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Let's Have Pie - Books to Read Before You Die
(Boxall's / Guardian / Awards)



Interested in chipping away at the Boxall's or Guardian's lists of books to read before you die? How about exploring award winners?

This challenge combines the themes from the Guardian list with your own particular focus. Choose a list or an award (you can choose more than one award to help fit the categories), and eat some pie to complete the challenge. Complete as many pies as you like.

Themes

1. Comedy
2. Crime
3. Family & Self
4. Love
5. Science Fiction & Fantasy
6. State of the Nation
7. War & Travel

Levels

Level 1: Just a Taste
1.
2.
Level 2: Getting Greedy
3.
4.
Level 3: I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing
5.
6.
7.

Some resources to help you choose...

Guardian List:


Comedy
Crime
Family & Self
Love
Science Fiction & Fantasy
State of the Nation
War & Travel

Boxall's List:

Listopia: Favorites from 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die
Books shelved as Boxall on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

Awards:

(Only winners, not nominees.)

Some popular awards: Pulitzer Prize,
ALA Alex Award, National Book Award,
Man Booker Prize, Orange Prize, Newbery Medal,
Walter Scott Prize, Macavity Award, Hugo Award.

You can also search for awards on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to find one that interests you.

I am in for this one!

Guardian Pie #1

Level 1: Just a taste
1. War and Travel: Burmese Days by George Orwell
2. Crime: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

Level 2: Getting greedy
3. Comedy: Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith
4. Science Fiction and Fantasy: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Level 3: I can't believe I ate the whole thing
5.State of the Nation: Amongst Women by John McGahern
6. Love: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. Family and Self: The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers

Themes

1. Comedy
2. Crime
3. Family & Self
4. Love
5. Science Fiction & Fantasy
6. State of the Nation
7. War & Travel

Levels

Level 1: Just a Taste
1. The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald 320 p. 2 stars 2 february 2019
2. Fatherland Robert Harris 25 february 2019 400 p. 4 stars
Level 2: Getting Greedy
3. The Turn of the Screw Henry James 176 p. 30 january 2019 3 stars
4. The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 304 p. 29 january 2019 3 stars

Level 3: I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing
5. De tweeling Tessa de Loo 480 p. 1/14/19 3 stars
6. The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 752 p. 20 january 2019 5 stars
7.The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie 215 p. 5 march 2019 4 stars crime

Renee’s Let’s Have Pie 2019


Themes

1. Comedy
- Piccadilly Jim
2. Crime
- The Murder at the Vicarage
3. Family & Self
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
4. Love
- I Capture the Castle
5. Science Fiction & Fantasy
6. State of the Nation
7. War & Travel

Levels

Level 1: Just a Taste
1.
2.
Level 2: Getting Greedy
3.
4.
Level 3: I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing
5.
6.
7.

I'm going to do this again in 2019, to keep chipping away at the Guardian 1000 list. I've two already (but both from the same theme - family & self).

Themes

1. Comedy: Queen Lucia
2. Crime: Murder at the Vicarage
3. Family & Self:A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Ambassadors
4. Love: Wuthering Heights, The Age of Innocence, A Month in the Country
5. Science Fiction & Fantasy
6. State of the Nation: North and South
7. War & Travel: A Long Long Way, Burmese Days

So far I’ve finished Level 1: Just a Taste. I’m going for the whole pie, eventually. 🥧!

1. Comedy
- Piccadilly Jim
2. Crime
- The Murder at the Vicarage

I finished my first pie, in message 3.

Great! I’m jealous.
I definitely need to focus more on this challenge.

I am reading Wuthering Heights. I hated when I read it aged 18. This time, nearly 20 years later, I am gripped but I wouldn't say I am enjoying it. Why is this book supposed to be romantic? It is full of abuse, no wonder the Victorians were shocked.

I am stuck on my commute with no book to read. I could read some cpd but I seem to have left it back at the office.

Not having anything to read is not good. 😩

You can access LibriVox through your smartphone. :) it’s what I do.

I finished The Age of Innocence yesterday. How brilliant!

I have all categories except, as usual, Science Fiction & Fantasy. It's in message 6.

I usually have the most trouble with Family and Self. I like science fiction.