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Challenge #1 - New & Old TBRChallenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 -Century Challenge
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge 1 Old and New Challenge
Old
1.War and Peace
2. The Brothers Karamazov
3.Hard Times
New
1.The House of Mirth
2.East of Eden
3.The Waves
Eclectic
1.Death on the Nile
2.Silent Spring
3.As I Lay Dying
4.Twilight in Delhi
5.Eugene Onegin
6.Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
Bonus
1.A Philosophy of Education (The Home Education Series)
2.The Fall
Challenge 2Second place or worse Challenge
Challenge 3Women's Century Challenge
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
Challenge 4 Member's Choice
1. 19th Century : Hard Times
2. 20th Century : The Tombs of Atuan
3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic
4. Current or Past Group Read : The Decameron
5. An Author not read before :
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours : africa or central asia
7. Science Fiction :
8. A book originally written in a language other than your own : Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat or War and Peace
9. A Banned Book :
10. Nonfiction : Silent Spring
11. Mystery : Death on the Nile
12. Humor : My Man Jeeves
Challenge 5Short Story Challenge
Challenge 7Expand your horizons Challenge
1. Rachel Carson
2. Ahmed Ali
3.
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5.
6.
Challenge 9Fiction / Non fiction Challenge
Education
F : Up the Down Staircase: The timeless, bestselling novel about the joys, frustrations, and hilarity of teaching / Pym / Pnin
nF : A Philosophy of Education / Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age
History
F : I, Claudius or An Excellent Mystery or Sunrise in the West
nF : The Past As Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History or Ancient India
Universe / Earth
F : Cosmicomics
nF : The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World or The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
Language / linguistics
F : The Lieutenant
nF : On Language or On Literature
Neurodiversity
F : Fish in a Tree
nF : Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
Art
F : The Last Painting of Sara de Vos or The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
nF : The Letters of Vincent van Gogh or The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else or What Is Art?
Middle East
F : Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
nF : Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life or On Palestine or
21st century potential future classic
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
Books mentioned in this topic
East Lynne (other topics)The Morgesons (other topics)
Wives and Daughters (other topics)
Hard Times (other topics)
The Tombs of Atuan (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Charlotte Brontë (other topics)Maria Susanna Cummins (other topics)
For Entre Details See Messages 2-15
Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge
Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Challenge #8 - Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?
Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge
General/Helpful Challenge Information:
These challenges are personal. It is important that you enjoy your challenge/s, don't feel pressure to finish, this is for fun. Use your own creativity to make your challenge special. Select books that you truly have an interest in reading. Perhaps some of your selections can be from different countries. Or select different regions from a single country. Perhaps choose men and women from one country, but from different ethnic or social back grounds. It's your challenge your choices, just stick to the basic challenge configuration.
Create your own separate thread to list the challenge/s you wish to participate in. If you plan on participating in several challenges, you will want to save/reserve several message/posts at the beginning of your thread to list each challenge you intend to try. Reserve 1-14 if you are going to try them all. Remember you can always delete the save posts if you don't need them.
To Create your challenge thread simply go to the top of this folder click on the title (Challenge Buffet). Then look to the right for the words (new topic), click that, a new screen will open. In the box (topic) type the name you wish to give your challenge. In the (comment) box list your books chosen for the challenge. Use the (add book/author) link so that others can link to your choices and learn more about the book you have selected.