I joined in a few challenges this year after swearing that I wouldn’t, November’s Autumn was the one which I joined first I think. It seemed easy to complete so I thought that I might as well go for it, but I’ve just realised that I didn’t actually manage to finish all seven books. I completely forgot about The Old Wives’ Tale so I plan to read that one early on in 2013.

I did read lots of other classic books though, so it has been a good year classics-wise for me. Buying a Kindle has definitely helped as so many of my classics are really old editions with very small print, which is very off putting, especially for bedtime reading.

Yet again I’ve decided not to join any challenges. It’s not that I feel them to be a burden or anything but I often read the books and forget to link them to the challenge, so I’m sort of humming along on my own, which I’m quite happy to do. I’ll follow other people’s challenges from a distance this year I think.

This is my list of books which I read for this challenge, or didn’t read!

1. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

2. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope

3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. Summer by Edith Wharton

5. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

6. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

7. The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott