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Last year I simply challenged myself to catch up on unread books from the groups shelf. My failure comes by not giving myself a number of books to read. Last year I only read four pre-2014 group books, acceptable if I had said that's how many I wanted to read.
Challenge #1
My goal this year is to read 10 unread books from the groups classic bookshelf listed prior to 12/31/14.
9/10
1. Pride and Prejudice,1/13/15, Group Read March 2013
2. Gulliver's Travels, 1/28/15, Group Read January 2011
3. Jamaica Inn, 4/21/15, Group Read, August 2013
4. Around the World in Eighty Days, 5/12/15, Group Read, December 2013
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 5/4/15, Group Read, May 2013
6. Dune, 6/20/15, Group Read, November 2012
7. Lolita, 6/24/15, Group Read, June 2014
8. Catch-22, 10/25/15, Group Read, November 2013
9. The Woman in White, 11/26/15, Group Read, April 2013
10. Snow Falling on Cedars, 12/25/15, Group Read February 2013
Challenge #2
A Book From Every Year Since I Was Born
I started this challenge in 2013 (on a spreadsheet)after seeing a friend list it, she is good with challenges. This challenge may take a few more years to finish.
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Challenge #3
Read a Book for each Letter of my Grandson's First & Middle Name, using either books or authors name.
S- Jonathan Swift-Gulliver's Travels, 1/28/15
I- Interview with the Vampire, 6/30/15
L- Love of Life: & Other Stories-Jack London, 2/10/15
A- The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton, 3/10/15
S-John Steinbeck-The Red Pony, 2/27/15
J- Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice, 1/13/15
A- An Old Captivity-Nevil Shute, 4/27/15
M- W. Somerset Maugham-Ashenden, 5/1/15
E- Elizabeth Gaskell-Cranford, 1/6/15
S- Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert A. Heinlein, 3/30/15
Challenge #4 Monthly Themes
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Awesome Bob, thx for setting up the thread.Since joining this group I have really enjoyed the various challenges we have here, and find that it has helped me vary the kind of books I read :-)
For my Personal Challenge for 2015 I have chosen to focus on Nobel Laureates. The Nobel Prize for Literature has been given out 111 times in total (since 1901), and I am ashamed to say I have only read books by 6 of those authors.
Therefore I challenge myself to read 12 books by different Nobel Laureates in 2015, one book for every decade from the 1900's till 2010's. Off course the author I choose to read should be one I have not read before, so that by the end of 2015 6/111 should have changed to 18/111 :-)
My chosen authors are:
1900's: Selma Lagerlöf (1909) - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Read January 2015
1910's: Henrik Pontoppidan (1917) - Lykke Per Read May 2015
1920's: Knut Hamsun (1920) - Sult Read April 2015
1930's: Pearl S. Buck (1938) - The Good Earth Read June 2015
1940's: William Faulkner (1949) - The Sound and the Fury Read November 2015
1950's: Albert Camus (1957) - Pesten Read May 2015
1960's: Samuel Beckett (1969) - Waiting for Godot Read May 2015
1970's: Pablo Neruda (1971) - Cien Sonetos De Amor/100 Love Sonnets Read May 2015
1980's; Jaroslav Seifert (1984) - Al verdens skønhed (Všecky krásy světa) Read September 2015
1990's: Toni Morrison (1993) Beloved Read March 2015
2000's: Doris Lessing (2007) - The Grass is Singing Read September 2015
2010's: Alice Munro (2013) - Runaway Read August 2015
I have an idea of which book I will be reading for each author, but suggestions are always welcome :-)
I will not be reading the authors in any particular order or at a set frequence of one per month, the goal is just to finish by the end of the year. I will be updating this post with my progress as I go along.
Current status: 18/111 - challenge finished in november 2015
Julie wrote: "Awesome Bob, thx for setting up the thread.Since joining this group I have really enjoyed the various challenges we have here, and find that it has helped me vary the kind of books I read :-)
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Bob wrote: "Bob's Challenge
Last year I simply challenged myself to catch up on unread books from the groups shelf. My failure comes by not giving myself a number of books to read. Last year I only read fou..."
That is what I'm doing this next year! I have more books than I can possibly read. Unless I get a job in which they pay me to read!
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1) Read 12 Books Considered Classics (from the Group's Shelves).
2) Read a book in the original Spanish (a classic preferably from South or Central America).
3) Read 6 non-fiction books.
4) Focus on books that I own and have not read.
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Since my classics challenge ended up being all male authors, I want to challenge myself to read 12 classics by female authors.1.
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I also have a stack of nonfiction I want to get to. I'll make a list and post.
1. A Concise History Of England From Stonehenge To The Atomic Age Read 1/25/15
2. Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English Read 3/31/15
This is just a working start. I'm allowing both lists to be flexible throughout the year.
Hm. Well, first, I really need to read more Russian lit. Any, really, since I think I've read a grand total of ONE Russian classic that isn't science fiction/fantasy. Let's say 4 more for a grand total of 5. (There are 3 on my 12+2 challenge, so this will be one more in addition to those.)
For the Group Bookshelf, I'm currently at 64/99 books read if I've counted right, or around 64%... To pick a random number, let's say I'd like that to be around 80% by the end of the year - so 97/121 books. Or 33 books from the group bookshelf - and newly selected group reads do count.
For non-classics goals, my standard goal is to own the same or fewer unread books at the end of the year than I had at the beginning (250).
For special goals - I have two massive series that have been sitting on my shelf for a long time. My goal is to start both of them. And I have 3 huge collections of fairy tales. I'd like to read at least one.
Obviously, with all these long books, my number of books read is going to take a nosedive next year!
I tend to read more 20th century classics than pre-20th century, so I want to balance that better. That's partly why I joined this group since one from each era is a group read. So my challenge is to read one or more classic from each era every month whether with the group or not. Additionally I want to read one non-fiction book per month.
I don't think I read any French or German in 2014, so I feel I should remedy that. Since I've failed to complete it three times in the past I'd like to challenge myself to finish Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I and Le Comte de Monte-Cristo II by Alexandre Dumas. I'd also like to read Der Zauberberg and Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann.
I am going to set two reading related goals for Goal #1: Read all of this group's monthly selections that I have not previously read. That could possibly equal as many as 40 classics for the year.
Edit: I am withdrawing Goal #2! It is a hopeless cause. :-)
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May 2015
�Rebecca (read in 2014)
�The Leopard
�The Moonstone
Christine,I feel your pain about the one-click kindle purchases. I belong to some GR groups that are always posting $.99 deals! I can't seem to resist them! My credit card statements are full of $.99 transactions. I don't know when I'll ever get to read all of this. I justify these purchases by telling myself that I'm "stocking up" by building a sizable collection for my retirement. ;)
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Christine wrote: "Goal #2: Spend no more than $10 per month on book purchases..."Oh, I would fail terribly at this! I've been trying to not buy books until I'm ready to read them, but whenever an author I like goes on sale, I stock up and spend a fortune.
LOL! Then again, if I invested all that money spent on books, by the time I get to retirement I could buy a LOT of them. ;-)
I love reading everyone's goals :) I have a goal of reading at least 12 classics from different genres or sub genres. I just started a group where we have a new sub-/genre each month, so it should be fairly easy as I try to make sure we read a classic (or well, old book lol) each month as one of the groupreads. And coupled with my reading many classics on my own, this should be more than doable :) So far I've planned/am currently reading:
1. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains - western
2. Lysistrata or Comedic play
3. Pamela. Or, Virtue Rewarded - romance
4. Songs of Innocence and of Experience - poetry
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I haven't read a lot of either of those four genres before, so it's definitely a new experience :)
I also hope to get Don Quixote read, but for that I want to finish these books first:
Tirant Lo Blanc
Arthurian Romances (by Chretien de Troyes)
And possibly the last two volumes of Amadis of Gaul in the abridged, 19th century translation as I can't seem to get my hands on them in the new translation I read for the first two.
Goal #1: I have to read at least 35 classics this year. These are pre-determined classics, not entirely my choice, so that's boring, but a necessity. Goal #2: Read: The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. I've started it and I am going to read this concurrently with everything else. It is a "small doses" book.
Goal #3: Read Classics that take place in different Countries (for U.S. use states). I don't have a set number, but I want to see if I can read books that take place in 10 different locales.
REVISION: This is proving to be pretty easy. So to make it more difficult, I'm going to do 10 States and 10 Different countries. For a total of 20.
Countries
�1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Isle of Skye - Scotland)
�2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Congo River - Central Africa)
�3. The Lover by Marguerite Duras (Saigon, Vietnam)
�4. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Basel and Zurich, Switzerland)
�5. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (Cranford, London England)
USA
�1. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Jefferson, Mississippi)
�2. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (New York City)
�3. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (Tennessee)
I'm probably a bit of a boring person, but the one and only goal I put myself this year is to start and finish War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I remember trying to read the first part out of four of the Finnish edition when I was around 16 years old, but I gave up on the book quite fast. Now I think I have the guts to read it whole and I will certainly give it a huge try this year.
I am so behind in my reading this month! I have been having problems the last few weeks with an injury and being doped up on pain meds has made it really difficult for me to follow anything I try to read, and to stay awake while trying to read. Now that I'm feeling better I hope to plow through Cranford and Love in the Time of Cholera before the end of the month. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can meet one of my two goals for January!
I have two ongoing personal challenges. If I put them down in writing here, then it might motivate me to do something about them.PERSONAL CHALLENGE 1: Read all Charles Dickens's novels
At the beginning of 2015, I had only read three:
David Copperfield
A Tale of Two Cities, and
Great Expectations
PERSONAL CHALLENGE 2: Read something written by each of the Nobel Literature Prizewinners
At the beginning of 2015, I had read works by:
Rudyard Kipling
George Bernard Shaw
John Steinbeck
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gabriel García Márquez
William Golding
José Saramago
Naipaul V.S.
Doris Lessing
So far this year, I have also read:
Toni Morrison
Alice Munro
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Sounds like you've made good progress to me.
My Fantasy & Scifi (classic) Challenge 20161. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
2. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
5. Prophecy: Clash of Kings by M.K. Hume
6. Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
7. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
8. The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
9. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
10. The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller
All these are definitely not classics and some are. The purpose of this challenge is to reduce my TBR-pile and get some fantasy reading done (it´s one of my favorite genre but it has been neglected for some time now).
Reducing my TBR pile
This challenge is only about reducing my TBR pile. I have 11 pages of them and in this challenge I have to pick one book from every page. This gives me plenty of choices but I hopefully this pile also gets smaller instead of bigger!
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Results of Challenge #1
Challenge #1
My goal this year is to read 10 unread books from the groups classic bookshelf listed prior to 12/31/14.
9/10
1. Pride and Prejudice,1/13/15, Group Read March 2013
2. Gulliver's Travels, 1/28/15, Group Read January 2011
3. Jamaica Inn, 4/21/15, Group Read, August 2013
4. Around the World in Eighty Days, 5/12/15, Group Read, December 2013
5. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 5/4/15, Group Read, May 2013
6. Dune, 6/20/15, Group Read, November 2012
7. Lolita, 6/24/15, Group Read, June 2014
8. Catch-22, 10/25/15, Group Read, November 2013
9. The Woman in White, 11/26/15, Group Read, April 2013
10. Snow Falling on Cedars, 12/25/15, Group Read February 2013
As long as I finish Snow Falling on Cedars by year end this challenge is a sucess
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Challenge #2
A Book From Every Year Since I Was Born
I started this challenge in 2013 (on a spreadsheet)after seeing a friend list it, she is good with challenges. This challenge may take a few more years to finish.
