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Challenge #1: Old and New TBRCompleted 0/12
Old School
1. Edward II: The Troublesome Reign And Lamentable Death Of Edward The Second, King Of England-Christopher Marlowe
2. The Taming of the Shrew-William Shakespeare
3. A Woman of No Importance-Oscar Wilde
New School
1. The Emperor Jones-Eugene O'Neill
2. The Night of the Iguana-Tennessee Williams
3. True West-Sam Shepard
Wild Cards
1. Riders to the Sea-J.M. Synge
2. The Real Inspector Hound-Tom Stoppard
3. The American Dream, a Play-Edward Albee
4. Peer Gynt-Henrik Ibsen
5. Candida-George Bernard Shaw
6. Watch on the Rhine-Lillian Hellman
Challenge #2: Member's ChoiceCompleted 7/9
19th Century: The Seagull-Anton Chekhov 02/16/25 ***
20th Century: Death in Venice-Thomas Mann O4/21/25 ***
21st Century: The Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger 04//29/25 2.5*
Non-fiction:
An Auth Never Read Before: Carlos Ruiz Zafón-The Shadow of the Wind 06/17/25 ****
Diversity:
Member's Choice Genre (SciFi): Childhood’s End-Arthur C. Clarke 04/27/25 ****
Member's Choice Genre (Historical Fiction): Sylvia's Lovers-Elizabeth Gaskell 06/10/25 ***
Member's Choice Genre (Horror): Stepford Wives-Ira Levin 09/11/25 ****
Challenge#4: Short StoriesCompleted 10/18
1. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse-James Weldon Johnson 04/29/25 ****
2. "Lost Face"-Jack London 06/0/25 ****
3. Trust-Jack London 06/09/25 ****
4. That Spot-Jack London 06/10/25 *****
5. Flush of Gold-Jack London 06/12/25 ***
6. Beyond the Bayou-Kate Chopin 06/18/25 ***
7. Ma'ame Pelagie-Kate Chopin 06/20/25 ***
8. "El Patron"-Nash Candelaria 07/20/25 ***
9. The Invisible Girl-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 10/10/25 ***
10. "Janus"-Ann Beattie 10/12/25 ****
Challenge #6: Group Reads, Buddy Reads, or Moderators Run AmokCompleted 12/12
1. The Angel at the Grave-Edith Wharton 01/01/25 ***
2. Augustus-John Williams 02/12/25 ****
3. Meditation-Franz Kafka 02/18/25 **
4. Never Let Me Go-Kazuo Ishiguro 02/22/25 ***
5. The Magician-W. Somerset Maugham 02/26/25 **
6. The House on the Strand-Daphne du Maurier 03/05/25 ***
7. The Queen of Spades-Alexander Pushkin 03/05/25 ****
8. A Lost Opportunity-Leo Tolstoy 03/17/25 ****
9. Call Me Joe-Poul Anderson 03/23/25 ***
10. Mimsy Were The Borogoves-Lewis Padgett 04/22/25 ****
11. The Machine Stops-E.M. Forster 04/22/25 ***
12. "Regret"-Kate Chopin 10/06/25
Challenge #7: Series BooksI will start Chaim Potak's "Reuven Malther" series:
The Chosen
I will continue Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" series:
The Return of Sherlock Holmes 05/31/25 ****
I will complete Robert Louis Stevenson's "David Balfour" series:
Catriona: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad
I plan to complete Erich Marie Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front" series:
The Road Back
Three Comrades
Challenger #9: Rereading-Some Do, Some Don'tCompleted 1/2
Kidnapped-Robert Louis Stevenson 07/01/25 ***
All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway
The Scarlet Letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Challenge #10: Most Popular Goodreads Books by Year Completed 0/3
1962
1. Pale Fire-Vladimir Nabokov
2. A Room with a View-E.M. Forster
3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4. A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
5. The Woman in the Dunes-Kōbō Abe
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes-Ray Bradbury
7. The Man in the High Castle-Philip K. Dick
8. The Guns of August-Barbara W. Tuchman
9. The Reivers-William Faulkner
10. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings-Jorge Luis Borges
Challenge #8: Travel the World One Continent at a Time---MaybeComplete 6
Challenge #12: Fiction/Non-Fiction---Maybe(3 subjects, 6 books)
Are you doing 2 versions of Old & New TBR, one for plays and one for non-plays?? That's so ambitious! Enjoy your reading. :)
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Completed 5/12
Old School
1. The Canterbury Tales-Geoffrey Chaucer 04/26/25 ****
2. Silas Marner-George Eliot 10/03/25 ***
3. Northanger Abbey-Jane Austen
New School
1. Ragtime-E.L. Doctorow
2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3. Pale Fire-Vladimir Nabokov
Wild Cards
1. North and South-Elizabeth Gaskell 02/24/25 ***
2. Obasan-Joy Kogawa
3. A Room with a View-E.M. Forster
4. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man-James Weldon Johnson
5. No-No Boy-John Okada-Cristina García
6. Dreaming in Cuban-Cristina García
A-1: Vanity Fair-William Makepeace Thackeray 01/16/25 ***
A-2: The Divine Comedy-Dante Alighieri 01/31/25
A-3: The Mysteries of Udolpho-Ann Radcliffe