The hosts:

• Kate Howe: https://www.youtube.com/@katehowereads
• Katie: https://youtu.be/_RWZIJaUU-E
• Marissa @BlatantlyBookish 
• Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebooks 
• Elizabeth: https://youtu.be/Egpr2t6NQIQ
• Hannah: https://youtu.be/ZrN1y5VK3Z4
• Jess: https://www.instagram.com/dickens.and.docks/    https://youtube.com/@dickens-and-docks
• Milena: @MilenaReads 
• Roy: @royreadsanything 
• Catherine: @takingteawithcatherine 

The Group Read: 

• Hester by Margaret Oliphant

Victober Discord: 

• https://discord.gg/RrYfYPXaHE

The prompts:

• Kate: Read a Victorian work where friendship is featured.
• Katie: Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem, or work of non-fiction)
• Marissa: Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in class status. (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen woman)
• Ros: Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading.
• Elizabeth: Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writing. (meaning not the Brontes, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, or Christina Rossetti)
• Hannah: Read a Victorian work that discusses education.
• Jess: Step back in time - read a Victorian work set in a different era.
• Milena: Spin a (digital) color wheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that color. You can pick any edition.
• Roy: Read a Victorian work of fantasy.
• Catherine: Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen. 

Prompt Achievement System:

• Completed 1-3 prompts: Mr. Micawber's level
• Completed 4-6 prompts: Jane Eyre level
• Completed 7-9 prompts: Sherlock Holmes level
• Completed 10 prompts: Dracula level (because you have to be an immortal magical being in order to complete all ten challenges.

Books Kate recommends for her challenge:

1. The Young Stepmother - Charlotte Mary Yonge
2. The Cloister and the Hearth - Charles Reade
3. The Stokesley Secret - Charlotte Mary Yonge
4. Letters from any Victorian author to a friend
5. Maud: The Illustrated Diary of a Victorian Lady - Maud Berkeley
6. The Moorland Cottage - Elizabeth Gaskell
7. Moonfleet - J. Meade Faulkner
8. The Story of the Treasure Seekers + The Wouldbegoods - E. Nesbit
9. Deerbrook - Harriet Martineau
10. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
11. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
12. The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald
13. The Barsetshire chronicles - Anthony Trollope
14. Adam Bede - George Eliot
15. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
16. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
17. Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
18. The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
19. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
20. Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
21. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens