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Katy's 2018 A-Z Author Challenge
A: Sarah Addison Allen -- Lost Lake
B: Leigh Bardugo -- The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
C: Cassandra Clare & Holly Black -- The Iron Trial
D: Jared Diamond -- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
E: Euripides -- Medea
F: Dave Freer -- Changeling's Island
G: Bruce Grierson -- What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the Ninety-Something Track Star Who Is Smashing Records and Outpacing Time, and What She Can Teach Us About How to Live
H: Virginia Hamilton -- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
I: Eowyn Ivey -- To The Bright Edge of the World
J: Tove Jansson -- The Summer Book
K: David M. Kennedy -- Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
L: Selma Lagerlöf -- Gösta Berling's Saga
M: John Matteson -- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
N: Naomi Novik -- Spinning Silver
O: Nnedi Okorafor -- Akata Witch
P: Beatrix Potter -- The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Q: Kate Quinn -- The Alice Network
R: Rebecca Roanhorse -- Trail of Lightning
S: Neal Shusterman -- Thunderhead
T: William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
U: Lyudmila Ulitskaya -- The Big Green Tent
V: Catherynne M. Valente -- Six-Gun Snow White
W: Lisa Wingate -- The Sea Keeper's Daughters
X: Xinran -- Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
Y: J.Y. Yang -- The Black Tides of Heaven
Z: Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
I'm also in! A: Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace. Finished 8th January. 5 stars.
B: Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron. Finished 30th March. 5 stars.
C: Elizabeth Chadwick - Templar Silks. Finished 1st April. 4 stars.
D: Sarah Dessen - Just Listen. Finished 25th March. 5 stars.
E: Dorothy Eden - Face Of An Angel. Finished 9th May. 3 stars.
F: E.M. Forster - Howards End. Finished 6th February. 5 stars.
G: Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel. Finished 9th March. 5 stars.
H: Susan Hill - Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home Finished 3rd February. 5 stars.
I: Elizabeth Inchbald - A Simple Story Finished 12th September. 4 stars.
J: Helen M Jewell - Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200-1500 Finished 10th January. 4 stars.
K: Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey. Finished 24th January. 4 stars.
L: Camilla Lackberg - The Girl in the Woods. Finished 15th March. 5 stars.
M: Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince. Finished 27th January. 5 stars.
N: Sandra Newman - The Western Lit Survival Kit: How to Read the Classics Without Fear Finished 13th July. 3 stars.
O: Louise O'Neill - Asking For It. Finished 30th June. Hard to rate! 3 stars at the moment.
P: Ashley Poston - Heart of Iron. Finished 8th April. 4 stars.
Q: Kate Quinn - The Serpent and the Pearl. Finished 3rd May. 5 stars.
R: Domenica De Rosa - Return to the Italian Quarter. Finished 1st September. 5 stars.
S: José Saramago - The History of the Siege of Lisbon. Finished 8th May. 4 stars.
T: Arcangela Tarabotti - Paternal Tyranny. Finished 6th August. 5 stars.
U: Peter Underwood - Ghosts: And How To See Them. Finished 28th July. 3 stars.
V: Virgil - Georgics. Finished 13th March. 3 stars.
W: Erin Watt - Paper Princess. Finished 17th February. 5 stars.
X: Ruiyan Xu - The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai. Finished 22nd April. 2 stars.
Y: Banana Yoshimoto - The Lake. Finished 27th September. 3 stars.
Z: Emile Zola - The Kill. Finished 15th July. 3 stars.
A few suggestions. I wonder how many I actually use!
A � Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
B � Boccaccio � The Decameron
C - Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde
D � Daniel Defoe � Moll Flanders
E � Maria Edgeworth � The Absentee
F � Ian Fleming � On Her Majesty’s Secret Service or something by E M Forster.
G � Elizabeth Gaskell � Mary Barton
H � Sadegh Hedayat � The Blind Owl or Peter Hedges - What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
I � Elizabeth Inchbald � A Simple Story
J � Juan Ramón Jiménez � Platero and I
K � Jack Kerouac � On the Road
L � Rosamond Lehmann � The Echoing Grove
M � David Mitchell � Cloud Atlas
N � Mini Nair � The Fourth Passenger
O � Edna O’Brien � The Country Girls
P � Christine de Pisan � The Book of the City of Ladies or Mario Puzo � The Godfather
Q � Kate Quinn � The Serpent and the Pearl
R � Rabelais � Gargantua and Pantagruel
S � Ali Smith � The Accidental or José Saramago � The History of the Siege of Lisbon
T � Anthony Trollope � Doctor Thorne
U � John Ure � Prince Henry the Navigator
V � Virgil � The Georgics
W � Sylvia Townshend Warner � The Corner That Held Them
X � Ruiyan Xu � The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
Y - Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Z � Zola � The Kill
Edit: So I read from the pre-planned list A, B, F, I J (although I read another J author before I got to the one mentioned above), Q, S, V, X and Z.
I'm in!A- Augustine of Hippo - City of God
B- James Boswell - The Life of Samuel Johnson
C- Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
D- Alexandre Dumas fils - La dame aux camélias
E- Willem Elsschot - Het dwaallicht
F- Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa
G- Maxim Gorky - Mother
H- Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key
I- Ismail Kadare - Chronicle in Stone
J- Jens Peter Jacobsen - Sechs Novellen
K- Yaşar Kemal - The Wind from the Plain
L- Charlotte Lennox - The Female Quixote
M- L.M. Montgomery - Pat of Silver Bush
N Solomon Northup - Twelve Years a Slave
O- Oscar Wilde - Importance of Being Earnest
P- Fernando Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego
Q- Ellery Queen - The Greek Coffin Mystery
R- Juan Rulfo - Pedro Páramo
S- Walter Scott - The Waverly Novels: The Betrothed
T- J.R.R. Tolkien - Tales from the Perilous Realm
U- James Ramsey Ullman - River of the Sun
V- Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Artists
W- Adele Wiseman - Crackpot
X- Xenophon - A History Of My Times
Y-The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Z- Stefan Zweig - Schachnovelle
What wonders will the new year hold??A: Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood ☆☆☆☆ Read Jan 2018, Review
B: Octavia E. Butler, Kindred☆☆☆☆ Read Jan 2018, Review
C: Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White ☆☆� Read Jan 2018, Review
D: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights ☆☆☆☆ Read Apr 2018 Review
E: Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God ☆☆☆☆ Read Jun 2018 Review
F: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night ☆☆☆☆ Read Mar 2018 Review
G: Nikki Giovanni, Racism 101 ☆☆☆☆ Read Mar 2018 Review
H: Homer, The Iliad ☆☆☆☆ Read Mar 2018 Review
I: Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle ☆☆� Read Oct 2018review
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L: Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places ☆☆☆☆� Read Feb 2018 Review
M: Patrick Modiano, In the Café of Lost Youth ☆☆� Read Feb 2018 Review
N: Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place ☆☆☆☆� Read Feb 2018 Review
O: Yōko Ogawa, Hotel Iris ☆☆� Read Mar 2018 Review
P: Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics ☆☆☆☆ Read Feb 2018, Review
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T: William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair ☆☆� Read Jun 2018, Review
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V: Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus ☆☆☆☆ Read Jun 2018, Review
W: Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own ☆☆☆☆� Read Jan 2018, Review
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A: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow SunB: Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
C: Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
D: Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
E: Epictetus - The Enchiridion by Epictetus
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H:Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
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L:Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
