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Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR
Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium
Challenge #4 - Members Choice
Challenge #5 - Short Story
Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Challenge #8 - Most Popular Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Books Listed by Year
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 - Personal (Dickens and Hardy)

COMPLETED

Old and New

1899 or earlier:
�1. The Trumpet-Major February
�2. Jezebel's Daughter January
�3. Can You Forgive Her? April

1900-1999
�1. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont February
�2. Trustee from the Toolroom March
�3. The Ox-Bow Incident January

Wild Cards:
�1. They Were Sisters April
�2. Two Lives June
�3. The Soul of Kindness June
�4. The Distance Between Us January
�5. A Covenant With Death July
�6. The Other Side of the Bridge June

Alternates:
1. The Sleeping Partner
2. The Children
�3. The Blue Castle

COMPLETED

Second Place or Worse

Old School:
�Esther Waters August

New School:
�Precious Bane July

Short Story/Novella:
�The Bear May

Long Read:
�Can You Forgive Her? April

Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge

Decade: - COMPLETED

�1960 Trustee from the Toolroom
�1961 The Chateau
�1962 The Reivers
�1963 Iza's Ballad
�1964 The Soul of Kindness
�1965 Sophia Pétrovna
�1966 A Jest of God
�1967 Picnic at Hanging Rock
�1968 The Wedding Group
�1969 In This House of Brede

Century: COMPLETED

�1900: The Circular Staircase April
�1910: The 39 Steps February
�1920: Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady January
�1930: Diary of a Provincial Lady January
�1940: The Ox-Bow Incident January
�1950: The Greengage Summer January
�1960: Trustee from the Toolroom March
�1970: Blaming May
�1980: The Girl in a Swing May
�1990: Poachers: Stories February

COMPLETED

Members Choice Challenge

�1. 19th Century The Trumpet-Major - February
�2. 20th Century A Game of Hide and Seek - January
�3. A book originally written in a language other than your own The Oppermanns - March
�4. Current or Past Group Read Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - February
�5. An Author not read before Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Ox-Bow Incident - January
�6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours The Farming of Bones June
�7. Science Fiction/Fantasy Portrait of Jennie - February
�8. Action/Adventure The 39 Steps - February
�9. Childrens/Young Adult Parable of the Sower - March
�10. Nonfiction What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell May
�11. Mystery/Thriller The Greengage Summer - January
�12. Horror or Humor Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day March

COMPLETED
Short Story Challenge
Read 24 short stories.

1. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
2. Paste by Henry James
3. How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
by Wendell Berry (13)
4. Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan (novella)
5. The 39 Steps by John Buchan (novella)
6. Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin (10)
7. The Last Leaf by O. Henry
8. The Paying Guest by George Gissing
9. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty (novella)
10. A Separate Peace by John Knowles (novella)
11. The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing: And Other Tales by William Maxwell (29)
12. Where Is The Voice Coming From? by Eudora Welty
13. The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck - (novella)
14. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
15. Reading Turgenev by William Trevor (novella)
16. My House in Umbria by William Trevor (novella)
17. How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
18. Enemies by Anton Chekhov
19. The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield
20. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (novella)
21. Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya (novella)
22. The Dead by James Joyce
23. The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg (novella)
24. The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (novella)
25. I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories by William Gay (13)
26. Stories from the Attic by William Gay (7)

Total: 94

COMPLETED

Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads Challenge
The challenge is to read 12 total books from this year's group poll winners or Buddy Reads, in any combination.

�1. The Ox-Bow Incident January
�2. Twelve Angry Men January
�3. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont February
�4. The 39 Steps February
�5. Parable of the Sower March
�6. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day March
�7. Can You Forgive Her? April
�8. The Moon Is Down May
�9. How Much Land Does a Man Need? July
�10. Welcome to Hard Times July
�11. Crossing to Safety July
�12. Washington Square August
13. A Fugue in Time September
14. The Blue Castle September
15. Rabbit, Run October
16. Kingfishers Catch Fire November

COMPLETED

Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, from any genre or era you want.

�1. Walter Van Tilburg Clark - The Ox-Bow Incident
�2. Reginald Rose - Twelve Angry Men
�3. Rumer Godden - The Greengage Summer
�4. E.M. Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
�5. Louis Bromfield - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady
�6. John Buchan - The 39 Steps
7. Moira Crone - The Ice Garden
8. George Gissing - The Paying Guest
9. Lion Feuchtwanger - The Oppermanns
10. Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
11. Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters
12. Edwidge Danticat - The Farming of Bones
13. Fumiko Enchi - The Waiting Years
14. Kathrine Kressmann Taylor - Address Unknown
15. Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock
16. Mary Webb - Precious Bane
17. Stephen Becker - A Covenant With Death
18. George Moore - Esther Waters
19. Lily King - Euphoria
20. Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
21. Lydia Chukovskaya - Sofia Petrovna
22. Sheila Burnford - The Incredible Journey
23. Logan Steiner - After Anne
24. Natalia Ginzburg - The Road to the City
25. Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day
26. Pamela Frankau - A Wreath For the Enemy

COMPLETED

Most Popular Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Books Listed by Year

Locate and list 10 books that most interest you from the year of your choice. The challenge is to read five 5 books from that list. You can use the year of your birth, the birth year of a family member, or friend, or any random year you choose.