1957 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 7/4/13
1958 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 2/3/15
1959 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 8/5/15
1960 Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, 10/28/14
1961 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 3/30/15
1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 1/11/13
1963 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 2/3/13
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1965 Dune by Frank Herbert, 6/20/15
1966 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 9/18/14
1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 5/7/14
1968 True Grit by Charles Portis, 11/20/13
1969 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 11/24/13
1970 Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, 7/23/15
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1972 Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, 11/21/15
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1974 A Cry of Angels by Jeff Fields, 1/27/14 (3rd Reread)
1975 Salem's Lot byStephen King, 10/25/14
1976 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer, 11/16/13
1977 Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer, 12/27/13
1978 The Stand by Stephen King, 10/6/13
1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1/16/13
1980 Cradle and All by James Patterson, 1/4/14
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1983 First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, 5/8/15
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1985 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 10/22/13
1986 The Last Don by Mario Puzo, 9/6/14
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1988 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 2/6/13
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1990 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, 7/27/14
1991 New York Dead by Stuart Woods, 12/31/14
1992 Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, 8/21/13
1993 The Giver by Lois Lowry, 2/17/13
1994 Inca Gold by Clive Cussler, 1/21/14
1995 Imperfect Strangers by Stuart Woods, 9/16/13
1996 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, 2/28/14
1997 Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods, 11/25/13
1998 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, 4/28/13
1999 Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr, 4/16/15
2000 How the Dead Live by Will Self, 8/18/13
2001 The Christmas Train by David Baldacci, 12/6/13
2002 Blood Orchid by Stuart Woods, 7/28/14
2003 Flashback by Nevada Barr, 2/13/14
2004 Sacred Stone by Clive Cussler, 9/28/14
2005 Dark Watch by Clive Cussler, 11/13/14
2006 The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2/15/13
2007 The Quickie by James Patterson, 5/19/13
2008 The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, 9/1/13
2009 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, 12/26/14
2010 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, 3/31/13
2011 Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff, 8/10/13
2012 The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson, 12/10/13
2013 And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, 11/24/14
2014 The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry, 9/11/15
2015
I have just drifted with this challenge filling in years as I came across them. I added 9 more books (bold type) to this list in 2015. In order to successfully finish this challenge I will have to set serious about hunting the missing years.
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Challenge #3
Read a Book for each Letter of my Grandson's First & Middle Name, using either books or authors name.
S- Jonathan Swift-Gulliver's Travels, 1/28/15
I- Interview with the Vampire, 6/30/15
L- Love of Life: & Other Stories-Jack London, 2/10/15
A- The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton, 3/10/15
S-John Steinbeck-The Red Pony, 2/27/15
J- Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice, 1/13/15
A- An Old Captivity-Nevil Shute, 4/27/15
M- W. Somerset Maugham-Ashenden, 5/1/15
E- Elizabeth Gaskell-Cranford, 1/6/15
S- Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert A. Heinlein, 3/30/15
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Challenge #4 Monthly Themes
JAN: Read that classic you always wanted to read, but never got around too.
Gulliver's Travels
Pride and Prejudice, literally for years I have thought about reading these.
FEB: Black Authors (for Black History Month)
Chinua Achebe-Things Fall Apart, good timing for a group New School read
MAR: Women Authors (for Women’s History Month)
Edith Wharton-The Age of Innocence, she is simply one of my favorites
Jamaica Inn-Daphne du Maurier
APR: Books Made Into Movies
2001: A Space Odyssey
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
MAY: Books about a Journey
Around the World in Eighty Days
JUNE: Science Fiction/Fantasy
Children of the Mind
Dune
JULY: Canadian Authors
Robertson Davies-Fifth Business
AUG: Diary or Letters (Anne Frank, Frankenstein)
Flowers for Algernon
SEPT: Banned or Challenged Books (for Banned Books Week)
The Old Man and the Sea
Catch-22, On Library Hold till Sep 28
OCT: Terror, Horror, Suspense
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Lottery
The Tell-Tale Heart
NOV: Spanish / Hispanic Authors
Gabriel García Márquez-Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
DEC: Short Stories
The Martian Chronicles
A Christmas Memory
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Wow, when you post these all together they look like a great achievement of books you've read Bob. Well done :)
Looks like you had a great year of reading, Bob! Congrats on your awesome progress with all your challenges.
