A-Z Challenge: Authors - 2022

[Chalmation]

Updated message #25

18/26

[Sarah]

Message 57 Updated

26/26-COMPLETED

[Lindey]

Update Message 710
21/26 (Round 1)
18/26 (Round 2)
Round 1
A: Simon vs. the Homosapiens by Becky Albertalli
B: The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
C: Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
D: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? By Frans de Waal
E: American War by Omar El Akkad
F: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
G: Tempting Fate by Jane Green
H: Force of Nature by Jane Harper
I: Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
J: Invisible by James Patterson and David Ellis
K: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
L: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
M: Classroom Instruction that Works by Robert Marzano
N:Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
O: Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
P: Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Q: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
R: The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
S: Footloose The Musical by Tom Snow
T: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
U:
V:
W: The Brain from Planet X by David Wechter
X:
Y:
Z:

Round 2
A: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
B: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
C: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
D: Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory
E: Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
F: Crescendo (Hush, Hush #2) by Becca Fitzpatrick
G : The Last Tudor by Philippa Gregory
H: Tourist Season by Carl Hiassen
I: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
J: Thirteen Reasons by Jay Asher
K: Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
L: Anastasia The New Broadway Musical by Lynn Ahrens
M: Barnum: A Musical Suggested by the Life of P.T. Barnum by Mark Bramble
N: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
O: Heathers the Musical by Laurence O'Keefe
P: Three Sister, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory
Q:
R: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
S: The Guernesy Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
T:
U:
V: The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth
W: Bus Riley is Back in Town by William Inge
X:
Y:
Z:

[Laureen]

Update to Message #44:

F: Foley, Lucy The Paris Apartment

20/26

[oshizu]

Update to msg #12:
Total progress 51/52

✔️Round 1: Crime Fiction & True Crime: 26/26
Round 2: Any Book Genre: 25/26
Only one more X author left!

[Alyana]

update to message 33.

Progress: 23/26

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to message #5 - 22/26 read!

[Barb]

Update to message 76- 11/26 read

[GailW]

Update to message 18: 25/26

[Allie]

Update to Message #31
Progress 41/52
Other 21/26
I Justina Ireland Dread Nation

[Carmen]

Update to message #9

PROGRESS: 37/52

[TerryJane, Challenges]

July update done!

Congratulations to Sarah (#57) for completing the challenge to join the list of Victorious Alphabetizers! 👏😀

Lindey, please make sure your updates include your message number AND progress (reported as a ratio of books read/goal). Example: If your goal is 20 and you've read 6, you'd post:
Update to message 54: 6/20.

You're welcome to add your book list, comments, etc., but be sure to include the progress numbers as well. Thank you!

Happy August reading, everyone!

[Zita]

Update msg. 46 - 14/26 :).

[Veena]

Update message : #224 Read- 21/26

[Maria]

Update msg 28

44/52

[GailW]

Update to message 18:
26/26
I have completed the challenge.

[christene_littlelibrary]

A to Z Author 2022

A: Margaret Atwood - My Evil Mother April-14-2022
B: Brigid Kemmerer - Forging Silver into Stars July-27-2022
C: Colleen Hoover - Reminders of Him Jan-26-2022
D: Tracy Deonn - Legendborn April-15-2022
E: Emily Henry - Beach Read Feb-28-2022
F: Alexene Farol Follmuth - My Mechanical Romance May-12-2022
G : Gregg Olsen - If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood Feb-7-2022
H: Holly Black - The Cruel Prince Jan-19-2022
I:
J: Jeff Wheeler - The Queen's Poisoner Jan-28-2022
K: Kiersten Modglin - The Arrangement Feb-8-2022
L: Melinda Leigh - Say You're Sorry April-17-2022
M: Matt Haig - The Midnight Library Jan-17-2022
N: Marieke Nijkamp - Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp April-4-2022
O: Alice Oseman - Heartstopper: Volume One April-30-2022
P:
R: Riley Sager - The House Across the Lake July-16-2022
S: Sarah J. Maas - House of Earth and Blood March-16-2022
T: Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo March-31-2022
U:
V: Vincent Tirado - Burn Down, Rise Up April-26-2022
W: Sariah Wilson - The Paid Bridesmaid Feb-12-2022
X:
Y: Keith Yocum - Best You April-21-2022
Z:

[Barb]

Update to 76- 12/26 completed

[oshizu]

Update to msg #12: 52/52
Challenge completed!

