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This is my second try after not completing the few challenges I attempted last year. This year I will plan for a large serving with the caveat that when I get full, I can stop before getting bloated! I hope to sample some of all of my helpings so I'm not seen as a picky reader who doesn't like to try new things!

Most likely will attempt #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #9, & #11

A Bakers Dozen Menu for the 2022 Buffet:


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 & Old TBR Challenge

1899 and earlier/Old School
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
☑️2. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1776) finished 8-11-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟4 stars
☑️3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving (1819) finished 2-19-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars

1900-1999/New School
4. The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow (1954)
☑️5. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1913) finished 2-12-22 🌟🌟🌟 3 stars
☑️6. The Town by Conrad Richter (1951) Pulitzer finished 9-4-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars

My Wild Card Six
7. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson(2002)
☑️8. Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (2006) finished 1-22-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
9. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (2003)
10. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards (1981)
☑️11. Giant by Edna Ferber (1952) Pulitzer finished 10-29-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
12. The Hours by Michael Cunningham(1998) Pulitzer

Alternates
A-1. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
A-2. Catherwood by Marly Youmans (1996)
A-3. Plainsong by Kent Haruf (1999)

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

New School
☑️1. The Wreath by Sigrid Undset (1920)finished 11-2-22 🌟🌟🌟 3 stars
☑️2. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946) Pulitzer finished 9-26-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars

Old School
1. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)
☑️2. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1776) finished 8-11-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars

Short Story/Novella
1. A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
2. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

Quarterly Long Read
☑️1. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey finished 6-17-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge
I have 2 decades of books that appeal to me right now and can't decide which one or just work on both!?!?

My Decade Challenge

The 1950's

☑️1950 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov finished 3-29-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4.5 stars
1951 My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
1952 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1953 Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
1954 Katherine by Anya Seton or Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1955 The Quiet American by Graham Greene or Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis
1956 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
1957 Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
1958 Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
1959 Hawaii by James A. Michener

the 1960's

1960 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee or Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
1961 The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck or West Side Story by Irving Shulman
☑️ 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 🌟🌟🌟🌟finished 7-25-22 4 stars
1963 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
☑️1964 Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 finished 6-17-22 5 stars
☑️1965 Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce 🌟🌟🌟🌟 finished 7-10-22 4 stars
1966 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (read after Hamlet)
☑️1967 Christy by Catherine Marshall finished 3-6-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
1968 Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
☑️1969 The Godfather by Mario Puzo finished 7-31-22🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars


My Century Challenge
with a bit of a Southern flair (only one doesn't actually fit true southern. Winesburg, Ohio is my pick for 1910's as nothing else seemed to work.)

1890-1899 The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)
1900-1909 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr. (1903)
1910-1919 Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)
1920-1929 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
1930-1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1938)
1940-1949 Men of the Mountains by Jesse Stuart (1941) or The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty (1949)
1950-1959 The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow (1954)
1960-1969 The Road by John Ehle (1967)
☑️1970-1979 Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1979) finished 7-2-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars
1980-1989 Can't Quit You, Baby by Ellen Douglas (1988)

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

☑️1. 19th Century, King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard finished 3-18 🌟🌟🌟 3 stars
☑️2. 20th Century, The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton finished 1-17-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars
☑️3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic, The Siege by Helen Dunmore (2001) finished 1-11-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars
☑️4. Current or Past Group Read, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton finished 1-13-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars
☑️5. An Author not read before, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr finished 2-8-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 plus stars
☑️6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
☑️7. Science Fiction, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov finished 3-29-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
☑️8. A book originally written in a language other than your own, The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy finished 5-2-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
☑️9. A Banned Book, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck finished 3-12-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
☑️10. Nonfiction, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer finished 2-9-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
☑️11. Mystery/Crime, The Godfather by Mario Puzo finished 7-31-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars
☑️12. Horror or Humor, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner finished 8-27-22 🌟🌟🌟 3 stars

Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge

☑️1. The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry finished 1-3-21
☑️2. The Last Leaf by O. Henryfinished 1-3-21
☑️3. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving finished 2-12-22
☑️4. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving finished 2-14-22
☑️5. The Spectre Bridegroom by Washington Irving finished 2-15-22
☑️6. The Pride of the Village by Washington Irving finished 2-16-22
☑️7. Mountjoy by Washington Irving finished 2-19-22
☑️8.Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville finished 3-10-22
☑️9.Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne finished 5-14-22
☑️10. Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens finished 6-28-22
☑️11.Three Detective Anecdotes by Charles Dickens finished 7-9-22
☑️12. On Duty with Inspector Field by Charles Dickens finished 7-22-22
☑️13. The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne finished 7-27-22
☑️14.Our English and French Watering-Place finished 7-29-22
☑️15.That Distant Land: The Collected Stories by Wendell Berry finished 8-14-22 23 stories
☑️16.The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens finished 8-18-22
☑️17. The Drunkard's Death by Charles Dickens finished 8-27-22
☑️18.Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe finished 10-5-22
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Challenge #6 - 2022 Group Reads Challenge

☑️1.The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
☑️2.The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
☑️3.Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
☑️4. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
☑️5. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
☑️6.Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
☑️7.The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
☑️8.East of Eden by John Steinbeck
☑️9.Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
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Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

☑️1.Jetta Carleton - The Moonflower Vine
☑️2.W. Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge
☑️3.Howard Bahr - The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
☑️4.Helen Dunmore - The Siege
☑️5.Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener
☑️6.Catherine Marshall - Christy

Challenge Complete!!

☑️7. H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
☑️8. Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata
☑️9. EL Doctorow - The March
☑️10. Harry Crews - The Gospel Singer
☑️11. Isaac Asimov - I, Robot
☑️12. Mary Stewart - The Crystal Cave
☑️13. A.S. Byatt - Possession
☑️14. Rumer Godden - Black Narcissus
☑️15. Douglas C. Jones - Elkhorn Tavern
☑️16. Clyde Edgerton - Walking Across Egypt
☑️17. Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion
☑️18. Donn Pearce - Cool Hand Luke
☑️19. Conrad Richter - The Trees
☑️20. William Styron - Sophie's Choice
☑️21. Mario Puzo - The Godfather
☑️22. Elmer Kelton - The Time It Never Rained
☑️23. Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
☑️24. Elizabeth Madox Roberts - The Time of Man
☑️25. Cornelia Otis Skinner - Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s
☑️26. Anne Tyler - Earthly Possessions
☑️27. Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Murders
☑️28. Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
☑️29. Edith Summers Kelley - Weeds
☑️30. Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes
☑️31. Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers
☑️32. Daniel Woodrell - The Death of Sweet Mister
☑️33. Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff
☑️34. Edna Ferber - Giant
☑️35. Sigrid Undset - The Bridal Wreath

Challenge #8 �� Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference

“Select 10 books from any single year of interest, then select 10 more from 100, 50, or 25 years earlier, for a total of 20 books. List your choices for other members to explore. The challenge is to successfully read 10 of the 20 books selected, five from your year of choice and five from the earlier year chosen.

Pick a year of your choice and then go back in time 100, 50, or 25 years. You can use your birth year, the birth year of a child, a spouse, a parent, or any other year of interest.

Challenge #9 �� Fiction/Non-Fiction

Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Total number of books for this challenge is ten.

Coming of Age
Nonfiction:Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
Fiction:The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

American Revolution
Nonfiction:John Adams by David McCullough
Fiction:Dawn's Early Light by Elswyth Thane

Texas
Nonfiction:Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde by John Boessenecker
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Survival
☑️���DzԴھ����پ��Dz�:Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer finished 2-9-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4stars
Fiction:The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Adventure
Nonfiction:West with the Night by Beryl Markham
☑️�󾱳��پ��Dz�:Circling the Sun by Paula McLain finished 7-14-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars


Native Americans
Nonfiction: Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle
Fiction: Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake

Victorians
Nonfiction: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
Fiction: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Appalachia
Nonfiction: Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers by Horace Kephart
☑️�󾱳��پ��Dz�: Christy by Catherine Marshall finished 3-6-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars

World War 1
Nonfiction: Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Fiction: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway or One of Ours by Willa Cather or Regeneration by Pat Barker

World War 2
Nonfiction: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
Fiction: The Winds of War by Herman Wouk

Challenge #10 - The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult

Select five books from five diffetent centuries, using the same decade for each century you select. They do not have to be consecutive centuries, but must be the same decade.

Example of five consecutive centuries:

20th Century - 1950-1959 - 1953-Nine Stories
19th Century - 1850-1859 - 1855-Little Dorrit
18th Century - 1750-1759 - 1759-The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
17th Century - 1650-1659 - 1658-The Witch of Edmonton
16th Century - 1550-1559 - 1552-A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Limiting this challenge to five books will be difficult but doable especially for the more recent centuries. As you move further back in time this should become more difficult. That is why the centuries don't have to be consecutive.

Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

Pastoral/ Female Protagonist/Hardship
☑️������: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy finished 5-19-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars
☑️�����: The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts finished 8-25-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars

Comedic Elements
☑️������:The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith finished 8-11-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 3.5 stars rounded up
☑️�����: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner finished 8-27-22 🌟🌟🌟 3 stars

Turbulent Love Affair/Obsession
☑️������:The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy finished 5-2-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
☑️�����:Sophie's Choice by William Styron finished 7-2-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars

Has an Unreliable Narrator
☑️������:Bleak House by Charles Dickens finished 5-25-22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars
☑️�����: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey finished 7-25-22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars

Has a Gothic Element
☑️������: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving (1820) finished 2-19-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
New: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (1951)

Tragic Romance
Old: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
New: Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

Journey/Quest
☑️������: The Odyssey by Homer (800) finished 3-9-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟 4 stars
☑️�����: Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck (1962) finished 10-21-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟4 stars

Animals
Old: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
New: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1938) or Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (1958)

Betrayal
Old: Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)
☑️�����: The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969) finished 7-31-22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5 stars

Family Saga
Old: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (1854)
New: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (1977)

Sea
Old: The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo (1866)
New: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)

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lol. I am loving your attitude. We already know you are not a "picky eater". I failed at the O&N for the first time this year, and the world did not stop turning. I hope I have learned something essential from that.

Lori, it looks like we picked up our buffet trays about the same time yesterday. I plan on filling mine as full as I can get it, but I will eat in moderation. There is no way I can finish all that is offered. Good luck!

Bob wrote: "Lori, it looks like we picked up our buffet trays about the same time yesterday. I plan on filling mine as full as I can get it, but I will eat in moderation. There is no way I can finish all that ..."

Nice, Bob! I'll enjoy taking a look at your plate of offerings! This planning part is so much fun!

Sara wrote: "lol. I am loving your attitude. We already know you are not a "picky eater". I failed at the O&N for the first time this year, and the world did not stop turning. I hope I have learned something es..."

Sara, it's so tempting to dive in again! I'm going to look at any book read as a win and not try to focus on completion and get stressed out. Whatever I complete will be a great success!

I love your challenges, Lori. Especially your Old and New and Fiction/nonfiction. I need to put 'Giant' into one of my challenges. I've been wanting to get to that for awhile.

The Hours blew me away. I love that book so much. I think I saw the film long ago but hadn't read Mrs. Dalloway so it didn't mean much or stick with me at all but the book was perfection!

Thank you Sue! I had a lot of fun researching those old/new and F/NF pairings, I went a little overboard.
I will look forward to reading The Hours for sure! I read Mrs. Dalloway a few years ago but was thrown off by the stream of consciousness writing. Maybe the two together make more sense.

Thanks Matt! Now to get started crossing those plans off and making progress!

