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A to Z Challenge, 2024 – Completions


Have you completed the A to Z Challenge, 2024 – Meet the Authors?

First, congratulations!!

Now, post you achievement here.

I finished the challenge. This is my list. I attempted to read only female authors. I used titles for two letters (Possession, A.S. Byatt; Quicksand, Nella Larsen). Also, I completed two letters with the author’s nationality (Ukrainian, Irène Némirovsky; Zimbabwean, Tsitsi Dangarembga). For X and Y, I did have to use male authors (Cao Xueqin and Yevgeny Zamyatin); but, I found editions that were translated by women (Gladys Yang and Mirra Ginsburg, respectively). It was another great challenge! I cannot wait to see what the challenge will be next year!

caterspotaters wrote: "I finished the challenge. This is my list. I attempted to read only female authors. I used titles for two letters (Possession, A.S. Byatt; Quicksand, [aut..."

Wow! You've increased the difficulty in your challenge, choosing females only. I admire that.

I finished this today.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Finished today. My 'Q' book was in a pinch as I used the one word title of the book. No double dips, no re-reads. Lots of fun. Thanks for the challenge.

Bob wrote: "Finished today. My 'Q' book was in a pinch as I used the one word title of the book. No double dips, no re-reads. Lots of fun. Thanks for the challenge."

Congratulations!!

Just finished today: woot. My list is at the top of 'plans' thread. I did 2 re-reads and 1 nationality of the author.

Amanda wrote: "Just finished today: woot. My list is at the top of 'plans' thread. I did 2 re-reads and 1 nationality of the author."

Congratulations, Amanda. It's a good feeling to complete this challenge.

Amanda wrote: "Just finished today: woot. My list is at the top of 'plans' thread. I did 2 re-reads and 1 nationality of the author."

Congratulations!!

Thanks Bob and Karen! Yes, this one does feel good to finish :)

I finished my list - Ambler, Eric, Cause for Alarm—Baldwin, James, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Bronte, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall—Capote, Truman, Breakfast at Tiffany’s Collins, Wilkie, Moonstone Drabble, Margaret, The Red Queen—Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose—Faulkner, William, The Storm and the Fury—Greene, Graham, The Power and the Glory—Hoeg. Peter, Smilla’s Sense of Snow—Ishiguro, Kazuo, Remains of the Day, Artist of the Floating Island—Jelinek, Elfriede, The Piano Teacher—Johnson, B.S., House Mother Normal—Kincaid, Jamaica, Annie John—Laxness, Halldór, Independent People—Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas—Nin, Anais, Delta of Venus--O'Neill, Jamie, Two Boys At Swim--Peake, Mervyn, Titus Groan—Queneau, Raymond, Exercises in Style—Rushdie, Salman, Midnight’s Children—Smith, Ali, Winter, Smith, Zadie, On Beauty—Trevor, William, Felicia’s Journey— Ugresic, Dubravka, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender--Vidal, Gore, Myra Breckinridge—Wells, Orson B., War of the Worlds, Winterson, Jeanette, Oranges are not the only Fruit—Xianliang, Zhang, Half of Man is Woman—Yoshimoto, Banana, Kitchen—Zweig, Stefan, Amok

Judy wrote: "I finished my list - Ambler, Eric, Cause for Alarm—Baldwin, James, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Bronte, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall—Capote, Truman, Breakfast at Tiffany’s Collins, Wilkie, Moon..."

Congratulations!

Just finished on 7/4/24.

Kelly wrote: "Just finished on 7/4/24."

Congratulations!!

Kelly wrote: "Just finished on 7/4/24."

Congrats, Kelly.

I finished yesterday. Thank you for the challenge.

Dina wrote: "I finished yesterday. Thank you for the challenge."
Congratulations!!

I finally finished my challenge. It was tough as my last book had over 1000 pages. Phew!

Completed December 10, 2025.

I completed my challenge today: 24/26 (no U or X)

Boxall’s 2024 A to Z Challenge

A -Ann Radcliff: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1/9/2024)
B - B.S. Johnson: House Mother Normal (1/28/2024)
C – Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian (7/13/2024)
D – Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (9/8/2024)
E – George Eliot: Middlemarch (9/20/2024)
F –Esther Freud: Hideous Kinky (6/16/2024)
G -Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (2/18/2024)
H - Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley (2/28/2024)
I – Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa (8/14/2024)
J – Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (3/10/2024)
K – Kazuo Ishihuro: The Remains of the Day (3/28/2024)
L - Malcom Lowry: Under the Volcano (4/13/2024)
M – Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale (5/7/2024)
N – Amelie Nothomb: Fear and Trembling (10/18/2024)
O – Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried (3/7/2024)
P - E. Annie Proulx: The Shipping News (6/5/2024)
Q - Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style (12/29/2024)
R – Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (5/4/2024)
S – John Steinbeck: Cannery Row (1/20/2024)
T - Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych (9/28/2024)
V – Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin (3/23/2024)
W – Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (2/4/2024)
Y - Yevgeny Zamyatin: We (6/30/2024)
Z - Germinal by Emile Zola (10/17/2024)

Almost--couldn't get a copy of Half of Man is Woman and so at the last minute, grabbed the X but didn't have time for Z as well. Still, I got close with only one double dip: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...