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1960:

Read:
�1. Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow
�2. The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
�3. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
�4. Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
�Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute


2. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Dawn
6. Selected Poems e.e. cummings
7. Life and Fate
8. The Colossus and Other Poems
9. The Alexandria Quartet
10. The Sot-Weed Factor

COMPLETED

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.

1. Trial
Fiction: Twelve Angry Men
Non-Fiction: The Devil on Trial: Witches, Anarchists, Atheists, Communists, and Terrorists in America's Courtrooms

2. Epistolary
Fiction: Address Unknown
Nonfiction: What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell

3. Immigrant's Story
Fiction: The Farming of Bones
Nonfiction: Farm in the Green Mountains

4. Book about books
Fiction: Two Lives: Reading Turgenev / My House in Umbria
Nonfiction: Mary Stewart

5. Overcoming the Odds
Fiction: Butcher's Crossing
Nonfiction: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

The Half a Millennium Challenge with a Sour Lemon Twist of Difficult

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

�20th 1980-1989 The Girl in a Swing 1980
�19th 1880-1889 The Paying Guest 1885
18th 1780-1789 Dangerous Liaisons 1782
17th 1680-1689 ? 16??
16th 1580-1589 Tamburlaine 1587
15th 1480-1489 Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur): All Volumes 1485
14th 1380-1389 ? 13??

COMPLETED

Old and New Linked Categories

1. Family Dynamics -
The Trumpet-Major / A Game of Hide and Seek

2. Moral Dilemma -
The Count of Monte Cristo / Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

3. Marriage -
Can You Forgive Her? / They Were Sisters

4. Has a prostitute as a main character -
Oliver Twist / A Covenant With Death

5. A woman who bucks the system -
Esther Waters / Reading Turgenev

Personal Challenge

Need to complete my reading of the novels of Dickens and Hardy this year.

Dickens

1. Barnaby Rudge
2. The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Hardy

1. Under the Greenwood Tree
2. Two on a Tower
3. The Hand of Ethelberta
�4. The Trumpet-Major
5. The Well-Beloved

Not able to work on any planning right now, but wanted to save my place. The challenges are always so much fun to me.

All the best Sara!

Thank you, Ila. Fingers crossed for a good reading year for the both of us.

Looks like you're going to be doing some reading next year, Sara!
Get ready....Get set..... ;)

Enjoy your reading in 2023! :)

We can always hope for another year of good reading, Terris. I make a lot of plans that don't pan out, but the planning is fun.

Well, if you're going to over-indulge, it helps that you have such good taste! Such great books here, Sara. I plan to read Mrs. Palfrey too, and am so interested in reading the Alexandria Quartet, but I'm going to start with his little brother's book. :-)

Enjoy yourself, and here's to some new discoveries!

Thanks, Kathleen. Nothing wrong with ambition as long as you realize you might not be able to do it all. I'm getting better at that.

It looks very nice!. You are tempting me to at least plan a Challenge #1. I know you will have fun with the books you complete no matter how many challenges you complete.

Nothing to lose by planning, Lynn. The Old and New is usually my favorite challenge!

I'm like Lynn, tempted by your planning to do a Buffet this year. I'm still torn about doing one this year. I am always impressed and inspired by your lists, Sara!

Come on guys...sit down at the table. You can always pass the bowl on if you get overstuffed! 😳

Wow! If planning wasn’t so much fun, I’d just let you do the work. A little copy and paste and an excellent year of reading would be mine. I do hope you get to Trustee from the Toolroom, I thought it was great, hope it wasn’t a guy thing, but Nevil Shute has a way of making the common man a hero.

All the best!

You guys are really making the Buffet look tempting! I usually just do the Bingo and Old/New challenges. Bob, you've given us such tasty choices, I think I'm going to have to put a little more on my plate this year! And Sara, you are a bad influence, you make it look so easy! haha! This is all way too fun ;)

And I will agree with Bob, Trustee from the Toolroom is a definite "must read!" Move it to the top of the list. It's wonderful! And it's not a guy thing. It's just good :)

This is what happens when we let our friends influence us- we take more on our plates and hope for the best! But it’s definitely so much fun, Terris!!

I’m very close to creating a Buffet but maybe a lighter portion. No quinoa or kale salads but a little heartier - potato and pasta salads ?!?!

