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message 1: by Jazzy (last edited Nov 16, 2022 03:48PM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments
For each letter A through Z, read a book where the author's name (first or last) begins with that letter. For the hard letters Q, X, Y and Z, you may use a book in which the letter is found anywhere in the author's name.



All books should be written no later than 1972.
Please add links as well as your author images. Have fun!

Here is a template to copy:

A-Z Authors
1/1/2022 - 31/12/2022
0/26

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

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Alexandra
Annette
Armin
Christine PNW
Cosmic
Cozy_Pug
Deb
Irphen
Janelle
Jason
Jazzy
Kathy
Lynn
Marie
Nike
Robin P
Rosemarie
Tracey
Trisha
Vit


message 2: by Jazzy (last edited Aug 18, 2022 12:55AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments A-Z Author Challenge *COMPLETE*
1/1/22 - 31/12/22
26/26

Aldous Huxley

✅ A - Hans Aanrud - Sidsel Longskirt: A Girl of Norway (1903)
✅ B - Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides) (1857)
✅ C - Marcus Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life (1874)
✅ D - Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby (1838)
✅ E - Dorothy Edwards - Rhapsody (1927)


Joseph Heller

F - J.S. Fletcher - The Lost Mr. Linthwaite (1923)
✅ G - Jeannie Gunn - We Of The Never Never (1908)
✅ H - Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (1862)
✅ I - Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
✅ J - George Johnston - My Brother Jack (1964)

Harper Lee

✅ K - Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives (1929)
✅ L - Norman Lindsay - The Magic Pudding (1918)
✅ M - Alan Marshall - I Can Jump Puddles (1955)
✅ N - Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire (1962)
✅ O - George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

Truman Capote

✅ P - E.R. Punshon - Music Tells All (1948)
✅ Q - Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)
✅ R - Raymond Radiguet - The Devil in the Flesh (1923)
✅ S - Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
✅ T - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - A Cat, A Man, And Two Women (1936)

James Baldwin

✅ U - Fritz von Unruh - The Way of Sacrifice (1928)
✅ V - Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
✅ W -Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited (1945)
✅ X - Aldous Huxley - Island (1962)
✅ Y - Sergei Yesenin - Sergei Esenin: Selected Poetry (1925)
✅ Z - Émile Zola - Nana (1880)

Sylvia Plath

Hans Aanrud Charles Baudelaire Marcus Clarke Charles Dickens Dorothy Edwards J.S. Fletcher Jeannie Gunn Victor Hugo Christopher Isherwood George Johnston Erich Kästner Norman Lindsay Alan Marshall Vladimir Nabokov George Orwell E.R. Punshon Thomas De Quincey Raymond Radiguet Christina Stead Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Fritz von Unruh Jules Verne Evelyn Waugh Aldous Huxley Sergei Yesenin Émile Zola

Milan Kundera



message 4: by Christine PNW (new)

Christine PNW (moonlight_reader) | 2 comments I'm not really doing "challenges" next year, but I'll see how many I just fortuitously manage to fill-in!

A-Z Authors
1/1/2022 - 31/12/2022
0/26

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
W
X
Y
Z


message 5: by Rosemarie (new)

Rosemarie | 360 comments I do the same thing! Whenever I plan anything, I don't do as well.


message 6: by Jazzy (last edited Dec 29, 2021 05:55PM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Don't worry about not doing them all, This is a laid back challenge and you just do the best you can! I like to choose all my books so I can see what I might read. I also like looking at other people's choices.

Remember - There are no losers here - only WINNERS!


message 7: by [deleted user] (last edited Jul 09, 2022 01:26PM) (new)

A to Z Author Challenge
1/1/2022 - 12/31/2022

25/26

A - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice01/21/22
B - Charlotte Brontë - Villette03/14/22
C - Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone05/11/22
D - Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby01/15/22
E - Pierce Egan - Life in London: Or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom in Their Rambles and Sprees Through the Metropolis01/06/22
F - E.M. Forster - Howards End06/28/22
G - John Galsworthy - Salvation of a Forsyte06/19/22
H - Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables03/11/22
I - Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House05/25/22
J - Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat06/17/22
K - John Keats - Endymion: A Poetic Romance06/21/22
L - Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird07/09/22
M - Christopher Marlowe - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus01/16/22
N - Mary Norton - The Borrowers06/28/22
O - Emmuska Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel06/26/22
P - Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
Q - Arthur Quiller-Couch - Dead Man's Rock05/29/22
R - Ann Radcliffe - A Sicilian Romance01/18/22
S - Robert Louis Stevenson - The Black Arrow06/15/22
T - William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair02/14/22
U - Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight01/16/22
V - Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days05/15/22
W - Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray06/18/22
X - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince02/21/22
Y - W.B. Yeats - The Collected Poetry of William Butler Yeats06/20/22
Z - Émile Zola - The Fortune of the Rougons05/22/22

Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë Wilkie Collins Charles Dickens Pierce Egan E.M. Forster John Galsworthy Nathaniel Hawthorne Henrik Ibsen Jerome K. Jerome John Keats Harper Lee Christopher Marlowe Mary Norton Emmuska Orczy Boris Pasternak Arthur Quiller-Couch Ann Radcliffe Robert Louis Stevenson William Makepeace Thackeray Unknown Jules Verne Oscar Wilde Antoine de Saint-Exupéry W.B. Yeats Émile Zola


message 9: by Jason (last edited Jan 17, 2023 11:12AM) (new)

Jason (jasondenness) | 7 comments Will see how many I can fit in on this challenge. Most of the books I own are after 1972 haha

A-Z Authors
1/1/2022 - 31/12/2022
0/26

A
B
C=Calvino, Italo Invisible Cities
D
E
F=Forster, E. M The Hill of Devi: An Englishman at the Court of a Maratha Maharaja in 1921
G=Gibbings, Robert Sweet Thames Run Softly
H
I
J
K
L
M= Miller, Henry Tropic of Cancer
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y Yoshino, Genzaburo How Do You Live?
Z


message 10: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Haha Jason! you can try youtube, librivox, or project gutenberg for a lot of old books on the free!


message 11: by Jason (new)

Jason (jasondenness) | 7 comments only do paper copies of books, my eyes are old and don't like staring at screens. I should be able to get a few done.


message 12: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Jason wrote: "only do paper copies of books, my eyes are old and don't like staring at screens. I should be able to get a few done."

When the challenge comes up on the first I think you can choose how many you'd like to do. Ah I understand these old eyes. It would be nice if we could just nip 'round the shop and order some new ones.


message 13: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Apologies to everyone - please check your templates on both A-Z Challenges - I inadvertently left off the U and V so they will need to be added.




message 14: by Jason (new)

Jason (jasondenness) | 7 comments haha, the alphabet is still pretty new :-)


message 17: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Jason wrote: "haha, the alphabet is still pretty new :-)"

I'm sure it's been around quite a long time!


message 18: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Trisha wrote: "I decided I definitely wouldn’t do this challenge - so here I am, unable to resist!..."

Who could resist Jack London?


message 19: by Irphen (last edited Nov 23, 2022 08:24AM) (new)

Irphen | 18 comments I will be trying this! Pretty sure I will not complete all of but I'm going to try anyway cause I just can't resist challenges and always take way too much books and projets on my plate but I just love it so much! ;-p I might do some planning ahead but most of it I will fill in along while reading and see how things work out^^

A-Z Authors
1/1/2022 - 31/12/2022
15/26

A - Anne Frank - The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1947 )
B - ✅ Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) read end march - begin april
C
D -✅ Philip K. Dick - Ubik ( 1969 ) read 3 - 13 june
E - E.M. Forster - Maurice ( 1971 )
F - ✅ J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla ( 1872 ) january
G -✅ Guillaume Apollinaire - Alcools ( 1913 ) mars
H -✅ Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha ( 1922 ) read begin august
I
J - ✅ Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House ( 1959 ) january
K - ✅ Anna Kavan - Ice ( 1967 ) read 7- 11 march
L - ✅Leonora Carrington - The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories ( 1938 ) january
M -✅Jules Michelet - The Sorceress: A Study in Middle Age Superstition ( 1862 )
N
O -Otfried Preußler - The Satanic Mill ( 1971 )
P
Q
R - Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness ( 1928 )
S -William Shakespeare - Hamlet ( 1601 )
T -Henry David Thoreau - Walden ( 1854 )
U -✅ Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven ( 1971 ) read half april
V - ✅ Voltaire - Zadig ( 1748 ) read in june
W - ✅ H.G. Wells - The Magic Shop ( 1903 ) january
X - ✅ Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell ( 1960 )
Y - ✅ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince ( 1943 ) begin february
Z - ✅ Roger Zelazny - This Immortal ( 1966 ) read in may

Ray Bradbury Guillaume Apollinaire Shirley Jackson Anna Kavan Leonora Carrington William Shakespeare Philip K. Dick Henry David Thoreau Radclyffe Hall Hermann Hesse Anne Frank Aldous Huxley J. Sheridan Le Fanu Voltaire Otfried Preußler Jules Michelet Ursula K. Le Guin E.M. Forster H.G. Wells Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Roger Zelazny


message 20: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Glad to have you along Irpen and you can use the same books for your other club's challenges as well!


message 21: by Cosmic (new)

Cosmic Arcata | 90 comments Jazzy wrote: "Don't worry about not doing them all, This is a laid back challenge and you just do the best you can! I like to choose all my books so I can see what I might read. I also like looking at other peop..."

