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message 1: by Winter, Group Reads (last edited 22 hours, 57 min ago) (new)

Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Welcome to my corner!

Challenges:

Important Challenges:
Yearly Challenge - 29/52
Let's Turn Pages Challenge - 9486/10000
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, The Complete List - 104/1305

Personal Challenges:

Complete Novels Thomas Hardy Personal Challenge - 0/14
Complete Novels Charles Dickens Personal Challenge - 3/15
Complete Works Stephen King Personal Challenge - 1/68
Complete Works Wilbur Smith Personal Challenge - 1/?
Knowing Your Roots Personal Challenge 2015 - 20/58
Explore Poland Personal Challenge - 1/13
Explore Russia Personal Challenge - 3/15
A Literary Road Trip Across The World Personal Challenge - Books Set In Different Countries - 17/247
A Literary Road Trip Across The USA Personal Challenge - 20/50

Yearly Challenges:

Quarterly Challenges:

Monthly Challenges:

2025 Challenges Completed - /:

Challenges Not Completed:

Timeless Challenges Completed - 1/10:

Personal Bible Reading Challenge - 66/66

Goals 2025:

The Great Conversation: 0/10
Thomas Hardy: 0/1
Charles Dickens: 1/2
Stephen King: 0/2
Wilbur Smith: 0/1
Books and Countries: 0/3
1001 List: 6/10
Roots: 0/3
Explore Poland: 0/0
Explore Russia: 0/1

Read-A-Thons: (- page 2)


Yearly Goodreads Reading Challenge 2025: 52 Books

1. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins - 02.12.25
2. Historien om Europa; Bind 3, Karsten Alnæs - 03.05.25
3. Cyclops, Euripides - 03.07.25
4. Works and Days, Hesiod - 03.23.25
5. Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens - 03.27.25
6. Dr Wortle’s School, Anthony Trollope - 03.28.25
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë - 03.30.25
8. Paradise Lost, John Milton - 03.31.25
9. Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins - 04.22.25
10. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells - 04.28.25
11. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw - 04.28.25
12. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood - 04.29.25
13. A Bride’s Story, Vol 2, Kaoru Mori - 05.29.25
14. The Bride of Lammermoor, Sir Walter Scott - 05.30.25
15. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood - 06.30.25
16. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne- 07.29.25
17. The Seven Sisters, Lucinda Riley - 08.13.25
18. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux - 08.27.25
19. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro - 08.28.25
20. Henry VI Part I, William Shakespeare - 08.30.25
21. The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope - 09.05.25
22. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos De Laclos - 09.19.25
23. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, Alexandre Dumas - 09.24.25
24. The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas - 09.30.25
25. Henry VI Part II, William Shakespeare - 09.30.25
26. Gift, Alexander L. Kielland - 10.25.25
27. Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen - 11.15.25
28. The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge - 11.22.25
29. Dracula, Bram Stoker - 11.23.25

29/52

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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments 2025 Reading Statistics

Stars:

1:
1,5:
2:
2,5: 1
3: 6
3,5: 6
4: 6
4,5: 4
5: 6

Books by Month:

January:
February: 1
March: 7
April: 4
May: 2
June: 1
July: 1
August: 4
September: 5
October: 1
November: 3
December:

Author Countries:

Ireland: 2
United Kingdom: 13
Norway: 3
Poland:
United States: 3
Germany:
Austria:
Greece: 2
Canada: 1
Japan: 1
Scotland: 1
Australia:
Sweden:
Jamaica:
Russia:
Italy:
France: 3
Portugal:
Colombia:

Other:

Year Published:

2010/20s: 5
2000s: 1
1990s:
1980s: 1
1970s:
1960s: 1
1950s:
1940s: 1
1930s:
1920s:
1910s: 2
1900s:
1800s: 10
1700s: 4
1600s:
Pre1600s: 4

Idea gotten from Cassandra, thank you!


