Announcing Victober 2025! | #victober

In which we announce Victober 2025... Victober (Victorian October) is a month-long readathon celebrating Victorian literature (British and Irish literature published and/or written between 1837 and 1901.) Victober Discord server:   / discord   Victober Scorecard: https://drive.google.com/file/d/168mY... The Other Hosts and Their Announcement Videos: -Katie ‪@katiejlumsden‬ :    • Victober #10 | Announcement and Recommenda...   -Kate Howe ‪@katehowe8499‬ :    • Victober 2025 Announcement Video!   -Ros ‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬    • Victober 2025 announcement and it's Victob...   -Elizabeth ‪@elizabethaliteraryprincess‬:    • Victober 2025 Announcement!   -Hannah ‪@HannahsBooks‬    • Victober 2025: Announcement and Recommenda...   -Jess:   / dickens.and.docks   ‪@dickens-and-docks‬    • Victober 2025 Announcement & Recommendations   -Milena ‪@MilenaReads‬    • I'M A VICTOBER HOST!!  🫖 🍰  2025 #victober...   -Roy ‪@royreadsanything‬    • Victober 2025 Announcement   -Catherine ‪@takingteawithcatherine‬    • Victober 2025 Announcement   The 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. My challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in class 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. 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. The Group Read: Hester by Margaret Oliphant: read 2 chapters a day from October 1st - 22nd (with 3 chapters on the final day) Books Mentioned: -Great Expectations by Charles Dickens -Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens -Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens -The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy -Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte -Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte -Agnes Gray by Anne Bronte -John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Mulock Craik -Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell -Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell -Esther Waters by George Moore -Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray -Hester by Margaret Oliphant music by [audionautix.com](http://audionautix.com/) ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ Let's be friends!   / misa1404     / blatantlybookish   [email protected]