M: Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
N: Taslima Nasrin - Lajja: Shame
O: Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
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S: Julia Serano Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
T: Donna Tartt - The Secret History
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W: Alice Walker - The Color Purple
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Z: Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
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Kelly's 2018 Author Challenge:A: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - 9 Mar
B: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy BLUME - 4 Feb
C: The Hours Michael CUNNINGHAM 14 Jan
D: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot DIAZ - 13 Jan
E: Silas Marner by George ELIOT - 24 APR
F: As I Lay Dying William FAULKNER - 2 Jan
G: Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur GOLDEN - 3 Feb
H: Exit West Mohsin HAMID - 14 Jan
I: Never Let Me Go Kazuo ISHIGURO - 4 Jan
J: Heart of Darkness JOSEPH Conrad - 4 May
K: The Leavers by Lisa KO - 7 Feb
L: The Monk by Matthew LEWIS - 1 Jan
M: Life of Pi by Yann MARTEL - 1 Jan
N: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NG - 26 Mar
O: The English Patient by Michael ONDAATJE - 9 Feb
P: Bel Canto by Ann PATCHETT - 27 Feb
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R: The Human Stain Philip ROTH - 17 Jan
S: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr SOLZHENITSYN - 11 Jan
T: Matigari Ngugi wa THIONG'O - 8 Jan
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Y: Kitchen Banana YOSHIMOTO - 31 Jan
Z: The Book Thief by Markus ZUSAK - 3 Jan
I'm in! I've made a tentative list, because I didn't do such a great job on this challenge in 2017. These might change, but having some kind of plan will keep from from feeling too anxious. :)A. Agatha Christie
� B. Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (01/28/2018) ★★�
� C. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (05/19/2018) ★★★★
D. Donna Tartt or Dashiell Hammett
E. Edgar Allan Poe
� F. Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox (06/24/2018) ★★★★�
G. Allen Ginsberg
H. Haruki Murakami
I. Kazuo Ishiguro
J. James Joyce
� K. It by Stephen King (04/04/2018) ★★★★�
L. Lorraine Hansberry or Leo Tolstoy
M. Herman Melville
N. Nathaniel Hawthorne
O. Ousmane Sembène or Octavia E. Butler
P. Sylvia Plath or Chaim Potok
Q. Anna Quindlen or Matthew Quick
� R. Psycho by Robert Bloch (07/01/2018) ★★�
� S. Sam Shepard - True West (01/12/2018) ★★★★�
T. J.R.R. Tolkien or Tennessee Williams
� U. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (05/06/2018) ★★�
V. Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, or Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
W. Tennessee Williams or Willa Cather
X. Gao Xingjian or Xenophon
Y. Yasunari Kawabata
Z. Zlata Filipović
Julie's A-Z Author Challenge 2018January 1st 2018-December 31st 2018 (finished November 23rd 2018)
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A: Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
B: Sara Blaedel - Ilkas arv
C: Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Blue Train
D: Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Hvide nætter
E: Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
F: Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth
G: Winston Groom - Forrest Gump
H: S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders
I: Washington Irving - The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
J: James Joyce - Ulysses
K: Michael Katz Krefeld - Pagten
L: Selma Lagerlöf - Gösta Berling's Saga
M: Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
N: Jo Nesbø - Macbeth
O: Sara Omar - ø𱹲
P: Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna
Q: Raymond Queneau - Zazie in the Metro
R: Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
S: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The Last Man
T: Tomas Tranströmer - Samlede Tranströmer
U: Leonora Christina Ulfeldt - Leonora Christinas Jammersminde
V: Mich Vraa - Faith
W: Charlotte Weitze - æ
X: Diana Xarissa - Aunt Bessie Assumes
Y: Marguerite Yourcenar - Coup de Grâce (åø)
Z: Jevgenij Zamjatin - Vi