Progress: 52/52

Round 1: Crime Fiction & True Crime (26/26)
✔️A: A. R. Torre: Every Last Secret
✔️B: John Berendt: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
✔️C: M.C. Beaton: The Vicious Vet
✔️D: Donna Leon: Death and Judgment
✔️E: Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate
✔️F: Joanna Fluke: Strawberry Shortcake Murder
✔️G: Rosie Genova; Murder and Marinara
✔️H: Hilary Latimer: The Dyeds of March: A Knitting Game Mystery Book 2:
✔️I: Liz Ireland (Liz Freeland=pseudonym): Murder in Greenwich Village
✔️J: Jim Butcher: Proven Guilty
✔️K: Kate Atkinson: Case Histories
✔️L: Louise Penny: A Rule Against Murder
✔️M: Diane Mott Davidson: The Main Corpse
✔️N: Ngaio Marsh: The Nursing Home Murder
✔️O: Ovidia Yu: The Frangipani Tree Mystery
✔️P: Andrea Penrose: Andrea Penrose: Murder at Half Moon Gate
✔️Q: Spencer Quinn: Paw and Order
✔️R: Dolores Redondo: All This I Will Give to You
✔️S: Simone St. James: The Sun Down Motel
✔️T: Tess Gerritsen, Under the Knife
✔️U: Tommy Ueland: Viking Private Investigation: Season One
✔️V: Vaseem Khan: Midnight at Malabar House
✔️W: Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
✔️X: Diana Xarissa: The Adams File
✔️Y: Pamela Samuel Young: Every Reasonable Doubt
✔️Z: Chad Zunker: An Equal Justice

Round 2. Any Book Genre (26/26)
✔️A: Alicia Keys: More Myself: A Journey
✔️B: Bae Su-ah: Nowhere to Be Found
✔️C: Alyssa Cole: When No One Is Watching
✔️D: David Brin: The Postman
✔️E: Akwaeke Emezi: Pet
✔️F: Fonda Lee: Jade War
✔️G: Stephen Greenblatt: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
✔️H: Robin Hobb: Dragon Keeper
✔️I: Irma Venter: Hard Rain
✔️J: Jordy Rosenburg: Confessions of the Fox
✔️K: Mary Robinette Kowal: The Calculating Stars
✔️L: Lulu Miller: Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
✔️M: Maja Lunde: The History of Bees
✔️N: Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
✔️O: Olga Tokarczuk: Flights
✔️P: Patrik Svensson: The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
✔️Q: Qiu Xiaolong: Inspector Chen and Me: A Collection of Inspector Chen Stories
✔️R: Patrick Radden Keefe: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
✔️S: Robin Sloan: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
✔️T: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki: The Makioka Sisters
✔️U: Ursula LeGuin: The Lathe of Heaven
✔️V: Catherynne M. Valente: Space Opera
✔️W: Lauren Wilkinson: A Scandal in Brooklyn
✔️X: Can Xue: Frontier
✔️Y: Yuko Tsushima: Of Dogs and Walls
✔️Z: Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Update to Message 8: 26/26 Complete!!

The last 2 since last update:

Q: The Sunset Route: Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West by Carrot Quinn

X: Frontier by Can Xue

[Echo]

Message 60 updated: 19 of 26 read

[Clare]

update to message 405

Completed 12/26

[NuNu]

Update to message 98
25/26

Y - Yara Zgheib - No Land to Light mOn

[Julie]

update message 47
5/26

[Sophia]

Update message 617

7/13

[Echo]

Message 60 updated: 20 of 26 completed

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Christene Paula✨ wrote: "A to Z Author 2022

A: Margaret Atwood - My Evil Mother April-14-2022
B: Brigid Kemmerer - Forging Silver into Stars July-27-2022"

Hi, Christene Paula! I have taken over updates for this challenge, and can't find you in our challenge spreadsheet.

If you recently changed your Goodreads profile name, please let me know under what name you made your original post. Or perhaps message #724 is your sign-up post.

Whether a new name or a new sign-up, please post an update with your progress expressed as a fraction of books read/book goal:
Update to #724: 1/26

I will watch for more info from you. Thank you!

[Maria]

Update msg 28

45/52

Q:Meghan Quinn- The One Night 1/14- Q.B. Tyler-Love Unexpected 8-16

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Mid-August Update

Congratulations to Gail, oshizu, and SarahKat, each of whom completed the challenge and joined the Victorius Alphabetizers group! 👏👏👏

The next update will be around the end of the month. Happy reading, friends!

[Sunny]

Updated Msg #30:

Opted to go ahead and call this one completed:

21/21

Thanks! It was fun =D

[Chalmation]

Updated message #25

19/26

[Zita]

Update msg. 46 - 15/26 :)

[Maria]

Update msg 28

46/52

E:Elizabeth Bard- Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes 2-28/Kendra Elliot- In The Pines #7 8-20

[Craig]

Update to message 65

14/26

C - Jack Carr

[Allie]

Update to message #31
Progress 42/52
Mystery 21/26

T Tana French In the Woods

[Clbrend]

update to message #
progress 11/26
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C. CHARLES R. SWINDOLL. ESTHER
D. DEMELZA CARLTON. EMBELISH
D. DIANA AL AZEM. EVADNE Y EL VALLE DE LAA GORGONAS
E. EL PAIS. 35 AÑOS 35 HISTORIAS
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J.JANE AUSTEN. PERSUASION
J. JOAN GARRIGA. EL BUEN AMOR EN PAREJA.
J. JAVIER COSNAVA. ASESINATO EN MAUTHAUSEN.
J. JOHN GRISHAM. TIEMPO DE PERDON.
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N. NUESTRO PAN DIARIO. DEVOCIONALES DIARIOS.
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R.ROBIN NORWOOD. LAS MUJERES QUE AMAN DEMASIADO.
S. STORMIE OMARTIAN. EL PODER DE LA ESPOSA QUE ORA.
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[Maria]

Update msg 28

47/52

U:Ursula K. LeGuin-The Lathe of Heaven 8-24/Lisa Unger - Let Her Be 5-16

[Ashley]

update message #45
25/26

[Sophia]

Update message 617

9/13

[ReGina]

Update to msg 82 by ReGina #82

Almost there! 23/26

A - Anthony Veasna So (Afterparties)
B - Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe)
C - Christina Lauren (The Unhoneymooners)
D - Viola Davis (Finding Me)
E - Elizabeth Acevedo (Clap When You Land)
F -
G - Dave Grohl (The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music)
H - Ali Hazelwood (The Love Hypothesis)
I - Debby Irving (Waking Up White)
J - Jamise Harper and Jane Mount (Bibliophile Diverse Spines)
K - T.J. Klune (The House on the Cerulean Sea)
L - Leesa Cross-Smith (This Close to Okay)
M - Mia Manansala (Arsenic and Adobo)
N - Nella Larsen (Passing)
O - Barack Obama (A Promised Land)
P -
Q - Homeira Qaderi (Dancing in the Mosque)
R - Sally Rooney (Beautiful World, Where Are You?)
S - Adam Silvera (They Both Die At the End)
T -Tommy Davidson (Living in Color)
U - Gabrielle Union (You Got Anything Stronger?)
V - V.E. Schwab (The Secret Life of Addie LaRue)
W - Charmaine Wilkerson (Black Cake)
X - Ibram X. Kendi (How to be an Anti-Racist)
Y - Yamile Saied Méndez (Furia)
Z -

[Heather]

Message #102 updated
A-Z Challenge: Authors
Progress: 22/26

A: Kim Anderson - Alena
B: Brendan Slocumb - The Violin Conspiracy
C: Kat Cho - Once Upon a K-Prom
D: Aminder Dhaliwal - Cyclopedia Exotica
E: Elena Armas - The Spanish Love Deception
F: Huda Fahmy - Huda F Are You?
G: Claudia Gray - The Murder of Mr. Wickham
H: Han Kang - The Vegetarian
I: Junji Ito - Frankenstein
J: Bella James - Blind Date
K: Patrick Radden Keefe – Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
L: Lori Nelson Spielman - The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
M: Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman
N: Sylvain Neuvel - Until the Last of Me
O: Hiroya Oku - Gantz Omnibus Volume 1
P:
Q:
R: Rachel Reid - Game Changer
S: Stella Starling – All I Want
T: Koushun Takami - Battle Royale
U:
V:
W: Tia Williams - Seven Days in June
X: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu – Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1
Y: Yeok-Sik Hong - Umma's Table
Z: Zoraida Córdova - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

[Patty]

Update message 50. 12/26

[Carmen]

Update to message #9

PROGRESS: 42/52

[TerryJane, Challenges]

August Update Done

Congratulations to Sunny, who completed the challenge and moved to Victorious Alphabetizers roster! 👏👏👏

Congratulations also to ReGina, who moved from the Hopefuls list to the Actively Alphabetizing level and is already nearly to goal! Yay! 👍

So many of our active participants are getting very close to their goals. Here's hoping your September authors bring you even closer.

Happy reading! 🧡📚🧡

[Greg]

Update to message 59:

R for Robert from The First Rule by Robert Crais

17/26

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to message #5 - 25/26 books read!

[Patty]

Update Message 50. 14/26

[Echo]

Message 60 updated: 21 of 26 completed

[Chalmation]

Updated message #25

20/26

[Julie]

updated message 47
6/26