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Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors6/6
Seek out at least six (6) authors.
1. Sarah Penner - The Lost Apothecary
2. Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident
3. Isaac Bashevis Singer - Gimpel the Fool
4. Stendhal - The Red and the Black
5. Alan Shepard - Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
6. Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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7. Edna Ferber - So Big
8. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling
9. Michael Collins - Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
10, Thomas Berger - Little Big Man
11. Kate Quinn - The Huntress
12. R.A. Dick, pseudonym Josephine Leslie - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
13. Nancy Horan - Under the Wide and Starry Sky
14. James Clavell - Shogun: A Novel of Japan
15. Pam Jenoff - The Orphan's Tale
16. Patricia Lauber - Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount Saint Helens
17. Thomas Dekker - The Witch of Edmonton
18. Ian McEwan - Atonement
19. Robert Ruark - The Old Man and the Boy
20. Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun
21. Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
22. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
23. Simone de Beauvoir - A Very Easy Death
24. Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear
25. Stanley G. Weinbaum - A Martian Odyssey
26. John W. Campbell Jr. - Twilight
27. Lester del Rey - Helen O'Loy
28. Theodore Sturgeon - Microcosmic God
Planned New Authors
Craig L. Symonds - World War II at Sea: A Global History
Stephen E. Ambrose - Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
José Saramago - Blindness
Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock
Khushwant Singh - Train to Pakistan
Pat Conroy - The Lords of Discipline
Challenge 6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads Challenge12/12
The challenge is to read 12 total books from this year's group poll winners or Buddy Reads.
71% of last year's poll winners were either prior reads or of little to no interest. I do not expect this challenge to be successful.
1. The Ox-Bow Incident - Buddy Read
2. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice - Old School
3. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Short Story/Novella
4. The Cider House Rules - 1st Qtr. Long Read
5. Treasure Island - Revisit the Shelf
6. The Bear - Short Story/Novella
7. A Confederacy of Dunces - New School
8. The Night Before Christmas - Short Story/Novella
9. A Very Easy Death - Short Story/Novella
10. The Praise of Folly - Old School
11. Little Dorrit - 3rd Quarter 2023 Long Read
12. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Buddy Read
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge24/24
Read 24 short stories.
1. Goodbye, My Brother, From The Stories of John Cheever
--2-11 From I Am Legend and Other Stories
2. Buried Talents
3. The Near Departed
4. Prey
5. Witch War
6. Dance of the Dead
7. Dress of White Silk
8. Mad House
9. The Funeral
10. From Shadowed Places
11. Person to Person
--12-18 From 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories
12. The Cunning of the Serpent-Henry S. Whitehead
13. A Dead Clue-David Nowinson
14. Dead Man's Drop-R. Van Taylor
15. Dead Men Talk-Ernest C. Amaral
16. Death's Old Sweet Song-George William Rae
17. The Debt Collector-Maurice Level
18. A Devil's Highball-G. Flemming-Roberts
--19-21 From The American Short Story
19. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a reread
20. Gimpel the Fool
21. Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby
--22a-g, 23a-g, 24a-d, - From American Indian Stories
22. Impressions of an Indian Childhood (7)
a. My Mother
b. The Legends
c. The Beadwork
d. The Coffee-Making
e. The Dead Man's Plum Bush
f. The Ground Squirrel
g. The Big Red Apples
23. The School Days of an Indian Girl (7)
a. The Land of the Red Apples
b. The Cutting of My Long Hair
c. The Snow Episode
d. The Devil
e. Iron Routine
f. Four Strange Summers
g. Incurring My Mother's Displeasure
24. An Indian Teacher Among Indians (4)
a. My First Day
b. A Trip Westward
c. My Mother's Curse Upon White Settlers
d. Retrospection
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25-27 From Collected Stories of O. Henry: Revised and Expanded
25. The Cactus
26. The Last Leaf
27. The Ransom of Red Chief
28. The Forgotten Door (novella)
29. All Summer in a Day
30. Buglesong by Wallace Stegner from Still Wild : Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present
31. Call Me Joe
32. A Piece of Steak
33. The Cabuliwallah
34. A Pair of Silk Stockings
35. The Bear
36. Behind the White Brick
37. The Gift of the Magi
38. A Christmas Carol
39. Christmas at Sea
40. Twas the Night Before Christmas and Other Christmas Stories
