Task #1: A book published posthumously

[Book Riot]

Use this space to discuss books you're reading or that might fit the first Read Harder task.

[Book Riot]

A post that might be helpful: https://bookriot.com/2017/12/19/posth...

[Kristi]

Wikipedia has a useful list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

[D.L.]

I am reading The Cross of Love by Barbara Cartland. Her entire "pink collection" was published after her death. There are over 100 of them I think!! lol

[Jordan]

Yes, that wikipedia article is super helpful! I found out that Forward the Foundation, which I planned on reading anyways, was published posthumously.

[Amber]

I can really recommend Persuasion by Jane Austen for this category, it’s one of my favorite books.

[Eujean2]

I guess this is the year I finally read The Diary of a Young Girl!

[Audra]

I'm reading The Master and Margarita for this one.

[Kelli]

I couldn't take all the sad stuff. So

Glinda of Oz
or
The Magic of Oz

[Teresa]

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen or The Mysterious Stranger

[Sarah]

I’m considering A Moveable Feast, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, The Master and Margarita, or A Confederacy of Dunces.

[D.L.]

Amber wrote: "I can really recommend Persuasion by Jane Austen for this category, it’s one of my favorite books."

Mine too! It's really wonderful!

[Philip]

Persuasion by Jane Austen

If I remember correctly, anything by Franz Kafka

[Cassandra]

I’m planning on reading Ariel

[Karen]

I have not seen anyone mention the Stieg Larsen books although I read somewhere that all 3 of the books were published after his death. I have only read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo so I would read the next book.

[Theresa]

I have had The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest & The Master and Margarita on my bookshelf for a few years, so I think I'll go with one of them.

[Bonnie G.]

I am leaning toward The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate or A Death in the Family but there are so many great options.

[Jessica]

The Silmarillion for me, been meaning to read this for so long.

[Samantha]

I think I'm going with Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. I love O'Connor's work, and when I saw it pop up on a list of posthumous works, I thought I'd add it to my list.
I found this list helpful, too:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

[Chrissy]

Cassandra wrote: "I’m planning on reading Ariel"

Me too! I bought a new edition edited by Plath's daughter, which supposedly is much closer to her original vision and not what her husband decided to publish to make himself more a hero of her story. I also want to read Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath.

[Karen]

I'm considering The Diary of a Young Girl or A Death in the Family

[Ariel]

I'll be reading The Trial by Franz Kafka.

[Sally]

I have two options
The Opposite of Loneliness by Keegan (she graduated from Yale and then died in a car accident, this is her essays)
OR
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.. Published 11 years after he committed suicide and won a Pulitzer.

[Lauconn]

Michael Crichton has some books that were published posthumously as well, Pirate Latitudes, Dragon Teeth.

[Laura]

I'm going to go with a quick read that's been on my TBR for some time now:

[emalee]

I already have Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography on hold at my library. :)

I plan on rereading Little House for one of the other tasks, so I thought it would pair nicely.

[Rachel]

I still haven't gotten around to reading the copy of The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún that I picked up from my favorite used bookstore.

[Riah]

I'm definitely reading Sylvia Plath's Ariel. This was by far the easiest category for me to come up with a singular, definitive answer to what I wanted to read.

[Megan]

Eujean2 wrote: "I guess this is the year I finally read The Diary of a Young Girl!"

Me too.

[Dee]

Thank you for the suggestion! Adding to my list!
Amber wrote: "I can really recommend Persuasion by Jane Austen for this category, it’s one of my favorite books."

[Adam]

I have decided to read Persuasion by Jane Austen for this one. Definitely out of my comfort zone.

[Teresa]

Oh, The Master and the Margarita is on my list too.

[Kara]

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara could count for this one AND task #2, a book of true crime!

[JessicaJ]

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. I've been really in to reading about WWII lately and I haven't read this since middle school.

[ChezJulie]

I'm planning to read I'll Be Gone in the Dark, too, as I wanted to read it anyway. Michelle McNamara was Patton Oswalt's first wife.

[Sarah]

I'll be reading one of Michael Crichton's books, Pirate Latitudes, as it's the first one that comes to mind and it's been sitting on my shelf forever.

[Chavelli]

South Riding?

[Betty]

Was it Our Souls at Night that was published after Kent Haruf died? if so, it's my choice.

[Rayne]

I'm considering The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories or Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography.

[Maddy]

Laura wrote: "I'm going to go with a quick read that's been on my TBR for some time now: "

This is an absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking read - I absolutely loved it, but it's a tearjerker!

I have Dragon Teeth on my list tentatively, but I'm definitely reading I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer next year - I can't wait!

[Nancy]

Betty wrote: "Was it Our Souls at Night that was published after Kent Haruf died? if so, it's my choice."

Yes, it was! I just finished it, and loved it!

[Annika]

Sally wrote: "I have two options
The Opposite of Loneliness by Keegan (she graduated from Yale and then died in a car accident, this is her essa..."

Exactly the two books I was considering. And hi everyone, I'm new to Goodreads and the group! :)

[Karen]

HERmione by H.D. is my choice for this task.

[John]

"Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen is my choice

[Rachel]

Easy one for me. One of my goals for the year is to finally finish the amazing With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child series, and the final book in it was published posthumously.

[Ameenay]

Apsalar wrote: "The Silmarillion for me, been meaning to read this for so long."

Good luck! I love Tolkien, but that was a hard book to get through. It's very dense.

[May]

I didn't know about The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories and I think I'm going to read that.

[Ashley]

Apsalar wrote: "The Silmarillion for me, been meaning to read this for so long."

This is what I'm planning to start on the 1st!

[Cara]

Currently working on The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs. Definitely recommend.

[Bobby]

I will most likely choose The Decay of the Angel, by Yukio Mishima, since it will complete the tetralogy I have been reading over the last couple of years.