I love your categories on the linked books. I personally just looked and that one and came up blank. Your categories look very achievable. I think I might try that one too now!

OMG I just noticed that you paired Homer Hickam with Ponyboy Curtis....genius.

Wow Lori--all of your challenges look great. I'm glad to see Travels with Charley: In Search of America in there--very fun. Enjoy!

Thanks Kathleen! I plan to enjoy it as it progresses. Travels with Charley sounds like a must read.

Lynn wrote: "I love your categories on the linked books. I personally just looked and that one and came up blank. Your categories look very achievable. I think I might try that one too now!

OMG I just noticed ..."

Lynn, I'm glad you think I have achievable categories and that I helped inspire you to try the category! I had no idea what I would come up with when I started. I used books that I have on my shelf to begin with and went from there. I hope you get some good inspiration for your challenge!

Finished 2 on my Members Choice Challenge #4 with 4.5 and 5 stars

20th century pick with The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton

my review

Current group read done with The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

my review

Completed one of my Wildcard reads for the Old and New challenge.

Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier

4 stars
my review

Congratulations on having 3 from your lists done already. You are off to a great start.

I've completed the New Authors challenge but will continue to add to it as I go along.

Christy by Catherine Marshall gets to fill in a spot in my decade challenge and also the fiction side of my Appalachia pairings.

I also completed The Odyssey by Homer which is the old read in my Journey/Quest topic in challenge 11.

These challenges are coming along VERY slowly. In March I added to my genre challenge to have 10/12 completed.

I added I, Robot for science fiction
King Solomon's Mines for 19th century
Of Mice and Men for banned book.

I, Robot is also in my 1950's decade challenge.
King Solomon's Mines gives my 4/12 group reads.

Adding two to my 1960's Decade challenge

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

my review

Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce

my review

A few more short stories added and new authors (finished this challenge a while ago).

Also adding a fiction read to my NF/F challenge - my Adventure topic with Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

my review

Now I need to get to West with the Night.

I enjoyed West with the Night, hope you do too, Lori!

Wow, Lori. What great progress, with some good, solid, meaty reads!

Great reads, Lori...which is what it is all about!

Thanks All! Looking forward to to what I can conquer next month!

Finished reading The Godfather by Mario Puzo which worked in several spots. Never thought to read this because the movie is so iconic but it was one of those guilty pleasure reads - definitely not a literary one.

my review

Lori wrote: "Finished reading The Godfather by Mario Puzo which worked in several spots. Never thought to read this because the movie is so iconic but it was one of those guilty plea..."

I know what you mean. I had never considered reading it until recently (last year), and it was pretty interesting. I know it was different than the movie, just because of the style in which it was written. But I ended up being glad I read it :)

Finished my Members Choice challenge with Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner.

Only 2 challenges complete so far, but still chugging along!

Well done on completing the Challenge, Lori! It's amazing what gets done eventually by just chugging along!

Congrats on having two of the challenges behind you, Lori. You've already made great progress on some of the others. Looks like you are having a great reading year--which is all that matters.

Lori you have some books I do not often see on my friends' read lists. I am thinking Good Hand Luke and The Godfather. Sometimes it is good to read outside the box. Good for you!

I've been updating my challenges and have discovered that I have completed 5 old and new pairings which I believe means I completed this challenge. I am so very close on my 2nd place or better as well as short stories and group reads. I've determined that I just want to read for fun the rest of the year and not worry about completing a read for a challenge. So this may be it, we'll see. If so, it's been very fun and lead me to some very interesting reads and ones I would never have considered before.

Nice to discover you have completed one you thought was still open. I know what you mean about just reading for fun instead of to check off any remaining boxes. Hope the end of the year is full of satisfaction, Lori!

So many great books you’ve read, Lori! That makes it successful to me. Congrats :)

Thanks Sara and Janelle! I’m good with my progress if this is it and will consider it successful. If I do happen to check off any more, it will be a bonus!