My Victober 2025 TBR

I am so excited to be joining in with my very first Victober but the 10th year this event celebrating Victorian literature has run on YouTube. Thank you to all the hosts who are listed below with the prompts and levels of achievement you can B aim for. ❤️ HOSTS Katie ‪‪@katiejlumsden‬ ‬    • Victober #10 | Announc...   Kate ‪‪@katehowereads‬    • Victober 2025 Announce...   Marissa ‪‪@BlatantlyBookish‬ ‬    • Announcing Victober 20...   Ros ‪‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬ ‬    • Victober 2025 announce...   Elizabeth ‪‪@elizabethaliteraryprincess‬ ‬    • Victober 2025 Announce...   Hannah ‪‪@HannahsBooks‬ ‬    • Victober 2025: Announc...   Jess ‪‪@dickens-and-docks‬ ‬    • Victober 2025 Announce...   (Also at   / dickens.and.docks  ) Milena ‪‪@MilenaReads‬    • I'M A VICTOBER HOST!! ...   Roy ‪‪@royreadsanything‬ ‬    • Victober 2025 Announce...   Catherine ‪‪@takingteawithcatherine‬ ‬    • Victober 2025 Announce...   GROUP READ Hester, Margaret Oliphant 2 chapters a day, 1st to 22nd October (with 3 chapters on the final day) CHALLENGES 1. Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured. 2. 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). 3. Marissa’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in social status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.) 4. Ros’s challenge: Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading. 5. Elizabeth’s challenge: Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer (meaning not the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, or Christina Rossetti). 6. Hannah’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that discusses education. 7. Jess’s challenge: Step back in time—read a Victorian work set in a different era.    • Victober 2025 Announce...   8. 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. 9. Roy’s challenge: Read a Victorian work of fantasy. 10. Catherine’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen. CHALLENGE ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS With ten challenges this year, we appreciate that not everyone is going to do all ten. How many will you meet? 1–3 challenges = Mr. Micawber level 4–6 challenges = Jane Eyre level 7–9 challenges = Sherlock Holmes level 10 challenges = Dracula level (because you might need to be a magical being who doesn’t need sleep in order to complete all 10) #victober #victober2025 #victorianclassics #classics #victorianliterature #thebrontes #charlesdickens #thomashardy #thomashardyreadalong #elisabethgaskell #oscarwilde #sherlockholmes #allenraine