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Count me in as well.Pillsonista’s A-Z Author Challenge: Jan. 1st, 2018 - Dec. 31st, 2018
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A: H.G. Adler - The Wall
B: Honore de Balzac - Lost Illusions
C: John Cowper Powys - Wolf Solent
D: Robertson Davies - The Cornish Trilogy
E: John Ehle - The Land Breakers
F: Theodor Fontane - Irretrievable
G: Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate
H: Bohumil Hrabal - The Little Town Where Time Stood Still
I: Yasushi Inoue - Tun-Huang
J: Jens Peter Jacobsen - Niels Lyhne
K: Hans Keilson - The Death of the Adversary
L: Jakov Lind - Soul of Wood
M: Olivia Manning - Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
N: Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
O: Flann O’Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds
P: Josep Pla - The Gray Notebook
Q: Raymond Queneau - Witch Grass
R: Joseph Roth - The Radetzky March
S: Bruno Schulz - The Street of Crocodiles
T: Leo Tolstoy - The Great Short Works
U: Sigrid Undset - Kristin Lavransdatter
V: Mario Vargas Llosa - Conversation in the Cathedral
W: Edward Lewis Wallant - The Tenants of Moonbloom
X: Xenophon - Anabasis
Y: Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Z: Stefan Zweig - The World of Yesterday
A-Z Author ChallengeJan 1- Dec 31, 2018
Austen, Jane: Lady Susan (1/7)
Baldwin, James: The Fire Next Time (1/24)
Crane, Stephen: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1/4)
Dickey, Colin: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (1/12)
Erdrich, Louise: LaRose (4/30)
Fabiaschi, Abby: I Liked My Life (5/12)
Gibbons, Kaye: Ellen Foster (1/30)
Hannah, Kristin: Firefly Lane (2/20)
Irving, Washington: The Devil and Tom Walker (1/1)
Jackson, Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1/2)
Kaling, Mindy: Why Not Me? (4/14)
Lynch, Jane: Happy Accidents (4/15)
Mastromonaco, Alyssa: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House (1/8)
Norman, Marsha: 'night, Mother (1/25)
O‘Brien, Robert C: Z for Zachariah (1/17)
Puzo, Mario: The Godfather (2/11)
Quinones, Sam: Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (2/8)
Rivera, Gabby: Juliet Takes a Breath (7/20)
Shabazz, Ilyasah: X (1/24)
Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1/6)
Ungerer, Tomi: Moon Man (8/14)
Vertosick, Frank: When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (4/3)
Wariner, Ruth: The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir (1/29)
X, Malcolm: Malcolm X: The Last Speeches (8/14)
Yolen, Jane: Stone Angel (8/14)
Ziblatt, Daniel & Levitsky, Steven: How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (5/17)
26/26 completed.
DONE!!
15/292018
A: Alice Walker jan
B: Amanda Brown jan
C: Charlotte Perkins Gilman jan
D: Gaston Dorren jan
E: Al Ewing jan
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I: Ingunn Aamodt feb
J: John Boyne jan
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M: Monica Leonelle jan
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I’m in as usual - there is no planning whatsoever...A-Z Author Challenge
Jan 1- Dec 31, 2018 Read 25/26
A: José Eduardo Agualusa The Book of Chameleons
B: Bioy Casares The Invention of Morel
C: Lee Child 61 Hours
D: Duras Yann Andréa Steiner
E: Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
F: Dario Fo Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
G: Yaa Gyasi Homegoing
H: Adam Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost
I: Panait Istrati Les Chardons du Baragan
J: Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle
K: Karrebæk Den sorte bog om de syv dødssynder
L: Federico García Lorca øԱ
M: Ngaio Marsh Colour Scheme
N: Celeste Ng Little Fires Everywhere
O: Sara Omar ø𱹲
P: Pushkin The Bakchesarian Fountain
Q: Quiriny Drabelige fortællinger
R: Refstrup På den anden side
S: Wisława Szymborska Lots hustru og andre kvinder
T: Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
U: Deepak Unnikrishnan Temporary People
V: Luca Veste Dead Gone
W: Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
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Y: Yde Russerne - 37 introduktioner til russisk kulturhistorie
Z: Zambra The Private Lives of Trees
I'm in, but in the middle of getting new bookshelves built (YAY!) so it will be a few days before I can get my list planned out.
