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Carolien's 2025 Lean Classic Challenge
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Challenge #3 - New Authors1. Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
2. E.L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
3. Olja Knezevic - Catherine the Great and the Small
4. Bohumil Hrabal - Closely Observed Trains
5. Tea Tulić - Hair Everywhere
6. Olja Savicevic -Singer in the Night
Challenge #4 - Short Story1. Bridling by Nadia Davids
2. Pages to Fill by Travis Baldree
3. The Angel at the Grave by Edith Wharton
4. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
5. Death Constant Beyond Love by Gabriel García Márquez
6. Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
7. Hair Everywhere by Tea Tulić
8. A Lost Opportunity by Leo Tolstoy
9. Mathilde in Life, Only Better by Anna Gavalda
10. Yann in Life, Only Better by Anna Gavalda
11. The Equestrienne by Uršuľa Kovalyk
12. Childhood
13. Someone I Loved by Anna Gavalda
14. Sawbones by Stuart MacBride
15. 22 Dead Little Bodies by Stuart MacBride
16. DI Steel's Bad Heir Day by Stuart MacBride
17. The 45% Hangover by Stuart MacBride
18. Stramash by Stuart MacBride
Challenge #5 - Decade/Century/Millennium1913 - O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
1937 - Tenant for Death by Cyril Hare
1967 - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Challenge #6 - Group Reads, Buddy Reads, Moderators Run Amok1. The Angel at the Grave
2. A Lost Opportunity
3. In the Shadow of the Banyan
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Challenge #8 - Travel the World One Continent at a Time1. Africa A Girl Called Eel by Ali Zamir
2. Asia In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
3. Australia The Broken River by Chris Hammer
4 Europe Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic
5. North America From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
6. South America
Challenge #15 - Award Winners1. Caine Prize for African Writing, 2024 winner: Bridling by Nadia Davids
2.1968 Newbery Award Medal: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
3. 2011 Prozak winner (Croatia National Literary Award for Best Young Author): Hair Everywhere by Tea Tulić
Maybe: Challenge #13 - Old and New Linked CategoriesA hotel as the setting
1. Hotel Babylon
2. Greenglass House
A crime is committed:
Welsh literature
1. Rhys Lewis
2. Feet in Chains/Under Milkwood
Memoirs set in France
1. Simone
2. Banine
Christmas
1. Anthony Trollope
2 Dylan Thomas?
Manchester area authors
1. Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Val McDermid/Alan Garner
Welcome to the buffet. Enjoy your planning!
I've managed to finish Challenge #3 and #15 - new authors and prize winners. I've in fact now read a book by a second winner of the same Croatian prize with Olja Savicevic. Challenge #2 is also coming along.
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Two challenges done -- that's terrific!
Another two challenges done, Members choice and the Short Story challenge.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (other topics)Stramash (other topics)
DI Steel's Bad Heir Day (other topics)
22 Dead Little Bodies (other topics)
The 45% Hangover (other topics)
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Anton Chekhov (other topics)Dick Davis (other topics)
Stuart MacBride (other topics)
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Willa Cather (other topics)
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1. 19th Century or Older - Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz translated by Dick Davis
2. 20th Century - Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
3. 21st Century - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
4. Nonfiction - Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
5. An Author never read before - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
6. Diversity, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours -A Girl Called Eel by Ali Zamir
7. Fantasy - Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
8. Crime fiction - A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith
9. Plays - Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov