Back to the Classics 2012 Reading Challenge

The Back to the Classics 2012 Reading Challenge is being hosted by Sarah Reads Too Much.  This year, I am again committed to reading or re-reading at least one "classic" each month, so this fits into my reading goals.

From the blog:

Here are the nitty gritty details:

1. Challenge runs from January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012.  Books started before January 1st do not count, and all links/reviews/comments for each category must be posted in the correct place by December 31st.  Feel free to join in at any time, but the end date is December 31.
2. Please feel free to use books in this Challenge toward any other Challenge you may be participating in. However, you must read a different book for each category of this challenge.  Audio and e-books are allowed.
3. Please sign up for the Challenge using the linky list (or comment section if you do not have a blog/website).  If you would be so kind, please spread the word about this challenge by creating a post on your blog/website and link back to this sign up page.
4. Once the Challenge has begun, you will see a new bar on the left hand side of this blog.  This will list the places for you to link/comment your reviews of the book you have read for each category as well as a "wrap up" page.  I will not be doing monthly check-in posts this year.  I will probably do a "Half Way" post in June.  These will be important because....
5. THERE IS A PRIZE THIS YEAR!  People who complete the challenge (and I will check that all categories are completed!) will be entered into a random drawing for $30 worth of books (Book Depository will be used for an International Winner).  I may have other prizes as well.  Make sure you are following me via GFC, Email,  Twitter, or Facebook/Networked Blogs so you are in the know!

Categories (my choices are in teal):

• Any 19th Century Classic - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  
• Any 20th Century Classic - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  
• Reread a classic of your choice  - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
• A Classic Play - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
  
• Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction - Dracula by Bram Stoker
  
• Classic Romance - Persuasion by Jane Austen
  
• Read a Classic that has been translated from its original language to your language   - To clarify, if your native language is NOT English, you may read any classic originally written in English that has been translated into your native language.  - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  
• Classic Award Winner  - To clarify, the book should be a classic which has won any established literary award.   - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Nobel Prize for Literature (1982)
• Read a Classic set in a Country that you (realistically speaking) will not visit during your lifetime  - To Clarify, this does not have to be a country that you hope to visit either.  Countries that no longer exist or have never existed count. - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - set in the fictional Staja
  

 I'll update as I go (click covers to go to Goodreads page):