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Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR (I probably won't do this one)
Challenge #2 - Members Choice✔️Challenge Complete✔️
✔️1. 18th Century or Older - The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Anonymous) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️2. 19th Century - No Name (Wilkie Collins) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. 20th Century - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. 21st Century - Bel Canto Ann Patchett - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️5. A book of interest from another diner's buffet - The Perfect Plan (James Hilton) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️6. Genre: Fantasy - The King of Elfland's Daughter (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️7. Genre: Memoir - Timequake (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️8. Genre: Historical Fiction - The Chosen (Chaim Potok) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️9. Genre: Mystery - Was It Murder? (James Hilton) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
Challenge #3 - New Authors✔️Challenge Complete✔️
✔️1. Lord Dunsany (The King of Elfland's Daughter) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️2. Isak Dinesen (Babette’s Feast) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. Chaim Potok (The Chosen) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. Ann Patchett (Bel Canto) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #4 - Short Story✔️Challenge Complete✔️
✔️1. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Anonymous) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️2. Babette’s Feast (Isak Dinesen) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Stories 3-14 are from The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (Lord Dunsany)
✔️3. The Sword of Welleran - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. The Fall of Babbulkund - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️5. The Kith of the Elf-Folk - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️6. The Highwayman - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️7. In the Twilight - ⭐️⭐️
✔️8. The Ghosts - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️9. The Whirlpool - ⭐️⭐️
✔️10. The Hurricane - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️11. The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️12. The Lord of Cities - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️13. The Doom of La Traviata - ⭐️⭐️
✔️14. On the Dry Land - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️15. The Count and The Wedding Guest (O. Henry) - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️16. The Sound of Summer Running (Ray Bradbury) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #5a - Century: 1910s to 2000s ✔️Challenge Complete✔️
✔️1910s - Maurice (E.M. Forster) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1920s - The King of Elfland's Daughter (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1930s - Was It Murder? (James Hilton) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1940s - Pied Piper (Nevil Shute) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1950s - Time and Again Clifford D. Simak - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1960s - The Chosen (Chaim Potok) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1970s - Tau Zero (Poul Anderson) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1980s - So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1990s - Timequake (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2000s - Bel Canto (Ann Patchett) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #5a, take 2 - Century: 1920s to 2010s✔️Challenge Complete✔️
✔️1920s - Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1930s - They Came Like Swallows (William Maxwell) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1940s - The Hunting Gun (Yasushi Inoue) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1950s - My Brother Michael (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1960s - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1970s - A Choice of Gods (Clifford D. Simak) - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️1980s - Thursday's Children (Rumer Godden) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1990s - Rose Cottage (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️2000s - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️2010s - The Garden of Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #5a, take 3 - Century: 1900s to 1990s✔️Challenge Complete✔️
✔️1900s - The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1910s - The Camberley Triangle (A.A. Milne) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1920s - The House at Pooh Corner (A.A. Milne) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1930s - High Wages (Dorothy Whipple) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1940s - The Mating Season (P.G. Wodehouse) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1950s - Travel Light (Naomi Mitchison) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1960s - This Rough Magic (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1970s - Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1980s - Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1990s - Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #5b - Decade: 1964 - 1973✔️Challenge Complete✔️
✔️1963 - The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin) - ⭐️⭐️
✔️1964 - This Rough Magic (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1965 - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1966 - Black Sheep (Georgette Heyer) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1967 - The Chosen (Chaim Potok) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1968 - Exile to hell (Isaac Asimov) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1969 - I Sing the Body Electric! (Ray Bradbury) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️1970 - Tau Zero (Poul Anderson) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1971 - Maurice (E.M. Forster) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️1972 - A Choice of Gods (Simak) - ⭐️⭐️½
Challenge #6 - Group Reads, Buddy Reads, Moderators Run Amok ✔️Challenge Complete✔️
✔️1. Group - No Name (Wilkie Collins) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Buddy - The King of Elfland's Daughter (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️3. Buddy - This Rough Magic (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️4. Buddy - Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️5. Buddy - The House at Pooh Corner (A.A. Milne) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️6. Buddy - I Sing the Body Electric! (Ray Bradbury) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️7. Group - Maurice (E.M. Forster) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️8. Group - 2BR02B (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️9. Buddy - My Brother Michael (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️10. Buddy - Rose Cottage (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
Challenge #7 - Series Books✔️Challenge Complete✔️
Series book contenders:
1. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 16 (Azuma)
3. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Gilman)
4. When in Greece (Lathen)
5. MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors (Hooker)
6. Time and Again (Finney)
7. A Princess of Mars (Burroughs)
8. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People (le Carré)
Series books read in 2026:
✔️1. The Chosen (Chaim Potok) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner (A.A. Milne) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #8 - Travel the World✔️Challenge Complete✔️
Book Title - Author/Country - Book Setting
✔️1. No Name - Wilkie Collins / England - England - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. The King of Elfland's Daughter - Lord Dunsany / Ireland - Imaginary - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️3. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. / USA - USA - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter - (Anonymous) / Japan - Japan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️5. Babette’s Feast - Isak Dinesen / Denmark - Norway - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #8 - Travel the World, take 2✔️Challenge Complete✔️
Book Title - Author/Country - Book Setting
✔️1. Travel Light - Naomi Mitchison / Scotland - Europe - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️2. The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng / Malaysia - Malaysia - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. The Rose of Fire - Carlos Ruiz Zafón / Spain - Spain - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️4. Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay) / Canada - imaginary - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️5. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi / Iran - Iran - ⭐️⭐️½
Challenge #9 – Rereading (I love rereading!!)✔️Challenge Complete✔️
Books I'd Love to Reread
1. No Great Mischief (MacLeod)
2. The Martian (Weir)
4. Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Thien)
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People (le Carré)
Read Again in 2026
✔️1. Timequake (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. My Brother Michael (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. A Covenant With Death (Stephen Becker) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #10 - Books by Year ✔️Challenge Complete✔️
Books of Interest from 1949
2. Little Boy Lost (Laski)
4. Love in a Cold Climate (Mitford)
5. And Both Were Young (L'Engle)
Books from 1949 Read in 2026
✔️1. The Hunting Gun (Yasushi Inoue) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. The Mating Season (P.G. Wodehouse) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
Challenge #11 - Future Classics✔️Challenge Complete✔️
5 books from the 2000s that I've read that I think will still be read in 50-100 years
partly in the 2000s - Harry Potter Series (Rowling)
2011 - The Martian (Weir)
2016 - Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Thien)
2005 - Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro)
2001 - The Shadow of the Wind (Ruiz Zafón)
3 books from the 2000s that I haven't read that may stand the test of time
2. Convenience Store Woman (Murata)
Book Chosen to read in 2026:
✔️1. Bel Canto (Ann Patchett) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. The Garden of Evening Mists (Tan Twan Eng) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #12 - Fiction/Non-Fiction (I probably won't do this one)
Challenge #13 - Old and New Linked Categories✔️Challenge Complete✔️
favourite author:
✔️Old: No Name (Wilkie Collins) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️New: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
speculative fiction:
✔️Old: The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️New: The King of Elfland's Daughter (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
Challenge #14a - Break Your Reading Rut: Genre Locked ✔️Challenge Complete✔️
Pick and read one book from two different genres that are not your normal go-to.
Genre Selected - Book Chosen
✔️1. fantasy - The King of Elfland's Daughter (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️2. mystery - Was It Murder? (James Hilton) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
Challenge #14b - Break Your Reading Rut: Favorite Author✔️Challenge Complete✔️
Most of my challenge planning so far has at its core the idea of reading something I've not yet read by authors I've liked in the past. Authors selected are either ones I've read a fair bit by with a lot of success, or else recent promising discoveries who will hopefully end up on that list over time. (Some favourite authors -- Jane Austen and Andreï Makine for instance -- are not on this list, simply because I've already read nearly everything they wrote that I'm interested in trying.)
