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✔✔✔ Challenge #1.2 To-Be -"Red" ✔✔✔3) A Dream of Red Mansions Vol2 The Crab-Flower Club
8) A Dream of Red Mansions Vol4 The Debt of Tears
9) A Dream of Red Mansions Vol5 The Dreamer Wakes
12) Red Riding Quartet Nineteen Eighty by David Peace
Challenge #1.3 Food for Thought 2) Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli
4) Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner
10) An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
14) The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen C. Schlesinger
Ball of Fat Short-story by Guy de Maupassant
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
The Black Sheep by Honoré de Balzac
Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos
✔✔✔Challenge #1.4 In My Element✔✔✔10) Memory of Fire Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano
11) Memory of Fire Century of the Wind by Eduardo Galeano
Challenge #1.5 Can't Read Without a Cat (on my lap)4) Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
7) P.S. Your Cat Is Dead by James Kirkwood Jr.
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
✔✔✔Challenge #1.6 Thoroughly Seasoned✔✔✔Winter's Tale by Mark HelprinThe Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Challenge #1.7 Wait...what, where, when.... Why?!2) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
3) The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya (a)
6) What Is the What by Dave Eggers
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
10) Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner
14) Why Survive?: Being Old in America by Robert N. Butler
How It Is by Samuel Beckett
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Challenge #2.1New School
2. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Old School
Short Story/Novella
2. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Quarterly Long Read
Challenge #2.2New School
2. The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andrić
Old School
Short Story/Novella
Quarterly Long Read
1. Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
Challenge #5 Short Stories 9. The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf
12. Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
17. Ayiti by Roxane Gay
23. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
29) The Moon Is Following Me by Cecil Browne
31) The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
✔✔✔ Challenge #6 Group Reads ✔✔✔8) The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
9) The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
10) The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
11) The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Challenge #7.1 Pulitzer Authors5) Josephine W. Johnson
7) T.S. Stribling
8) John P. Marquand
10) Martin Flavin
11) James Gould Cozzens
Challenge #7.2 Nobel Authors2) Olga Tokarczuk
5) Naguib Mahfouz
7) Ivo Andrić
10) Selma Lagerlöf
15) Dario Fo
16) Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
17) Elfriede Jelinek
18) Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
23) Seamus Heaney
25) Imre Kertész
26) Kenzaburō Ōe
27) Annie Ernaux
Challenge #7.3 New to me Authors11) Edward Albee
34) Roberto Arlt
35) Malcolm Bradbury
36) Theodor Fontane
Oh wow! These are awesome variations of the traditional challenges. You have some great themes here. These are seriously fun to look at and I hope they will be to read as well. Good luck and happy reading!
Laurie wrote: "Oh wow! These are awesome variations of the traditional challenges. You have some great themes here. These are seriously fun to look at and I hope they will be to read as well. Good luck and happy ..."Thanks Laurie. I enjoy doing challenges but have had a few distracted years, though I did focus on getting current on the group bookshelf. 2022 is going to be my year to hit it hard again and have fun as I try to chunk through the Pulitzer (fiction) and Nobel (literature) lists.
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Challenge #9.1 Fiction/Non-Fiction wrap up of the Americas Literary TourHonduras:
El Salvador:
Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benítez
Costa Rica:
Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate: Exotic and Unseen Costa Rica by Jack Ewing
Panama:
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
Venezuela:
Challenge #9.2 Fiction/Non-Fiction wrap up of the Americas Literary Tour pt.2Guyana
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast by Marjoleine Kars
Grenada
An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
Saint Vincent & Grenadines
Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna by Christopher Taylor
Saint Lucia/ Saint Kitts & Nevis
An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean by Andrew O'Shaughnessy
Cuba
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
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