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The Great 1001-Books Scavenger Hunt, 2026The Great 1001-Books Scavenger Hunt for 2026 is ready to go. Start counting from January 1, 2026, and The Hunt ends on December 31, 2026. All books chosen for your Scavenger Hunt must come from the Boxall 1001 Books combined list. (Check the Group's Bookshelf for a listing of all the books on the Boxall lists.) Have fun! And a shout-out to Rebekah (bekalynn) who was a predominant contributor of suggestions for tasks!!
The 12 Tasks are:
1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. 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 2026 – Chinese Year of the Horse
o International Year of the Woman Farmer (United Nations)
o International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development
(United Nations)
o International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (United Nations)
o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
o A book with 26 chapters.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American
Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician,
or clergy.
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or
opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than
English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past
Scavenger Hunts.
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Double-dipping
In order to promote fun and creativity, double-dipping (using one book to fulfill more than one Task) is allowed. However, remember that one of the purposes of the Challenge is to get you to read more Boxall books, improve your total count, and explore the various resources on the Boxall Group site
1/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
1/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (title has 26 letters)
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
Vathek (written c.1782, published 1786)
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Prize 2006)
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
Transit by Anna Seghers
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (journalist)
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
Fury by Salman Rushdie
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
Atonement
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
Summer Will Show
✅ 10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English
To Each His Own (Italian)
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize
Rabbit Is Rich
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
0/12 Ideas1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang 2026 – Chinese Year of the Horse - Author's surname begins with 26th letter of Western alphabet - Stylized Chinese horse on cover.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787. Evelina by Frances Burney 1778
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa Nobel for Literature - 2010
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy. Z by Vassilis Vassilikos Journalist and Member of Greek Parliament
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season. Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English. Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously - Asphodel by H.D.
B. By an author who died before age 40, - Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
C. By an author whose parent was an author, ??The Warden by Anthony Trollope
D. Published after the author was 70, ??? Falling Man by Don DeLillo
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Pulitzer 2011
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings. Professor Martens' Departure by Jaan Kross 241 ratings
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts. A one word title - Cane by Jean Toomer
The 12 Tasks are:1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. Everyone’s favorite is back, of course, (and probably will be for the next 100 years)!
Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American
Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
The Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (a politician)
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or
opera.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than
English.
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
C. By an author whose parent was an author:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (daughter of Anita Desai)
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past
Scavenger Hunts.F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
Angie's Scavenger Hunt 2026 0/12
1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
1/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
✔️8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren - The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American independent drama film noir directed by Otto Preminger.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
1. Passing by Nella Larsen (set in the 1920s)2. Evelina by Frances Burney
3. Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
4. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
5. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
6. The French Lieutenant’s wife by John Fowles (teacher)
7. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
8. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
9. Summer will show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
10. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Drubravka Ugresic
11C. By an author whose parent was an author,
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
12. Read a book by an indigenous author
Love Medicine by Louise Erdich
0/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. 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 2026 – Chinese Year of the Horse
o International Year of the Woman Farmer (United Nations)
o International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development
(United Nations)
o International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (United Nations)
o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
o A book with 26 chapters.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American
Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
The Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (taught University English)
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (2017 Miniseries)
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
Read a Boxall book by an author Using a Pseudonym
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Read 2/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. 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 2026 – Chinese Year of the Horse
o International Year of the Woman Farmer (United Nations)
o International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development
(United Nations)
o International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (United Nations)
o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
o A book with 26 chapters.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
Cecilia by Fanny Burney (1782), The Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782), The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade (1785), Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz (1785)
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
JM Coetzee won in 2003
✔ 4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt, 6 Jan 26
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
✔ 6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia, 1 Jan 26 (politician) - also fits 4,8,10
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev, A Day in Spring by Ciril Kosmac, Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring by Kenzaburo Oe, Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin, Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel by Julian Rios, Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter, Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West, Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously, - Jacques the Fatalist
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
Completed 0/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
1001 Books Scavenger Hunt 2026 (5/12)✔️1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.: Chess Story* by Stefan Zweig (Author’s last name starts with the 26th letter of the alphabet.)
📚2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.: Evelina by Frances Burney (The novel was published in 1778.)
✔️3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.: The Stranger* by Albert Camus (Camus was the 1957 recipient.)
📚4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.: Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
📚5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.: Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
📚6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Hemingway worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star.)
📚7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
✔️8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.: Oliver Twist* by Charles Dickens
✔️9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.: Spring Flowers, Spring Frost: A Novel* by Ismail Kadare
✔️10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.: On the Edge of Reason* by Miroslav Krleža (The novel was originally published in Croatian.)
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
📚A. Published posthumously,: Amerika by Franz Kafka (The novel was published in 1927. Kafka passed away in 1924).
📚 B. By an author who died before age 40,: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Brontë passed away in 1855 at the age of 38.)
📚 C. By an author whose parent was an author,: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Kiran Desai is the daughter of Anita Desai.)
📚D. Published after the author was 70,: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (The novel was published in October 1966. Rhys was 76 at the time.)
📚E. That won the Pulitzer Prize,: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001).
📚 F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.: King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev (The novel had 612 ratings as of 3 January.)
📚12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts. [Scavenger Hunt 2025-Read a Boxall book with a title that you find intriguing.]: There but for the by Ali Smith
📖: currently reading
📚: tbr
✔️: read
*: fulfills multiple challenges/goals I’m completing this year
0/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.We By Eugene Zamiatin In Plain English by Eugene Zamiatin
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English. Transit - German
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.: A book set in an imaginary land: Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Beth's going-to-do better-this-year scavenger hunt plans: 1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author. Gravity's Rainbow
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
I'm so excited to work on this again this year. I have gotten away from 1001 books for the end of 2025 and now I'm ready to get back to it. Completed 0 / 12:
1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. 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 2026 – Chinese Year of the Horse
o International Year of the Woman Farmer (United Nations)
o International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development
(United Nations)
o International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (United Nations)
o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
o A book with 26 chapters.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American
Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
Completed 1/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. (International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American
Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician,
or clergy.
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe (professor). Will have to re-read Things Fall Apart first.
✔️7. Read a Boxall book by a living author
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or
opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than
English.
11. Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past
Scavenger Hunts.
Completed 0/12Still trying to do this with women authors.
1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. 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 2026 – Chinese Year of the Horse
o International Year of the Woman Farmer (United Nations)
o International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development
(United Nations)
o International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (United Nations)
o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
o A book with 26 chapters.
Hoping A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian will fit for this.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
something by Fanny Burney
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Something by Alice Munro
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
Here's to You, Jesusa!
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
Another by Rebecca West
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
Emma
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
Summer Will Show
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
Gone With the Wind
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past
Scavenger Hunts.
2026!!0/12 read
1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.
I'll go with year of the horse and there are probably A LOT of those in this book
🟥Queen Margot (Alexandre Dumas)
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
🟥Evelina (Fanny Burney)
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
🟥The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
🟥Bonheur d'occasion (Tin flute; Gabrielle Roy)
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
🟥The house of spirits (Isabelle Allende)
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
🟥The time machine (H.G. Wells, journalist)
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
🟥Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
🟥Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
🟥A day in spring (Ciril Kosmac)
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
🟥Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (Marguerite Duras)
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! I'll go «author who died before age 40»
🟥Wutherings Heigts (Emily Brontë)
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
Read a Boxall book that can be classified as genre science-fiction
🟥I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
Scavenger Hunt 2026!📚1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26:
o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
Tender Is the Night (follows the lives of expatriates in 1920s and 30s)
📚2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau 3 (published 1782)
📚3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (winner in 1993)
📚4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
📚5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
Middlesex (spans three generations)
📚6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
Hard Times (Charles Dickens was a journalist, and this was originally written for his weekly magazine)
📚7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
Shame
📚8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (adapted as multiple plays, a film, and as an episode)
📚9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
📚10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
Madame Bovary (written in French)
📚11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book that won the Pulitzer Prize
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
📚12. Read a Boxall list book written by a female author
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
📖: currently reading
📚: tbr
✔️: read
The Great 1001-Books Scavenger Hunt, 2026 - see if I can improve on last year's effort!The 12 Tasks are:
1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. 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 2026 – Chinese Year of the Horse
o International Year of the Woman Farmer (United Nations)
o International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development
(United Nations)
o International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (United Nations)
o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
o A book with 26 chapters.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American
Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The life and times of Michael K by J.M Coetzee
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (journalist)
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3/1/2026 ...film released 1997 starring Vanessa Redgrave as Clarissa Dalloway
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
Winter by Ali Smith
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40,
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past
Scavenger Hunts.
1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26. 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 2026 – Chinese Year of the Horse
o International Year of the Woman Farmer (United Nations)
o International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development
(United Nations)
o International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (United Nations)
o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
o A book with 26 chapters.
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
Evelina by Frances Burney
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (clergy)
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously,
B. By an author who died before age 40, Sunset Song
C. By an author whose parent was an author,
D. Published after the author was 70,
E. That won the Pulitzer Prize, or
F. That has less than 1,000 ratings.
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task or select a favorite from past Scavenger Hunts.
Read 1/121. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 26.
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos (the title is the 26th letter of the alphabet)
2. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution, read a Boxall book written or set between 1775 and 1787.
The Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)
3. Read a Boxall book by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Vipers’ Tangle by François Mauriac (won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1952)
4. Read a Boxall book on the list that is the only Boxall book by that author.
5. Read a Boxall book that contains a multigenerational story.
6. Read a Boxall book by an author who was a teacher, journalist, politician, or clergy.
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino (was a journalist)
7. Read a Boxall book by a living author.
8. Read a Boxall book that was adapted into a movie, TV series, stage play, or opera.
9. Read a Boxall book with a title that includes a season.
Indian Summer by Adalbert Stifter or The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Read a Boxall List book originally written in a language other than English.
11. And new this year – a multiple-choice task! Read a Boxall book
A. Published posthumously
The Leopard by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
12. Create your own Scavenger Hunt Task : the title of the book and the name of the author starts with the same letter.
Claudine's House by Colette
What books are you planning to read or have read for the Great 1001-Books Scavenger Hunt, 2026?
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