Task 1: Read a Boxall book using the theme of 25.

[Karen]

Use this Topic to discuss books you are reading or that fit the 1st Scavenger Hunt task.

1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 25. Everyone’s favorite is back, of course, (and probably will be for the next 100 years)! This is your chance to get creative. Here are a few possibilities to get you started.
    o 2025 – Chinese Year of the Snake
    o International Year of Peace and Trust (United Nations)
    o International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (United Nations)
    o International Cooperatives (United Nations) – To raise public awareness
       of the invaluable contributions of cooperative enterprises to poverty
       reduction, employment generation, and social integration.
    o International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations)
    o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
    o A book with 25 chapters.

[Maddy]

Non-exhaustive list of low-hanging fruit:

Published in 1925:

The Professor's House by Willa Cather
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford (Vol. 2 of Parade's End)
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
The Artomonov Business by Maxim Gorky
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
The Fugitive by Marcel Proust (Vol. 6 of In Search of Lost Time)
The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Romance of Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (first complete English translation)

Authors born in 1925:
Yukio Mishima
Flannery O'Connor
Gore Vidal
Elmore Leonard

Authors who died in 1925:
H. Rider Haggard

[Karina]

Maddy wrote: "Non-exhaustive list of low-hanging fruit:

Published in 1925:

The Professor's House by Willa Cather
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
No More Parades by..."

Thank you for putting this list together because I already own (and still have yet to read) The Artamonov Business!

[Dina]

I read The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor because Mary Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925.

[Amanda]

I'm going for the 25th book on my remaining reads list: Tirant lo Blanc

[Yrinsyde]

I'm reading The Trial by Kafka and also Breakfast at Tiffany's (Capote was born in 1925 ... I was going to read this anyway and it was coincidence that it fitted this prompt!)