A-Z Author Challenge 2018

[Hilary]

B: The Miniaturist Jessie Burton

J: A Winter BookTove Jansson

Q: Miller's ValleyAnna Quindlen

[Luke]

I've completed M (message 26).

[Hilary]

B: The Miniaturist Jessie Burton

D: The New Moon With the Old Dodie Smith

J: A Winter BookTove Jansson

Q: Miller's ValleyAnna Quindlen

[Luke]

I've updated B (message 26).

[Luke]

I've updated R (message 26).

[Rosemarie]

Added U (message 5)

James Ramsey Ullman - River of the Sun

[Luke]

I've updated E (message 26).

[Kathleen]

Updated Msg 7 with January reads. Two new to me authors: Octavia E. Butler and Wilkie Collins.

[Rosemarie]

Added J (message 5)

Jens Peter Jacobsen - Sechs Novellen

[Hilary]

B: The Miniaturist Jessie Burton

D: The New Moon With the Old Dodie Smith

J: A Winter BookTove Jansson

Q: Miller's ValleyAnna Quindlen
T: The Franchise Affair Josephine Tey

[Luke]

Updated N (message 26).

[Hilary]

B: The Miniaturist Jessie Burton

D: The New Moon With the Old Dodie Smith

J: A Winter BookTove Jansson

Q: Miller's ValleyAnna Quindlen
S: The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman
T: The Franchise Affair Josephine Tey

[Rosemarie]

Added A (message 5)

Augustine of Hippo - City of God

[Laren]

Sounds like fun!

A: Wade and the Scorpion's Claw - finished Feb. 2, 2018
B: The Girl Who Drank the Moon - finished Jan. 19, 2018
C: An Author's Odyssey - finished March 12, 2018
D: White Nights - finished April 24, 2018
E:
F: Perfect - finished Jan. 30, 2018
G:Chronicle of a Death Foretold - finished March 25, 2018
H: Hawkes Harbor - finished March 3, 2018
I:
J:
K: Freaks: Alive, on the Inside! - finished Feb. 18, 2018
L: Day of Tears - finished Jan. 24, 2018
M: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer finished March 19, 2018
N: Scythe finished April 14, 2018
O:
P: Hatchet - finished Jan. 14, 2018
Q:
R:
S: Another Kind of Hurricane - finished Jan. 27, 2018
T: The Art of War finished April 8, 2018
U:
V:
W: The Glass Castle - finished Jan. 19, 2018
X:
Y:
Z:

[Rosemarie]

Added Y (message 5)

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

[Luke]

I've updated K & D (message 26).

[Dawn]

A-Z Author Challenge
A: Lindsay Jayne Ashford Woman on the Orient Express - Feb 2018
B:Joe Biden Promise Me Dad - Mar 2018
C:
D: - E J Dionne Jr. - One Nation After Trump
E:
F:
G:
H:
I:
J:
K:
L:
M: Chris Matthews - Bobby Kennedy - Mar 2018
N: - Malcolm Nance - The plot to hack America Mar 2018
O:
P:
Q:
R: Jennifer Roy - Yellow Star - Mar 2018
T: Jill Twiss - A day in the life of Marlin Bundo Mar 2018
U:
V:
W: -Oscar Wilde The importance of being Earnest Feb 2018
X:
Y:
Z

[Luke]

I've updated X (message 26).

[Luke]

I've updated Q (message 26).

[Tammy]

Tammy's A-Z Author challenge is complete. Hurray! Message 44 has been updated with completion dates.

[Rosemarie]

Congratulations, Tammy! 👍🎉

[Tammy]

I did King's 11/22/63 this year. That one is about 900 pages, but nowhere near as long as It, Matt! I read that one when it came out...so 30 some years ago. Enjoy! It is a creepy one.

[Rosemarie]

Added L (message 5)
Charlotte Lennox

Added K

Yaşar Kemal

Added P

Fernando Pessoa

[Rosemarie]

Added B James Boswell
(Message 5)

I am halfway there: 13/26.

[Rosemarie]

Added G - Maxim Gorky

Added D - Alexandre Dumas fils
Message 5

[Dawn]

A-Z Author Challenge 2018
January 1st 2018-December 31st 2018

A: Lindsay Ashford The Woman on the Orient Express Feb 2018
B: Richard Bachman Rage April 2018
C: Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Mar 2018
D:
E:
F:
G: William Goldman The Princess Bride April 2018
H:
I:
J:
K: Stephen King IT March 2018
L:
M: Julie McElwain Murder in Time May 2018
N: Jo Nesbø - The snowman June 2018
O: Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Playing with Fire April 2018
P:
Q:
R: Jennifer Roy Yellow Star March 2018
S: Harold Schechter Hell's Princess Mar 2018
T:
U:
V:
W: Oscar Wilde The Importance of being Earnest Feb 2018
X:
Y:
Z:

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

All the time I’ve been obsessing on this site and I just found this thread
I’m so doing this after I finish a challenge I’m currently working on. But I think I’ll keep track of what I’ve read in my journal then post all of my books at once at the end.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

BAM wrote: "All the time I’ve been obsessing on this site and I just found this thread
I’m so doing this after I finish a challenge I’m currently working on. But I think I’ll keep track of what I’ve read in m..."