message 3: by Winter, Group Reads (last edited Sep 19, 2025 03:13AM) (new)

Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments 1001 Books Before You Die Statistics

Monthly Reading 2024:

January:
February: 1
March: 2
April: 1
May:
June:
July: 1
August:
September: 1
October:
November:
December:

Total: 104/1305

Century:

Pre 18th:
18th: 2
19th: 4
20th:
21st:

Pages:

<100 pages:
100-300: 1
300-500: 2
500-700: 1
700>: 2

Stars:

1:
1,5:
2:
2,5: 1
3: 1
3,5: 1
4: 1
4,5:
5: 2

Milestones:

Book 1: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Book 10: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Book 20: The Shining by Stephen King
Book 25: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Book 30: Summer, Edith Wharton
Book 50: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Book 75: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Book 100: Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens


message 4: by Winter, Group Reads (last edited Mar 29, 2025 04:42AM) (new)

Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Planned Reads 2025

A month by month planner so I don't forget buddy reads and such that I sign up for.

January:

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December:

Other:


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Maybe Need It


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Let's Turn Pages Challenge 2025

Duration: January 1, – December 31, 2025

Goal: 10000 pages.

I count them from the date finished. Books read for more than one month counts when finished.

January:

Total: 0 pages

February:

1. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins - 02.12.25 - 528 pages

Total: 528 pages

March:

1. Historien om Europa; Bind 3, Karsten Alnæs - 03.05.25 - 668 pages
2. Cyclops, Euripides - 03.07.25 - 96 pages
3. Works and Days, Hesiod - 03.23.25 - 112 pages
4. Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens - 03.27.25 - 843 pages
5. Dr Wortle’s School, Anthony Trollope - 03.28.25 - 199 pages
6. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë - 03.30.25 - 493 pages
7. Paradise Lost, John Milton - 03.31.25 - 301 pages

Total: 2712 pages

April:

1. Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins - 04.22.25 - 382 pages
2. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells - 04.28.25 - 199 pages
3. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw - 04.28.25 - 122 pages
4. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood - 04.29.25 - 325 pages

Total: 1028 pages

May:

1. A Bride’s Story, Vol 2, Kaoru Mori - 05.29.25 - 196 pages
2. The Bride of Lammermoor, Sir Walter Scott - 05.30.25 - 460 pages

Total: 656 pages

June:

1. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood - 06.30.25 - 432 pages

Total: 432 pages

July:

1. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne - 07.29.25 - 735 pages

Total: 735 pages

August:

1. The Seven Sisters, Lucinda Riley - 08.13.25 - 460 pages
2. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux - 08.27.25 - 258 pages
3. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro - 08.28.25 - 312 pages
4. Henry VI Part I, William Shakespeare - 08.30.25 - 100 pages

Total: 1130 pages

September:

1. The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope - 09.05.25 - 47 pages
2. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos De Laclos - 09.19.25 - 448 pages
3. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, Alexandre Dumas - 09.24.25 - 448 pages
4. The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas - 09.30.25 - 139 pages
5. Henry VI Part II, William Shakespeare - 09.30.25 - 100 pages

Total: 1182 pages

October:

1. Gift, Alexander L. Kielland - 10.25.25 - 137 pages

Total: 137 pages

November:

1. Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen - 11.15.25 - 368 pages
2. The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge - 11.22.25 - 192 pages
3. Dracula, Bram Stoker - 11.23.25 - 386 pages

Total: 946 pages

December:

Total: pages

Total: 9486/10000

Let's Turn Pages Challenge 2023


message 7: by Winter, Group Reads (last edited Sep 19, 2025 03:11AM) (new)

Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, The Complete List

Goal: To read through the whole list. I track my progress here, but not the list I think as it is so long.. I have an app, it tracks my progress.

2016:

1. Frankenstein , Mary Shelley
2. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
3. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
4. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
5. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
8. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Persuasion, Jane Austen
10. A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
11. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
12. Alberta and Jacob, Cora Sandel
13. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
14. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
15. Drop City, T.C. Boyle
16. Broken April, Ismail Kadare
17. Thaïs, Anatole France
18. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
19. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
20. The Shining, Stephen King
21. Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
22. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
23. Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
24. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
25. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
26. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, Anonymous
27. Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
28. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
29. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
30. Summer, Edith Wharton
31. The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore
32. Homo Faber, Max Frisch
33. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
34. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
35. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
36. The Iron Heel, Jack London
37. The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho
38. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
39. Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Prym
40. Dracula, Bram Stoker
41. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
42. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
43. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
44. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
45. The Nose, Nikolai Gogol
46. The Fall of The House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
47. King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
48. Hunger, Knut Hamsun
49. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
50. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
51. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
52. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
53. At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft
54. Candide, Voltaire

2017:

55. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
56. Nittenåttifire, George Orwell
57. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
58. Chess Story, Stefan Zweig
59. Aesop’s Fables, Aesop
60. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
61. Huset med den blinde glassveranda, Herbjørg Wassmo
62. The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima
63. Solaris, Stanisław Lem
64. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
65. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
66. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
67. The Driver's Seat, Muriel Spark
68. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson
69. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
70. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan

2018:

71. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
72. Where Angels Fear to Thread, E.M. Forster

2019:

73. The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe
74. The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
75. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

2020:

2021:

76. The Sea, John Banville
77. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
78. The Princess of Cleves, Madame de La Fayette

2022:

79. The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
80. The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole

2023:

81. North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
82. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
83. The Collector, John Fowles
84. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
85. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
86. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
87. The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe
88. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
89. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
90. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
91. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
92. Emma, Jane Austen
93. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
94. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

2024:

95. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
96. Middlemarch, George Eliot
97. Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
98. The Waves, Virginia Woolf

2025:

99. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
100. Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
101. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
102. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
103. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
104. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

104/1305


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Complete Shakespeare Personal Challenge


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Complete Novels Thomas Hardy Personal Challenge

Goal: Read all novels in publication order.

1. Desperate Remedies
2. Under the Greenwood Tree
3. A Pair of Blue Eyes
4. Far From the Madding Crowd
5. The Hand of Ethelberta
6. The Return of the Native
7. The Trumpet-Major
8. A Laodicean
9. Two on a Tower
10. The Mayor of Casterbridge
11. The Woodlanders
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
13. The Well-Beloved
14. Jude the Obscure

Total: 0/14


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Complete Novels Charles Dickens Personal Challenge

Goal: Read all novels in publication order.

1. The Pickwick Papers
2. Oliver Twist
3. Nicholas Nickleby
4. The Old Curiosity Shop
5. Barnaby Rudge
6. Martin Chuzzlewit
7. Dombey and Son
8. David Copperfield
9. Bleak House
10. Hard Times
11. Little Dorritt
12. A Tale of Two Cities
13. Great Expectations
14. Our Mutual Friend
15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Total: 3/15


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Complete Works Stephen King Personal Challenge

In Progress..

Goal: Read his fiction in publication order.

Idea borrowed from Stephanie. Thank you!

