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2026 Maxi Challenges
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1 Maman by Sylvie Schenk (177) ✓ 01/21
2 Bambino by Marco Balzano (234) ✓ 02/02
3 Einstein im Bade by Daniel Mellem (272) ✓ 02/07
4 24 Sekunden ab jetzt: Eine ganz normale Liebesgeschichte by Jason Reynolds (192) ✓ 02/09
5 Verwirrung der Gefühle by Stefan Zweig (140) ✓ 02/18
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6 Victoria. by Jürgen Lotz (158) ✓ 02/26
7 A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (237) ✓ 02/28
8 Sula by Toni Morrison (240) ✓ 03/09
9 Brief an den Vater by Franz Kafka (112) ✓ 04/01
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2026 Maxi Challenges > Featherweight 2026Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
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Featherweights:Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
📚1: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 16 Jan
📚2: The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 18 Jan
📚3: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel 24 Jan
📚4: The Secret Garden: The Original 1911 Unabridged and Complete Edition Frances Hodgson Burnett 14 Feb
📚5: True to Form Elizabeth Berg 25 Feb
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📚6: The Ice Palace Tarjei Vesaas 1Mar
📚7: The Door-to-Door Bookstore Carsten Henn 5 Mar
📚8: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 13 March
📚9: The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 30 Mar
📚10: Six Feet of the Country Nadine Gordimer 30 Mar
Level 3 Taking Flight
📚11: A Month in the Country J.L. Carr 31 Mar
📚12: Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 24 Apr
📚13: The Book of Sleep: 75 Strategies to Relieve Insomnia Nicole Moshfegh 3 May
📚14: Passing Nella Larsen 12 May
📚15: Quintana & Friends John Gregory Dunne 18 May
Featherweight 2026Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
1 Silk
2 The Wilderness
3 A Pocket Full of Rye
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5 At Night All Blood is Black
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6 On Earth As It Is Beneath
7 Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
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Round 2:Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
📚1: Earthlings Sayaka Murata 21 May
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Books mentioned in this topic
Earthlings (other topics)Quintana & Friends (other topics)
Passing (other topics)
The Book of Sleep: 75 Strategies to Relieve Insomnia (other topics)
Small Things Like These (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Sayaka Murata (other topics)John Gregory Dunne (other topics)
Nella Larsen (other topics)
Nicole Moshfegh (other topics)
Claire Keegan (other topics)
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This runs all year. Feel free to do multiple rounds as well!
Level 1 Ruffled Feathers
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Level 3 Taking Flight
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