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Classics A - Z Titles 2019

This challenge is to read 26 book titles that spell out the alphabet.

Guidelines:
- Read a book title for each letter of the alphabet.
- Disregard: A, An, & The
- For X & Z, the letters can be found anywhere in the title to qualify.
- Only read books in 2019 apply. Please include your read date.
- Challenge ends December 31st.
- Classics are consider 50+ years.
- Be creative and happy reading!

Example 1:
A - Alexander Hamilton - Chernow, Ron {01/12}
B - The Bacchae - Euripides {07/30}
C ...

Example 2:
A: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Jan 12)
B: Baltasar & Blimunda by Jose Saramago (July 30th)
C: …

Here are some titles with tougher letters (X/Y/Z)
Titles - X,Y&Z
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Titles - X
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6...

Classics A - Z Titles 2019

24/26

✅A: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) - Erich Maria Remarque ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[16/3/19]

✅B: The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[7/3/19]

✅C: The Corsican Brothers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[19/5/19]

✅D: Dubliners (1914) - James Joyce ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[12/3/19]

✅E: Esther's Inheritance (1939) - Sándor Márai ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[21/2/19]

✅F: Fathers and Sons (1862) - Ivan Turgenev ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[17/2/19]

✅G: Greek Myths: A Wonder Book For Girls & Boys (1851) - Nathaniel Hawthorne [10/11/19] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅H: Heidi (1880)- Johanna Spyri ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[28/4/19]

✅I: I Am a Cat: Three Volumes in One (1905) - Sōseki Natsume ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[7/5/19]

J: The Jungle Book (1893) - Rudyard Kipling

✅K: Kokoro: Hints and Echos of Japanese Inner Life (1896) - Lafcadio Hearn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[31/5/19]

✅L: Les Misérables (1862) - Victor Hugo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[11/2/19]

✅M: The Metamorphosis (1915) - Franz Kafka ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ [8/5/19]

✅N: Native Son (1940) - Richard Wright [24/5/19] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅O: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1964) - Ken Kesey [8/11/19] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅P: The Professor (published posthumously in 1857) - Charlotte Brontë ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[31/3/19]

Q: And Quiet Flows the Don (1934) - Mikhail Sholokhov

✅R: Road to Calvary (1923) - Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[22/6/19]

✅S: The Same Old Story (1847) - Ivan Goncharov ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[5/5/19]

✅T: A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - Charles Dickens ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[7/4/19]

✅U: Under Milk Wood (1954) - Dylan Thomas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[10/6/19]

✅V: Vinland the Good (1946) - Nevil Shute ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ [11/11/19]

✅W: Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf (1846) - George W.M. Reynolds ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[27/4/19]

✅X: The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete (1604) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[9/2/19]

✅Y: Youth (1852) - Leo Tolstoy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[27/5/19]

✅Z: Confessions of Zeno (1923) - Italo Svevo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ [13/11/19]

A. Aithiopika by Heliodorus of Emesa ⭐⭐⭐[24 May 2019]

B. Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell ⭐[27 Apr 2019]

C. Candide by Voltaire ⭐⭐⭐⭐[7 Mar 2019]

D. The Devil's Pool and Other Stories by George Sand ⭐⭐⭐⭐[12 Feb 2019]

E. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery ⭐⭐⭐⭐[3 Jan 2019]

F.

G. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift ⭐⭐⭐⭐[17 Mar 2019]

H. Heidi by Johanna Spyri ⭐⭐⭐⭐[8 Mar 2019]

I. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ⭐⭐⭐⭐[1 May 2019]

J.

K. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler ⭐⭐⭐⭐[30 Apr 2019]

L. London Fields by Martin Amis ⭐⭐⭐[28 Jan 2019]

M. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett ⭐[10 Feb 2019]

N. Native Son by Richard Wright ⭐⭐⭐⭐[15 May 2019]

O. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[2 May 2019]

P. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë ⭐⭐⭐[1 May 2019]

Q.

R.

S. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown ⭐⭐⭐[7 Apr 2019]

T. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ⭐⭐⭐[24 May 2019]

U.

V. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh ⭐⭐⭐⭐[17 Jan 2019]

W.

X.

Y. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ⭐⭐⭐⭐[16 Jan 2019]

Z.

I've always wanted to read Treasure Island.

Daniel wrote: "I've always wanted to read Treasure Island."
No time like the present! Start the challenge x

Classics A to Z Titles 2019

✔A - Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery ☆☆☆☆☆ (18 Mar 2019)

✔B - A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond ☆☆☆☆ (30 May 2019)

C - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

D

E

✔F - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ☆☆ (19 Feb 2019)

G

H - Heidi by Johanna Spyri

I

J

K

✔L - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo ☆☆☆ (08 Mar 2019)

✔M - Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie ☆☆☆☆ (21 Feb 2019)

N

O

✔P - Pinochio by Carlo Collodi ☆☆☆☆☆ (11 Feb 2019)

Q

✔R - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ☆☆☆☆☆ (16 Jan 2019)

✔S - The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie

✔T - The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Hi Elizabeth,

I was wondering if it was okay to read more than one book by a single author, even several books by the same author?

Tim (thinking of joining the group)

P.S.: I am assuming that for the classics any one written before and including the year 1969 is acceptable. Am I correct?

Tim wrote: "Hi Elizabeth,

I was wondering if it was okay to read more than one book by a single author, even several books by the same author?

Tim (thinking of joining the group)

P.S.: I am assuming that fo..."

Yes, it can be the same author in this thread since its titles.
Yes, 1969 and older are included.

Have fun!

Elizabeth wrote: "Tim wrote: "Hi Elizabeth,

I was wondering if it was okay to read more than one book by a single author, even several books by the same author?

Tim (thinking of joining the group)

P.S.: I am assu..."

Thank you, Elizabeth. Looking forward to reading.

Classic Titles A-Z Challenge 2019
12/29/19
26/26

A: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* (1892), Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle (09/28/19)
B: Billy Budd, Foretopman* (1891, p 1921), Herman Melville
(09/09/19)
C: Cry, the Beloved Country* (1948), Alan Paton (12/15/19)
D: Dangling Man* (1944), Saul Bellow (08/12/19)
E: Everything That Rises Must Converge* (1965), Flannery
O'Connor (09/20/19)
F: Faust (1770), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (12/20/19)
G: The Great Divorce (1946), C. S. Lewis (12/05/19)
H: The House of the Seven Gables* (1851), Nathaniel Hawthorne
(10/05/19)
I: The Inheritance (1849), Louisa May Alcott (12/03/19)
J: Johnny Got His Gun (1939), Dalton Trumbo (12/29/19)
K: King Solomon's Mines* (1885), H. Rider Haggard (12/09/19)
L: The Little Prince* (1943), Antoine de Saint-Exupery (12/08/19)
M: Madame Bovary* (1857), Gustave Flaubert (08/11/19)
N: Night (1960), Elie Wiesel (11/25/19)
O: On the Road* (1955, 1957), Jack Kerouac (12/17/19)
P: The Power and the Glory* (1940), Graham Greene (08/05/19)
Q: Quo Vadis?* (1896), Henryk Sienkiewicz (08/29/19)
R: A Room with a View* (1908), E. M. Forster (09/10/19)
S: The Story of the Other Wise Man (1895), Henry van Dyke
(12/05/19)
T: The Thin Man* (1932), Dashiell Hammett (09/17/19)
U: The Unvanquished (1938), William Faulkner (12/21/19)
V: The Victim* (1947), Saul Bellow (08/16/19)
W: The Quiet Little Woman (circa 1870's), Louisa May Alcott
(12/02/19)
X: The Moon and SiXpence (1919), W. Somerset Maugham (12/26/19)
Y: Young Lonigan (1932, Studs Lonigan #1), James T. Farrell (12/24/19)
Z: Franny and Zooey* (1955, 1957, 1961), J. D. Salinger
(12/11/19)

* Listed in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Boxall ed.

I would like to try this, but could someone explain how we make the list. How we access it when we want to update? Is there a template or we just manually put the alphabet in?

Connie wrote: "I would like to try this, but could someone explain how we make the list. How we access it when we want to update? Is there a template or we just manually put the alphabet in?"

You could copy Tim's message out and delete his answers. I put in my books next to the alphabet and the thumbs below. I choose as many books as i can first, although may change them later. When I read a book I go back and put in a checkmark. If you don't know how to format on goodreads, this might help.

https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...

You can access your message by returning to this thread. Good lucky Connie! x

PS, Have added template below

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you can put your thumbs over the corresponding letter :)

Thank you so much Jazzy, this was helpful. Just to early in morning here😀

Classic Titles A-Z Challenge 2019
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A:

B: Burning Bright by John Steinbeck

C:Camille by Alexandre Dumas fils...... read August 23

D:

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F: Frankinstein by Mary Shelley

G: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchel ...Read May 1

H:

I: The Illiad by Homer

J:

K:

L: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens... Read March 16

M: The Misfits by Arthur Miller

N:

O: The Odyssey by Homer

P: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay ...Read June 7

Q:

R:Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ....ReadApril 29

S:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by unknown

T: The Three Musketeers

U: Ulysses by James Joyce

V:

W: The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck

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Beautiful! Hope you're enjoying all the books. You can leave your ratings too if you feel so inclined ;)

Happy Reading! x

thanks! I have been making an inventory of my books shelves with the Goodreads app and all except Frankenstein were bought, shelved and forgotten looking forward to reading them and more.

