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While not required, this is a thread for you to post your plans for the Choose Your Own Adventure sub-challenge.

Women/Canon

A2: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
A3: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A4: Vein of Iron by Ellen Glasgow

B1: Silas Marner by George Eliot
B2: Four Novels: The Square, Moderato Cantabile, 10:30 on a Summer Night, the Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas by Marguerite Duras (an alternate)
B3: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
B5: The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

C1: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
C3: Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
C4: The Professor's House by Willa Cather
C5: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Canon, but a men's list (which I will probably read first,; more than 10, so there are alternates)

A1: First Love by Ivan Turgenev
A2: The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy (alternate)
A3: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (alternate)
A4: A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells
A5: The Guide by R.K. Narayan

B1: The Eternal Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
B3: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
B4: Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham
B5: The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne (possible alternate)

C1: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray (alternate)
C2: The Wild Palms by William Faulkner (Dickens lit map)
C3: No Name by Wilkie Collins
C4: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (a likely alternate)
C4: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
C5: The Aspern Papers by Henry James

For this sub-challenge, you will read 10 books by different authors. Each author must fill a different criterion:

A. Author Name
1. Author's first or last name consists of exactly 4 letters.- Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward OR-The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch- good also for C2-OR-The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien-also fits A2-OR- In the Woods by Tana French-OR- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos-also B1 & B4-OR- Tinkers by Paul Harding-OR-Around the Edge by Peter Ford; or- Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima (female)- also B4-OR- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl-lexile 870
2. Author's Name contains no letter L- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon or- Chess Story by Stefan Zweig-OR- Divine Comedy by Sabri Bebawi-OR- The Parachute Drop by Norbert Zongo- OR- Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood-also A4 &C1 &C4
3. Author publishes using (at least) 3 Names- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque-OR- Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates-160p.-OR- Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd- also A1&A2
4. Author's first or last name contains a double letter- The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope OR The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller III-OR- Edwin of the Iron Shoes by Marcia Muller-OR- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney-OR- Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth by Albert Podell-OR- Sounder by William H. Armstrong-also C1; or- Knitting Up a Murder by Celeste Bennett-alsoB3 or C1
5. Author publishes using initials and surname- A Killer Collection by J.B. Stanley -OR- Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton

B. Author Birth/Life
1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)- Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki OR- Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas-OR- Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens-also B3-OR- The Professor's House by Willa Cather-237p.-also B3 &B4
2 Author born 1914-18 OR 1939-45- Add a Dash of Pity by Peter Ustinov-also fits B4-OR- Queer by William S. Burroughs-also A4 & B3-OR- The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
3. Author has a December, January, or February birthdate.- The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp-OR- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare-OR- Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs-also fits A4; OR- Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros-short stories-192
4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00).-Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy-PS#13-OR- The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie- check lexile; OR- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson-OR- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway-OR- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman Also B5 & C1 & C3
5. Author born in Octoberfest Country-if USA- The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket-OR- The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie; If Italy- Menaechmi; Or, the Twin-Brothers by Plautus; IF USA- Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey-also C1; If USA-The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman- also A2 & C1

C. Author Characteristics
1. Read a book by an author you have not read before- Raiders of the Lost Bark by Sparkle Abbey -OR- The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera-OR- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates-OR- The Overstory by Richard Powers-OR- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud-OR- Broadway Anecdotes by Peter Hay-OR- Nature Is Unlimited Broadcasting Station: Flowers She Wore on Her Feet by Bertha Mkwelele- OR- No Place for Women by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar-Indie Author
2. Read a book by an author found on the Literature Map of one of the following authors: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Carson McCullers, Muriel Spark, or Iris Murdoch- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; note Tolstoy is on Zola map; The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust-also A2 & B1
3. Read a book by a veteran author (one who has published 20 years or more).- Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History by John Steinbeck; The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty
4.Read a book by an author who has published in at least 3 forms (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play, etc)- Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair
5. Read a book by an author who has worked as a journalist- Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming-OR- Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey-OR- Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho-also C3-OR perhaps For You Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl-Food & Drink-NF-144p.


Look fo place in 10 & 20 tasks for - March: Book Two by John Lewis
Scoring:

15 points per task

Completion Bonus:
100 points for completing all 10 tasks
50 points if all authors are female
100 points if all titles are on the Canon

CYOA can be completed three times, but each criteria can only be used twice in the season.

10.1 -The Professor's House by Willa Cather
10.2- if Industrial Rev.- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
10.3- If Postmodern Genius- perhaps Orlando by Virginia Woolf-cd's available at library
10.4-if Anniversary- perhaps Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton
10.5-The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
10.6-Broadway Anecdotes by Peter Hay
10.7- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon-
10.8- Menaechmi; Or, the Twin-Brothers by Plautus or- Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki
10.9- Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy -PS 2019 task-OR-Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
10.10- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

20.1- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
20.2-Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey
20.3- Indiana by George Sand-audiobooks-OR- Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima
20.4-The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker-
20.5- Mama Amazonica by Pascale Petit#1 on Ondaatje list
20.6 The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates if approved
20.7- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson-UK
20.8 Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood 175p. OR The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
20.9- The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection by Clifton Fadiman
20.10- The Overstory by Richard Powers

CYOA plan..... no extra points, but finishes my 2019 A-Z author list + starts 2020

with substitutes (Jan. 14):

1 The Hummingbird's Daughter A3 ->read
2 Mildred Pierce A1
3 The Black Dahlia A4 ->read
4 All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories A5
5 Olive Kitteridge B3 ->read
6 The Razor's Edge B1
7 A Jest of God B5
8 Gulliver's Travels B4
9 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day C1 ->read
10 The Gods of Mars A2 ->read



2nd plan:

1 Reproduction C4
2 Ian Fleming C5
3 The Old Man + Mr. Smith B2
4 The third man C3
5 The summer book A2
6 How the light gets in B5
7 The thin man A4
8 The Good Husband of Zebra Dr A3
9 Mildred Pierce A1
10 The Seville Communion C2

Plans:

A. Author Name
1. Author's first or last name consists of exactly 4 letters. DONE
Sarah Bird
Longing by Mary Balogh
2. Author's Name contains no letter L DONE
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
Wake by Anna Hope
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
3. Author publishes using (at least) 3 Names DONE
He Sees You When You're Sleeping by Mary Higgins Clark
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet
4. Author's first or last name contains a double letter DONE
Shirley Hazzard
Anthony Powell
Maggie O'Farrell
Richard Russo
5. Author publishes using initials and surname
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

B. Author Birth/Life
1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901) DONE
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
2 Author born 1914-18 OR 1939-45 DONE
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
3. Author has a December, January, or February birthdate.
4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00). DONE
Oscar Wilde
Eudora Welty
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Willa Cather
W. Somerset Maugham
5. Author born in Octoberfest Country DONE
The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Maggie O'Farrell

C. Author Characteristics
1. Read a book by an author you have not read before
The Roanoke Girls byAmy Engel
Corrag by Susan Fletcher
The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
2. Read a book by an author found on the Literature Map of one of the following authors: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Carson McCullers, Muriel Spark, or Iris Murdoch
Muriel Spark map-Anthony Powell
Iris Murdoch map-Pat Barker, Colm Tóibín, Daphne du Maurier
3. Read a book by a veteran author (one who has published 20 years or more). DONE
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Agatha Christie
Bernard Malamud
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Daphne du Maurier
Ian McEwan
Jodi Picoult
4.Read a book by an author who has published in at least 3 forms
(fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play, etc)
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
5. Read a book by an author who has worked as a journalist
Isabel Allende
Maggie O'Farrell

A1:
A2:
A3:
A4:
A5:

B1:
B2:
B3:
B4:
B5:

C1:
C2:
C3:
C4:
C5:

A. Author Name
✔️ 1. Author's first or last name consists of exactly 4 letters
Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster by Alison Weir
Nevada Barr
Ann Hite
✔️ 2. Author's Name contains no letter L
Sarah Waters
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
✔️ 3. Author publishes using (at least) 3 Names
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
Susan Wittig Albert
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
✔️ 4. Author's first or last name contains a double letter
Connie Willis
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
George P. Mitchell: Fracking, Sustainability, and an Unorthodox Quest to Save the Planet by Loren C. Steffy
✔️ 5. Author publishes using initials and surname
J K Rowling
A.S. Byatt
M.L. Stedman
Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body by M.C. Beaton

B. Author Birth/Life
1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Anne Douglas Sedgwick (born 1873)
2 Author born 1914-18 OR 1939-45
Mary Stewart (1916)
Bharati Mukherjee (born 1940)
Cokie Roberts (1943)
✔️ 3. Author has a December, January, or February birthdate.
King's Mountain by Sharyn McCrumb
Margaret Halsey
✔️ 4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00).
Ursula K. Le Guin
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cokie Roberts
Bharati Mukherjee
Anita Shreve
Murder in the Smithsonian by Margaret Truman
✔️ 5. Author born in Octoberfest Country
Emma Donoghue Ireland
Liane Moriarty Australia
Spirited: Connect to the Guides All Around You by Rebecca Rosen USA
Delia Owens USA
Kate Morton Australia

C. Author Characteristics
✔️ 1. Read a book by an author you have not read before
Where the Crawdads Sing
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
2. Read a book by an author found on the Literature Map of one of the following authors: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Carson McCullers, Muriel Spark, or Iris Murdoch
Willa Cather
Ann Patchett
Iris Murdoch
3. Read a book by a veteran author (one who has published 20 years or more).
Margaret Atwood
Anna Tyler
Jane Smiley
4.Read a book by an author who has published in at least 3 forms (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play, etc)
Kate Atkinson
May Sinclair
✔️ 5. Read a book by an author who has worked as a journalist
Gail Godwin
Stein House by Myra Hargrave McIlvain
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Planning:

A. Author Name
1. Author's first or last name consists of exactly 4 letters: Donna Leon
2. Author's Name contains no letter L: Daphne du Maurier
3. Author publishes using (at least) 3 Names
4. Author's first or last name contains a double letter
5. Author publishes using initials and surname

B. Author Birth/Life
1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)
2 Author born 1914-18 OR 1939-45: Mickey Spillane
3. Author has a December, January, or February birthdate: Elizabeth Berg (12/2/48)
4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00): Ruth Rendell (1930-2015)
5. Author born in Octoberfest Country

C. Author Characteristics
1. Read a book by an author you have not read before: Sarah Jude
2. Read a book by an author found on the Literature Map of one of the following authors: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Carson McCullers, Muriel Spark, or Iris Murdoch: Ernest Hemingway
3. Read a book by a veteran author (one who has published 20 years or more): Anne Perry
4.Read a book by an author who has published in at least 3 forms (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play, etc): Edith Pargeter (fiction, short stories, non-fiction) - pseudonym Ellis Peters
5. Read a book by an author who has worked as a journalist: George Orwell

A2 - no L - Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese

Read
A1 - Lauren Eden
A3 - Mary Anne Morefield
A4 - G. Willow Wilson
A5 - A.S. Byatt
B4 - Louise Cooper
C1- Priya Alika Elias
C3 - Nikki Giovanni
C4 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
C5 - Michelle Malkin
10.1, 10.2, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10
20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 20.8, 20.9, 20.10

10.3 The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures or North and South
10.4 The Golden Notebook or The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman; Volume 2 or A History of the World in 10½ Chapters or Solaris (all need to acquire somehow)

WOMEN - Round 1

Doing only one round, using both lists

A. Author Name
��1. Author's first or last name consists of exactly 4 letters.
    The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
2. Author's Name contains no letter L
  ����Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
3. Author publishes using (at least) 3 Names
    Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
4. Author's first or last name contains a double letter
   
5. Author publishes using initials and surname
    Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography by P.D. James

C. Author Characteristics
��1. Read a book by an author you have not read before
    Sunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
2. Read a book by an author found on the Literature Map of one of the following authors: [...] or Iris Murdoch
    The Child's Child by Barbara Vine
3. Read a book by a veteran author (one who has published 20 years or more).
    Portobello by Ruth Rendell
4. Read a book by an author who has published in at least 3 forms (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play, etc)
    The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
5. Read a book by an author who has worked as a journalist
  ����Mr. Bedford and the Muses by Gail Godwin����


MEN - Round 2
A. Author Name
2. Author's Name contains no letter L
    Chances Are... by Richard Russo
3. Author publishes using (at least) 3 Names
    Johnny Get Your Gun by John Dudley Ball
4. Author's first or last name contains a double letter
    Whatever Happened To Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

B. Author Birth/Life
1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)
    The Talking Trees by Seán Ó Faoláin
2  Author born 1914-18 OR 1939-45
    The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving
3. Author has a December, January, or February birthdate.
    The Broken Bubble by Philip K. Dick
4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00).
    Last Stories by William Trevor
��5. Author born in Octoberfest Country
    Come On In!: New Poems by Charles Bukowski

C. Author Characteristics 
4.Read a book by an author who has published in at least 3 forms (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, play, etc)
    High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
5. Read a book by an author who has worked as a journalist
    The Gift by Pete Hamill����

Tentative list:

A1 - Ursula Hegi
A2 - Nnedi Okorafor
A3 - Joyce Carol Oates
A4 - Amy Herrick
A5 - J.D. Robb

B1 - Willa Cather
B2 - Penelope Fitzgerald
B3 - Ruth Rendell
B4 -
B5 -

C1 - Lauren Groff
C2 - Iris Murdoch
C3 - Penelope Lively
C4 - Emma Donoghue
C5 - Laurie Halse Anderson

My plan:

A1. Author's first or last name consists of exactly 4 letters.
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox

A2. Author's Name contains no letter L
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

A3. Author publishes using (at least) 3 names
Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay

A4. Author's first or last name contains a double letter
Nobody's Fault by Terry Tyler

B1. Author lived during Queen Victoria's lifetime (1819-1901)
The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout, 1886-1975

B2 Author born 1914-18 OR 1939-45
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter, 1940

B4. Author was born in one century died the next (xx01-xx00).
Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett, 1867-1931

B5. Author born in Octoberfest Country
The Understory by Pamela Erens, USA

C2. Read a book by an author found on the Literature Map of one of the following authors: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Emile Zola, Carson McCullers, Muriel Spark, or Iris Murdoch
Strait is the Gate by André Gide, on Proust's map

C3. Read a book by a veteran author (one who has published 20 years or more).
Truth or Dare by Celia Rees,