Carrie (Novel: 1974)
’Salem’s Lot (Novel: 1975)
Rage (Bachman Novel: 1976)
The Shining (Novel: 1977)
Night Shift (Story Collection: 1977)
The Stand (Novel: 1978)
The Long Walk (Bachman Novel: 1978)
The Dead Zone (Novel: 1979)
Firestarter (Novel: 1979)
The Mist (Novella: 1980)
Roadwork (Bachman Novel: 1980)
Cujo (Novel: 1981)
The Dark Tower (Novel: 1981)
The Running Man (Bachman Novel: 1981)
Apt Pupil (Novella: 1982)
The Body (Novella: 1982)
The Breathing Method (Novella: 1982)
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Novella: 1982)
Different Seasons (Story Collection: 1982)
Christine (Novel: 1982)
Cycle of the Werewolf (Novel: 1982)
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)
Pet Sematary (Novel: 1983)
The Eyes of the Dragon (Novel: 1983)
The Talisman (Novel: 1983)
Thinner (Bachman Novel: 1984)
Skeleton Crew (Story Collection: 1984)
Cycle of the Werewolf (Novel: 1985)
IT (Novel; September 1986)
The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three (Novel: 1987)
The Eyes of the Dragon (Novel: 1987)
Misery (Novel: 1987)
The Tommyknockers (Novel: 1987)
Nightmares in the Sky (Nonfiction: 1987)
Letters from Hell (Novel: 1988)
Dolan’s Cadillac (Novel: 1988)
The Dark Half (Novel: 1989)
The Langoliers (Novella: 1990)
The Library Policeman (Novella: 1990)
Secret Window, Secret Garden (Novella: 1990)
The Sun Dog (Novella: 1990)
Four Past Midnight (Story Collection: 1990)
The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands (Novel: 1991)
Needful Things (Novel; October 1991)
Gerald’s Game (Novel; May 1992)
Nightmares & Dreamscapes (Story Collection: 1993)
Dolores Claiborne (Novel: 1993)
Insomnia (Novel: 1994)
Blind Willie (Novella: 1994)
Rose Madder (Novel: 1994)
Desperation (Novel: 1995)
The Regulators (Bachman Novel: 1995)
The Green Mile (Novel: 1996)
Six Stories (Novel: 1996)
The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass (Novel: 1997)
Bag of Bones (Novel: 1998)
The Little Sisters of Eluria (Novel: 1998)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Novel: 1999)
The New Lieutenant’s Rap (Novel: 1999)
Hearts in Atlantis (Novella: 1999)
Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling (Novella: 1999)
Low Men in Yellow Coats (Novella: 1999)
Why We’re in Vietnam (Novella: 1999)
Hearts in Atlantis (Story Collection: 1999)
Dreamcatcher (Novel: 2001)
Black House (Novel: 2001)
From a Buick 8 (Novel: 2001)
Everything’s Eventual (Story Collection: 2002)
The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla (Novel: 2003)
The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (Novel: 2004)
The Dark Tower (Novel: 2004)
The Colorado Kid (Novel: 2005)
Cell (Novel: 2006)
Lisey’s Story (Novel: 2006)
Blaze (Bachman Novel: 2006)
Duma Key (Novel: 2008)
A Very Tight Place (Novella: 2008)
N (Novella: 2008)
Just After Sunset (Story Collection: 2008)
Stephen King Goes to the Movies (Story Collection: 2009)
UR (Novella: 2009)
Under the Dome (Novel: 2009)
Blockade Billy (Novella: 2009)
11/22/63 (Novel: 2011)
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (Novel: 2012)
Joyland (Novel: 2013)
The Dark Man (Novel: 2013)
Doctor Sleep (Novel: 2013)
Mr. Mercedes (Novel: 2014)
Revival (Novel: 2014)
Finders Keepers (Novel: 2015)
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Story Collection: 2015)
End of Watch (Novel: 2016)
Gwendy’s Button Box (Novella: 2017)
Sleeping Beauties (Novel: 2017)
The Outsider (Novel: 2018)
Elevation (Novella: 2018)
The Institute (Novel: 2019)
If It Bleeds (Novella: 2020)
The Life of Chuck (Novella: 2020)
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (Novella: 2020)
Rat (Novella: 2020)
Later (Novella: 2021)
Billy Summers (Novel: 2021)
Gwendy’s Final Task (Novel: 2022)
Fairy Tale (Novel: 2022)
Holly (Novel: 2023)
You Like It Darker (Story Collection: 2024)

Total: 1/70


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Complete Works Wilbur Smith Personal Challenge

Goal: Read all Wilbur Smith in publication order.