These authors are my top priority -- I definitely want to fit them in:
✔️1. A. A. Milne (Miss Marlow at Play) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. Ray Bradbury (I Sing the Body Electric!) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️3. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️4. James Hilton (Was It Murder?) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️5. Clifford D. Simak (Time and Again) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️6. Mary Stewart (This Rough Magic) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
These authors are my next priority -- I'd like to fit them in, but I won't be hard on myself if I'm waylaid by other books instead:
✔️7. Rumer Godden - (Thursday's Children) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️8. Wilkie Collins (No Name) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
❌9. Stephen Becker
✔️10. James Baldwin - (The Fire Next Time) - ⭐️⭐️
❌11. John le Carré
✔️12. Elizabeth Gaskell - (Mr. Harrison's Confessions) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
I've given up on including Becker and le Carré in this challenge. I've started 2 books by each of them this year, and found I wasn't in the mood for them, so I'm going to stop pressuring myself to get to them this year. Technically this challenge only needs 1 book read to count as complete, so it's complete even without these 2 authors.
Challenge #15 - Award Winners✔️Challenge Complete✔️
I'm using the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, which is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association to a living writer of fantasy or science fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_K...
Books Chosen
✔️1. Clifford D. Simak (1977 winner): Time and Again - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️2. Ray Bradbury (1989 winner): I Sing the Body Electric! - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Challenge #16 - Book Chain (I probably won't do this one)
Challenge #17 - Significant Year and 100 Years Earlier ✔️Challenge Complete✔️
(I've chosen 1962, the year the Beatles recorded their first single.)
✔️ 1962: 2BR02B (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ 1862: No Name (Wilkie Collins) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
update -- Huh, I've just noticed that I did this one wrong -- I was meant to read 2 books from each year, not 1. So I'm adding a new one below for which I actually have 2 books read for each year: 2026, which I will declare a significant year by virtue of it being the current year. :)
Important Year: 2026
✔️ Yotsuba! 16 (Kiyohiko Azuma) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️ Star Shipped (Cat Sebastian) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
100 Years Earlier: 1926
✔️ Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ Sweat (Zora Neale Hurston) - ⭐️⭐️
Challenge #18 - A-Z Author✔️Challenge Complete✔️
This challenge was completed basically by chance. Some of the books come from my Bingo Challenge, and aren't separately reviewed in my Buffet posts below.
✔️A - Poul Anderson (Tau Zero) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️B - Ray Bradbury (The Sound of Summer Running) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️C - Wilkie Collins (No Name) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️D - Lord Dunsany (The King of Elfland's Daughter) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️E - Elizabeth Gaskell (Mr. Harrison's Confessions) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️F - E.M. Forster (Maurice) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️G - Dorothy Gilman (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️H - Georgette Heyer (Black Sheep) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️I - Yasushi Inoue (The Hunting Gun) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️J - James Hilton (Was It Murder?) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️K - Kiyohiko Azuma (Yotsuba&!, Vol. 4) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️L - Emma Lathen (When in Greece) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️M - William Maxwell (So Long, See You Tomorrow) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️N - Nevil Shute (Pied Piper) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️O - O. Henry (The Count and The Wedding Guest) - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️P - Ann Patchett (Bel Canto) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Q
✔️R - Rumer Godden (Thursday's Children) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️S - Mary Stewart (My Brother Michael) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️T - Tan Twan Eng (The Garden of Evening Mists) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️U - Ursula K. Le Guin (She Unnames Them) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️V - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️W - Andy Weir (The Martian) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*X
*Y
✔️*Z - Zora Neale Hurston (Sweat) - ⭐️⭐️
There are 4 optional letters marked with an (*), you only need to use one.
Challenge #19 - A-Z Title✔️Challenge Complete✔️
This challenge was completed basically by chance. Some of the books come from my Bingo Challenge, and aren't separately reviewed in my Buffet posts below.
