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message 1: by Dubhease (last edited Sep 06, 2025 02:48PM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments A book connected to something mentioned in the Do Re Mi song - Kill for Me, Kill for You - January 25
A book that features a character going through menopause - Hometown Ties - February 23
A book by an Irish author - Ulysses - May 21
A book about a run club - Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run - April 19
A book connected in some way to any collective noun for animals - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - May 11
A book with a main character who is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal - Broken - June 26
A monster book - To You Shall All Flesh Come - July 21
A book title that could be a country song - Those Pink Mountain Nights - August 17
A book related to hotels, haughtiness, hotheads, humour, or Fawlty Towers - Home Is Where the Bodies Are - September 6
A book that involves digging up the past
A book related to one of the traditional full moon names
A book about an overlooked woman in history


message 2: by Dubhease (last edited Aug 13, 2025 06:18PM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments Series

1. Inheritance - February 1
2. An Acceptable Time - April 5
3. The Crystal City - April 26
4. The Woman Who Died a Lot - June 4
5. Death Bringer - June 13
6. The Ugly Truth - July 25
7. The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon - August 13
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message 4: by Dubhease (last edited Aug 05, 2025 09:55AM) (new)

Dubhease | 320 comments Reading Across Canada

1. Denial - Jan 18
2. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Feb. 21
3. Who Has Seen the Wind - March 31
4. A Complicated Kindness - April 21
5. Vampires of Ottawa - May 16
6. The Tin Flute - July 4
7. Wicked Woods - August 5
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Dubhease | 320 comments Reading Shakespeare
8/37 = 22%

COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well -2023
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice - Grade 9
Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2017
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale -2017

HISTORIES
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John - 2008
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III

TRAGEDIES
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet - Grade 13
Julius Caesar - Grade 10
King Lear
Macbeth - Grade 11 and 12
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida


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Dubhease | 320 comments Reading Nobel Laureates
28/117 = 24%

1901: Sully Prudhomme - Le Bonheur: Poeme (2022)
1902: Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy (2023)
1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - The Fisher Maiden (2024)
1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray - Mirèio, a Provençal Poem (2025)
1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906: Giosuè Carducci
1907: Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book and Other Stories (2008)
1908: Rudolf Eucken
1909: Selma Lagerlöf
1910: Paul Heyse
1911: Maurice Maeterlinck
1912: Gerhart Hauptmann
1913: Rabindranath Tagore
1914 (Not awarded)
1915: Romain Rolland
1916: Verner von Heidenstam
1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan
1918 (Not awarded)
1919: Carl Spitteler
1920: Knut Hamsun
1921: Anatole France - Penguin Island (2023)
1922: Jacinto Benavente - Plays by Jacinto Benavente : Second series (2025)
1923: W. B. Yeats
1924: Wladyslaw Reymont
1925: George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (Grade 12)
1926: Grazia Deledda
1927: Henri Bergson
1928: Sigrid Undset
1929: Thomas Mann
1930: Sinclair Lewis
1931: Erik Axel Karlfeld
1932: John Galsworthy
1933: Ivan Bunin
1934: Luigi Pirandello
1935 (Not awarded)
1936: Eugene O'Neill
1937: Roger Martin du Gard
1938: Pearl S. Buck
1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1940-1943 (Not awarded)
1944: Johannes V. Jensen - The Fall of the King (2023)
1945: Gabriela Mistral
1946: Hermann Hesse
1947: André Gide
1948: T. S. Eliot
1949: William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (Grade 13)
1950: Bertrand Russell
1951: Pär Lagerkvist
1952: François Mauriac
1953: Winston Churchill
1954: Ernest Hemingway
1955: Halldór Laxness
1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957: Albert Camus - L'Étranger (2018)
1958: Boris Pasternak - Dr. Zhivago (2023)
1959: Salvatore Quasimodo
1960: Saint-John Perse
1961: Ivo Andric
1962: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men (2023)
1963: Giorgos Seferis
1964: Jean-Paul Sartre - Huis Clos (Grade 13)
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov
1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs
1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias
1968: Yasunari Kawabata
1969: Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (2006)
1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (2022)
1971: Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (2023)
1972: Heinrich Böll
1973: Patrick White
1974: Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson
1975: Eugenio Montale
1976: Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King (2024)
1977: Vicente Aleixandre
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979: Odysseas Elytis
1980: Czeslaw Milosz
1981: Elias Canetti
1982: Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (2020)
1983: William Golding - The Inheritors (2024)
1984: Jaroslav Seifert
1985: Claude Simon
1986: Wole Soyinka
1987: Joseph Brodsky
1988: Naguib Mahfouz
1989: Camilo José Cela
1990: Octavio Paz
1991: Nadine Gordimer
1992: Derek Walcott
1993: Toni Morrison - Beloved (2023)
1994: Kenzaburo Oe - Death by Water (2022)
1995: Seamus Heaney - Beowulf plus poems (2008)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska
1997: Dario Fo
1998: José Saramago
1999: Günter Grass
2000: Gao Xingjian
2001: V. S. Naipaul - In a Free State (2024)
2002: Imre Kertész
2003: J. M. Coetzee
2004: Elfriede Jelinek
2005: Harold Pinter
2006: Orhan Pamuk
2007: Doris Lessing
2008: J. M. G. Le Clézio
2009: Herta Müller
2010: Mario Vargas Llosa
2011: Tomas Tranströmer - Windows and Stones: Selected Poems (2024)
2012: Mo Yan
2013: Alice Munro
2014: Patrick Modiano
2015: Svetlana Alexievich
2016: Bob Dylan
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (2022)
2018: Olga Tokarczuk
2019: Peter Handke
2020: Louise Glück
2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah - Gravel Heart (2024)
2022: Annie Ernaux
2023: Jon Fosse
2024: Han Kang - The Vegetarian (2025)


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