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I hope it is not too late for me to take part in this challenge. :)A-Z Title Challenge
Jan 1- Dec 31, 2017
26/26 Completed - 17/12/2017
A- The Awakening
B - The Black Tulip
C - The Comedy of Errors
D - A Doll's House
E - Emma
F - Far from the Madding Crowd
G - The Gambler
H - The Hound of the Baskervilles
I - An Ideal Husband
J - Jane Eyre
K - King Lear
L - A Little Princess
M - The Master and Margarita
N - North and South
O - Orlando
P - The Phantom of the Opera
Q - The Queen of Spades
R - A Room with a View
S - The Scarlet Letter
T - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
U - Under the Greenwood Tree
V - The Valley of Fear
W - The Woman in White
X - Xingu
Y - Young Goodman Brown
Z - Zastrozzi
Piyangie wrote: "I hope it is not too late for me to take part in this challenge. :)A-Z Title Challenge
Jan 1- Dec 31, 2017
22/26 Completed
A- The Awakening
B - The Black Tulip
C - [book..."
Never too late, it looks like you've nearly completed it too!
Suggestions for the missing letters that are still classicsQuicksand by Nella Larsen
Xingu by Edith Wharton
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Welcome to the challenge! I started about this time last year too.
Thank you, Pink and Zoe. And Zoe, it is so nice of you to take time in suggesting the classics for missing letters. Really appreciate it. Thank you. :)
Rosemarie wrote: "Xingu is available as a free ebook. It is a short, entertaining story."Thank you, Rosemarie. I will check on that to fill for letter X. I'm looking for short stories to finish the challenge as I have quite a few under my belt to finish for the year. :)
Pamela wrote: "I'll second Xingu as a good, quick submission for X. It's very entertaining."Thank you, Pamela.
I've almost completed my challenge. It has been lots of fun and I'm thinking about challenges for 2018. I took a little liberty with the definition of "classic" and threw in a couple of genre classics like Ender's Game (sci-fi) and The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer (romance).1. Animal Farm X
2. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder X
3. The Count of Monte Cristo X
4. Daisy Miller and Washington Square X
5. Ender's Game X
6. Fahrenheit 451 X
7. The Grapes of Wrath X
8. Hard Times X
9. The Inferno of Dante X
10. Jeeves in the Morning X
11. King Lear X
12. Love and Friendship and Other Youthful Writings X
13. Middlemarch X
14. North and South X
15. The Origin of Species X
16. The Pilgrim's Progress X
17. The Quiet Gentleman X
18. A Room with a View X
19. The Stranger X
20. Till We Have Faces X
21. Uncle Tom's Cabin X
22. Villette X
23. The Woman in White X
24. Xingu X
25. A Year in Provence waiting on copy from amazon
26. Zorba the Greek 50% complete
Pink wrote: "Piyangie wrote: "Completed the challenge. :)Message 103."
Well done!"
Thank you, Pink. :)
Piyangie wrote: "Completed the challenge. :)
Message 103."
Congrats to you! Doesn't look like I'll finish this challenge this year.
Message 103."
Congrats to you! Doesn't look like I'll finish this challenge this year.
Katy wrote: "Piyangie wrote: "Completed the challenge. :)Message 103."
Congrats to you! Doesn't look like I'll finish this challenge this year."
Thank you, Katy. :) You can always try next year.
Piyangie wrote: "Completed the challenge. :)Message 103."
Great job! What a nice list of classics. Love your Z choice--going to steal that one. :-)
Thanks, Kathleen. No problem, you can steel my Z choice. :-) It's a pretty dark story. Hope you will like it.
26/26 CompletedA The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
B Blindness by José Saramago
C The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
D Dubliners by James Joyce
E Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
F Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
G Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
H Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
I Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
J The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
K Kava in the Blood by Peter Thomson
L Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
M Middlemarch by George Eliot
N Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
O One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
P Potiki by Patricia Grace
Q The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz
R The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
S The Sellout by Paul Beatty
T The Trial by Franz Kafka
U The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
V Voss by Patrick White
W We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
X Xala by Ousmane Sembène
Y The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Z Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Finished. My last letter was E. It took me ages to get around to reading it.
Zoe wrote: "26/26 CompletedA The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
B Blindness by José Saramago
C The Catcher in the Rye by [author:J.D. Salin..."
Well done!
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And good luck to those still working on it! I'll go find and author with O for my Author A-Z :)