✔️A - Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine (Ray Bradbury) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️B - The Boy Comes Home: A Comedy In One Act (A.A. Milne) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️C - The Chosen (Chaim Potok) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️D - A Dream of Armageddon (H.G. Wells) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️E - Exile to hell (Isaac Asimov) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️F - The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save For Sacnoth (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️G - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️H - The Hunting Gun (Yasushi Inoue) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️I - I Sing the Body Electric! (Ray Bradbury) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️J - Jeeves and the Yuletide Spirit (P.G. Wodehouse) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️K - The Kith of the Elf Folk (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️L - The Lord of Cities (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️M - Maurice (E.M. Forster) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️N - No Name (Wilkie Collins) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️O - On The Dry Land (Lord Dunsany) - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️P - Pied Piper (Nevil Shute) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
*Q -
✔️R - title story from R is for Rocket (Ray Bradbury) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️S - So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️T - This Rough Magic (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️U - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Dorothy Gilman) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️V - The Vacation (Ray Bradbury) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️W - Was It Murder? (James Hilton) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
*X -
✔️*Y - Yes, We'll Gather at the River (Ray Bradbury) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*Z-
There are 4 optional letters marked with an (*), you only need to use one.
Challenge #20 - 2026 Impulse ReadsThe first half of the year was all challenge reads. I'll use this space for my non-challenge reads later in the year.
June
✔️ Tell Me Three Things (Julie Buxbaum) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
July
✔️ Star Shipped (Cat Sebastian) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️ "The Hundred-year Clock" from "Folk Tales" (Wilhelm Matthiessen) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) - ⭐️⭐️
✔️ A Covenant With Death (Stephen Becker) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
August
✔️ Piranesi (Susanna Clarke) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ The Nonesuch (Georgette Heyer) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️ White Nights (Ann Cleeves) - ⭐️⭐️
✔️ The White Heron (Sarah Orne Jewett) - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️ The Rich Boy (F. Scott Fitzgerald) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ Ocean's Echo (Everina Maxwell) - ⭐️⭐️½
September
✔️ Wildfire at Midnight (Mary Stewart) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️ After Hours at Dooryard Books (Cat Sebastian) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Satoshi Yagisawa) - ⭐️⭐️
✔️ Redshirts (John Scalzi) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ The River Has Roots (Amal El-Mohtar) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Dorothy Gilman) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Natasha Pulley) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
✔️ The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Heather Fawcett) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️ You Are Here (David Nicholls) - ⭐️⭐️½
✔️ Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½
October
✔️ One Gram Short (Etgar Keret) - ⭐️½
✔️ Jackalope Wives (Ursula Vernon) - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Ok, I just want to read every book you're reading - how about a year long buddy read? LOL Gilman, Heyer, Bradbury, Zelazny, Lathen, Shute, Milne... I could go on and on. Looks like loads of great reading already planned. I'm excited to see what else you come up with as the year goes on!
Teri-K wrote: "Ok, I just want to read every book you're reading..."Thanks Teri-K. To be honest, a lot of these books were suggestions from you over the year (certainly the Gilman, Zelazny and Lathen were). So thank you for that! :)
Wobbley wrote: "Teri-K wrote: "Ok, I just want to read every book you're reading..."Thanks Teri-K. To be honest, a lot of these books were suggestions from you over the year (certainly the Gilman, Zelazny and La..."
I hope you enjoy them, then!
Teri-K wrote: "I hope you enjoy them, then!"That's the plan! :)
If you want, I think a buddy reread of Winnie-the-Pooh would be fun. I'd love having someone to share the puns and fun language with. So let me know if you'd like that. :)
Teri-K wrote: "If you want, I think a buddy reread of Winnie-the-Pooh would be fun. I'd love having someone to share the puns and fun language with. So let me know if you'd like that. :)"I'm absolutely always up for Winnie the Pooh (it's happiness in book form). Whenever you like. :)
You have some marvelous choices here. I'm going to just give you a nudge toward Pied Piper, So Long See You Tomorrow, and The Garden of Evening Mists (since they are in an "either or" category). You also have a lot of books I am not familiar with, so I can see my TBR will be expanding again. Main thing is enjoy the ride.
Thanks Sara. Yes, you always expand my TBR as well. :)I'm trying to make sure I have options in place for every challenge, so basically everything on my buffet is an "either or".
What a great variety of genres! I read Time and Again about 20 years ago and really loved it. Have fun!