Now I'm actually getting hungry!! ;)

Good luck with your challenges Sara. I expect we may be sharing opinions on some if they come up in group or buddy reads. Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor are on my list as are quite a few more. I just finished rereading The Member of the Wedding so Clock Without Hands sounds marvelous. If you haven't picked your short stories yet you can knock out all 24 with NBA and Pulitzer winning The Stories of John Cheever.

Wishing you another good year of reading Sara! Love the poetry books you've chosen in particular - very different from each other and all engaging in their own ways!

Bob wrote: "Wow! If planning wasn’t so much fun, I’d just let you do the work. A little copy and paste and an excellent year of reading would be mine. I do hope you get to Trustee from the Toolroom, I thought ..."

I love Shute, and I'm expecting Trustee to be a favorite. I think he is also a girl thing, can't let you guys have all the fun!

Terris wrote: "You guys are really making the Buffet look tempting! I usually just do the Bingo and Old/New challenges. Bob, you've given us such tasty choices, I think I'm going to have to put a little more on m..."

Come on, Terris. Nibble a little of Bob's tempting fare! I'll move the Shute to January.

Lori wrote: "This is what happens when we let our friends influence us- we take more on our plates and hope for the best! But it’s definitely so much fun, Terris!!

I’m very close to creating a Buffet but mayb..."

No pressure, Lori. You put whatever you will enjoy on your plate and if you don't finish the meal we won't tell your mother.

Sam wrote: "Good luck with your challenges Sara. I expect we may be sharing opinions on some if they come up in group or buddy reads. Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor are on my list as are quite a few more. I ..."

I see buddy reads in our future!!!! The Cheever is on my Pulitzer list, which is a big priority for me this coming year. I didn't check off very many this year.

Greg wrote: "Wishing you another good year of reading Sara! Love the poetry books you've chosen in particular - very different from each other and all engaging in their own ways!"

Thanks so much, Greg...wishing the same for you. Maybe we could read some of the poetry together. I LOVED reading The Wasteland with you! One of the highlights of my year.

Sara, this looks like a great list. I hope you enjoy every book. I barely know a few books on your list. I'm going to enjoy perusing through them all.

I plan to read Excellent Women ( my first Pym) and will keep an eye out for when you read it. I DNFed Dangerous Liaisons in 2021 and will see if I can gather the courage to read it in 2023. I will look out for your thoughts on it. Good luck with your challenge!

Sara wrote: "Thanks so much, Greg...wishing the same for you. Maybe we could read some of the poetry together. I LOVED reading The Wasteland with you! One of the highlights of my year."

Aww, thank you Sara! I loved that as well!

And I'd love to do that with some poetry! :) Maybe e.e. cummings if you end up getting around to that one? I haven't read him in a little while.

Shaina wrote: "Sara, this looks like a great list. I hope you enjoy every book. I barely know a few books on your list. I'm going to enjoy perusing through them all.

I plan to read Excellent Women ( my first Py..."

I keep pushing Dangerous Liaisons back, but this is the year I attempt it! I will be watching to see what you think of Pym.

Greg wrote: "Sara wrote: "Thanks so much, Greg...wishing the same for you. Maybe we could read some of the poetry together. I LOVED reading The Wasteland with you! One of the highlights of my year."

Aww, thank..."

Also been a while for me with cummings and it is always so nice to have another view of his work...which is anything but as simple as he would have you think.

You have In This House of Brede on the list! It's one of my all time favourites! I hope you get to it.

If there are others, I would be interested in a buddy read on Dangerous Liaisons, but probably more towards the middle of the year.

I want to start the Palliser novels next year as well. Enjoy!

So glad you like In This House of Brede. It was a blind pick for me because I had heard good things about the author. I'll make it a point to get to it.

Would love making DL a buddy read, and mid-year sounds perfect.

Savita and I are planning to read Can You Forgive Her? together. You might want to join us? We haven't set a date, so we are flexible on the start.

Sara wrote: "So glad you like In This House of Brede. It was a blind pick for me because I had heard good things about the author. I'll make it a point to get to it.

Would love making DL a buddy r..."

Would love to join Can you forgive her? I'm flexible after March.

We'll pencil it in for April.

I came here just to peek at what you are planningI I mean, my TBR needs no help growing. But once here, I got inspired to dig out & read the Alexandria Quartet. And maybe more Trollope. And� :) I wish you a great time planning & reading.

Happens to us all, Annette. I have added dozens of books since others started the planning stage. Gives us a lot to look forward to.

My first book of the year, The Ox-Bow Incident, a 5-star read, gave me a good start for several categories.

Sara wrote: "My first book of the year, The Ox-Bow Incident, a 5-star read, gave me a good start for several categories."

I haven't read a good Western since Lonesome Dove. Will definitely read this sooner.

Like, Lonesome Dove, Ila, this one is set in the west but is about so much more.

Having gotten sidetracked I have only read the first chapter and it seems promising. Now, with your five stars it’s a lock.

You really have to read this one, Bob. It is right up your alley!