Lagullande's 2020 "Eyes Are Bigger Than Your Stomach" Challenge Buffet

[Lagullande]

I'm greedy so I'm going to try for them all!
(but will try and choose books that work for more than one challenge at a time)

[Lagullande]

COMPLETED 28/1/21

Challenge #1: 2020 Old & New Classics
Read: 12/12

Old School (pre-1900)
1. ✔️9/2/20 Sanditon by Jane Austen (1825)
2. ✔️31/3/20 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
3. ✔️7/2/20 The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

New School (1900-1999)
1. ✔️28/1/21 Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (1979)
2. ✔️28/2/20 Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe(1964)
3. ✔️15/2/20 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962)

Wild Cards
1. ✔️27/12/20 My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (1951)
2. ✔️9/1/20 The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace (1905)
3. ✔️6/3/20 Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (1926)
4. ✔️7/6/20 The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson (1932)
5. ✔️4/4/20 Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith (1933)
6.✔️ 7/1/20 Augustown by Kei Miller (2016)

Alternates
A-1. A Nobel laureate I haven't read before
A-2. A Nobel laureate I haven't read before

[Lagullande]

Challenge #2 - The Year You Were Born and 100 Years Earlier
Read: 3/5 1966, 2/5 1866

1966
✔️Wide Sargasso Sea 13/1/20
✔️Valley of the Dolls 15/3/20
Flowers for Algernon
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
✔️The Fixer 23/1/22
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Third Girl
The Jewel in the Crown
Silence


1866
Crime and Punishment
✔️Armadale 31/3/22
✔️The Signal-Man 8/5/20
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
The Gambler
Wives and Daughters(serialised 1864-1856, first published as a book in 1866)
Felix Holt: The Radical
The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers
Broad Arrow Jack
A Long Fatal Love Chase

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Challenge #3 Your Birth Year Top 10 Best Sellers
Read: 2/5

✔️Valley of the Dolls 15/3/20
The Adventurers by Harold Robbins
The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
Capable of Honor by Allen Drury
The Double Image by Helen MacInnes
✔️The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 23/1/22
Tell No Man by Adela Rogers St. Johns
Tai-Pan by James Clavell (already read)
The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss
All in the Family by Edwin O'Connor

[Lagullande]

COMPLETED 6/3/21

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge List and read 12 books for each of the following categories.
Read: 12/12

✔️6/3/21 18th Century or older: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
✔️13/1/20 19th Century: Sanditon by Jane Austen (1825)
✔️ 28/2/2020th Century: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe (1964)
✔️13/1/20 Current or Past Group Read: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
✔️7/2/20 An Author not read before: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
✔️7/1/20 Diversity: Augustown by Kei Miller (Jamaica, Rastafarianism)
✔️ 28/1/21Science Fiction: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
✔️4/2/20 Romance: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
✔️27/12/20 Historical fiction: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
✔️18/5/20 Nonfiction: Levels of the Game by John McPhee
✔️9/1/20 Mystery/Crime: The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
✔️13/1/20 Horror or Humor: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

[Lagullande]

Challenge #5 - Decade/Century Challenge
I'm going to do (mostly) classic crime for my decade challenge
Read: 5/10

✔️1905 The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace 9/1/20
1906 Tracks in the Snow by Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood
1907 Israel Rank by Roy Horniman
✔️1908 The Blotting Book by E.F. Benson 10/5/20
1909 Griselda by Gerhart Hauptmann OR The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster OR A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
✔️1910 At the Villa Rose by A.E.W. Mason 10/4/20
✔️1911 The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton 24/2/20
1912 The Singing Bone by R. Austin Freeman
1913 The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
✔️1914Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah 11/4/21

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Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge
Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year.
Read: 2/24

1. ✔️The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens 8/5/20
2. ✔️A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert 30/11/20

[Lagullande]

Challenge #7 - 2020 Group Reads Challenge
Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new books per year to go on our book shelf. This challenge is to read 12 of these forty.
Read: 4/12

1. ✔️15/2/20 Jan 2020 Revisit the Shelf: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
2. ✔️30/11/20 Dec 2020 Short Story/Novella: A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
3. ✔️27/12/20 Feb 2020 Revisit the Shelf : My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
4. ✔️19/2/22 Mar 2020 New School : Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

[Lagullande]

Challenge #8 - A-Z Author Challenge
Read: 23/26

✔️A Jane Austen, Sanditon 9/2/20
✔️B E.F. Benson, The Blotting Book 10/5/20
✔️C J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country, 12/2/20
✔️D Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted 12/2/20
✔️E Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad 19/1/20
✔️F Gustave Flaubert, A Simple Heart 30/11/20
✔️G Graham Greene, The End of the Affair 4/2/20
✔️H Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle 31/5/20
✔️I Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go 7/2/21
✔️J Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle 15/2/20
✔️K Kim Yideum, Blood Sisters 25/2/21
✔️L Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem 2/5/20
✔️M Anne Meredith, Portrait of a Murderer 4/4/20
✔️N Irène Némirovsky, Dimanche and Other Stories 24/4/20
✔️O Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea 30/12/20
✔️P Ann Patchett, The Dutch House 22/4/20
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✔️R Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea 13/1/20
✔️S Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds Of Witness 6/3/20
✔️T Sara Taylor, The Shore 29/10/21
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✔️V Birgit Vanderbeke, The Mussel Feast 9/10/21
✔️W Edgar Wallace, The Four Just Men 9/1/20
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✔️Y Kim Yideum, Blood Sisters 25/2/21
✔️Z Zsófia Bán, Night School: A Reader for Grownups 17/1/21

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Challenge #9 - A-Z Title Challenge
Read: 20/26

✔️A Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe 28/2/20
✔️B The Blotting Book by E.F. Benson 10/5/20
✔️C Clouds Of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers 6/3/20
✔️D The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson 7/6/20
✔️E The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 4/2/20
✔️F The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace 9/1/20
✔️G The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers 23/2/20
✔️H Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell 18/4/20
✔️I The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton24/2/20
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✔️K Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo8/11/20
✔️L Levels of the Game by John McPhee 18/5/20
✔️M A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr, 12/2/20
✔️N North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 31/3/20
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✔️P Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith, 30/3/20
✔️Q The Quiet American by Graham Greene, 15/12/20
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✔️S Sanditon by Jane Austen 9/2/20
✔️T The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 2/5/20
✔️U The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 28/1/20
✔️V Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 15/3/20
✔️W Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 13/1/20
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[Laurie]

I look forward to seeing all of your books for challenge #2 since we were born the same year. 1866 looks like a tough year since it didn't have much to choose from that I could find. I read Crime and Punishment this year and there is no way I would tackle it again in 2020. Best of luck on all of your challenges.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Good luck with your challenges. Your lists look really good.

[Renee]

Great list for your Old & New challenge. I've only read one of them, but most are also on my TBR. Very jealous of your books published the year you were born. Many on there that I want to read. I had trouble finding something in my birth year. Good luck with all your challenges, and I hope you enjoy your reading!