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Nobel Laureate Challenge 2016 (Personal Challenge)I have chosen to 'repeat' my personal challenge from 2015 in 2016 - i.e. I will be reading 12 new-to-me Nobel Laureates this year as well.
My chosen authors are:
✓1900's: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903) - Synnøve Solbakken Read February 2016
✓1910's: Romain Rolland (1915) - Af vor tids musik (Musicians Of To-day) Read October 2016
✓1920's: George Bernard Shaw (1925) - Pygmalion Read July 2016
✓1930's: John Galsworthy (1932) - The Forsyte Saga Read May 2016
✓1940's: Hermann Hesse (1946) - Siddharta Read April 2016
✓1950's: Boris Pasternak (1958) - Doktor Zhivago Read July 2016
✓1960's: Nelly Sachs (1966) - I opstandelsens aske Read September 2016
✓1970's: Saul Bellow (1976) - The Adventures of Augie March Read November 2016
✓1980's: Joseph Brodsky (1987) - A Part of Speech (poems) Read January 2016
✓1990's: Seamus Heaney (1995) - Death of a Naturalist (poems) Read January 2016
✓2000's: Naipaul V S (2001) - A Bend in the River Read November 2016
✓2010's: Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) - Hvem dræbte Palomino Molero? Read December 2016
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A-Z Title Challenge 2016Jan 1- Dec 31, 2016
26/26 + 3 Completed
A - The Amber Spyglass Read March 2016
B - The Beautiful and Damned Read January 2016
C - Cold Comfort Farm Read January 2016
D - Det der ikke slår os ihjel Read January 2016
E - Eight Cousins Read July 2016
F - Falling for You Read January 2016
G - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Read January 2016
H - Heidi Read January 2016
I - The Inheritance Read January 2016
J - Jeg er ikke her Read March 2016
K - Kristin Lavransdatter Read April 2016
L - Leon Read January 2016
M - Magtspor Read January 2016
N - The Night is Darkening Round Me Read January 2016
O - Om et øjeblik i himlen Read January 2016
P - Paws and Whiskers Read January 2016
Q - Q Read December 2016
R - The Red Badge of Courage Read January 2016
S - Svarte får Read January 2016
T - Tal til mig Read March 2016
U - Uglen dræber kun om natten Read May 2016
V - Af Vor Tids Musik - Read October 2016
W - We Have Always Lived in the Castle Read January 2016
X - Xingu Read February 2016
Y - The Yellow Wallpaper Read July 2016
Z - Zarens guld Read August 2016
Bonus: Danish letters
Æ - Ærens åg Read November 2016
Ø - Øen og landet Read April 2016
Å - Åndernes hus Read November 2016
A-Z Author Challenge 2016Jan 1- Dec 31, 2016
26/26 Completed
A Louisa May Alcott - The Inheritance
B Emily Brontë - The Night is Darkening Round Me
C Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
D Christian Dorph - Om et øjeblik i himlen
E Janet Evanovich - High Five
F F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and Damned
G Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
H Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist
I Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
J Martin Jensen - Magtspor
K Mons Kallentoft - Leon
L David Lagercrantz - Det der ikke slår os ihjel
M Jill Mansell - Falling for You
N Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
O Sofi Oksanen - Renselse
P Terry Pratchett - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Q Matthew Quick - The Good Luck of Right Now
R Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho
S Johanna Spyri - Heidi
T Ole Tornbjerg - Drengen fra Godhavn
U Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter
V Erik Valeur - Logbog Fra Et Livsforlis
W Jacqueline Wilson - Paws and Whiskers
X Xinran - China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation
Y Mo Yan - Hvidløgsballaderne
Z Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
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Women's Century Challenge 2016I'm going to go for the Level Two Challenge in the period 1910-2009
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I'm really look forward to reading 10 new authors :-)
Bingo Challenge 2016B1: Written by Nobel Laureate A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky Read January 2016
B2: Sci-fi or Fantasy Classic The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Read March 2016
B3: Classic of Africa A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul Read November 2016
B4: Children's Classic Heidi by Johanna Spyri Read January 2016
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize Sommerlys og så kommer natten by Jón Kalman Stefánsson Icelandic Literary Prize for Fiction (2005) Read January 2016
I1: Published/Written Before 1600’s The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (1597) Read April 2016
I2: New-to-You Author A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Read March 2016
I3: Classic Play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Read July 2016
I4: Banned Book The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Read June 2016
I5: Published in the 1700's The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (1794) Read June 2016
N1: Classic of the Americas O Pioneers! by Willa Cather Read February 2016
N2: Short Story Collection The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter Read March 2016
N3: FREE SPACE
N4: Poetry Collection Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney Read January 2016
N5: Classic of Europe The Stranger by Albert Camus Read February 2016
G1: Published in the 1600's The Tempest by William Shakespeare Read September 2016
G2: Book from Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century Hvis dette er et menneske by Primo Levi Read January 2016
G3: Classic Non-fiction Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank Read February 2016
G4: Classic from School The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read January 2016
G5: Published in the 1800's Idioten by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read April 2016
O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region Den lukkede bog by Jette A. Kaarsbøl De Gyldne Laurbær (2003, 'The Golden Laurels' awarded by Association of Danish Bookshops) Read January 2016
O2: Gothic Classic We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Read January 2016
O3: Classic of Asia or Oceania Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya Read October 2016
O4: Mystery or Crime Classic Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers Read January 2016
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Read July 2016
Old & New Classics Challenge - 2016All of these books have been taken from my to-read list here on Goodreads, some of them I've been meaning to read for years...
1899 and earlier/Old School
1900-1999/New School
My Wild Card Six
Alternates
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Personal ongoing challenge)94/99
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather
1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber
1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1927 - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Lewis Bromfield
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1930 - Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933 - The Store by Thomas S. Stribling
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1938 - The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965 - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy
1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1991 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks
2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
2012 - No Award given
2013 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2016 - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer
2019 - The Overstory by Richard Powers
2020 - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2021 - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
2022 - The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen
2023 - Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
2023 - Trust - Hernan Diaz
2025 - James - Percival Everett
2026 -
Books from thee Group Shelf (Personal ongoing challenge) - Part I - books 1-200 - ALL DONE ON THIS PAGEDuplicates removed in this post 2025/05/07
200/200
02. 11/10 The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, J.D.
03. 12/10 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Melville, Herman
04. 01/11 Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan
05. 01/11 Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis
06. 01/11 The Time Machine by Wells, H.G.
07. 02/11 Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak, Boris
08. 02/11 Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles
09. 02/11 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Arthur Conan
10. 04/11 A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, Ernest
11. 04/11 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark
12. 04/11 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark
13. 06/11 Les Misérables by Hugo, Victor
14. 06/11 The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska
15. 07/11 The House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
16. 07/11 Wuthering Heights by Brontë, Emily
17. 07/11 The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre
18. 09/11 Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
19. 09/11 Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Conrad, Joseph
20. 10/11 Dracula by Stoker, Bram
21. 10/11 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar
22. 11/11 The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
23. 11/11 Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane
24. 12/11 A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Charles
25. 12/11 The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner, William
26. 01/12 Rebecca by Maurier, Daphne du
27. 01/12 Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane
28. 01/12 The Name of the Rose by Eco, Umberto
29. 01/12 Jane Eyre by Brontë, Charlotte
30. 02/12 The Maltese Falcon by Hammett, Dashiell
31. 02/12 Out of Africa by Dinesen, Isak
32. 02/12 A Clockwork Orange by Burgess, Anthony
33. 02/12 The War of the Worlds by Wells, H.G.
34. 02/12 Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo
35. 02/12 North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth
36. 06/12 Gone with the Wind by Mitchell, Margaret
37. 06/12 The Iliad by Homer
38. 06/12 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith, Betty
39. 06/12 Ben-Hur by Wallace, Lew
40. 06/12 Lonesome Dove by McMurtry, Larry
41. 06/12 The Caine Mutiny by Wouk, Herman
42. 06/12 The Good Soldier Švejk by Hašek, Jaroslav
43. 10/12 Atonement by McEwan, Ian
44. 10/12 King Lear by Shakespeare, William
45. 10/12 Dune by Herbert, Frank
46. 10/12 Rob Roy by Scott, Walter
47. 10/12 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera, Milan
50. 12/12 East of Eden by Steinbeck, John
51. 12/12 The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre
54. 03/13 Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane
55. 04/13 Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Ray
56. 04/13 The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie
57. 05/13 Cloud Atlas by Mitchell, David
58. 05/13 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne
59. 06/13 David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles
60. 06/13 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Márquez, Gabriel García
61. 07/13 1984 by Orwell, George
65. 08/13 Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel
66. 09/13 A Study in Scarlet by Doyle, Arthur Conan
67. 09/13 Despair by Nabokov, Vladimir
68. 09/13 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Jackson, Shirley
69. 10/13 Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary
70. 11/13 Catch-22 by Heller, Joseph
73. 12/13 Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne, Jules
74. 12/13 The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
77. 01/14 War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo
78. 01/14 Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane
79. 02/14 A Passage to India by Forster, E.M.
80. 02/14 The Portrait of a Lady by James, Henry
81. 04/14 The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
82. 03/14 Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut, Kurt
83. 04/14 To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee, Harper
84. 06/14 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan
85. 05/14 Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir
86. 05/14 Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
87. 06/14 The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John
88. 06/14 Emma by Austen, Jane
89. 07/14 The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood, Margaret
90. 07/14 Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles
91. 08/14 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis
92. 08/14 The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston
93. 09/14 The Invisible Man by Wells, H.G.
94. 09/14 The Secret Garden by Burnett, Frances
95. 10/14 Peter Pan by Barrie, J.M.
96. 10/14 A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles
97. 11/14 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
98. 11/14 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
99. 12/14 Cranford by Gaskell, Elizabeth
100. 12/14 Love in the Time of Cholera by Márquez, Gabriel García
101. 01/15 The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
102. 01/15 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
103. 02/15 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
104. 02/14 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
105. 03/15 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Unknown
106. 03/15 The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith
107. 04/15 The Leopard by Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di
108. 04/15 The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie
109. 05/15 The Plague by Camus, Albert
110. 05/15 The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales by Poe, Edgar Allan
111. 06/15 Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May
112. 06/15 The Princess Bride by Goldman, William
113. 06/15 Don Quixote by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
114. 07/15 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Süskind, Patrick
115. 07/15 Persuasion by Austen, Jane
116. 08/15 Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Gustave
117. 08/15 Candide by Voltaire
118. 08/15 All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque, Erich Maria
119. 09/15 The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas
120. 10/15 The Stand by King, Stephen
121. 09/15 Mary Poppins by Travers, P.L.
122. 09/15 At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft, H.P.
123. 10/15 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Verne, Jules
124. 10/15 The Red Pony by Steinbeck, John
125. 10/15 Matilda by Dahl, Roald
126. 11/15 The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe, Edgar Allan
127. 11/15 The Awakening by Chopin, Kate
128. 11/15 Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L.M.
129. 12/15 The Little Prince by de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
130. 12/15 The Hobbit by Tolkien, J.R.R.
131. 12/15 Middlemarch by Eliot, George
132. 01/16 Heidi by Spyri, Johanna
133. 02/16 The Diary of a Young Girl by Frank, Anne
136. 03/16 Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
137. 03/16 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
138. 03/16 The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
139. 04/16 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
140. 04/16 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
141. 04/16 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
142. 04/16 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
145. 05/16 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
146. 06/16 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
149. 07/16 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
150. 07/16 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
152. 07/16 Animal Farm by George Orwell
153. 08/16 The Odyssey by Homer
154. 08/16 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
156. 09/16 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
158. 09/16 The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
162. 10/16 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
165. 11/16 Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
170. 01/17 The Pearl by John Steinbeck
171. 01/17 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
173. 02/17 Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
177. 03/17 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
178. 04/17 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
180. 04/17 Vilette by Charlotte Brontë
181. 05/17 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
186. 06/17 Othello by William Shakespeare
189. 07/17 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
191. 08/17 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
193. 09/17 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
194. 09/17 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
195. 09/17 Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
196. 10/17 The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
197. 10/17 The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
199. 11/17 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
200. 11/17 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
All Nobel Laureates for Literature (ongoing personal challenge)122/122 - ALL DONE 2025/04/27
122/123 as of november 2025
1914 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1917 - Karl Gjellerup
1918 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1920 - Knut Hamsun
1935 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1940 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1941 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1942 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1943 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year.
1963 - Giorgos Seferis
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
1979 - Odysseus Elytis
1988 - Naguib Mahfouz
1990 - Octavio Paz
1992 - Derek Walcott
1993 - Toni Morrison
2025 - László Krasznahorkai
2026 -
Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...
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Kathy wrote: "Ah, good idea. All of them in one place and room for more. :)"Makes it so much easier editing :-)
It's time to start planning my 2017 reads. As for 2016 I will use this thread to keep track of all my challenges. My ongoing challenges (Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer and Group Bookshelf) will continue on in the previous posts Nobel Laureate Challenge 2017 (Personal Challenge)
I will be reading 12 new-to-me Nobel Laureates this year as well.
My chosen authors are:
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Women's Century Challenge 2017
Old&New Classics Challenge 2017Old School (1899 and earlier):
New School (1900-1999):
Wild Cards:
9. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Alternates:
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B1: Written by Nobel Laureate Salka Valka by Halldór Laxness Read February 2017
B2: Classic Comedy or Satire A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Read February 2017
B3: Classic Tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare Read May 2017
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian Read March 2017
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2015) Read March 2017
I1: 20th Century Classic Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Read January 2017
I2: New-to-You Author A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Read January 2017
I3: Classic Play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Read Februar 2017
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages South Riding by Winifred Holtby Read January 2017
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Read February 2017
N1: South American Classic Gale kvinder by Gabriela Mistral Read March 2017
N2: Short Story Classic Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott Read February 2017
N3: FREE SPACE
N4: Poetry Collection W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems Read January 2017
N5: European Classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Read February 2017
G1: 19th Century Classic Hard Times by Charles Dickens Read February 2017
G2: Bokklubben (Norwegian Book Club) World Library List Book Et Dukkehjem by Henrik Ibsen Read March 2017
G3: Classic Non-fiction Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés Read April 2017
G4: Group Read The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Read January 2017
G5: Classic Recommended by a Friend Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Read January 2017 (Recommended by my mother)
O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region En ny tid by Ida Jessen (Winner of 'DR Romanprisen' 2016) Read April 2017
O2: Classic Folklore or Mythology Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Sir Thomas Malory Read July-December 2017
O3: Asian Classic The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Read March 2017
O4: Classic Romance Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Read February 2017
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author So Big by Edna Ferber (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1925) Read April 2017
A-Z Author Challenge 2017Jan 1- Dec 31, 2017
26/26 Completed (2017/07/29) (+1/3)
A Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
B Jes Baker - Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
C Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
D Charles Dickens - Hard Times
E Eve Ensler - The Vagina Monologues
F Elena Ferrante - Min geniale veninde
G Elizabeth George - A Banquet of Consequences
H Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
I Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
J Shirley Jackson - The Lottery and Other Stories
K Milan Kundera - Tilværelsens ulidelige lethed
L Halldór Laxness - Salka Valka
M Melina Marchetta - On the Jellicoe Road
N E. Nesbit - Five Children and It
O Kenneth Oppel - Airborn
P Terry Pratchett - The Color of Magic
Q Matthew Quick - Every Exquisite Thing
R Laura Ruby - Bone Gap
S Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped
T John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
U Tania Unsworth - The One Safe Place
V Helle Vincentz - Den filippinske pirat
W Edith Wharton - Old New York: Four Novellas
X Gao Xingjian - Et ensomt menneskes bibel (One Man's Bible)
Y W.B. Yeats - W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems
Z Anna Ziegler - Boy
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A-Z Title Challenge 2017Jan 1- Dec 31, 2017
26/26 Completed (2017/10/15) (+2/3)
A The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
B The Book of Unknown Americans
C The Color of Magic
D Der hvor roser aldri dør
E Excellent Women
F A Fine Balance
G Gulliver's Travels
H Den hellige Knud
I An Ideal Husband
J Jamaica Inn
K Kidnapped
L Lady Chatterley's Lover
M MaddAddam
N En ny tid
O On the Jellicoe Road
P PS. Trænger til flødeskum
Q Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
R The Remains of the Day
S South Riding
T Their Eyes Were Watching God
U De uskyldige døde
V The Vagina Monologues
W The Waves
X X'et ud
Y Yogi i Østerlen
Z A Zen for Murder
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Ø Øjeblikkets mester
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Birthyear (ongoing Personal Challenge)I'm going to start a new challenge for myself in 2017. The idea is that I have to read a book published in every year since I was born (1980). The 'twist' is that the books have to be read consecutively. i.e. I cannot read a book to count for 1981 until I have read a book for 1980.
1980. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Read February 2017
1981. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian Read March 2017
1982. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo Read April 2017
1983. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill Read June 2017
1984. Money, Money by Martin Amis Read July 2017
1985. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Read January 2018
1986. Forrest Gump by Winston Groom Read February 2018
1987. Watchmen by Alan Moore Read March 2018
1988. Alkymisten by Paulo Coelho Read April 2018
1989. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Read May 2018
1990. Possession by A.S. Byatt Read August 2018
1991. Sofies verden by Jostein Gaarder Read November-December 2018
1992. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Read March 2019
1993. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Read May 2019
1994. Trækopfuglens krønike Read June 2019
1995. Sabriel by Garth Nix Read August 2019
1996. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt Read January 2020
1997. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Read April 2020
1998. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson Read June 2020
1999. The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Read October 2020
2000. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Read September 2021
2001. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Read December 2021
2002. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Read January 2022
2003. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Read November 2022
2004. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Read April 2023
2005. Looking for Alaska by John Green Read June 2023
2006. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Read November 2023
2007. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Read February 2024
2008. Paper Towns by John Green Read March 2024
2009. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Read May 2024
2010. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Read June 2024
2011. Bossypants by Tina Fey Read July 2024
2012. Wonder by R.J. Palacio Read July 2024
2013. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Read July 2024
2014. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey Read December 2024
2015. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Read April 2025
2016. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad Read April 2025
2017. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Read May 2025
2018. There There by Tommy Orange Read May 2025
2019. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Read June 2025
2020. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini Read November 2025
2021. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
2022. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
2023.
2024.
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'Thug Notes' - ongoing challengeInspired by RachelvlehcaR I will try to read as many books from this list as possible
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✅ 1. Madame Bovary
✅ 2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
✅ 3. To Kill a Mockingbird
✅ 4. Lord of the Flies
✅ 5. The Great Gatsby
✅ 6. 1984
✅ 7. Hamlet
✅ 8. Macbeth
✅ 9. The Hobbit
✅ 10. Animal Farm
✅ 11. Of Mice and Men
✅ 12. The Catcher in the Rye
✅ 13. Romeo and Juliet
✅ 14. Pride and Prejudice
✅ 15. Fahrenheit 451
✅ 16. Inferno
✅ 17. Beowulf
✅ 18. Brave New World
✅ 19. A Game of Thrones
✅ 20. Watchmen
✅ 21. Lolita
✅ 22. The Hunger Games
✅ 23. Oedipus Rex
✅ 24. The Odyssey
✅ 25. The Crucible
✅ 26. Crime and Punishment
27. Fifty Shades of Grey
✅ 28. The Giver
✅ 29. A Clockwork Orange
✅ 30. Dune
✅ 31. V for Vendetta
✅ 32. Slaughterhouse-Five
✅ 33. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
✅ 34. Heart of Darkness
✅ 35. The Scarlet Letter
✅ 36. Gone Girl
✅ 37. Frankenstein
✅ 38. Ender's Game
✅ 39. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
✅ 40. Othello
✅ 41. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
✅ 42. Jane Eyre
✅ 43. The Picture of Dorian Gray
✅ 44. Alice in Wonderland
✅ 45. The Raven
✅ 46. American Psycho
✅ 47. Great Expectations
✅ 48. The Metamophosis
✅ 49. Julius Caesar
✅ 50. Wuthering Heights
✅ 51. Catch-22
✅ 52. Invisible Man
✅ 53. The Fellowship of the Ring
54. Fight Club
✅ 55. The Stranger
56. No Country For Old Men
✅ 57. Things Fall Apart
✅ 58. Don Quixote
✅ 59. Dracula
✅ 60. At the Mountains of Madness
✅ 61. Death of a Salesman
✅ 62. Life of Pi
✅ 63. The Count of Monte Cristo
✅ 64. The Grand Inquisitor
✅ 65. The Sun Also Rises
✅ 66. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
67. The Fountainhead
✅ 68. All Quiet on the Western Front
✅ 69. The Outsiders
✅ 70. Doctor Faustus
✅ 71. The Cat in the Hat
✅ 72. Go Set a Watchman
✅ 73. The Grapes of Wrath
✅ 74. One Hundred Years of Solitude
✅ 75. The Tell-Tale Heart
✅ 76. The Old Man and the Sea
✅ 77. Les Misérables
✅ 78. The Brothers Karamazov
✅ 79. A Tale of Two Cities
80. A Separate Peace
✅ 81. The Cask of Amontillado
82. Grendel
✅ 83. Notes from Underground
✅ 84. The Color Purple
✅ 85. A Midsummer Night's Dream
✅ 86. A Wrinkle in Time
✅ 87. The Sound and the Fury
✅ 88. King Lear
✅ 89. Siddhartha
90. Where the Red Fern Grows
✅ 91. The Handmaid's Tale
✅ 92. A Raisin in the Sun
✅ 93. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
✅ 94. Beloved
✅ 95. The Fall of the House of Usher
✅ 96. Ethan Frome
✅ 97. A Christmas Carol
✅ 98. The Goldfinch
✅ 99. The Trial
✅ 100. The Merchant of Venice
✅ 101. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
✅ 102. Horton Hears a Who!
