Victober 2025 TBR: The Traditionally Much-Anticipated, Completely Maniacal, Overdone Victober TBR!

Happy Victober Friends! Today I share my Victorian TBR for next month, with a few bonus items as well. Here's all the Victober Info you'll need:

The Hosts:
‪@katiejlumsden‬
‪@katehowereads‬
‪@BlatantlyBookish‬
‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬
‪@elizabethaliteraryprincess‬
‪@HannahsBooks‬
‪@dickens-and-docks‬
‪@MilenaReads‬
‪@royreadsanything‬
‪@takingteawithcatherine‬

The Challenges

Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured.
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).
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.).
Ros’s challenge: Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading.
Elizabeth’s challenge: Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer.
Hannah’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that discusses education.
Jess’s challenge: Step back in time – read a Victorian work set in a different era.
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.
Roy’s challenge: Read a Victorian work of fantasy.
Catherine’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen.

Completed 1–3 challenges = Mr Micawber level
Completed 4–6 challenges = Jane Eyre level
Completed 7–9 challenges = Sherlock Holmes level
Completed 10 challenges = Dracula level

Books Mentioned:
The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Anthony Trollope Short Stories and Novellas
The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Romola by George Eliot
The Three Imposters by Arthur Machen
Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire by Charles Dickens
Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories by Bram Stoker
Gothic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Shorter works by Elizabeth Gaskell
Currier and Ives: America Imagined by Bryan F. LeBeau
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb
Remembrances: selected correspondence of Ray Bradbury, edited by Jonathan R. Eller
Garfield: Fat Cat Volume 3 by Jim Davis

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