The Reading Challenge Group discussion

My goal this year is to to keep reading my owned ebooks and print books and just have fun reading.

Ebook Extravaganza

1. The Terror
2. A Coin of Edward VII
3. Little Lord Fauntleroy
4.Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
5. Smoke Bellew
6. Paris, Notes d'un Vaudois
7. Little Novels
8. Terre des hommes
9. Poems: 1842
10. The Letters of Jane Austen
11. The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
12. The Nameless City
13. Le Rayon vert
14. Lady Betty Across the Water
15. The Incredible Planet
16. Les Frères Kip
17. News from Nowhere
18. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
19. The Other Gods
20. L'homme qui plantait des arbres
21. The Belton Estate
22. Contes des mille et un matins
23. A Cumberland Vendetta
24. Dix heures en chasse
25. Kéraban le Têtu
26. Julius LeVallon: An Episode
27. No Other Tiger
28. The Castle of Wolfenbach
29. L'Étoile du Sud
30. The Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories
31. Praga magica
32. L'archipel En Feu
33. All Roads Lead to Calvary
34. Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces
35. Il deserto dei tartari
36. The Hound of Heaven
37. A Mão e a Luva
38. Islands of Space
39. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
40. Invaders from the Infinite
41. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
42. L'Attaque du moulin
43. The Everlasting Man
44.Skin and Bones
45. Seconde Patrie
46. The Ultimate Weapon
47. The Last Evolution
48. The Glorious Pool
49. The Purple Cloud
50. Sylter Novelle
51. The Prisoner in the Opal
52. Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller
53. Mysterious Disappearances
54. Negligible Tales
55. The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine
56. The Damned Thing: Weird and Ghostly Tales
57. The Silver Key
58. The March of Man
59. Letters of Maxim Gorky
60. With a Bare Bodkin
61. Mr. Pim Passes By
62. Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses
63. Frritt-Flacc
64. The wave: an Egyptian aftermath
65. Der Mann Im Mond
66. The Jewel of Seven Stars
67. The Man Who Knew Too Much
68. The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson
69. The Strange High House in the Mist
70. Plutarch’s Lives
71. The Heart of the Hills
72. Écrits sur le Québec
73. The Five Orange Pips
74. The Parenticide Club
75. The Fourth Estate
76. The Ocean Wave
77. The Girl From The Marsh Croft
78. The City of God
79. The Thing in the Moonlight
80. Through the Gates of the Silver Key
81. Christmas with Grandma Elsie
82. Little Girl's Christmas
83. Not if I Know It
84. Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas
85. Cosima
86. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
87. The Battle of Life
88. The Lost Word A Christmas Legend of Long Ago
89. Rhododaphne: Or, the Thessalian Spell: A Poem
90. Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery
91. Grimms Märchen

Reading Round My Bookshelves

1. Le Petit Prince
2. The House Under the Water
3. The Traveller's Daybook: A Tour of the World in 366 Quotations
4. L'Innocente
5. Footfall
6. The Fair Haven
7. Erfolg
8. Over Sea, Under Stone
9. Lieder Deutscher Dichter: Eine Auswahl der klassischen deutschen Lyrik
10. The Last Temptation of Christ
11. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
12. Un Huron en Alsace
13. The Grass Harp
14. Robots and Empire
15. Die Günderode
16. Mastro-don Gesualdo
17. The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
18. Out of the Silent Planet
19. Greenwitch
20. Schweizer Reisen
21. Il Negromante (I e II), La Lena, La Scolastica: I Studenti Edizione Integrale
22. The Master of Ballantrae
23. On the Nature of the Universe
24. Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island
25. Grimmy: Friends Don't Let Friends Own Cats!
26. The Grey King
27. An Author Bites the Dust
28. Shadow of a Bull
29. Phaedrus
30. The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
31. Silver on the Tree
32. On the Beach
33. Barnaby Rudge
34. Making It So

Big books: Chunksters and Doorstops

1. The House Under the Water
2. The Traveller's Daybook: A Tour of the World in 366 Quotations
3. Little Novels
4. Footfall
5. Erfolg
6. The Last Temptation of Christ
7. Les Frères Kip
8. The Belton Estate
9. Die Günderode
10. Kéraban le Têtu
11. The Forge of God
12. Theophilos
13. The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine
14. Bosnian Chronicle
15. Plutarch’s Lives
16.Barnaby Rudge
17. The City of God

Books in French

1. Le Petit Prince
2. Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
3. Paris, Notes d'un Vaudois
4. Terre des hommes
5. Le Rayon vert
6. Un Huron en Alsace
7. Les Frères Kip
8. L'homme qui plantait des arbres
9. Contes des mille et un matins
10. Dix heures en chasse
11. Kéraban le Têtu
12. L'Étoile du Sud
13. L'archipel En Feu
14. L'Attaque du moulin
15. Seconde Patrie
16. Frritt-Flacc
17. Écrits sur le Québec

Books in German

1. Erfolg by Lion Feuchtwanger
2. Lieder Deutscher Dichter: Eine Auswahl der klassischen deutschen Lyrik
3. Die Günderode by Bettina von Arnim
4. Montauk by Max Frisch
5. Schweizer Reisen by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. Es war einmal in Masuren by Wolfgang Koeppen
7. Sylter Novelle by Theodor Storm
8. Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller by Wilhelm Hauff
9. Der Mann Im Mond by Wilhelm Hauff
10. Die Zwei Brüder by Brüder Grimm
11. Die Blumen der kleinen Ida by Hans Christian Andersen
12. Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten by Jacob Grimm
13. Grimms Märchen

