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2019 Group Reads: 0/12To Read: As I Lay Dying, Howard's End
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This s is a great challenge. How many books on the shelf have you not read?
That's a great idea for a challenge. Enjoy!
Pre-2018 books finished in 2018:January - Doctor Zhivago, The Scarlet Pimpernel
February - The Maltese Falcon, A Clockwork Orange, Mary Poppins, The Great Gatsby
March - And Then There Were None
May - Dune
June - Things Fall Apart
July - Lonesome Dove
August - The Hound of the Baskervilles
September: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
October : Perfume: The Story of a Murder
2018 Group Reads:
To Read: Alias Grace, Tender is the Night, Giovanni's Room, Light in August, Left Hand of Darkness
Read: A Wizard of Earthsea, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, A Room With a View, Secret History, Flowers for Algernon
DNF: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (I count the DNF books because I read at least 100 pages before giving up and will never come back to finish), Cold Comfort Farm
End of 2017: 42/80 - 52.5%End of 2018: 62/92 - 67.4%
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Congratulations on your progress!
Lynn wrote: "What a cool idea for a challenge! I think it would be fun to try, but I might allow myself say 1 wildcard that I could drop. The New School -1 Challenge.Congratulations on your progress!"
I have enjoyed most of the books that I read this year and look forward to continuing a challenge that will never end. Although, I will need more than one wildcard. There are a few on the list that I dread and may never read.
End of 2017: 42/80 - 52.5%
End of 2018: 62/92 - 67.4%
Tally: 63/92
Books finished in 2019:
January: A Passage to India