WoW!!!!! Those are great challenges. Best Wishes on the 2016 reading year.
Powder River Rose wrote: "WoW!!!!! Those are great challenges. Best Wishes on the 2016 reading year."Thank you Rose.
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I have chosen to 'repeat' my personal challenge from 2015 in 2016 (see message 3) - i.e. I will be reading 12 new-to-me Nobel Laureates this year as well.My chosen authors are:
1900's: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1903)
1910's: Romain Rolland (1915)
1920's: George Bernard Shaw (1925)
1930's: John Galsworthy (1932)
1940's: Hermann Hesse (1946)
1950's: Boris Pasternak (1958)
1960's: Nelly Sachs (1966)
1970's: Saul Bellow (1976)
1980's: Joseph Brodsky (1987)
1990's: Seamus Heaney (1995) - Death of a Naturalist (poems) Read January 2016
2000's: Naipaul V S (2001)
2010's: Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
Bob wrote: "Dave this is a challenge with a capitol C, but where is my state of Georgia?"Bob, thanks for the catch on Georgia - a fairly easy state to find a book the meets mt criteria.
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a nice idea
I made some changes in my challenge (message 23) because I could not find some of the books from my Kindle, that I thought would be there.
I'm starting my first two states in my 2016-2020 Sea to Shining Sea Challenge - New Hampshire with "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" by Joel Dicker and North Carolina with "The Dark Road to Mercy" by Wiley Cash. Although I've just started, I put them on my new map just to give me a sense I have started my challenge journey. 
Great start Dave, I'm glad you've got the map working for you :)
Dave wrote: "I'm starting my first two states in my 2016-2020 Sea to Shining Sea Challenge - New Hampshire with "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" by Joel Dicker and "The Dark Road to Mercy" by Wiley Ca..."I really liked The Truth about Harry Quebert Affair!
I'm going to take on the Book Published Every Year since you were born challenge this year as well. And just to make it a little more fun I am going to allow re-reads (not the same as counting books you've already read -- I have to actually re-read them this year) but IN ORDER of Pub Year. So my first book must be a 1965 pub date. My goal is to get to 1976 by the end of the year. At this point I only know what the first book will be:
1. 1965 Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper 13 Jan 2016
2. 1966
Read on!
I'm moving this over to the Personal Challenges Folder, if I can figure out how to do so...
Desertorum wrote: "Dave wrote: "I'm starting my first two states in my 2016-2020 Sea to Shining Sea Challenge - New Hampshire with "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" by Joel Dicker and "The Dark Road to Mercy..."Yes, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affairs is great, I'll finish it tomorrow. I find it so interesting that the most interesting book set in New Hampshire that met my criteria is written by a Contemporary Swiss author and , although the book has not been promenent in the US it replaced 50 shades of Grey on French bestseller lists. It won a french literary prize. I also am enjoying The Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash. I've read Cash's Land More Kind than Home -great Southern Gothic. So with two books I'll get 2 checks on my personal challenge and two checks on my classic bingo challenge!
Julia wrote: "I'm going to take on the Book Published Every Year since you were born challenge this year as well. And just to make it a little more fun I am going to allow re-reads (not the same as counting book..."Happy reading Julia!
Dave wrote: "I don't know how to get titles linked so I need to be clued in on that."At the top of the comment book are green words that says "add book/author" click on that. Type the book title and a drop box will appear. Page through till you find the right book and click add.
At the bottom of that box is text or book cover click which ever one you desire.
At the top there is a choice of book or author. If you click on the book rather than the add button, it will open the book in another tab.
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New Personal Challenge/Goals Folder
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Cosmic wrote: "Dave wrote: "I don't know how to get titles linked so I need to be clued in on that."At the top of the comment book are green words that says "add book/author" click on that. Type the book title..."
