I'M A VICTOBER HOST!! 🫖 🍰 2025

Описание: Welcome to my victober 2025 announcement, I can't actually believe I got to film this! I'm so honoured to be a co-host for the 10th edition of Victober.

All the info you'll need:

00:00 intro to victober

00:54 the co-hosts
‪@katehowereads‬
‪@katiejlumsden‬
‪@BlatantlyBookish‬
‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬
‪@elizabethaliteraryprincess‬
‪@HannahsBooks‬
Jess    • Victober 2025 Announcement & Recommendations  
‪@royreadsanything‬
‪@takingteawithcatherine‬

01:44 the challenges
Find recommendations by clicking the channel names above.
Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured
Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem or work of non-fiction).
Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in class status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.)
Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading.
Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer (meaning not the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, or Christina Rossetti).
Read a Victorian work that discusses education.
Step back in time—read a Victorian work set in a different era.
Spin a (digital) colourwheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that colour. You can pick any edition.
Read a Victorian work of fantasy.
Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen.

03:39 the colourwheel

04:26 the tiers
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

05:19 group read
Hester by Margaret Oliphant
2 chapters a day, 1st to 22nd October (with 3 chapters on the final day)

07:00 my recommendations
Find the editions I mentioned here:
Penguin Clothbound: https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/CLOT...
Penguin English Library: https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/PENE...
Wordsworth Editions: https://wordsworth-editions.com/serie...
Yellow
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
Orange
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Green
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
Pink
Christina Rosetti poems
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Purple
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Red
The Odd Women by George Gissing
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Blue
Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Oscar Wilde fairy tales
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Multicolor: De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

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Paws and Pages 🐕 🐈‍⬛
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🌾 Thomas Hardy Readalong
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