Not a bad idea.

[Rosemarie]

Adding M L.M. Montgomery

Message 5

[Ella]

I'm just going to update my challenge when I'm finished or if I don't finish, with a total at the end of the year. (I'm pretty sure I'll finish.)

[Hayley]

A to Z Author Challenge 2018- done
A-Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe*
B- `Great English Poets- William Blake*
C-Murder on the Orient Express-Agatha Christie*
D-Avengers: The Heroic Age- Alan Davis (contributor)*
E-One For the Money- Janet Evanovich*
F-Shadow games Book 1-Jay J Falconer*
G-Dead Souls- Nikolai Gogol (Andrew MacAndrew trans.)*
H- To Have and Have Not-Ernest Hemingway*
I-Rip Van Winkle-Washington Irving*
J-The Layer of Lies-Jennifer L Jennings*
K-Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes*
L- Crimson Blues- Dene Low*
M-The Thorn Birds- Colleen McCullough*
N-Dragonfly-Resa Nelson*
O-Married in Montana-Kirsten Osbourne *
P-35 Sonnets- Fernando Pessoa*
Q- Earning It-Angela Quarles *
R-High Noon- Nora Roberts*
S-Just Different Devils- Jinx Schwartz*
T-Let the Circle Be Unbroken-Mildred D. Taylor*
U- The Witches of Eastwick- John Updike*
V-13 Deja Vu:An Anthology of Horror and Dark Fiction-S. Valentine(contributing author)*
W- The War of the Worlds-H.G. Wells*
X- Sky Burial-Xinran*
Y-The Fifth Wave- Rick Yancey*
Z-What Once was Perfect-Zoe York *

[Tammy]

Hayley wrote: "A to Z Author Challenge 2018- done
A-Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe*
B- `Great English Poets- William Blake*
C-Murder on the Orient Express-Agatha Christie*
D-Avengers: The Heroic Age- Alan Davis..."

Excellent work! Now what are you going to do with your spare time, Hayley? Hopefully read some more!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Hayley wrote: "A to Z Author Challenge 2018- done..."

Congratulations! Well done indeed.

[Rosemarie]

Great work, Hayley!

[Rosemarie]

Thanks, Matt. And good luck to you too.

Adding T - J.R.R. Tolkien (message 5)

17/26

[Luke]

I'm at 17/26, am currently reading for U and Y, and have F, I, L, O, S, V, and Z to go. Good luck everyone!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Half the year is over and I've got 17/26

A: Sarah Addison Allen -- Lost Lake
B: Leigh Bardugo -- The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
C: Cassandra Clare & Holly Black -- The Iron Trial
D: Jared Diamond -- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
E: Euripides -- Medea
F: Dave Freer -- Changeling's Island
H: Virginia Hamilton -- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
I: Eowyn Ivey -- To The Bright Edge of the World
K: David M. Kennedy -- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
L: Selma Lagerlöf -- Gösta Berling's Saga
M: John Matteson -- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
O: Nnedi Okorafor -- Akata Witch
P: Beatrix Potter -- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Q: Kate Quinn -- The Alice Network
S: Neal Shusterman -- Thunderhead
T: William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
U: Lyudmila Ulitskaya -- The Big Green Tent

[Jess]

Why not! I'm currently combining first and last names but I'd love to get an all last name list by the end of the year so the first name books as kind of placeholders

21/26

A:Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B:A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
C:The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
D:Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
E:A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
F:
G:The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
H:The Hummingbird by Kati Hiekkapelto
I:
J:Blindness by José Saramago
K: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
L: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
M:The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari
N:The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
O:Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
P:Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
Q:
R: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
S: Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor
T:The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
U:
V:Orlando by Virginia Woolf
W: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
X:
Y:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Z:The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Jess wrote: "Why not! I'm currently combining first and last names but I'd love to get an all last name list by the end of the year so the first name books as kind of placeholders

16/26
..."

Well look at that! More than half already -- welcome to the challenge.

[Julie]

Six letters missing on this one: I,Q,U,V,X,Y (message 11)
I've got some ideas for most of these letters - it's actually finding time to read the books that will be the challenge.

If the last couple of years can be taken for reference I will probably be reading the last book during christmas ;-)

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Oh! I need to chart this this week I’m off and see what progress I’ve made.
Clarification: does onlyclassic lit count?

[Julie]

BAM wrote: "Oh! I need to chart this this week I’m off and see what progress I’ve made.
Clarification: does onlyclassic lit count?"

I think that's up to you - personally I count all books I read :)

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Ok I decided to only used classic reads.
With what I’ve read so far this year I’m missing the letters: I, O, P, Q, U, X, Y, AND Z. I’m using last names only so this ought to get interesting.