Thanks Cosmic
Is it possible to link the counters used in the various challenges? For example, the counter for the ŷ reading challenge, or the one that counts finished books on a specific shelf for this group's classics reading challenge?
B1: Written by Nobel Laureate Cent ans de solitude
B2:Sci-fi or Fantasy Classic The War of the Worlds
O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region - morocco /agadir Les enfants des rues étroites
B3: Classic of Africa Il Était Une Fois Un Vieux Couple Heureux
B 4 une nouvelle (short story french) Les Révoltés de la "Bounty"
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author :Mrs. Dalloway
G5: Published in the 1800's :Wuthering Heights
G4: Classic from School Père Goriot
O4: Mystery or Crime Classic :The Clocks
N1: Classic of the Americas:The Parsifal Mosaic
G2: Book from Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century -:The Grapes of Wrath
N5: Classic of Europe :Une vie
I2: New-to-You Author -:Vous revoir
B4: Children's Classic:The Latchkey Kid
N2: Short Story Collection:Jane Austen Juvenilia and Short Stories: Lady Suzan, The Watsons, Sandition, Plan of a Novel, Sir Charles Grandison and Juvenilia in Three Volumes
B2: Sci-fi or Fantasy Classic :Le mystère Frontenac
N3: FREE SPACE Traitement de choc
I1: Published/Written Before 1600’s :رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي
T 1: thriller Book L'Enterrement des rats et autres nouvelles : L'Enterrement des rats - Une Prophétie de bohémienne - Les Sables de Crooken - Le Secret de l'or qui croît
I4: Banned Book :Guide du câblage universel and Late Capitalism
O3: Classic of Asia or Oceania كيف نختلف
B2:Sci-fi or Fantasy Classic The War of the Worlds
O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region - morocco /agadir Les enfants des rues étroites
B3: Classic of Africa Il Était Une Fois Un Vieux Couple Heureux
B 4 une nouvelle (short story french) Les Révoltés de la "Bounty"
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author :Mrs. Dalloway
G5: Published in the 1800's :Wuthering Heights
G4: Classic from School Père Goriot
O4: Mystery or Crime Classic :The Clocks
N1: Classic of the Americas:The Parsifal Mosaic
G2: Book from Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century -:The Grapes of Wrath
N5: Classic of Europe :Une vie
I2: New-to-You Author -:Vous revoir
B4: Children's Classic:The Latchkey Kid
N2: Short Story Collection:Jane Austen Juvenilia and Short Stories: Lady Suzan, The Watsons, Sandition, Plan of a Novel, Sir Charles Grandison and Juvenilia in Three Volumes
B2: Sci-fi or Fantasy Classic :Le mystère Frontenac
N3: FREE SPACE Traitement de choc
I1: Published/Written Before 1600’s :رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي
T 1: thriller Book L'Enterrement des rats et autres nouvelles : L'Enterrement des rats - Une Prophétie de bohémienne - Les Sables de Crooken - Le Secret de l'or qui croît
I4: Banned Book :Guide du câblage universel and Late Capitalism
O3: Classic of Asia or Oceania كيف نختلف
Aprilleigh wrote: "Is it possible to link the counters used in the various challenges? For example, the counter for the ŷ reading challenge, or the one that counts finished books on a specific shelf for this ..."I'm not sure what you mean by "link the counters"? The GR annual reading challenge counts any book that you've entered a "completed" date for the current year. Group challenge counters count books that you add to your designated challenge shelf. How are you wanting to link them?
I'd like to have them show up in a thread post - so far the only way I've seen to add them is a link to a page that includes them.
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1. It's your challenge period. Anything goes.
You can challenge yourself to a classic per month.
You can read several classics/books by a single author.
You can read books from different countries.
You can read books set in different countries.
You can read unread books from the group's bookshelf.
You can challenge yourself to read a certain number of books/pages this year.
You get the idea. Use this thread to list any goal you wish to accomplish this year.