I agree. I love lists!!

Thank you. Very Inspiring. Cheers to lists.

Definitely will be making mine for this challenge!!


message 22: by Cosmic (last edited Nov 15, 2022 06:14PM) (new)


message 23: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Great choices so far, Cosmic!


message 24: by Irphen (new)

Irphen | 18 comments Jazzy wrote: "Glad to have you along Irpen and you can use the same books for your other club's challenges as well!"

I think that could indeed be a good idea!^^ Without using some from other challenges and clubs I will have really too much books to read! .-p


message 25: by Jazzy (last edited Jan 01, 2022 08:38AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments I'll let you in on a little secret - you finish more challenges by putting the same books in as many as possible! *wink wink*



message 26: by Irphen (new)

Irphen | 18 comments Jazzy wrote: "I'll let you in on a little secret - you finish more challenges by putting the same books in as many as possible! *wink wink*
"

Haha, how incredible! Thank you for sharing this secret, I will keep it well and tell it only to those who are desparate challenge addicts but don't have superhuman reading abbilities! ;-p


message 27: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Irphen, I finished a book and had it in several challenges so went around the groups giving it the little green tick! 😂


message 28: by Alexandra (new)

Alexandra Daw (luvvie) | 28 comments Well done Jazzy! What an excellent example you are setting for the rest of us. Now how do you do that little green tick. I'm off to my cot to read a book and try and catch up to you! I'm knackered having spent the entire day cleaning my study from top to bottom so that I actually want to be in there to sew or do family history. Hoorah!


message 29: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Hi Alexandra! Hope you had a good New Year's Day.

Okay to do the little green tick - copy mine, paste it where you want it to go. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

Can you do HTML?
if you want to make something bold you just put < b > (without spaces, and where you want the bold to stop you put < / b > (without spaces)
italics are < i > and < / i > without spaces
Strike through < s > and < / s > without spaces


message 30: by Alexandra (new)

Alexandra Daw (luvvie) | 28 comments Dear Jazzy

You're the best. Thanks so much. Copying and pasting. Who woulda thunk? Great. :)

A


message 31: by Tracey (last edited Feb 13, 2022 02:09PM) (new)


message 32: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments You're welcome Alex!
Ooh nice to see you joining the challenge, Tracey!


message 33: by Tracey (new)

Tracey (traceyrb) I completed this once a few years ago and enjoyed it. It helped me find new authors. Thanks for setting it up.


message 35: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments My pleasure, Tracey!
Looking good Vit!


message 36: by Pat (new)

Pat Morris-jones | 6 comments I will start this but unlikely to do A to Z of classics. I’ll see how I get on.


message 37: by Pat (new)

Pat Morris-jones | 6 comments Thank you though.


message 38: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Pat you don't have to complete the challenge to win! We're all winners!! I'm so happy to see you here! Just have fun reading.




message 39: by Irphen (new)

Irphen | 18 comments Jazzy wrote: "Irphen, I finished a book and had it in several challenges so went around the groups giving it the little green tick! 😂"
Good job! You did convince me to join the A-Z Title challenge with all this! ;-p


message 40: by Jazzy (last edited Jan 03, 2022 07:12AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Well done, Irphen! My book was Goodbye to Berlin which is a book comprised of 6 interlocking novellas, so you know the 24 short stories challenge? Well I'm 6 books in on that one 😂too!


message 41: by Pat (new)

Pat Morris-jones | 6 comments Thank you.


message 42: by Jazzy (last edited Jan 03, 2022 09:52AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments My pleasure, treasure!




message 46: by Jazzy (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Nice to have you playing along Armin!


message 48: by Jazzy (last edited Jan 18, 2022 11:03AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments Great to have you join us Robin P!



message 50: by Jazzy (last edited Jan 19, 2022 11:11AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) | 1053 comments I LOVE your Alphabet Nike!
Jag älskar ditt alfabet



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