2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Challenge completed - 8/1/23

I had too many crises in 2022 and didn't quite get the Hindsight Challenge finished. But there are books there that I still want to read. So I'm finishing it this year in my Member's Corner:

HINDSIGHT
Pre-1900’s Blast from the Past
5. Set in Greece (the first Olympics) - Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece by Friedrich Hölderlin - 1700s - finished 1/3/23

1900’s Zesty Zeros
1. Set in the 1900's - The Millionaire Mystery by Fergus Hume - finished 7/30/23
4. Set in the Balkans (Balkan wars) - The Black Mountain by Rex Stout - Montenegro - finished 1/8/23
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: France, USA, UK - The Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - France - finished 1/23/23

1910’s: Transformative Teens
completed all - 2022

1920’s: Tremendous Twenties
2. Published in the 1920's - The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim - 1920 - finished 8/1/23

1930’s: Thirsty Thirties
4. Featuring a character who loses a job or otherwise suffers financial hardship - Hunger by Knut Hamsun - finished 4/2/23

1940’s: Fatal Forties
completed all - 2022

1950’s: Fabulous Fifties
completed all - 2022

1960’s: The Swingin’ Sixties
1. Set in the 1960's - Endless Night by Agatha Christie - finished 2/8/23
4. Set in space or another celestial body (Moon Landing) - Fly Me To The Moon by Diane Vallere - finished 7/22/23
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA, Italy, Austria, Japan, France, Mexico - Bark Once for Murder by Susie Gayle - USA - finished 7/8/23

1970’s: Self-Assured Seventies
1. Set in the 1970's - Black As He's Painted by Ngaio Marsh - finished 2/21/23
3. By an author born or died in the 1970’s - The Rose and the Yew Tree by Mary Westmacott AKA Agatha Christie - died 1976 - finished 1/4/23

1980’s: The Elegant Eighties
1. Set in the 1980's - One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross by Harry Kemelman - finished 3/14/23

1990’s: The Nifty Nineties
4. Featuring character who live off-grid or “outside” of a system of government (Waco, Ruby Ridge) - A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King - finished 3/3/23
5. Set in one of the Olympic host countries: France, Spain, Norway, USA, Japan - USA - When Danger Calls by Terry Odell - finished 7/21/23

2000’s: Admirable Aughts
4. Set in NYC (World Trade Center attack) - Driving Heat by Richard Castle - finished 2/18/23

2010’s: The Terrific Teens
completed all - 2022

2020’s and Beyond: You are Here
completed all - 2022