Pamela, there's no need to plan ahead with the A-Z challenges. You can if you like, but you can also fill them in as you go :)
Going to give it a go!Peg's A-Z 2018 Author Challenge
Read 19/26
A: Abbott, Edwin - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
B: Bailey, Christine K - Secret Phoenix: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
C: Chabon, Michael - Moonglow
D: Drosten, Julia -The Elephant Keeper's Daughter
E: English, T.j. - The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
F: Fontaine, Tess - The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
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M: Mann, Charles C - The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
N: Nesbo, Jo Cockroaches
O: Olsen, Gregg - Bitch on Wheels: The Sharon Nelson Double Murder Case
P: Prisg, Robert M - Zen and the art of Motorcycle riding
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S: Sherman, Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
T: Tan, Amy - The Bonesetter's Daughter
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W: Webb, George - A Pima Remembers
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Count me in again this year! Still mulling over titles but will post soon. Thanks for arranging this challenge, Pink.Elizabeth A.G.'s 2018 A-Z Author Challenge 22/26
[X] A: Edem Awumey - Descent into Night - (1/19/18)
[X] B: Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden - (1/23/18)
[X] C: Willa Cather - My Ántonia - (3/9/18)
[X] D: Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear - (3/20/18)
[X] E: Eramus - Praise of Folly - (2/13/18)
[X] F: F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night - (4/18/18)
[X] G: Gamelis, Richardas - Vilnius Poker - (3/3/18)
[X] H: Ernest Hemingway - The Snows of Kilimanjaro - (2/14/18)
[X] I: Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall - (12/23/18)
[X] J: Tayari Jones - An American Marriage - (3/12/18)
[X] K: Rupi Kaur - "Milk and Honey" - (1/24/18)
[X] L: Edward J. Larson - Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion - (3/30/18)
[X] M: Peter Mayle - The Vintage Caper - (2/4/18)
[X] N: Jo Nesbo - The Snowman - (1/11/18)
[X] O: George Orwell - 1984 - (7/16/18)
[X] P: Sara Pinborough - Behind Her Eyes - (1/15/18)
[X] Q: Ellery Queen - Cat of Many Tails - (12/29/18)
[ ] R: Melanie Rehak - Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
[X] S: Chelsea Sedoti - The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett - (1/3/18)
[X] T: Dragon Todorovic - Diary of Interrupted Days - (1/21/18)
[X] U: Jane Urquhart - The Stone Carvers - (1/17/18)
[X] V: Elizabeth von Arnim - The Enchanted April - (4/20/18)
[X] W: Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing -(1/6/18)
[ ] X: Diana Xarissa - Aunt Bessie Considers
[X] Y: Hanya Yanagihura - The People in the Trees - (1/3/18)
[X] Z: Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - 11/1/18
I'm in! Start Date: January 1, 2018
End Date: December 31, 2018
Books Read: 12/26
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D: Dean Koontz- The Good Guy (Finished: 5/19/2018)
E: E.L. James- Fifty Shades Darker (Finished: 3/27/2018)
F: Fannie Flagg- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Finished: 2/13/2018)
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I'm in for 2018 -nothing planned as yet.
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A-Z Challenge for 2018Start date : 1/1/2018
End date : 31/12/2018
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Hello 2018! January 01 - December 31
completed : 13/26
A - The Handmaid's Tale , Margaret Atwood (14/2/18)
B - The Professor , Charlotte Brontë (06/01/18)
C - Murder in Mesopotamia , Agatha Christie (22/01/18)
D - A Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens (21/01/18)
E - The Mill on the Floss , George Eliot (10/01/18)
F - If I Stay , Gayle Forman (03/02/18)
G - The Wind in the Willows , Kenneth Grahame (27/01/18)
H - Brave New World , Aldous Huxley (01/02/18)
I - The Buried Giant , Kazuo Ishiguro (15/01/18)
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Z - The Book Thief , Markus Zusak (24/03/18)
Oh this looks fun! Im in but for 16. That's an author for all none repetitive letters in my name. such funcupler washington
Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I'm just jumping in here, I hope that's okay. I'm new to this group and really excited to be here. This challenge looks so fun! A
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I'm in.A-Z Author Challenge 2018
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A:A.C. Baantjer - De Cock en het lijk in de kerstnacht 11-1-2018
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Finished B- book of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks. Other than X, all authors are women.
Why not? :-) I am in, for sure!!!!A:
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E: Ehrenreich, B.Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
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A: Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
B: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
C: City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
D: Zero Day by David Baldacci
E: The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
F: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
G: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
H: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
I: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
J: Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
K: The Leavers by Lisa Ko
L: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
M: Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
N: Divine Evil by Nora Roberts
O: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
P: Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
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S: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
T: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
U: Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
V: The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid
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Quite a challenge! I'm in! I will update my list as I go.stampartiste's A-Z Author Challenge 2018
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018
Completed: 8/26
A: � Atwood, Margaret - Alias Grace (completed 01/26/18)
C: � Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White (completed 01/22/18)
� � Christie, Agatha - Death on the Nile (completed 03/09/18)
� � Cather, Willa - O Pioneers! (completed 04/21/18)
D: � Dugard, Martin- Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (completed 03/09/18)
� � Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - White Nights (completed 04/09/18)
H: � Hillerman, Anne - Cave of Bones (completed 04/24/18)
O: � Orwell, George - 1984 (completed 02/13/18)
� � Orwell, George - Down and Out in Paris and London (completed 03/23/18)
P: � Philbrick, Nathaniel - The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (completed 01/07/18)
R: � Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged (completed 03/28/18)
S: � Shakespeare, William - Macbeth (completed 02/19/18)
� � Sides, Hampton - In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (completed 04/06/18)
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Tammy's A-Z Author Challenge 2018January 1st 2018-December 31st 2018
Challenge Completed on 4/19/2018
A: Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio 2/14/2018
B: Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory 2/10/2018
C: Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West 2/25/2018
D: Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son 1/4/2018
E: Elie Wiesel - Night 2/11/2018
F: Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories 2/13/2018
G: Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory 3/23/2018
H: Hamsun, Knut. - Hunger 1/11/2018
I: Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World 1/31/2018
J: Joseph Heller - Catch-22 1/9/2018
K: Kenzaburō Ōe - A Personal Matter 3/24/2018
L: John le Carré - The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 1/19/2018
M: David Markson - Reader’s Block 4/1/2018
N: Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire 2/6/2018
O: Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato 1/6/2018
P: Philip Roth - The Dying Animal 1/21/2018
Q: Matthew Quick - The Silver Linings Playbook
R: Mary Roach - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 2/5/2018
S: Muriel Spark - The Driver's Seat 1/12/2018
T: Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me 1/21/2018
U: Umberto Eco - The Prague Cemetery 1/14/2018
V: Voltaire - Candide 2/9/2018
W: Edith Wharton - Summer 2/15/2018
X: Xinran - Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet 4/19/2018
Y: Yevgeny Zamyatin - We 3/28/2018
Z: Stefan Zweig - Amok 3/14/2018
I've completed Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and updated my post (msg 26) with the review above.
Okay, P was supposed to be PERFUME: STORY OF A MURDERER - but I had to stop, I couldn't get into it and kept getting distracted - on to something else.
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The challenge is to read 26 books, by 26 different authors, one for each letter of the alphabet.
The books can be any genre or publication date and you may use the author's first name or surname (and I guess middle name if you're really struggling!)
Only books read between January 1st - December 31st 2018 can be included.
This challenge can be used in conjunction with all of our other challenges. So you can double up and use the same book for as many as you like! I hope you'll all join us for another year of A-Z!
NOTE: When posting advancements on your challenge, please copy and re-post your original selections with your changes or post the original message number so interested members can follow your progress.