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2021 Classics A - Z Titles

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 2021 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...

2021 Classic Titles Challenge
12/01/21
24/26

A: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, (1793), Benjamin Franklin, (06/02/21)
B: The Bible with Apocrypha (currently reading)
C: Common Prayer (The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Anglican Catholic Church, Together with The Psalter or The Psalms of David), (1928), Anglican Parishes Association, (12/01/21)
D: The Diary of a Nobody*, (1892), George and Weedon Grossmith, (07/05/21)
E: Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins #1), (1875), Louisa May Alcott, (10/24/21)
F: A Farewell to Arms*, (1929), Ernest Hemingway, (05/25/21)
G: Good-bye, Mr. Chips, (1934), James Hilton, (06/25/21)
H: His Last Bow, (1917), Arthur Conan Doyle, (07/31/21)
I: I, Robot*, (1950), Isaac Asimov, (02/19/21)
J: Jamaica Inn, (1936), Daphne du Maurier, (08/14/21)
K: King Oedipus, (429-420 BC), Sophocles, (09/02/21)
L: Lost Horizon, (1933), James Hilton, (06/30/21)
M: A Modest Proposal*, (1729), Jonathan Swift, (04/11/21)
N: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, (1837), Edgar Allen Poe, (08/07/21)
O: Oedipus At Colonus, (posthumously circa 406 BC), Sophocles, (10/02/21)
P: Peter Pan (aka: Peter and Wendy), (1911), Sir James M. Barrie, (04/24/21)
Q: Quicksand*, (1928), Nella Larsen, (02/06/21)
R: Rose in Bloom (Eight Cousins #2), (1876), Louisa May Alcott, (11/01/21)
S: The Short Reign of Pippin IV, (1957), John Steinbeck, (05/01/21)
T: This Side of Paradise, (1920), F. Scott Fitzgerald, (06/18/21)
U: The Undiscovered Self, (1957), C. G. Jung, (02/16/21)
V: Visions of Gerard, (1963), Jack Kerouac, (11/06/21)
W: Where the Wild Things Are, (1963), Maurice Sendak, (11/05/21)
X: The Autobiography of an EX-Colored Man, (1912), James Weldon Johnson, (01/03/21)
Y:
Z: Toward Zero, (1941), Agatha Christie, (01/11/21)

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

A-Z Titles
1/1/21 - 31/12/21
12/26

A : The Alington Inheritance (1958) - Patricia Wentworth

✅B : Billy Liar (1959) - Keith Waterhouse

C : Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) - Sumner Locke Elliott

D : Dream Story (1926) - Arthur Schnitzler

✅E : El Señor Presidente (1946) - Miguel Ángel Asturias

✅ F : The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) - Edgar Allan Poe

✅ G : The Great Gatsby (1925) - F. Scott Fitzgerald

H : Here Lies: Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker (1939) - Dorothy Parker

I : Inspector Imanishi Investigates (1961) - Seichō Matsumoto

J : Jules and Jim (1953) - Henri-Pierre Roché

✅K : The Key (1944) - Patricia Wentworth

L : The Living and the Dead (1941) - Patrick White

✅M : The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) - Agatha Christie

N : The Nanny (1964) - Evelyn Piper

✅ O : The Odes of Horace (23 BCE) - Horatius

✅ P : Prelude to Christopher (1934) - Eleanor Dark

✅Q : Quicksand (1928) - Nella Larsen

✅ R : Robinson Crusoe (1719) - Daniel Defoe

S : The Shiralee (1955) - D'Arcy Niland

✅ T : Tartuffe (1664) - Molière

U : The House of Ulloa (1886) - Emilia Pardo Bazán

V : Voss (1957) - Patrick White

✅ W : The Wheel on the School (1954) - Meindert DeJong

X : Adieux: A Farewell To Sartre (1981) - Simone de Beauvoir

Y : The Yellow Dog (1931) - Georges Simenon

Z : The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962) - Giorgio Bassani