Connie wrote: "thanks! I have been making an inventory of my books shelves with the Goodreads app and all except Frankenstein were bought shelves and forgotten looking forward to reading them and more."

Sounds dreamy! I read Frankenstein earlier this year, and although I was positive I'd read it years before, i didn't recognise it at all! :D

Connie wrote: "thanks! I have been making an inventory of my books shelves with the Goodreads app and all except Frankenstein were bought, shelved and forgotten looking forward to reading them and more."

Its one of my favorite novels.

Classic A-Z Titles 2019
Completed: 11/26

✓ A - Animal Farm - 1945
by George Orwell (03 February)

✓ B - Bell Jar - 1963
by Sylvia Plath (31 Jan)

C - Clockwork Orange - 1962
by Anthony Burgess

D - Down These Mean Streets - 1967
by Piri Thomas

E - Edward II - 1594
by Christopher Marlowe

F - Frankenstein - 1818
by Mary Shelley

G - Ghosts - 1890
by Henrik Ibsen

✓ H - The Haunting of Hill House - 1959
by Shirley Jackson (26 March)

I - The Interpretation of Dreams - 1899
by Sigmund Freud

J - The Jungle - 1905
by Upton Sinclair

K - King Lear - 1605
by William Shakespeare

✓ L - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - 1950
by C.S. Lewis (06 May)

✓ M - Manon Lescaut - 1731
by Antoine François Prévost (25 March)

N - Nobody Knows My Name - 1961
by James Baldwin

✓ O - Of Mice and Men - 1937
by John Steinbeck (25 April)

✓ P - Pippi Longstocking - 1945
by Astrid Lindgren (30 May)

Q - Quicksand - 1928
by Nella Larsen

✓ R - Romance of Tristan and Iseult - 1170
by Joseph Bédier (08 April)

✓ S - A Study in Scarlet - 1887
by Arthur Conan Doyle (07 May)

✓ T - Tess of the D'Urbervilles - 1891
by Thomas Hardy (18 July)

✓ U - Utopia - 1516
by Thomas More (06 May)

V - Venus in Furs - 1870
by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

W - The Wretched of the Earth - 1961
by Frantz Fanon

X* - Last Exit to Brooklyn - 1964
by Hubert Selby Jr.

Y - The Yellow Wallpaper - 1892
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Z* - Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason - 1961
by Michel Foucault

Some fantastic reads there, Elizabeth!

Jazzy wrote: "Some fantastic reads there, Elizabeth!"

Thank you.

Two to go!

Tim wrote: "Classic Titles A-Z Challenge 2019
12/29/19
26/26

A: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* (1892), Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle (09/28/19)
B: Billy Budd, Foretopman* (1891, p 1921), Herman Melville
(09/..."

Finished the Classic Title Challenge for 2019. Thank you for making this page possible for us. Should you offer the same for 2020, know that I would consider it a privilege to participate. Your hard work in designing and managing this challenge is greatly appreciated. May the Lord bless you, now and always. Happy New Year! Tim

Congratulations Tim!

It was quite quiet here, and I thought everyone must have given up and I was the only one left!

I think you're the only one that got the lot as I still had 2 to go.
Well done and Happy New Year! Two hours til Midnight here!

I'm planning on doing this challenge in 2020 and I already picked out some books to use for it. 😁

Tim wrote: "Finished the Classic Title Challenge for 2019. Thank you for making this page possible for us. Should you offer the same for 2020, know that I would consider it a privilege to participate. Your har..."

Thank you Tim! I appreciate it as well as your participation.
The challenge is currently running for 2020. I will provide the link below. Happy reading and happy new year!

2020 Classic A-Z Titles Challenge

Sarah wrote: "I'm planning on doing this challenge in 2020 and I already picked out some books to use for it. 😁"

I can hardly wait to see what they are! :D
Happy New Year Sarah!

Much appreciation to Elizabeth and Jazzy for their leadership and encouragement! Happy reading in 2020!

<3 Oh Tim you're more than welcome! Now on with the books! xx