The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, 1868 (528 pages)

A House for Mr Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961 (623 pages)

The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353 (833 pages)

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir, 1949 (746 pages)

8. Classic Novella. Any work of narrative fiction shorter than 250 pages. 

Double Indemnity, James M. Cain, 1936 (115 pages)
A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift, 1704 (144 pages)

The Time Machine, H. G. Wells, 1895 (118 pages)
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James, 1898 (87 pages)

Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster, 1905 (148 pages)

9. Classic From the Americas (includes the Caribbean). 

There is nothing on my Classics Club list that fits this category and is old enough for this challenge so I would need to go off-list for this one.

10. Classic From Africa, Asia, or Oceania (includes Australia). 

Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen, 1937

A House for Mr Biswas, V. S. Naipaul, 1961

11. Classic From a Place You've Lived. 
New York City; Washington, DC; Nebraska; and New Hampshire would be my options. I'm not sure which of my Classics Club titles (if any) are set in these places so further research or off-list reading will be needed for this one.

12. Classic Play. Any play written or performed at least 50 years ago. Plays are eligible for this category only.

I don't have any plays on my list, so again I would need to go off-list.