The Keep:The Society of Old Books

Welcome to the Society of Old Books! We sound stuffy, but we're really not. We're just a group of people interested in reading some classic books. Join us as we dive into classic literature!

About Us
Join us as we embark on new adventures across classic literature! Polls are held at the end of each month to vote for our next books. We are open to discussing all books/poems/plays, but our challenges and main focus are works published in 1923 or earlier (Accessible via the Public Domain)

Challenges
 * Younger Read: Book designated for children/teens
 * Short Read: Under 150 pages. Can be a short story, poem, play, etc.
 * Longer Read: Over 150 pages. These challenges last for 2 months. If the nominated book is over 500 pages, it will last for 3 months.

Younger Reads
Book, poem, story designated for children/teens. These challenges ran for 1 month

2019
 * June: The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
 * May: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Short Reads
Can be a short story, poem, play, etc. Must be under 150 pages. These challenges ran for 1 month

2019
 * June: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * May: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Longer Reads
Anything over 150 pages. These challenges last for 2 months. Books over 500 pages last for 3 months.

Previous Longer Reads (from before the new 3 challenge structure)

2019 2018 2017
 * April/May 2019: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
 * February/March 2019: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe
 * November/December 2018 : Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
 * September 2018: Invitation to a Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov
 * August 2018: Paradise Lost, by John Milton
 * July 2018: The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey
 * June 2018: Middlemarch, by George Eliot
 * May 2018: The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
 * April 2018: The Geometry, by Rene Descartes
 * March 2018: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
 * February 2018: The Innocence of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton
 * January 2018: The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
 * December 2017: The House of Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * November 2017: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
 * October 2017: The Tale of Genji, by Lady Murasaki
 * September 2017: The Epic of Gilgamesh
 * August 2017: Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius