A-Z Author Challenge 2018

[Kathleen]

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..."

This list is excellent, Ella. I don't have any suggestions that Aubrey hasn't already mentioned, but what you already have is a great accomplishment, and a helpful reference for the rest of us!

[Rosemarie]

Adding X - Xenophon

Message 5

[George P.]

Alphabet Challenge 2018
Let's see what I've got, and if I can make a run this year:

A: Armah, Ayi- the Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
B: Byatt, A.S.- Possession
C: Carpentier, Alejo- The Lost Steps
D: David F Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing..
E: Eliot, T.S.- The Waste Land and other poems
F: Fiston Mwanza Mujila- Tram 83
G: Ghosh, Amitav - The Shadow Lines
H: Hardy, Thomas- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
I: Italo Calvino- If on a Winter's Night
J: Jack London- White Fang
K: Kazantzakis, Nikos- Zorba the Greek
L: Louis Ferdinand Celine- Journey to the End of the Night
M: Munro, Alice- Friend of my Youth
N: Naguib Mahfouz - Midaq Alley
O: Ousmane Sembene- God's Bits of Wood
P: Paskow (or Paskov), Viktor- A Ballad for Georg Henig
Q:
R: Russo, Robert- Nobody's Fool
S: Szczypiorski, Andrzej- The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman
T: Thomas Deloney - Thomas of Reading
U:
V: Virginia Wolfe- A Room of One's Own
W: West Rebecca - The Return of the Soldier
X: X, Malcolm- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y: Yan Lianke- The Four Books
Z:
I've got all but three of the tough letters without trying, just reading a lot. I've been trying to read books by writers from a lot of different countries and I think I have writers from 15 countries in this list.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

George, what did you think of God's Bits of Wood?

[Özgür]

I'm not joining the group readings (because I'm a member of classics reading group in Turkish - named Oldtimer - and it keeps me busy enough) but I want to participate this challenge.

A: Sabahattin Ali - Kuyucaklı Yusuf
B: Anthony Burgess - The Doctor is Sick
C: Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
D: Thomas M. Disch - Camp Concentration
E: Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
F: Füruzan - Parasız Yatılı
G: Stephen Grosz - The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
H: Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I: Şebnem İşigüzel - VENÜS
J: Adam Johnson - Fortune Smiles
K: Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
L: Doris Lessing - On Cats
M: Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
N:
O: George Orwell - Coming Up for Air
P: Alexei Panshin - Rite of Passage
Q:
R: Carlo Rovelli - Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
S: George Saunders - Tenth of December
T: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar - The Time Regulation Institute
U: Tomris Uyar - Yürekte Bukağı
V: Voltaire - Cahil Filozof
W: Nigel Warburton - A Little History of Philosophy
X:
Y: Richard Yates - Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Z:

[Lynn, New School Classics]

George, how very cool that you have authors from 15 countries, and Ozgur I also enjoyed looking at your list. You both have books and authors that I have not learned about yet. Thanks for introducing me to them.

[Özgür]

Helen wrote: "George, how very cool that you have authors from 15 countries, and Ozgur I also enjoyed looking at your list. You both have books and authors that I have not learned about yet. Thanks for introduci..."

I just checked your list. I'd like to read some of those authors too. Thanks for sharing the list here.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Özgür wrote: "...I want to participate this challenge...."

Welcome to the challenge. I hope you enjoy it.

[Rosemarie]

Added E to Message 5

Willem Elsschot

Added I

Ismail Kadare

Added V

Giorgio Vasari

Added H

Dashiell Hammett

Added O

Oscar Wilde

Added N

Solomon Northup

[Özgür]

Katy wrote: "Özgür wrote: "...I want to participate this challenge...."

Welcome to the challenge. I hope you enjoy it."

Thanks Katy.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Just G and V left on this challenge

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Just got my X! It was a drag, but I'm glad I read it.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

I've read 21 books and have the others picked out! I'll post my alphabet this week!

[Özgür]

I added titles to R, T, and Y (message 110). 6 left to complete.

[Rosemarie]

Adding Q to message 5

Ellery Queen

I have one letter left- Z . I will be reading a book by Stefan Zweig.

Added Z Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig

I have finished the challenge.

[Zoe]

A: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
B: Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
C: Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
D: Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
E: Epictetus - The Enchiridion by Epictetus
F:
G: John Green - The Fault in Our Stars
H:Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
I:
J:
K: Lawrence M. Krauss - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
L:Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
M: Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
N: Taslima Nasrin - Lajja: Shame
O: Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
P:
Q:
R: Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
S: Julia Serano Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
T: Donna Tartt - The Secret History
U:
V: J.D Vance - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
W: Alice Walker - The Color Purple
X:
Y: Milo Yiannopoulos - Dangerous
Z: Yevgeny Zamyatin - We

[siriusedward]

23/26

A:Agatha Christie
B:Bram Stoker
C:C S Lewis
D:Alexandre Dumas
E:Edith Wharton
F:Fyodor Dostoyevsky
G:George Eliot
H:Ernest Hemingway
I:Washington Irving
J:John Steinbeck
K:Kazuo Ishiguro
L:Louisa May Alcott
M:L M Montgomery
N:Alfred Noyes
O:Oscar Wilde
P:Beatrix Potter
Q:
R:Rebecca West
S:William Shakespeare
T:Thomas Hardy
U:Ursula K. Le Guin
V:Virginia Woolf
W:William Faulkner
X:
Y:Yewande Omotoso
Z:

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Ok here is my challenge as promised:

A: Emma Jane Austen
B: Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
C: The Canterbury Tales Chaucer Geoffrey
D: White Nights Dostoevsky
E: American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
F: Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud
G: North and South Elizabeth Gaskell
H: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
I: John Gabriel Borkman Henrik Ibsen
J: Three Men in a Boat Jerome Jerome
K: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
L: Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying Lovecraft H.P.
M: The Guns of Navarone Alistair MacLean
N: Abhorsen Garth Nix
O: The Scarlet Pimpernel Orczy Emmuska Baroness
P: The Queen of Spades Pushkin Aleksandr Sergeevich
Q: ‫القُرآنُ الكَريمُ‬
R: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J K Rowling
S: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
T: The Two Towers J R R Tolkien
U: Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset
V: The Sorrows of Young Werther Von Goethe
W: Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft
X: The Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin
Y: Revolutionary Road Richard Yates -this is the last I have to read
Z: The Mysteries of Marseille Émile Zola

[siriusedward]

👏👏👏

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Thank you SE (as I bow)

[Luke]

Just J to go!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Great job to BAM and to Aubrey.

[BAM doesn’t answer to her real name]

Thanks Helen

[Luke]

Finished! Now I just have this group and another's respective Reading Women challenges to go.

[Rosemarie]

Way to go, Aubrey!

[siriusedward]

Congrats ,Aubrey!

[Julie]

All done - message 11 :-)

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Julie wrote: "All done - message 11 :-)"

Great job Julie!!

[Rosemarie]

Congrats, Julie!

[Anetq]

Ok, 3 to go... I, Q & X - but there is a month left, so it should be doable :)

[Rosemarie]

Good luck, Anetq!

[Anetq]

Matt wrote: "Yes, good luck Anetq! I am currently working on my X and Y." It is always that end of the alphabet one is behind on, isn't it? :)

[Anetq]

Update: I author completed with this nice one from Romania: The Thistles of Baragan (that's a check mark for my reading the world challenge as well!) Les Chardons du Baragan.

[MK]

While all the 2019 challenges are being posted, this seems like a good time to 'sneak in' to the 2018 challenges, and see how I would have done :D

(will update later)

MK's 2018 A-Z Author Challenge

A: - A.R. Kahler
B: - Consuelo Saah Baehr, Paolo Bacigalupi, R.M. Ballantyne, Robert Browning, Richard Bach, J.M. Barrie
C: - Blake Crouch, J.M. Coetzee, Kevin Crossley-Holland
D: - Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, John Drake
E: - Ella Carey
F: - E.M. Foner, Jason Fagone
G: - Gwenda Bond
H: - Charlie N. Holmberg, Brenda Hiatt
I: - Igor Štiks
J: - Rachel Joyce, Jonas Jonasson, Pamela Jekel
K: - Suzanne Kelman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Kraske
L: - Jim Latimer
M: - Frank McCourt, Seanan McGuire, Maria Murnane, Sam J. Miller
N: - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
O: - Ousmane Sembène
P: - Katherine Anne Porter, Phaedra Patrick, Mariam Petrosyan, Ellis Peters
Q: - Kate Quinn?
R: - Katherine Rundell, Arthur Ransome
S: - Dan Sofer, Marcus Sakey, Cynthia Swanson, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki (aka Hector Hugh Munro)
T: - Henry Treece
U: - Ursula Wills-Jones
V: - K. Velk
W: - Edward Whittemore, Rysa Walker, Scott Wilbanks, Leonard Wibberley
X: - XJ Selman?
Y: - Patrick Yearly
Z: - Mary Zinda


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MK's 2018 Challenge Threads (or Posts) ...

• A-Z Author Challenge
• A-Z Title Challenge
• Classic Bingo Challenge
• Old & New Classic Challenge
• Quest for Women Authors Challenge

MK's Other Challenge Threads (or Posts) ...

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[Anetq]

Catching up last minute:
Q is for Histoires assassines by Bernard Quiriny

Last one missing is X - So I just need to finish up the collection of novels i got stuck in by Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Gao Xingjian...

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Finished!!!
Katy's 2018 A-Z Author Challenge
Original post in message #3

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
G: Bruce Grierson -- What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the Ninety-Something Track Star Who Is Smashing Records and Outpacing Time, and What She Can Teach Us About How to Live
H: Virginia Hamilton -- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
I: Eowyn Ivey -- To The Bright Edge of the World
J: Tove Jansson -- The Summer Book
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
N: Naomi Novik -- Spinning Silver
O: Nnedi Okorafor -- Akata Witch
P: Beatrix Potter -- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Q: Kate Quinn -- The Alice Network
R: Rebecca Roanhorse -- Trail of Lightning
S: Neal Shusterman -- Thunderhead
T: William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
U: Lyudmila Ulitskaya -- The Big Green Tent
V: Catherynne M. Valente -- Six-Gun Snow White
W: Lisa Wingate -- The Sea Keeper's Daughters
X: Xinran -- Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
Y: J.Y. Yang -- The Black Tides of Heaven
Z: Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Matt wrote: "Congrats Katy! Way to go!"

You too Matt.

[Pink]

Well done Matt and Katy!