Anders' 2024 Challenge Buffet

[Anders]

This will be my first challenge buffet! I will try to make a plan for each challenge but will likely only aim to complete a handful of challenges throughout the year. I am excited to give this a go!

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium
Challenge #4 - Members Choice
Challenge #5 - Short Story
Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon with New Authors
Challenge #8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year
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 - Series Books – Start, Continue, Complete
Challenge #13 - Travel the World One Continent at a Time.
Challenge #14 - Rereading Some do Some don't
Challenge #15 - A-Z Author
Challenge #16 - A-Z Title

[Anders]

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR

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Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

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Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium

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Challenge #4 - Members Choice

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Challenge #5 - Short Story

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Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads

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Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon with New Authors

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Challenge #8 - Most Popular Goodreads Books Listed by Year

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Challenge #9 – Fiction/Non-Fiction

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Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult

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Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

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Challenge #12 - Series Books – Start, Continue, Complete

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Challenge #13 - Travel the World One Continent at a Time.


Africa - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (UK but set in Congo)
Asia - Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (Japan)
Australia - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (Australia)
Europe - The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia)
North America - A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago)
South America - The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
Antarctica - Penguin Island by Anatole France (France, maybe a stretch but I figured it would fit the spirit of the challenge)

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Challenge #14 - Rereading Some do Some don't

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Challenge #15 - A-Z Author

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Challenge #16 - A-Z Title


A - Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
B - James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
C - Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
D - Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
E - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
F - William Faulkner, Light in August
G - Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
H - Homer, The Odyssey
I - Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
J - James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
K - Rudyard Kipling, Kim
L - Halldór Laxness, Independent People
M - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
N - Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
O - George Orwell, 1984
P - Marco Polo, Travels of Marco Polo
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R - Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
S - William Shakespeare, Henry V
T - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
U - John Updike, Rabbit, Run
V - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
W - Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
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Z - Émile Zola, Germinal

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[Terris]

Enjoy your buffet, Anders! You have a lot of good books to look forward to! :)

[Gerard]

Good luck on your challenges, Anders! Some great choices already :)

[Shaina]

Enjoy your planning, and Happy reading!

[Wobbley]

Enjoy your first Buffet! The planning is lots of fun. :)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Enjoy your first buffet, take a little or a lot just have a good time. Happy reading.