[Julie]

BAM wrote: "Ok I decided to only used classic reads.
With what I’ve read so far this year I’m missing the letters: I, O, P, Q, U, X, Y, AND Z. I’m using last names only so this ought to get interesting."

Yeah I've been using last names only too - the first year I did the challenge I used both first and last names, but found it too 'easy'

[Ella]

OK - I got my act together and figured this out. My goal this year was to read more authors of color, so my challenge is Authors of Color.

Some letters I could list many authors for, so in the interest of fairness, I've simply gone by date. If I read someone/a book earlier, I've used that author and book and I've purposely used the women's names first rather than the men's because female authors, especially many of these newer ones with first books, need as much championing as possible.


Ella's 2018 A-Z Authors of Color (mostly women - trying to make it all women) By LAST name only.

✔️ A) Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
✔️ B) The Mothers by Brit Bennett
✔️ C) Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
✔️ D) This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
✔️ E) Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
✔️ F) The Girl from the Garden by Parnaz Foroutan
✔️ G) Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
✔️ H) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
✔️ I) We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
✔️ J) An American Marriage by Tayari Jones by Lisa Ko
✔️ L) Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
✔️ M) Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
✔️ N) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
✔️ O) The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
✔️ P) There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
Q)
R)
✔️ S) Feel Free by Zadie Smith
✔️ T) Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
✔️ U) Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar
V)
✔️ W) Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
X)
✔️ Y) Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
✔️ Z) American Street by Ibi Zoboi


Still need Q, R, V & X for this one, and I'd like to read a woman of color with a D last name too, since it feels very strange to have Junot Díaz alone among all these women.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I want to play. Some of my books are non-classics. (Actually, I decided to edit out as many non-classics as I could). Authors, names , dates read in 2018, A-Z.

A: Alcott Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott 11/3/2018
B: BurnfordThe Incredible Journey Sheila Burnford 5/11/2018
C: Cooper The Dark Is Rising Susan Cooper 7/25/2018
D: Doeden Steve Jobs: Technology Innovator and Apple Genius Matt Doeden 4/25/2018
E: Exupery The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery 7/12/2018
F: Faulkner As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1/7/2018
G: Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 9/10/2018
H: Hinton The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 9/8/2018
I: Irving Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving 9/6/2018
J: Jacobs The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs 11/1/2018
K: Kafka The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka 11/11/2018
L: L'Engle Ilsa Madeleine L'Engle 12/13/2018
M: du Maurier The Birds and Other Stories Daphne du Maurier 11/2/2018
N: Noel Evermore by alyson noel 4/2/2018
O: O'Henry The Ransom of Red Chief O'Henry 5/26/2018
P: Palacio Wonder R.J. Palacio 2/18/2018
Q:
R: Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 7/14/2018
S: Steinbeck The Pearl John Steinbeck 5/8/2018
T: Tartt The Secret History Donna Tartt 9/27/2018
U: Urrea Into the Beautiful North Luis Alberto Urrea
V: Villeneuve The Original Beauty and the Beast French Fairy Tale https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve 7/17/2018
W: Williams The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams 7/5/2018
X:
Y: Yolen Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty Jane Yolen 5/10/2018
Z:

Well, I came close, but I'm just not going to search out an "x" or a "q" when there are so many other books I am truly interested in. But thanks for putting up the challenge. It was a good thing to try.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Helen wrote: "I want to play. Many of my books are non-classics. Authors, names 2018 A-Z.

A: I read Evermore Alyson Noel Actually this is the first of The Immortals series. I read..."

Cool, glad you have joined us and you are doing great with the challenge.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Katy wrote: "Helen wrote: "I want to play. Many of my books are non-classics. Authors, names 2018 A-Z.

A: I read Evermore Alyson Noel Actually this is the first of The Immortals ..."

Thanks

[Luke]

Ella wrote: "OK - I got my act together and figured this out. My goal this year was to read more authors of color, so my challenge is Authors of Color.

Some letters I could list many authors for, so in the in..."

A very admirable goal, Ella. Some suggestions for D whom I've read are Danticat, Djebar, and Desai. I have none for Q ( :( ) but for R there's Rankine, Revoyr, Roy (Arundhati or Anuradha), and for V there's Vera. For X there's Xinran if you don't mind one word names.

[Ella]

Aubrey wrote: "Ella wrote: "OK - I got my act together and figured this out. My goal this year was to read more authors of color, so my challenge is Authors of Color.

Some letters I could list many authors for,..."

Ahh - thank you thank you thank you, Aubrey. I think I need to branch out to more places in the world & I should find a Q fairly easily. It will simply be a writer totally new to me. And yes, as soon as I posted, I though "Roy -- there's more than one of those!" (as well as, like you just showed, plenty of other R names.) This was the first time I'd actually looked to see how I was doing on this. So I am actually pleased that I didn't have all A and S last names.