✅ 103. Where the Wild Things Are
✅ 104. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
✅ 105. Ready Player One
106. It
✅ 107. Emma
✅ 108. The Glass Menagerie
Off to a good start - read my first Women's Challenge book, three books for Bingo and lots for the A-Z challenges (they are so great this time of year - so many books count towards them)
Well done Julie, that is a great start! I love the beginning of A-Z challenges for that reason too!
Finished my A-Z Author Challenge 2017 - and doing really well for my other challenges as well. I'm currently reading Le Morte D'arthur by Thomas Malory for my last Bingo Square :-)
Congrats on finishing your A-Z challenge, I still have all the tricky letters left for mine. Good luck with the rest of your challenges. I keep meaning to read Le Morte D'arthur, but it's so long, I never pick it up.
Pink wrote: "Congrats on finishing your A-Z challenge, I still have all the tricky letters left for mine. Good luck with the rest of your challenges. I keep meaning to read Le Morte D'arthur, but it's so long, ..."Le Morte D'Arthur is actually very fine for reading in installments - it's divided into 21 books, and the chapters in each book are very short (usually between 1 and 3 'ebook-pages') - I'm reading an edition I found on gutenberg.org and have read the first 4 books so far
Bingo Challenge 2018Finished 2018-08-17
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B1: Written by Nobel Laureate Samlede Tranströmer by Tomas Tranströmer Read February 2018
B2: Children’s Classic Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter Read February 2018
B3: Government Banned Book Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis Read August 2018
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Read January 2018
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Pulitzer Prize, 1942) Read May 2018
I1: 20th Century Classic Alkymisten by Paulo Coelho Read April 2018
I2: New-to-You Author Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Read January 2018
I3: Mystery or Crime Classic The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie Read January 2018
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Reread January-February 2018
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) Read July 2018
N1: North American Classic The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Read January 2018
N2: Classic Short Story The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway Read February 2018
N3: FREE SPACE
N4: Classic Play A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry Read February 2018
N5: African Classic Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
G1: 19th Century Classic Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf Read April-May 2018
G2: Finest Works of Fiction (Martin Seymour-Smith & Editors) Vi by Jevgenij Zamjatin Read March 2018
G3: Adventure or Action Classic The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle Read June 2018
G4: Group Read Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Read January 2018
G5: 21st Century Potential Classic Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Read March 2018
O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region En anden gren by Jesper Wung-Sung De Gyldne Laurbær (2017, 'The Golden Laurels' awarded by Association of Danish Bookshops) Read April 2018
O2: Lesser known book by a famous author The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Read January-February 2018
O3: Australia, Antarctica, or Oceania Classic The Bone People by Keri Hulme Read May-June 2018
O4: A Classic that you have put off reading Ulysses by James Joyce Read January-March 2018
O5: Classic written by a Female Author Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes Read June 2018
Old & New Classics Challenge 2018Old School:
New School:
Wild Cards:
Alternates:
Women's Century Challenge 2018 All New Authors
Women's Decade Challenge 20181930's - All New Authors
Nobel Laureate Challenge 2018 - Personal ChallengeThe Game is as the other years - to read 12 new-to-me Nobel Laureates - one from every decade from the 1900's to the 2010's.
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Julie's A-Z Title Challenge 2018January 1st 2018-December 31st 2018 (finished December 4th 2018)
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A: Alias Grace
B: Broen over Drina
C: The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story
D: Dødevaskeren
E: Evigt udelte sammen
F: Forrest Gump
G: Gilead
H: Hvis en vinternat en rejsende
I: Ilkas arv
J: The Joy Luck Club
K: Kastanjemanden
L: The Last Man
M: Marcherende Myrer
N: Nybyggerne på odden
O: The Outsiders
P: The Pillars of the Earth
Q: Quicksand
R: Romeo and Juliet
S: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
T: Tender Is the Night
U: Ulysses
V: Vi
W: Watchmen
X: Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans
Y: Yucatan Dead
Z: Zazie in the Metro
Danish letters
Æ:
Ø: Ørenvidnet. Halvtreds karaterer
Å:
Julie's A-Z Author Challenge 2018January 1st 2018-December 31st 2018 (finished November 23rd 2018)
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A: Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
B: Sara Blaedel - Ilkas arv
C: Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Blue Train
D: Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Hvide nætter
E: Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
F: Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth
G: Winston Groom - Forrest Gump
H: S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
I: Washington Irving - The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
J: James Joyce - Ulysses
K: Michael Katz Krefeld - Pagten
L: Selma Lagerlöf - Gösta Berling's Saga
M: Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
N: Jo Nesbø - Macbeth
O: Sara Omar - Dødevaskeren
P: Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna
Q: Raymond Queneau - Zazie in the Metro
R: Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
S: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The Last Man
T: Tomas Tranströmer - Samlede Tranströmer
U: Leonora Christina Ulfeldt - Leonora Christinas Jammersminde
V: Mich Vraa - Faith
W: Charlotte Weitze - Sværmeri
X: Diana Xarissa - Aunt Bessie Assumes
Y: Marguerite Yourcenar - Coup de Grâce (Nådestødet)
Z: Jevgenij Zamjatin - Vi
Danish letters
Æ:
Ø: Jeanette Øbro - De ustraffede
Å:
2018 Crime ChallengeA little fun challenge from krimisiden.dk
#krimiudfordring2018 #krimisiden.dk
January: Read a crime novel by a deceased author The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
February: Read a crime novel by an asian author Den hengivne hr. X by Keigo Higashino
March: Read a crime novel by an author present at 'Krimimessen' (danish bookfair focused on crime fiction) Tilgivelse by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
April: Read a crime novel of less than 300 pages
Du er morderen (A Man Lay Dead) by Ngaio Marsh
May: Read a crime novel with a nice back cover
Manden der ikke var morder by Michael Hjorth + Rosenfeldt
June: Read a crime novel set in Russia
Vinterdronningen by Boris Akunin
July: Read a crime novel recommended by someone else
Retfærdig vold by Aske Munk-Jørgensen - recommended by the librarians at my local library
August: Read the first part of a crime novel series Offer uden ansigt by Stefan Ahnhem - I've been wanting to try this series for a while
September: Read a crime novel classic Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
October: Read a crime novel that has been made into a movie (and see the movie) Mord i mørket by Dan Turèll
November: Read the latest crime novel to come through your door Blodspor by Julie Hastrup
December: Read a christmas crime short story Mayhem in Christmas River by Meg Muldoon
May: "a nice backside"? :oOJuly: are you inviting recommendations...? ;o)
Books from thee Group Shelf (Personal ongoing challenge) - Part II - books 201-400(Duplicates removed from this post on 2025/05/07)
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202. 12/17 The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
203. 12/17 The Trial by Franz Kafka
204. 12/17 The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
205. 01/18 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
206. 01/18 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
207. 01/18 Ulysses by James Joyce
208. 01/18 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
209. 02/18 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
210. 02/18 If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
211. 02/18 The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
212. 03/18 Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
213. 03/18 The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
214. 03/18 Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
215. 04/18 White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
216. 04/18 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
217. 04/18 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
218. 05/18 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
219. 05/18 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
220. 05/18 Silas Marner by George Eliot
221. 06/18 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
223. 06/18 A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
224. 07/18 The Once and Future King by T.H. White
225. 07/18 Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
226. 07/18 Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
227. 07/18 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
228. 08/18 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
229. 08/18 Summer by Edith Wharton
230. 08/18 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
231. 09/18 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
232. 09/18 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
233. 09/18 Light in August by William Faulkner
234. 10/18 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
235. 10/18 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
236. 10/18 The Arabian Nights by Anonymous
237. 10/18 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
239. 11/18 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
240. 11/18 The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo
241. 12/18 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
242. 12/18 The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
243. 12/18 Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
245. 01/19 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
246. 01/19 The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
247. 01/19 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
248. 02/19 Howards End by E.M. Forster
249. 02/19 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
250. 02/19 Common Sense by Thomas Paine
251. 03/19 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
252. 03/19 Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
253. 03/19 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
254. 04/19 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
255. 04/19 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
256. 04/19 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
257. 05/19 Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
258. 05/19 Night by Elie Wiesel
259. 05/19 The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
261. 06/19 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
262. 06/19 The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
263. 07/19 The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
264. 07/19 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
265. 07/19 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
266. 07/19 The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
267. 08/19 Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
268. 08/19 The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
269. 08/19 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
270. 09/19 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
271. 09/19 Antigone by Sophokles
272. 09/19 The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells
273. 10/19 The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
274. 10/19 A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
275. 10/19 The Dead by James Joyce
276. 11/19 Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
277. 11/19 The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
278. 11/19 The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
279. 12/19 A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
281. 12/19 Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
282. 01/20 Stoner by John Williams
283. 01/20 The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
284. 01/20 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
285. 01/20 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
286. 02/20 The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
287. 02/20 Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
288. 02/20 The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
289. 03/20 Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
290. 03/20 A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
291. 03/20 Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there by Lewis Carroll
292. 04/20 The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
293. 04/20 The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
294. 04/20 The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
295. 04/20 The Lover by Marguerite Duras
296. 05/20 Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
297. 05/20 White Fang by Jack London
298. 05/20 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
299. 06/20 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
300. 06/20 The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells
301. 06/20 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
302. 07/20 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
303. 07/20 A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
304. 07/20 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
305. 07/20 There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
306. 08/20 Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
307. 08/20 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
308. 08/20 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
309. 09/20 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
310. 09/20 A Good man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
311. 09/20 The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
312. 10/20 Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
313. 10/20 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
314. 10/20 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
315. 10/20 The Lady of the Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils
316. 11/20 Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
317. 11/20 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
318. 11/20 Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare
319. 12/20 A simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
320. 12/20 The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
321. 12/20 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
322. 01/21 The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin
323. 01/21 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
324. 01/21 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
325. 02/21 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
326. 02/21 I, Claudius by Robert Graves
327. 02/21 Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
328. 03/21 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
329. 03/21 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
330. 03/21 Don Juan by Moliere
331. 04/21 The Giver by Lois Lowry
332. 04/21 Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov
333. 04/21 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
334. 05/21 Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
335. 05/21 Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
336. 05/21 Babettes Feast by Isak Dinesen
337. 06/21 Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
338. 06/21 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
339. 06/21 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
340. 07/21 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
341. 07/21 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
342. 07/21 Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
343. 08/21 Orlando by Virginia Woolf
344. 08/21 The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
345. 08/21 Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
346. 09/21 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
347. 09/21 The Misanthrope by Moliére
348. 09/21 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
349. 10/21 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
351. 10/21 Hunger by Knut Hamsun
352. 10/21 The Fall by Albert Camus
353. 11/21 The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
354. 11/21 The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
355. 11/21 The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
356. 12/21 Metamorphoses by Ovid
357. 12/21 The Call of the Wild by Jack London
358. 12/21 A Christimas Tree by Charles Dickens
359. 01/22 The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
360. 01/22 The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
361. 01/22 Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
362. 01/22 The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
363. 02/22 Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
364. 02/22 The Wasteland and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
365. 02/22 Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
366. 03/22 Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
367. 03/22 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
368. 03/22 King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
369. 04/22 Aesop's Fables by Aesop
370. 04/22 Blindness by José Saramago
371. 04/22 The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
372. 04/22 The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
373. 05/22 The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
374. 05/22 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
375. 05/22 The Hand by Guy de Maupassant
376. 06/22 How the poor die by George Orwell
377. 06/22 The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
378. 06/22 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
379. 07/22 Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
380. 07/22 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
381. 07/22 The Bostonians by Henry James
383. 08/22 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
384. 08/22 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
385. 08/22 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
386. 09/22 Flush by Virginia Woolf
387. 09/22 Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
388. 09/22 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
389. 10/22 Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
391. 10/22 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
393. 11/22 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
394. 11/22 The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
395. 11/22 The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf
396. 12/22 The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann
398. 12/22 Before the Party by W. Somerset Maugham
399. 01/23 Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
400. 01/23 The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Nobel Laureate Challenge 2019 - Personal ChallengeThe Game is as the other years - to read 12 new-to-me Nobel Laureates - one from every decade from the 1900's to the 2010's.
