The Reading Challenge

I'm in. I'm going to try the " Back to the Classics Challenge " for 2021. This will be the first time in a while that I've done a "prescribed" challenge, and I'm looking forward to diving in and reading some books I've always wanted to read. Only one of these (that I know of) of these will be a re-read. Here are the categories, with my possible selections. I believe these are all classics; if I discover that something isn't a "true classic" (whatever that means), I will change it to something more ... classic. A 19th century classic: any book first published from 1800 to 1899 - Jane Eyre , by Charlotte Brontë (1847) A 20th century classic: any book first published from 1900 to 1971 - Silence , by Shushako Endo (1966) A classic by a woman author - Wide Sargasso Sea , by Jean Rhys (1966) A classic in translation - Kristin Lavransdatter , by Sigrid Undset (1922) A classic by BIPOC author - Twelve Years a Slave , by Solomon Nor