Courtney:

1. When the Lion Feeds, Wilbur Smith

1/1

Ballantyne

0/0

Ancient Egypt:

0/0

Standalone:


0/0

:



0/0

Total: 1/0


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Knowing Your Roots Personal Challenge

Goal: Norwegian classics. The ones I want to have read. Will add as I think of more authors and books. No time limit.

Amalie Skram:

Constance Ring
Lucie
Fru Inés
Forraadt
Hellemyrsfolket:
- Sjur Gabriel
- To venner
- S.G. Myre
- Afkom
Professor Hieronimus
Paa Sct. Jørgen

0/7

Henrik Ibsen:

Catilina
Gildet på Solhaug
Kongs-Emnerne
Brand
Peer Gynt
De Unges Forbund
Kejser og Galilæer
Samfundets støtter
Et dukkehjem
Gengangere
En Folkefiende
Vildanden
Rosmersholm
Fruen fra havet
Hedda Gabler
Byggmester Solness

5/16

Cora Sandel:

Alberte og Jakob
Alberte og friheten
Bare Alberte

1/3

Sigrid Undset:

Våren
Fru Marta Oulie
Jenny
Ida Elisabeth
Fortællingen om Viga-Ljot og Vigdis
Kristin Lavransdatter:
- Kransen
- Husfrue
- Korset

4/6

Johan Falkberget:

Nattens Brød:
- An-Magritt
- Plogjernet
- Johannes
- Kjærlighets veier

0/1

Camilla Collett:

Amtmandens Døtre

1/1

Olav Duun:

Medmenneske
Menneske og maktene

0/2

Oskar Braaten:

Ulvehiet

0/1

Alexander L. Kielland:

Garman & Worse
Skipper Worse
Gift
Fortuna
Sankt Hans Fest

1/5

Knut Hamsun:

Sult
Mysterier
Pan
Victoria
Sværmere
Markens Grøde
Landstrykere

3/7

Arne Garborg:

Bondestudentar
Fred
Haugtussa

1/3

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson:

Synnøve Solbakken
Faderen
En glad Gut
En fallit
Arne

3/5

Snorre Sturluson:

Kongesagaer

0/1

Henrik Wergeland:

Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke
Skabelsen, Mennesket og Messias

1/2

Jonas Lie:

Livsslaven
The Family at Gilje (Familien paa Gilje)
Kommandørens Døttre

1/3

Total: 19/59


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Explore Poland Personal Challenge

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz:

Insatiability

0/1

Stanisław Lem:

The Invincible
Solaris
The Cyberiad

1/3

Henryk Sienkiewicz:

Quo Vadis

0/1

Bruno Schulz:

The Street of Crocodiles

0/1

Stanisław Wyspiański:

Wesele

0/1

Bolesław Prus:

The Outpost
The Doll
The New Woman
Pharaoh

0/4

Dorota Maslowska:

Snow White and Russian Red

0/1

Jan Potocki:

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

0/1

In Progress..

Total: 1/13


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Explore Russia Personal Challenge

Alexander Pushkin:

Eugene Onegin

0/1

Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
Notes from Underground
Demons
The Gambler
The House of the Dead
The Double

0/8

Leo Tolstoy:

War and Peace
Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Kreutzer Sonata
Resurrection

1/5

Nikolaj Gogol:

Dead Souls
The Nose

1/2

Boris Pasternak:

Doctor Zhivago

0/1

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Gulag Archipelago

1/2

Mikhail Bulgakov:

The Master and Margarita
The Heart of a Dog

0/3

Vasily Grossman:

Life And Fate

0/1

Total: 3/22


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments res


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments A Literary Road Trip Across The World Personal Challenge

Countries:

United States - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King
Norway - The Family at Gilje (Familien paa Gilje), Jonas Lie
Sweden - A Man Called Ove (En mann ved navn Ove), Fredrik Backman
France - The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
United Kingdom - Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Ireland - Jenta på Klippen, Lucinda Riley
Japan - The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima
Greece - Medeia, Euripides
Brazil - De syv søstre, Lucinda Riley
Spain - And It Came to Pass, Laura Stone
Russia - The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden
Italy - The Valiant, Lesley Livingston
Australia - As They Rise, Jen Wilde
Egypt - Counted With the Stars, Connilyn Cossette
Poland - Night, Elie Wiesel
Canada - Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Denmark - Den siste ridder, Margit Sandemo
Portugal - Blindness, José Saramago
Colombia - One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
South Africa - When the Lion Feeds, Wilbur Smith

Idea borrowed from the group Around the World in 80 books.


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments A Literary Road Trip Across The USA Personal Challenge

Goal: Read one book set in each state. No time limit. Borrowed the idea from another member, can't remember who, but it's a challenge in Around the World in 80 Books.

1. Alabama - To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Alaska - Drop City
3. Arizona
4. Arkansas
5. California - Stay Out of the Basement
6. Colorado - The Shining
7. Connecticut
8. Delaware
9. Florida - Alas, Babylon, Pat, Frank
10. Georgia - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
11. Hawaii
12. Idaho
13. Illinois
14. Indiana
15. Iowa
16. Kansas
17. Kentucky
18. Louisiana
19. Maine - Carrie
20. Maryland
21. Massachusetts - Little Women
22. Michigan
23. Minnesota
24. Mississippi
25. Missouri
26. Montana
27. Nebraska - Fangirl
28. Nevada - Desperation
29. New Hampshire - Doctor Sleep
30. New Jersey - Blockade Billy
31. New Mexico
32. New York - The Bonfire of the Vanities
33. North Carolina - The Skull Ring
34. North Dakota
35. Ohio
36. Oklahoma
37. Oregon - The Nowhere Girls
38. Pennsylvania - A Place of Peace
39. Rhode Island
40. South Carolina
41. South Dakota
42. Tennessee
43. Texas - The Perfect Letter
44. Utah
45. Vermont - Den hemmelige historien
46. Virginia - The Raven Boys
47. Washington - Morgengry
48. West Virginia
49. Wisconsin
50. Wyoming

20/50


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments Roger Maxson Recommended Reading List Challenge

Summary Guidebooks:

How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler
The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer
The History of the Medieval World, Susan Wise Bauer
The History of the Renaissance World, Susan Wise Bauer
A Concise History of the Crusades, Thomas Madden
A History of Philosophy, Frederick Copleston
The Beginnings of Western Science, David Lindberg
Christian Theology: An Introduction, Alister McGrath
Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution : A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First, Alister McGrath
Fundamentalism and American Culture, George Marsden
Bulfinch's Mythology, Thomas Bulfinch
Socratic Logic, Peter Kreeft

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The Great Conversation:

The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Illiad, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer
The Republic, Plato
Crito, Plato
Apology, Plato
Meno, Plato
The Statesman, Plato
Theaetetus, Plato
Phaedo, Plato
Symposium, Plato
Philebus, Plato
Laws, Plato
Gorgias, Plato
The Sophist, Plato
Timaeus, Plato
Metaphysics, Aristotle
Ethics, Aristotle
Politics, Aristotle
Rhetoric, Aristotle
Poetics, Aristotle


Work in progress..


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Winter (winter9) | 5017 comments January Marathon Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2024 - January 31, 2024

Goal: 10 books read

1. The Laws, Plato
2. The Women of Troy, Euripides
3. Benito Cereno, Herman Melville
4. The Jewel of the Amber Court, Inghild Økland
5. Amtmandens Døtre, Camilla Collett
6. Gorgias, Plato
7. Poems, John Keats
8. Can We Still Believe The Bible, Craig L. Blomberg
9. Arne, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
10. Sult, Knut Hamsun
11. The Sophist, Plato
12. Carrie, Stephen King
13. Poems and Songs, Robert Burns

Total: 13/10


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