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✔✔Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse✔✔✔New School
✔Old School
✔Short Story/Novella
✔Quarterly Long Read
✔✔Challenge #3 Decade/Century/Millennium✔✔✔Decade 1980s
✔Century
✔✔Challenge #4 - Members Choice✔✔
>>>>2025>>>Challenge #5 - Short Story9. The Recruit by Honoré de Balzac
11. The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac
12. Les Marana by Honoré de Balzac
14. The Elixir of Life, and the Exiles by Honoré de Balzac
15. Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac
16. Maitre Cornelius by Honoré de Balzac
17. Une double famille : suivi de Le Contrat de mariage et de L'Interdiction by Honoré de Balzac
18. El Verdugo by Honoré de Balzac
21. Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac
✔✔The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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4. what
5. The key
6. Keela, the outcast Indian maiden
7. Why I live at the P.O. --
8. The whistle --
9. The hitch-hikers --
10. A memory --
11. Clytie --
12. Old Mr. Marblehall --
13. lowers for Marjorie --
14. A curtain of green --
15. A visit of charity --
16. Death of a traveling salesman --
17. Powerhouse --
18. A worn path --
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19. First love
20. The wide net
21. A still moment
22. Asphodel
23. The winds
24. The purple hat
25. Livvie
26. At the landing
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27. Main Families in Morgana, MS
28. Shower of gold
29. June recital
30. Sir Rabbit
31. Moon Lake
32. The whole world knows
33. Music from Spain
34. The wanderers
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35. No place for you, my love
36. The burning
37. The bride of the Innisfallen
38. Ladies in spring
39. Circe
40. Kin
41. Going to Naples
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42. Where is the voice coming from?
43. The demonstrators.
✔✔Challenge #6 - Group Reads✔✔
✔✔Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon with New Authors✔✔
✔✔Challenge #8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year(with some artistic license taken)✔✔✔1984
✔Or maybe 1975
✔✔Challenge #9 Fiction/Nonfiction totally 2023 leftovers with added shelf purge expecting those to be on 2025 menu)✔✔✔Great Migration
✔Quackery
✔Native American ‐White Women
✔Borders
✔Wild West
✔Needle &Thread
✔High Seas
Challenge #12 - Series Books – Start, Continue, Complete(No, I am not reading all of these in 2024, they are languishing on TBR list so really hoping this challenge repeats and I stay motivated...lol)
✔✔#12.1Marcel Proust completed
✔✔#12.2 Anthony Powell completed
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..A Buyer's Market
..The Acceptance World
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..Hearing Secret Harmonies
✔✔#12.3 Javier Marías completed
✔✔#12.4 Henry Handel Richardson completed
✔✔#12.5 William Golding completed
✔✔#12.6 Yukio Mishima completed
✔✔#12.7 Lemony Snicket completed
#12.8
Balzac's Human Comedy (incomplete TBR list) continue
..The Recruit
..The Red Inn
..Les Marana
..The Elixir of Life, and the Exiles
..Christ in Flanders
..Maitre Cornelius
..Une double famille : suivi de Le Contrat de mariage et de L'Interdiction
..El Verdugo
..Louis Lambert
✔✔#12.9 Cormac McCarthy completed
..All the Pretty Horses completed
..The Crossing completed
..Cities of the Plain
✔✔#12.10 Najib Mahfuz completed
✔✔#12.11Paul Scott completed
✔✔#12.12 Ivo Andrić completed
..The Bridge on the Drina completed
✔✔#12.13 Elena Ferrante completed
✔✔#12.14 Alice Walker completed
✔✔#12.15 J.G. Farrell completed
#12.16Olivia Manning continue
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Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy
..The Danger Tree
..The battle lost and won: A novel
..The Sum of Things
#12.17L.P. Hartleystart
Eustace and Hilda
..The Sixth Heaven
..Eustace and Hilda
#12.18Miklós Bánffy start
The Writing on the Wall Trilogy
..They Were Found Wanting
..They Were Divided
✔✔Challenge #13 - Travel the World One Continent at a Time✔✔*Antarctica
Challenge #15 - A-Z Title Challenge Olympic Level TBR Procrastination List(Including books >1000pgs/multi-volume or ILL request /translation☆ needed)
>>>2025>>>H House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
*Z
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Ha ha, I love that you have a theme called "Quackery"!
Lots of fun reading ahead! Enjoy your challenge!
Thanks everyone, I love doing the challenges.
Lots of good ones there, Jeri! You are ready to read! Have fun in 2024 :)
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Lynn wrote: "Nice planning Jeri. You have so many chosen. I am ashamed to say I have only read two of your books so far. Your list may be useful for me to visit!"I look at Boxall's 1001 and the Guardian's 1000 lists when I start my selections, most of these are ones I have been skipping for almost a decade... it is time lol
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✔#1.1 For Love or Money ...(Gonna get the TBR done)
1. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich2. Love for Lydia by H.E. Bates3. Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood4. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss5. The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif6. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides7. Money by Martin Amis8. Silver Stallion: A Novel of Korea by Ahn Junghyo9. The Golden Bowl by Henry James10. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith185911. The Real Charlotte byEdith Œnone Somerville 189412. La Regenta / The Regent's Wife by Leopoldo Alas 1884The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond LehmannNo Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley ChaseSolitud by Víctor CatalàThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallThe Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope 1871At The Sign Of The Cat And Racket by Honoré de Balzac 1829The Ball At Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac 1829East Lynne by Mrs. Henry Wood 1861✔#1.2 Retirement- finally Time to Read
1. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon2. As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo (o)3. From Here to Eternity by James Jones4. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen5. The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa6. The Years by Virginia Woolf7. The Book of Evidence by John Banville8. Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić9. Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith10. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians by Fanny Kelly (o)11. The Quest De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden(o)12. The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing13. Light Years by James Salter14. The Ipcress File by Len Deighton15. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan SillitoeThe Late-Night News by Petros MarkarisLes revenentes - NE (Exeter Text) by Georges PerecTime and Again by Jack FinneyMemoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf by David MadsenTowards the End of the Morning by Michael FraynThe Old Men at the Zoo by Angus WilsonBooks Do Furnish a Room by Anthony PowellMy New York Diary by Julie DoucetThe Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst