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CHALLENGE COMPLETED 9/19/2020

Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge (Must Read 12)

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane- 1895 - FINISHED 1/8/20
2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1850 - FINISHED 2/2/20
3. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1852 - FINISHED 2/10/20

1900-1999/New School
4. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey- 1912 - FINISHED 4/7/20
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 1943
6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck- 1939 - FINISHED 4/5/20

My Wild Card Six
7. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells- 1895 - FINISHED 9/9/20
8. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells- 1897 - FINISHED 7/27/20
9. Flowers in the Mirror - 1827
10. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - 1937 - FINISHED 6/14/20
11. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett- 1929 - FINISHED 4/9/20
12. His Family by Ernest Poole - 1917 - FINISHED 9/19/20

Alternates
A-1. The Woman in White - 1859
A-2. Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People - 1901 - FINISHED 7/15/20
A-3. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - 1936 - FINISHED 2/24/20

CHALLENGE COMPLETED 10/5/2020

Challenge #2 - The Year You Were Born and 100 Years Earlier (Must Read 10 Total [5 from each category])

1972
1. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
2. The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian - FINISHED 7/23/20
3. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot - FINISHED 3/9/20
4. The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder - FINISHED 2/1/20
5. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth - FINISHED 1/30/20
6. Watership Down by Richard Adams- FINISHED 6/5/20
7. The Gods Themselves
8. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume - FINISHED 6/5/20
9. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
10. Julie of the Wolves

1872
1. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy - FINISHED 6/16/20
2. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne - FINISHED 6/10/20
3. What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge - FINISHED 6/8/20
4. In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - FINISHED 10/5/20
5. The Pioneers: A Tale of the Western
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6. The Wooden Overcoat
7. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - FINISHED 10/5/20
8. Roughing It by Mark Twain - FINISHED 6/16/20
9. Poor Miss Finch
10. The Princess and the Goblin

Challenge #3 Your Birth Year Top 10 Best Sellers (Must Read 5)

1972
1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A story by Richard Bach - FINISHED 1/1/20
2. August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
4. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth - FINISHED 1/30/20
5. The Word by Irving Wallace
6. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
7. Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell - FINISHED 11/6/20
8. Two from Galilee: The Story of Mary and Joseph by Marjorie Holmes - FINISHED 11/7/20
9. My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
10. Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins - DNF, horrible book, so much foul language. I couldn't handle it.

CHALLENGE COMPLETED 11/21/2020

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Classic/Genre Challenge (Must Read All 12)

18th Century or older, A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - FINISHED 3/9/20
19th Century, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - FINISHED 1/1/20
20th Century, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - FINISHED 4/15/20
Current or Past Group Read, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - FINISHED 11/22/20
An Author not read before, Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome - FINISHED 5/17/20
Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - FINISHED 5/17/20
Science Fiction, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - FINISHED 5/15/20
Romance, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery - FINISHED 10/7/20
Historical fiction, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy - FINISHED 9/8/20
Nonfiction, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank - FINISHED 6/12/20
Mystery/Crime, Theresa Raquin by Émile Zola - FINISHED 9/7/20
Horror or Humor, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - FINISHED 6/1/20

Challenge #5 - Decade/Century Challenge (Must Read All 10)

My Decade Challenge, Authors-Some Old Some New

1900 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - FINISHED 1/11/20
1901 - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - FINISHED 4/21/20
1902 - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - FINISHED 5/17/20
1903 - The Call of the Wild by Jack London - FINISHED 11/12/20
1904 - The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton - FINISHED 10/10/20
1905 - I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki
1906 - The Man of Property by John Galsworthy - FINISHED 9/14/20
1907 - The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit - FINISHED 9/10/20
1908 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - FINISHED 7/1/20
1909 - The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster - FINISHED 10/5/20

CHALLENGE COMPLETED 9/15/2020

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge

1. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe - FINISHED 1/14/20
2. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain - FINISHED 9/6/20
3. To Build a Fire by Jack London - FINISHED 9/6/20
4. A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane - FINISHED 5/13/20
5. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry - FINISHED 1/1/20
6. A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce - FINISHED 5/13/20
7. The Lady or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton - FINISHED 9/12/20
8. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson - FINISHED 5/17/20
9. The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte - FINISHED 5/13/20
10. The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne - FINISHED 9/14/20
11. The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs - FINISHED 5/13/20
12. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - FINISHED 9/10/20
13. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe - FINISHED 1/28/20
14. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving - FINISHED 5/13/20
15. Split Cherry Tree by Jesse Stuart - FINISHED 9/15/20
16. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - FINISHED 1/28/20
17. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne - FINISHED 9/12/20
18. Regret by Kate Chopin - FINISHED 9/15/20
19. Scarlet Stockings by Louisa May Alcott - FINISHED 9/15/20
20. An Angel in Disguise by T.S. Arthur - FINISHED 9/15/20
21. On The Gull's Road by Willa Cather
22. Thank You, M'Am by Langston Hughes - FINISHED 9/15/20
23. Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
24. The Copy Cat by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

ALTERNATES:
1. Daisy Miller by Henry James - FINISHED 1/1/20
2. Select Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe - FINISHED 1/28/20
Includes: The Raven; Hop-Frog; The Black Cat; The Cask of Amontillado; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Gold-Bug; The Masque of the Red Death; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Purloined Letter; The Pit and the Pendulum; and The Tell-Tale Heart
3. The Storyteller by Saki - FINISHED 1/17/20
4. The Lottery and Seven Other Short Stories by Shirley Jackson - FINISHED 5/17/20
Includes: The Lottery; Flower Garden; Come Dance With Me in Ireland; Men with Their Big Shoes; Trial by Combat; Pillar of Salt; Like Mother Used to Make; and Colloquy
5. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: collected stories of the supernatural by Ambrose Bierce - FINISHED 9/10/20
Includes: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Damned Thing; A Watcher by the Dead; An Inhabitant of Carcosa; The Famous Gilson Bequest; The Eyes of the Panther; The Secret of Macarger's Gulch; The Night-Doings at Deadman's
6. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor - FINISHED 9/11/20
Includes: A Good Man is Hard to Find; The River; The Life You Save May Be Your Own; A Stroke of Good Fortune; A Temple of the Holy Ghost; The Artificial Nigger: A Circle in the Fire: A Late Encounter With the Enemy; Good Country People; The Displaced People

CHALLENGE COMPLETED 3/29/2020

Challenge #7 - 2020 Group Reads Challenge (Must read 12 monthly group reads)

JANUARY:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - FINISHED 1/3/20
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - FINISHED 1/13/20
The Cask of Amontillado by The Cask of Amontillado - FINISHED 1/14/20
Stoner by John Williams - FINISHED 1/9/20

FEBRUARY
The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson - FINISHED 2/10/20
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life by Elizabeth Gaskell - FINISHED 2/14/20
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier - FINISHED 3/3/20
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - FINISHED 3/5/20

MARCH
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - FINISHED 3/6/20
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll - FINISHED 3/7/20
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - FINISHED 3/9/20
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie - FINISHED 3/29/20

APRIL
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy - FINISHED 5/1/20
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - FINISHED 5/11/2020

MAY
White Fang by Jack London - FINISHED 5/27/2020
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - FINISHED 5/28/20
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe - FINISHED 5/30/20

JUNE
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - FINISHED 6/8/20
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough - FINISHED 6/24/20
The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells - FINISHED 6/25/20

JULY
East of Eden by John Steinbeck - FINISHED 7/15/20
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe - FINISHED 7/22/2020

AUGUST
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe - FINISHED 8/26/2020

SEPTEMBER
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft - FINISHED 9/6/2020
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor - FINISHED 9/12/2020

OCTOBER
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - FINISHED 5/15/2020

NOVEMBER
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff - FINISHED 11/18/2020

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Ann, you have terrific lists. Of the books I’ve read top billing goes to The Woman in White, The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, Watership Down, and The Time Machine. The one I haven’t read but most want too is The Winds of War, been meaning to read this for years.

Enjoy your challenges!

Bob wrote: "Ann, you have terrific lists. Of the books I’ve read top billing goes to The Woman in White, The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, Watership Down, and The Time Machine. The one I haven’t read bu..."

Thanks Bob. This will be my 1st year in this group. I really tried to find different books for every challenge to really give me some great depth. However, I hope (if allowed) to use Challenges #1 through #7 to fill in Challenge #8 and #9. Let me know if is okay. Really looking forward to this year's reading.

Wow, you will be full from this buffet of books. Good for you for jumping into these challenges with both feet. I'm quite sure you can use your books for multiple challenges, but I'll defer to a moderator for your confirmation. You have some wonderful books planned and I hope you enjoy reading them.

Ann wrote: "Bob wrote: "Ann, you have terrific lists. Of the books I’ve read top billing goes to The Woman in White, The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, Watership Down, and The Time Machine. The one I hav..."

There is no limit to how many challenges a single book can be used for. I couldn't read as many books as would be required to have a different book for every challenge spot. Just two weeks and we can start.

I love your challenge title page, (lol) and what an amazing list. I will be checking some of these titles out. Have fun reading. :)

Good luck on all of your challenges Ann. Many of your choices are favorites of mine and many are ones I want to read. I'll look forward to your thoughts.

Yum... That is quite a buffet!
Good luck and have fun!

I am having so much fun with my buffet. Finished 8 on my lists since 1/1/20 but have added some additional reads too.

This has been a fantastic bunch of challenges. Loving all the new classics that I am reading. Just fabulous!

You are doing great on these challenges Ann!

I'm glad you're enjoying the challenges. You have made good progress so far!

Your short stories list is great. There are several I will be reading. I'm happy you are enjoying your challenges

You've already read some great books, Ann. Wonderful progress.

Thanks Sue, Rosemarie, Bob, and Sara.

Ann T wrote: "Challenge #1 - Old & New TBR Challenge (Must Read 12)

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane- 1895 - FINISHED 1/8/20
2. [book:The Scar..."



Nice progress on your Old and New Challenge. I find this challenge the hardest one for me each year. I end up finding so many other books I want to read!!

Your doing a great job on your challenges and have given me plenty of TBR leads.

You have done f a fantastic, Congratulations!!