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A to Z Challenge - Stage Edition 2019
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Y Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 19.01.2019 ★★★☆☆ (2013 movie)
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Y Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 19.01.2019 ★★★☆☆ (2013 movie)
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R: Ready Player One
Z: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

A-Z CHALLENGE - STAGE EDITION
Duration: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
We are bringing back our popular A to Z challenge again for another year, but this year will have a twist. Read a book for each letter of the alphabet that has been adapted to a Movie, Television, or Stage Show (please post the year and type of the adaptation for credit). You can use ANY of the first letters of the main words in a title of a book (don't use words like "a", "the", "or", and "of").
Examples:
A - Anne of Green Gables (1985 TV Series)
F - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001 Movie)
X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1986 Opera)
Etc.
A The Alienist (2018 TV series)
American Gods (2017 TV series)
B Bel Canto (2018 film)
The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South (2018 film)
C The Golden Compass (2007 film)
D Deadly Class, Vol. 3: The Snake Pit (2019 TV series)
E Childhood's End (2015 TV mini series)
F Artemis Fowl (2019 film)
G The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018 film) 1/19 -
H The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005 film)
I So B. It (2019 film)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
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K I Kill Giants (2017/18 film)
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime (2018 film)
L To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018 film)
M The Darkest Minds (2018 film)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
N The Knife of Never Letting Go (2020 film chaos walking)
O Good Omens (2019 TV mini series)
P All the Bright Places (2019 film)
Q All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)
The White Queen (2013 TV mini series)
R Runaways Omnibus (2017 TV series)
S Between Shades of Gray (2019 film titled ashes in the snow)
The Sun Is Also a Star (2019 film)
T 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 film)
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country (1948 film)
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V Vampire Academy (2014 film)
W A Discovery of Witches (2018 TV series)
X The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1992 film)
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Z The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2017 film)

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A: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban finished 4/30/2019 (movie 2004)
B: Battle Angel Alita finished 1/1/2019 (movie 2019)
C: Carrie finished 5/25/2019 (movie 1976)
D: My Friend Dahmer finished 1/9/2019 (movie 2017)
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F: High Fidelity finished 3/16/2019 (movie 2000)
G: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch finished 1/21/2019 (TV series 2019
H: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets finished 3/1/2019 (movie 2002)
I: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks finished 7/4/2019 (movie 2017)
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L: The Lightning Thief finished 3/25/2019 (movie 2012)
M: A Caribbean Mystery finished 1/13/2019 (movie 1983)
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R: The Art of Racing in the Rain finished 5/5/2019 (movie 2019)
S: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone finished 1/9/2019 (movie 2001)
T: A Game of Thrones finished 2/22/2019 (TV series)
U: The Hate U Give finished 2/20/2019 (movie 2018)
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F - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
H - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy - Douglas Adams
T - Therese Raquin - Emil Zola

I'm in for 26. (Update 2/26)
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✓B: Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds by Joy Adamson (finished 1/28) (1966 movie)

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A The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
B Rosemary's Baby
C Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
D The Devil's Advocate
E What's Eating Gilbert Grape
F Firestarter
G The Girl With All the Gifts
H The Haunting of Hill House
I Shutter Island
J The Joy Luck Club
K Anna Karenina
L Like Water for Chocolate
M Les Misérables
N The House Next Door
O The Phantom of the Opera
P The Passage
Q Queen Sugar
R Requiem for a Dream
S Sphere
T Tuck Everlasting
U Uncle Tom's Cabin
V Interview with the Vampire
X The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y Younger
Z Zoo

A- Absent Author
B- Bald Bandit
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We have 74 participants and 121 books!

1/26 (this year is a lot harder than the previous years!)
T: The Turn of the Screw (1999,2009 film) 2-5

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D: Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout 01/03/19
E: The End of the Fucking World 21/03/19
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R: Ready Player One 08/03/19
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T: To All the Boys I've Loved Before 10/08/19
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B Bird Box Film 2018 - I preferred the book
H The Hound of the Baskervilles Film 1939 - a number to choose from but for me it has to be Basil Rathbone
S The Sign of Four Play 2019 - due to see in Feb