Task Overview

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10.1 Pick a Year
Pick any year and read a book first published in that year. Tell us the year chosen when you post. This task may be repeated up to three times, but you must use the same year every time. This task cannot be used for combo points.

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10.5 All Fools' Day
To celebrate April 1st, read a book that has an MPG of Humo(u)r, Comedy, or Satire.

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10.10 Group Reads
Read one of the following books OR any book by the author of one of these books recommended by fellow RwS readers:
Anika: Heart the Lover by Lily King
Apple: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Joanna: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Rosemary: The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy
More to follow

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20.1 National Book Critics Circle Award
This season, we're celebrating authors born in 1926 - a bang-up birth year for award-winning authors. In honor of winners John Updike and Hilary Mantel, read any book which has won a NBCC Award (any category).
You can find the list at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa... and click through to the different categories) or scroll through the list here.
Winners only, no nominees/finalists.
When claiming, please say which category and year your book won.

20.2 PEN Awards
In honor of winners John Updike, John Fowles, John Knowles, and Jan Morris, read a book originally published in one of the languages (other than English) that gives PEN awards other than for translation: Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, German, or Norwegian.

20.3 CWA Diamond Dagger
In honor of lifetime achievement winners Ed McBain and H.R.F. Keating, read a book from a series that has at least 10 books.
To calculate the number of books in a series for this task, we will count any .5 etc books listed in the GR series page. Upcoming books will be counted if they have a title and description in GR.

20.4 SFF Hall of Fame
In honor of Philip K. Dick, Anne McCaffrey, Richard Matheson, and Poul Anderson, read a book by an author who has been inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_...

20.5 Governor General's Award
In honor of Margaret Laurence, one of Canada's important 20th century authors, read a book by an author born in Canada or set at least 75% in Canada.

20.6 Pulitzer Prize
In honor of John Updike, Harper Lee, and Alison Lurie, read a book by an author whose first and last initials are found in PULITZER or whose first name is John, Harper, or Alison.

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