41. The Little Match Girl
42. A Martian Odyssey
43. Twilight
44. Helen O'Loy
45. The Roads Must Roll
46. Microcosmic God
47. Nightfall
Short Story Sources
Roman Fever and Other Stories
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
100 Crooked Little Crime Stories
Collected Stories of O. Henry: Revised and Expanded
The American Short Story
American Indian Stories
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge 12/12 + 1 Completed
✔️1. 19th Century, Dracula, 1897
✔️2. 20th Century, The Ox-Bow Incident, 1940
✔️3. A book originally written in a language other than your own, The Red and the Black
✔️4. Current or Past Group Read, King Solomon's Mines, March 2022
✔️5. An Author not read before, Sarah Penner - The Lost Apothecary
✔️6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. Shogun
✔️7. Science Fiction/Fantasy, The Crystal Cave
✔️8. Action/Adventure, The Return of Tarzan
✔️9. Childrens/Young Adult, The Forgotten Door
✔️10. Nonfiction, Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
✔️11. Mystery/Thriller, The Huntress
✔️12. Horror, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice or ✔️Humor, Little Big Man
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge ✔️Completed/Read
Only one version of the challenge is required.
Decade Challenge
My parents were born in 1938. This is my third time working on this decade, I am running out of substitutes.
My Decade Challenge the 1930's
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✔️*1930-Sunset Pass: A Western Story
*1931-The Loving Spirit-Classic Romance
✔️*1932-Stamboul Train-Classic Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller
*1933-God's Little Acre
*1934- Roman Fever and Other Stories
*1935-Death in the Clouds
*1936- A Gun for Sale
1937- To Have and Have Not
✔️*1938-The Yearling
✔️*1939-Johnny Got His Gun
* Books I Have
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Century Challenge
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✔️*1910-1919 - 1913-Return of Tarzan
✔️*1920-1929 - 1924-So Big
✔️1930-1939 - 1938-The Yearling
✔️*1940-1949 - 1948-No Highway
✔️*1950-1959 - 1952-The Far Country
✔️*1960-1969 - 1964-Little Big Man
✔️*1970-1979 - 1970-The Crystal Cave
✔️*1980-1989 - 1985-The Cider House Rules
✔️*1990-1999 - 1994-Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
✔️*2000-2009 - 2001-Atonement
* Books I Have
The Millennium Challenge
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✔️21st Century - 2021- The Lost Apothecary
✔️20th Century - 1913-Return of Tarzan
✔️*19th Century - 1830-The Red and the Black
18th Century - 1759-The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
✔️17th Century - 1658-The Witch of Edmonton
✔️*16th Century - 1511-The Praise of Folly
15th Century - 1438 The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
*14th Century - 1353 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
13th Century - 1298 The Travels by Marco Polo
12th Century - 1150 The Life of Merlin by Geoffrey of Monmouth
* Books I Have
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse4/4 Completed
New School
1. The Ox-Bow Incident - November 2022
Old School
1. The Red and the Black - August 2016,
Short Story/Novella
1. Goodbye, My Brother - September 2022
Quarterly Long Read
1. Shōgun - 3rd Qtr. 2017
Choices of Interest
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Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge 12/12
1899 and earlier/Old School
*1. The Mayor Of Casterbridge
✔️*2. The Haunted Hotel
✔️*3. King Solomon's Mines
1900-1999/New School
✔️*4. A Confederacy of Dunces currently reading
5. Blindness
6. Picnic at Hanging Rock
Non- Classic Junk Food "Brain Candy" Reads - Authors I Read Just for Fun
✔️*7. Standup Guy
✔️*8. Hard Truth
✔️*9. Executive Power
✔️*10. Treasure
✔️*11. Night School
✔️*12. The Man From St. Petersburg
Alternates
✔️*A-1. The King's General
✔️*A-2. The Far Country
✔️*A-3. The Moon and Sixpence
* Books I Have
Another Bakers Dozen Menu for the 2023 BuffetMy Score Card, ✔️= Completed
✔️Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
✔️Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
✔️Challenge #3 - 4/10 Decade/
✔️Challenge #4 - Members Choice
✔️Challenge #5 - Short Story
✔️Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads
✔️Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
✔️Challenge #8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
✔️Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title
My Challenge Goals and Expectations:
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All Challenges Start 1 January 2023, the folder & discussion thread are open now so that you can begin to plan your year. This challenge can be used with your other challenges. Books and authors selected can be used to fill other buffet or bingo challenge needs.
NOTE: Start your own thread for your challenge in this folder. See directions in message #1
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title ChallengeA
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Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked CategoriesSelect five categories of your choice or use some of these sample categories. Once you make your category selections, link the categories by finding and reading an Old School (1899 or older) and a New School book (1900-1999) that contains some part or is all about your selected categories. It will be more interesting and more varied if you come up with your own categories.
Samples Ideas:
Contains a Trial
Has a Murder
Contains Time Travel
Set in or has Winter involved
Coming of Age
Is About a Fallen Woman
Set on or has The Sea involved
Animals
School
Travel
Life Changing Action
Survival
A book that made you cry
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Has a Murder-
Old - Crime and Punishment
New - Murder on the Orient Express
Contains a Trial
Old - The Scarlet Letter
New - To Kill a Mockingbird
Life Changing Action
Old - A Horseman in the Sky
New - A Separate Peace
Coming of Age
Old - Great Expectations
New - A Cry of Angels
Travel
Old - Three Men in a Boat
New - Pied Piper
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of DifficultSelect five books from five diffetent centuries, using the same decade for each century you select. They do not have to be consecutive centuries, but must be the same decade.
Example of five consecutive decades:
20th Century - 1950-1959 - 1953-Nine Stories
19th Century - 1850-1859 - 1855-Little Dorrit
18th Century - 1750-1759 - 1759-The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
17th Century - 1650-1659 - 1658-The Witch of Edmonton
16th Century - 1550-1559 - 1552-A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Limiting this challenge to five books will be difficult but doable especially for the more recent centuries. As you move further back in time this should become more difficult. That is why the centuries don't have to be consecutive.
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Total number of books for this challenge is ten.
Examples:
World War I
Fiction - All Quiet on the Western Front
Non-Fiction - Somme
Women's Sufferage
Fiction - Impossible Saints
Non-Fiction - Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women
Space Exploration
Fiction - Space
Non-Ficton - The Right Stuff
Sea Travels/Adventures
Fiction - The Sea Wolf
Non-Fiction - Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Horses
Fiction - Black Gold
Non-Fiction - Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Challenge #8 –Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by YearLocate and list 10 books that most interest you from the year of your choice. The challenge is to read five 5 books from that list. You can use the year of your birth, the birth year of a family member, or friend, or any random year you choose.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...
NOTE: click on the link above then change the date to the date you wish to search.
10 Books of Interest for 1929
1. A Farewell to Arms
2. Letters to a Young Poet
3. Passing
4. Look Homeward, Angel
5. Partners in Crime
6. Red Harvest
7. Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
8. The Secret of the Caves
9. The Last September
10. The Blacker the Berry...
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Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New AuthorsSeek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, from any genre or era you want.
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Challenge 6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads ChallengeThe challenge is to read 12 total books from this year's group poll winners or Buddy Reads, in any combination. Your reads can be from the upcoming 53 poll winners, or from the 2023 Buddy Reads thread. Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, Quarterly Long Read, and Buddy Reads there should be plenty of choices.
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Challenge #5 - Short Story ChallengeRead 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year. Read them all at once or spread them out, it's up to you.
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