Nike's First Attempt to Eat Reasonably from my Bookshelfs-buffet 2021

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Challenge 1. New & Old TBR exclusively from my own bookshelfs = don't buy or borrow any new books

Old School
1. Nana by Émile Zola
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
3. The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

New School
1. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
2. The Price of Salt: A Norton Critical Edition by Patricia Highsmith
3. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

My Wild Card Six
1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
2. The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
3. The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
4. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
5. Fasansfulla händelser i Dunwich by H.P. Lovecraft
6. The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Alternates
1. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
2. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Challenge 3. Second Place or Worse

Short Stories

1. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
2. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Old School

1. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
2. Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf

New School

1. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
2. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham


Quarterly Long Read

1. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

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Challenge 4. Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge

1. 18th Century or older The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette
2. 19th Century Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
3. 20th Century The Fall by Albert Camus
4. Current or past group read A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
5. Author not read before The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
6. Diversity classic Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
7. Science fiction Vi by Jevgenij Zamjatin
8. Romance The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
9. Historical fiction Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
10. Nonfiction Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
11. Mystery/crime The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
12. Horror (or humor) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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Challenge 8. Writers I haven't yet read, equally divided between female and male authors and from different regions of the world

1. Africa south of Sahara An Elegy for Easterly: Stories by Petina Gappah
2. Northern Africa The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
3. Western Europe The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
4. East Asia Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan
5. Northern America I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
6. Central America Weekend In Guatemala by Miguel Ángel Asturias

[Vesna]

That's a really nice idea for Challenge #8. Enjoy the reading journey next years!

[Carolien]

I like your approach to Challenge 8 and definitely support the idea of reading books that you own! My bookshelves can definitely benefit from that idea. I'm planning on reading The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah this year, so would be interested in your thoughts on An Elegy for Easterly. I know why the caged bird sings is also on my list for the year. Enjoy!

[Liesl]

Love the name of your challenge, Nike. Good luck!

[Philina]

Great books, Nike, have fun!

I'm also trying to stick to books already on my bookshelf this year.

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Enjoy your challenge, a great list of books. The Razors Edge and On the Beach are ols favorites, looking forward to your thoughts.

[Annette]

I admire you for reading from your existing shelf for the Old & New Challenge. You have some great stuff on that shelf. And there are so many books on the other challenges that I am not familiar with. I’m thinking that my Mt TBR is going to get taller after checking them out. Have fun!

[Nike]

Vesna wrote: "That's a really nice idea for Challenge #8. Enjoy the reading journey next years!"

Thank you so much! =)

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Carolien wrote: "I like your approach to Challenge 8 and definitely support the idea of reading books that you own! My bookshelves can definitely benefit from that idea. I'm planning on reading The Book of Memory b..."

Thank you! And let's see who read Petina Grappah first =). I've wanted to read her book for so long so it's about time.

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Liesl wrote: "Love the name of your challenge, Nike. Good luck!"

Thank you! =)

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Philina wrote: "Great books, Nike, have fun!

I'm also trying to stick to books already on my bookshelf this year."

Yes, I've been hopeless for most of my life - I buy books and fill my shelfs and then borrow books that I don't have from the library. I've become better at reading my own books the last years but I still want to improve =D

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Bob wrote: "Enjoy your challenge, a great list of books. The Razors Edge and On the Beach are ols favorites, looking forward to your thoughts."

Thankyou =)!

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Annette wrote: "I admire you for reading from your existing shelf for the Old & New Challenge. You have some great stuff on that shelf. And there are so many books on the other challenges that I am not familiar wi..."

Thank you so much! =)

[Janet]

Some really good choices here. I, too, plan to read "Robinson Crusoe" for my New and Old TBR challenge. I don't have any idea why I have never read this old classic so I plan to remedy that.

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Janet wrote: "Some really good choices here. I, too, plan to read "Robinson Crusoe" for my New and Old TBR challenge. I don't have any idea why I have never read this old classic so I plan to remedy that."

Thank you =). And yes, I agree - I know I've wanted to read it since I was a child so I'm a bit confused about all the time that has passed without me reading it =D!

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

I am impressed with the books on your Old and New Challenge. How nice to already own all of those! Also, looking over your Second Place or Worse Challenge, I realize how many books there are on your list that I would like to read, yet not one was on the list I picked!

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Lynn wrote: "I am impressed with the books on your Old and New Challenge. How nice to already own all of those! Also, looking over your Second Place or Worse Challenge, I realize how many books there are on you..."

Yes, I'm happy to have them! My treasure! I've been collecting books my whole life but haven't been able to read them in the same rate due to raising my children by myself and studying. Now I (try to) forbid myself to borrow books from the library or to buy new books so I can concentrate on reading all the books I've got (but I must admit that I'm not entirely good at obeying myself).

[Natalia]

Great list! I'm doing the same with buying books at the moment, but still borrow some from the library. Hope to be done with all I own in a couple of years :)

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Natalia wrote: "Great list! I'm doing the same with buying books at the moment, but still borrow some from the library. Hope to be done with all I own in a couple of years :)"

I must confess that I can't really rely on myself when it comes to this rule of mine - I DO still borrow books at the library - but at least I mostly prioritize my own books. 😄

[Nike]

I have finally read a book from my buffet and I have also finally figured out how to mark it as read by striking it! Challenge 8: a book from North America I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou

[Sara, New School Classics]

Only takes one to be on your way, Nike. Good luck!

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Sara wrote: "Only takes one to be on your way, Nike. Good luck!"

Thank you! =)