I agree with Klowey--my eyes lit up when I saw Time and Again on your list. And I hope you choose The Chosen, and let us know what you think in the buddy read thread. Have fun, Wobbley!
Klowey wrote: "What a great variety of genres! I read Time and Again about 20 years ago and really loved it. Have fun!"Thanks Klowey! The genre variety is not intentional. I just have a few authors that have been successful for me recently that I want to keep going with, and also I'm following up on some recommendations from group members over the last year.
Kathleen wrote: "I agree with Klowey--my eyes lit up when I saw Time and Again on your list. And I hope you choose The Chosen, and let us know what you think in the buddy read thread. Have fun, Wobbley!"Thanks so much Kathleen! That's a good idea -- I'm rather late for that buddy read, but I could still post my thoughts there. :)
Alright, I think I've completed my planning for now. Now I need to be patient and not start any of these before the end of the year!
Wobbley wrote: "Alright, I think I've completed my planning for now. Now I need to be patient and not start any of these before the end of the year!"That's my problem - I want to start reading all the books I've singled out for next year.
Teri-K wrote: "That's my problem - I want to start reading all the books I've singled out for next year."Haha, I know. Even though I have books I'm supposed to read in December, I'm excited from my 2026 planning and want to get started. Well, being excited about books is not a bad thing -- I'll take it!
Common problem for us all, I think. But, January will be here before we can say "Charles Dickens".
Sara wrote: "Common problem for us all, I think. But, January will be here before we can say "Charles Dickens"."I don't know, I can say "Charles Dickens" pretty fast... But, I suppose it will be here before I can read a Charles Dickens, so that's something ;)
Finally getting a chance to take a peak at yours, Wobbley.Zelanzy? I saw the comment but had to go back for the book. Ive never read him (?), but it is a good author for the "Z" 😂 and i had heard about this author recently from my aunt (well just that she has some books and doesnt want to part with them just yet, so thats a good sign, yeah?)
Some great stuff here! (I keep saying. Admittedly, i have a lot to learn about what a lot of the posters here read, but that is why i love the group and the group reads and suggestions.) I did see a couple i recognized or might be interested in.
Enjoy!
April wrote: "Finally getting a chance to take a peak at yours, Wobbley. Zelanzy? I saw the comment but had to go back for the book. Ive never read him (?), but it is a good author for the "Z" 😂 ..."Thank you April! Yes, I absolutely have used Zelazny for the "Z" author before -- it's a tough slot to fill.
Janelle wrote: "Great planning, Wobbley :)"Thank you Janelle! I really enjoy planning my challenges, and I find a lot of new interesting books along the way. :)
So many titles unknown to me! I hope you rate them as you read them to help those like me. Have a great trip yo the Buffet in 2026, Wobbley!
Terry wrote: "So many titles unknown to me! I hope you rate them as you read them to help those like me. Have a great trip yo the Buffet in 2026, Wobbley!"Thanks Terry! Not to worry, I always rate them as I go.
✔️ Challenge #2 - Members Choice
✔️ Challenge #3 - New Authors
✔️ Challenge #4 - Short Story
✔️ Challenge #5a - Century
✔️ Challenge #5a - Century, take 2
✔️ Challenge #5a - Century, take 3
✔️ Challenge #5b - Decade
✔️ Challenge #6 - Group Reads, Buddy Reads, Moderators Run Amok
✔️ Challenge #7 - Series Books
✔️ Challenge #8 - Travel the World
✔️ Challenge #8 - Travel the World, take 2
✔️ Challenge #9 – Rereading
✔️ Challenge #10 - Books by Year
✔️ Challenge #11 - Future Classics
✔️ Challenge #13 - Old and New Linked Categories
✔️ Challenge #14a - Break Your Reading Rut: Genre Locked
✔️ Challenge #14b - Break Your Reading Rut: Favorite Author
✔️ Challenge #15 - Award Winners
✔️ Challenge #17 - Significant Year and 100 Years Earlier
✔️ Challenge #18 - A-Z Author
✔️ Challenge #19 - A-Z Title
Ongoing for the whole year:
Challenge #20 - 2026 Impulse Reads