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2022 CHALLENGE BUFFET

Thanks, , Bob, for the variety of challenges. Should be FUN and challenging. Will choose from the some of the challenges below - yet to be selected. Giving this a go!

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge
Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Challenge #8 - Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?
Challenge #9 �� Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge

Challenge #1 - New and Old TBR
Read at least 12 books<.u> - at least 3 books from the Old School category (published before 1900) and 3 books from the New School category (published between 1900 & 1999). The other six and your three alternates can be any genre or age you wish to read, yes even post 2000. No changes to selections after 1/1/2022

Old School Category - 1899 and Earlier
1. The Iliad by Homer - circa 8th century BCE -aprox. 762

2. The Odyssey by Homer - circa 725-675 BCE

3.. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1850

New School Category - 1900-1999
1. Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James (1971)

2. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994)

3. Fortune's Daughter by Alice Hoffman (1985)

Reader's Choice
1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (2012)

2. In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen (2014)

3. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (2013)

4. The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings by Lars Brownworth (2014)

5. High on a Hill by Dorothy Garlock (2001)

6. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman (1997)

Alternates
1. Hill Towns by Anne Rivers Siddons (1993)

2. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (1988)

3. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (1996)

Challenge #3: Decade, Century, Millennium Challenge


Century Challenge
Read 10 books from any 10 consecutive years (1 book per year). The authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you.


1900-1999
1. 1900-1909 - The Sea-Wolf by Jack London - 1904

2. 1910-1919 - The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather - (1915)

3. ✔️ 1920-1929 - Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester (1926) - read 3/6/2022

4. ✔️ 1930-1939 - The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr (1935) - read 1/14/2022

5. ✔️ 1940-1949 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946) - read 9/24/2022

6. 1950-1959 - On the Road by Jack Kerouac - 1957

7. 1960-1969 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - 1961; OR Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - 1966

8. 1970-1979 - If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot - 1970

9. 1980-1989 - A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside - 1984

10. 1990-1999 - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

The Decade Challenge
Read 10 books from any 10 consecutive years (1 book per year). The authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you. Or you can add a level of difficulty to your challenge by selecting only authors you've never read before.

1940s
1. 1940
2. 1941
3. 1942
4. 1943
5. 1944
6. 1945
7. 1946
8. 1947
9. 1948
10. 1949

Millennium Challenge
Read 10 books from any consecutive centuries (one book per century). Authors can only be used once in the challenge. You can use authors previously read by you, or authors you have never read before.

20th century

(✔️)19th century - Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886) - read 2/20/2022

18th century
17th century
16th century
15th century
14th century
13th century
12th century
11th century

Challenge #9 - Fiction/Non-fiction

Select 5 different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Read total 10 books.

Travel
Fiction -Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Non-Fiction - Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer

Autism
Fiction - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Non-Fiction - Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Barry M. Prizant

Vikings
Fiction - Raven: Blood Eye by Giles Kristian
Non-Fiction - The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings by Lars Brownworth

Art
Fiction - The Traitor's Mark by D.K. Wilson
Non-Fiction - The King's Painter: The Life of Hans HolbeinFranny Moyle

Science
Fiction - Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Non-Fiction - ✔️ Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell (2021) - read 3/15/2022

Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge Choose one book per category for a total of 12 books.

1. ✔️ 19th Century - Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886) - read 2/19/2022

2. ✔️ 20th Century - The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr (1935) - read 1/14/2022

3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic,

4. ✔️ Current or Past Group Read - Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) (group read 1/2022) - read 2/15/2022

5. ✔️ An Author not read before - A Stranger Here Below by Charles Fergus (2019) - read 2/27/2022

6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours.
7. Science Fiction,
8. A book originally written in a language other than your own,
9. A Banned Book,

10. ✔️ Nonfiction - Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas (2021) - read 1/14/2022

11. ✔️ Mystery/Crime - Payment Deferred by C.S. Forester (1926) - read 3/6/2022

12. Horror or Humor,

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Challenge #6 2022 Group Reads Challenge
Read 12 of this year's group selections from Old School, New School, Short Story/Novella, Revisit the Shelf, and Quarterly Long Read.

1. ✔️ Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) - read 2/15/2022

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Challenge #2 Second Place or Worse Challenge
Go back through the group's past polls and select 7 books that lost the poll and to date has never made it to our group bookshelf. Pick two books from New School, two books from Old School, two from Short Story/Novella, and one from Quarterly Long Read.

New School
1. The Door by Magda Szabó (1985)

2. Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery (1937)

Old School
1. Basil by Wilkie Collins - (1862)

2. Oronooko: The Royal Slave by Aphra Behn (1688)

Short Story/Novella
1. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett (1925)

2. The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1909)

Quarterly Long Read
1. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (1964)

Great plans, Elizabeth. Looks like a great reading year in 2022 for you!

Sara wrote: "Great plans, Elizabeth. Looks like a great reading year in 2022 for you!"

Thank you, Sara! I've tried to include as many books as possible from my bookshelf before taking on newer books - not always working out, though, LOL! Too many interesting books I want to add!