Books in other languages

Italian:
1. L'Innocente
2. Mastro-don Gesualdo
3. Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina
4. Racconti dimenticati
5. Praga magica
6. Il Negromante (I e II), La Lena
7. La Scolastica: I Studenti Edizione Integrale
8. Il deserto dei tartari
9. Tutti i nostri ieri
10. Cosima

Portuguese

1. Agua viva
2. A Mão e a Luva

Spanish

1. Plan de evasión

Not my cup of tea: DNF books

1. Kraken by China Miéville
I think this is a record for me-my first DNF by January 4. The book was just too weird and I didn't want to spend time reading over 500 pages of a book that wasn't at all what I expected.
2. Altes Land by Dörte Hansen
I didn't like any of the characters.
3. Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
The book is fine but now is not the right time to read it. The writing is dense and needs too much concentration.
4. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
Too much science and not well organized.

Group and Buddy Reads: January

The Terror by Arthur Machen
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A Coin of Edward VII by Fergus Hume
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester
L'Innocente by Gabriele d'Annunzio
Smoke Bellew by Jack London

Ebook Author Collections: January and February

Jules Verne
1.Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
2. Les Frères Kip
3. Le Rayon vert
4. Dix heures en chasse
5. Kéraban le Têtu
6. L'Étoile du Sud
7. L'archipel En Feu
8. Seconde Patrie
9. Frritt-Flacc

Alfred Tennyson
1. Poems: 1842

A.E.W. Mason
1. The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
2. No Other Tiger
3. The Prisoner in the Opal

Group and Buddy Reads: February

Terre des hommes by Antoine de Saint-
Exupéry
The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

Group and Buddy Reads: March

Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
Post After Post-Mortem by E.C.R. Lorac
Contes des mille et un matins by Colette
The Diddakoi
Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina

Ebook Author Collections: March and April

William Morris
1.News from Nowhere

John Fox Jr.
1. A Cumberland Vendetta
2. The Heart of the Hills

Algernon Blackwood
1.Julius LeVallon: An Episode
2. The wave: an Egyptian aftermath

Group and Buddy Reads: April

The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull
Racconti dimenticati by Elsa Morante
A Fugue in Time: A Virago Modern Classic by Rumer Godden
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie

Group and Buddy Reads: May

Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein

Ebook Author Collections: May to September

Jerome K. Jerome
1.All Roads Lead to Calvary

Thomas Hardy
1. Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces
2.Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
3. Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses

Thorne Smith
1. The Glorious Pool
2. Skin and Bones

Theodor Storm
1. Sylter Novelle

Wilhelm Hauff
1. Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller
2. Der Mann Im Mond

Ambrose Bierce
1. Mysterious Disappearances
2. Negligible Tales
3. The Parenticide Club
4.The Ocean Wave
5. The Fourth Estate

Maxim Gorky
1. The March of Man
2.Letters of Maxim Gorky

Group and Buddy Reads:

June
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

July
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Vampyre by John William Polidori
The Forge of God by Greg Bear
Agua viva by Clarice Lispector
Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray by Jorge Amado
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain

Group and Buddy Reads - August

The Master of Ballantrae
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
The Grey King

Group and Buddy Reads-September

Shadow of a Bull
Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe
Tragedy at Law
The Damned Thing: Weird and Ghostly Tales
The Silver Key
Babel-17
The Machine Stops
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
The Four-Fifteen Express

Ebook Author Collections- October to December

Brüder Grimm
1. Die Zwei Brüder
2. Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten

William Hope Hodgson
1. ATropical Horror
2. The Voice in the Night
3. Out of the Storm
4. The Gateway of the Monster
5. The Horse of the Invisible
6. The Whistling Room
7. The Derelict
8. The Thing in the Weeds
9. The Hog

Grazia Deledda
1. Cosima

J. Sheridan Le Fanu
1. Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery

Group and Buddy Reads - October

The New Pass
Die Zwei Brüder
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
A Window into Time
Silver on the Tree
Die Blumen der Kleinen Ida
A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
The Jewel of the Seven Stars
The Strange High House in the Mist
Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson
2 B R 02 B
The Hand You're Dealt
Way Station
Robot Nemesis

Rosemarie wrote: "Books in French

1. Le Petit Prince
2. Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
3. Paris, Notes d'un Vaudois
4. Terre des hommes
5. [book:Le R..."
I read French as well...average 30 books a year. I see a lot of Jules Verne on this list! I also discovered L'Attaque du moulin by Zola...I never heard of this one..and the Jean Giono classic! I like your idea of grouping books (e-books, bookcase, French etc). I will start to make my own booklists for 2025 Personal Challenges and post them in December 2024. Lists motivate met to ..."keep reading" and turn off social media!!

I have the complete works of Verne in ebook format, with the original illustrations. They're a lot of fun.

Group and Buddy Reads-November

Plutarch’s Lives
Né łe! by Darcie Little Badger
Tutti i nostri ieri by Natalia Ginzburg
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper
Surfeit of Suspects by George Bellairs
By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

Group and Buddy Reads: December

The City of God
The Thing in the Moonlight
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
The Wind on the Moon
Cosima