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Bingo Challenge 2019Finished May 31st 2019
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B1: 18th Century or Earlier Classic:
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764) Read March 2019
B2: Book Chosen by the Cover:
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore Read March 2019
B3: European Classic:
Chéri by Colette Read January 2019
B4: Telegraph’s 100 Novels List:
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Read January 2019
B5: 20th Century Classic:
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim Read January 2019
I1: Book from the Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2019:
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Read January-February 2019
I2: New-to-You Author:
Frost in May by Antonia White
I3: Classic Play:
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Read January 2019
I4: Literary Prize of Your Country:
Babettes gæstebud by Karen Blixen - (Winner of the 1952 'De Gyldne Laurbær') Read April 2019
I5: Classic on Your Bookshelf For over a Year:
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving Read February 2019
N1: South American Classic:
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo Read May 2019
N2: Short Story Collection:
The Happy Prince, and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde Read May 2019
N3: FREE SPACE
N4: Poetry or Essay Collection
Flora och Bellona: dikter by Erik Axel Karlfeldt Read January 2019
N5: Asian Classic
Kyoto by Yasunari Kawabata Read May 2019
G1: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize:
Sorte Mary (Scarlet Sister Mary) by Julia Peterkin (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1929) Read January 2019
G2: Classic By a Female Author:
Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read February 2019
G3: Classic Non-fiction:
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Read January-February 2019
G4: Written by Nobel Laureate:
The Children of the World by Paul von Heyse Read January 2019
G5: Book from the Group's 2019 Bookshelf
From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon by Jules Verne Read January 2019
O1: 19th Century Classic:
My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell Read January 2019
O2: Classic Sci-fi or Fantasy:
Foundation by Isaac Asimov Read March 2019
O3: Classic Comedy or Satire:
Eric by Terry Pratchett Read April 2019
O4: Classic Romance:
Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott Read April 2019
O5: 21st Century Potential Classic:
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Read March 2019
Old & New Classic Challenge 2019Old (pre-1900):
New (1900-1999):
Wildcards:
Alternates:
Women's Decade 2019 - All New AuthorsLast year I did the 1930's - this year I'm doing the 1920's - I had some trouble finding copies of all of my first choices, so had to exchange several of the books on the original list - note to self for next year, I should probably consider doing the 1940's as it increases the chance that the books can be found...
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1980's: Segu by Maryse Condé (1984)
A-Z Title Challenge 2019Finished November 16th 2019
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A As I Lay Dying
B The Bad Beginning
C Children of the World
D Dawn
E Eksploderende skadedyr
F Dette fremmede i mig
G Gone
H Himlens fange
I Iskolde øjeblikke
J Jeg vil savne dig i morgen
K Kindred
L Lazarus
M Millions of Cats
N The Name of the Star
O Om hundrede år: En sønderjysk familiekrønike
P Plum Lovin'
Q Quiet Until the Thaw
R Robinson Crusoe
S Skaknovelle - Praterforår
T Twelve Sharp
U De uegnede
V A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
W A Walk In The Park
X Xanadu
Y You
Z The Zodiac Killer
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A-Z Author Challenge 2019Finished October 19th 2019
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A Elizabeth von Arnim - The Enchanted April
B Sara Blaedel - Den tredje søster
C Colette - Chéri
D Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
E Janet Evanovich - Twelve Sharp
F E.M. Forster - Howards End
G Michael Grant - Gone
H Paul von Heyse - Children of the World
I John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire
J Dennis Jürgensen - Eksploderende skadedyr
K Erik Axel Karlfeldt - Flora och Bellona: dikter
L Primo Levi - Tøbruddet
M George R.R. Martin - Fire & Blood
N Hildur Grauslund Nielsen - Jeg er autist: En kat i en verden af hunde
O Daniel José Older - Shadowshaper
P Orhan Pamuk - Dette fremmede i mig
Q Matthew Quick - The Reason You're Alive
R Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Himlens Fange
S Nina von Staffeldt - Skibet fra isfjorden - en Sika Haslund krimi
T Joanna Trollope - Sense & Sensibility
U Kelly Utt - Her Deepest Fear
V Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon
W Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
X Xinran - Kinas døtre
Y Anzia Yezierska - Bread Givers
Z Stefan Zweig - Skaknovelle - Praterforår
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This April I will be taking part in the Magical Harry Potter Readathon - you can learn more about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-wc...I will try to achieve as many O.W.L.s (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) as possible in the predefined subjects:
2019 April O.W.L. exams
O.W.L. count: 12 Maximum score!
Subjects:
Ancient Runes - Retelling
Ellekongen (April 1st-April 4th)
Arithmancy - Work written by more than one author
Audio The Shell Game (April 1st-April1st)
Astronomy - 'Star' in the title
Lone Star (April 7th-April 12th)
Care of Magical Creatures - Land Animal on the Cover
Unwanted: Dead or Alive (April 18th-April 20th)
Charms - Age-line: Read an 'adult' work
Audio It Can't Happen Here (April 6th-April 10th)
Defence Against the Dark Arts - Reducto; title starts with an 'R'
Rose in Bloom (April 16th-April 18th)
Divination - Set in the Future
Frysepunktet (April 15th-April 16th)
Herbology - Plant on the Cover
Audio: Things We Lost in the Fire (April 3rd-April 5th)
History of Magic - Published at least 10 years ago
Guards! Guards! (1989) (April 7th-April 9th)
Muggle Studies - Contemporary
The Lost Man (April 11th-April 13th)
Potions - Next ingredient: sequel
Artists in Crime (6th in series) (April 5th-April 6th)
Transfiguration - Sprayed edges or red cover
The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write (April 11th-April 15th)
Finished all of my OWL 'exams' - it has been really fun - but must say I only really managed because of the easter holiday, which gave me plenty of time to read. I will be trying to manage some of the NEWT exams for august - but those are WAY harder ;-)
Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge 201927/27
Good as gold: Read a book that won a Goodreads Choice Award.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The book is better: Read a book being adapted for TV or film this year.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Short & sweet: Read a book with less than 100 pages (or a book you can finish in one sitting).
Integration by Mikkel Rytter
On the bandwagon: Read one of the most read books right now on Goodreads.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Actually want to read: Read a book that's been on your Want to Read shelf for more than a year.
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (added to TBR in september 2015)
Not from around here: Read a book set in a different culture from your own.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
In the friend zone: Read a book that a friend has recommended.
Ofrenes offer by Bo Svernström
It takes two: Read a coauthored book.
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Wheel of format: Read a book in a format that you don’t normally read in (a graphic novel, poetry, a play, an audiobook, etc.).
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise
New voices: Read a debut novel.
Ligblomsten by Anne Mette Hancock
Past love: Reread a book you loved when you were younger.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Armchair traveler: Read a book set in a destination you want to visit.
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier (USA, California)
Stay awhile: Read a book with more than 500 pages.
London by Edward Rutherfurd (My edition has 1302 pages)
Stranger than fiction: Read a nonfiction book published this year.
Jeg er autist: En kat i en verden af hunde by Hildur Grauslund Nielsen
Tongue-tied: Read a translated book.
Farligt møde by Patricia Highsmith
No place like home: Read a book that appears in your Goodreads newsfeed.
Det gyldne bur by Camilla Läckberg
Continental drift: Read a book set on every continent.
Africa: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Asia: Trækopfuglens krønike by Haruki Murakami
Europe: The Sugar House by Antonia White
North America: The Edge of the Light by Elizabeth George
South/Latin America: Hjerter i chili by Laura Esquivel
Antarctica The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
Australia/Oceania: Sort perle by Liza Marklund
Genre explorer: Read a book from a genre you've never read before.
A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
Reading roulette: Read the third book you see on your Want to Read shelf.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Primary reading: Read a book with a number or color in the title.
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
Back to school: Read a book about a subject you don't know much about.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nice, Julie. Now I'm really tempted to join in.
Aubrey wrote: "Nice, Julie. Now I'm really tempted to join in."I'm a sucker for challenges, so I really have to attempt this ;-)
I'll have to take a closer look at the Thug Notes list and the Harry Potter challenge - they sound right up my alley.
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For my Personal Challenge for 2015 I chose to focus on Nobel Laureates. The Nobel Prize for Literature has been given out 111 times in total (since 1901), and I am ashamed to say that prior to starting this challenge I had only read books by 6 of those authors.
Therefore I challenged myself to read 12 books by different Nobel Laureates in 2015, one book for every decade from the 1900's till 2010's. Off course the author I choose to read should be one I have not read before.
Nobel Laureate Challenge 2015 (Personal Challenge)
My chosen authors were:
1900's: Selma Lagerlöf (1909) - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Read January 2015
1910's: Henrik Pontoppidan (1917) - Lykke Per Read May 2015
1920's: Knut Hamsun (1920) - Sult Read April 2015
1930's: Pearl S. Buck (1938) - The Good Earth Read June 2015
1940's: William Faulkner (1949) - The Sound and the Fury Read November 2015
1950's: Albert Camus (1957) - Pesten Read May 2015
1960's: Samuel Beckett (1969) - Waiting for Godot Read May 2015
1970's: Pablo Neruda (1971) - Cien Sonetos De Amor/100 Love Sonnets Read May 2015
1980's; Jaroslav Seifert (1984) - Al verdens skønhed (Všecky krásy světa) Read September 2015
1990's: Toni Morrison (1993) Beloved Read March 2015
2000's: Doris Lessing (2007) - The Grass is Singing Read September 2015
2010's: Alice Munro (2013) - Runaway Read August 2015
Current status: 18/111 - challenge finished in november 2015