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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 #9 � Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

Challenge #1 - New & Old TBR

Old:
The Conference of the Birds Completed 18 March 4 stars
The Blazing World Completed 13 March 3.5 stars
The Lais of Marie de France Completed 26 January 4 stars

New:
Picnic at Hanging Rock Completed 25 June 4 stars
The Sand Child Completed 21 March 4 stars
South Riding

Alternates:
Delta Wedding
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Completed 1 April 5 stars
Parable of the Sower Completed 13 March 3.5 stars
Diary of a Provincial Lady Completed 3 January 3.5 stars
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
Can You Forgive Her?

Wild cards:
To Sir, With Love Completed 24 December 4 stars
Corduroy
The Pursuit of Love

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse

Old School
The Book of the City of Ladies Completed 10 March 4 stars

Options:
The Forsaken Inn
The Innocents Abroad
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
The Alexiad
Aesop's Fables
The Saga of Gösta Berling
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Tale of Genji
Red Pottage
The Doctor's Wife
Quo Vadis
The Bhagavad Gita
Tartuffe
The Odd Women
The Social Contract
The Pilgrim's Progress
Sylvia's Lovers
Waverley
The Book of Margery Kempe
Love in Excess

New School
The Women of Brewster Place Completed 11 February 4 stars
Parable of the Sower Completed 13 March 3.5 stars

Options:
The Bone People
The Summer Book
The Keepers of the House
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Bridge on the Drina
The Pursuit of Love
The Yearling
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Woman at Point Zero
The House of the Spirits
Death and the Penguin
The Woman in Black
The Song of the Lark
Trustee from the Toolroom
Jazz
Lakota Woman
The Neverending Story
Swann's Way

Short story
The Blazing World Completed 13 March 3.5 stars
No One Writes to the Colonel Completed 14 July 3 stars

Options:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The 13 Clocks
The Blind Owl
Miss Lonelyhearts
The Hunting Gun
The Story of an Hour
The Christmas Hirelings
Sonnets from the Portuguese
The Machine Stops
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Medea
The Devil's Pool
The Fatal Eggs
The Colour Out of Space
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
The Duchess of Malfi
A Horseman in the Sky
The Servant of Two Masters
A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Long reads


Options:
East Lynne
Five Smooth Stones
A Fine Balance
The Tale of Genji
The Golden Notebook
He Knew He Was Right

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium

A century - unplanned:

1900: The Range Dwellers
1910:
1920: The Blue Castle (1926)
1930: Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930)
1940: Days in the Caucasus (1945)
1950: The Lonely Londoners (1956)
1960: The Lonely Girl (1962)
1970: His Burial Too (1973)
1980: The Women of Brewster Place (1982)
1990: The Blind Kingdom (1990)
2000: The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)

Challenge #4 - Members Choice

1. 19th Century, The Last Chronicle of Barset Completed 20 April 4 stars
2. 20th Century, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories Completed 30 January 3 stars
3. A book originally written in a language other than your own, The Book of the City of Ladies Completed 10 March 4 stars
4. Current or Past Group Read, Twelve Angry Men Completed 26 January 5 stars
5. An Author not read before, The Lais of Marie de France Completed 26 January 5 stars
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. The Blind Kingdom Completed 25 January 4 stars
7. Science Fiction/Fantasy, Parable of the Sower Completed 13 March 3.5 stars
8. Action/Adventure, Around the World in Eighty Days Completed 10 June 4 stars
9. Childrens/Young Adult, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia Completed 30 May 4 stars
10. Nonfiction, Days in the Caucasus Completed 10 April 4 stars
11. Mystery/Thriller, Ten Star Clues Completed 23 January 4 stars
12. Horror or Humor, Diary of a Provincial Lady Completed 3 January 3.5 stars

Challenge #5 - Short Story

1. The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa (1922) (Portuguese)
2. Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote (1958)
3. House of Flowers by Truman Capote (1958)
4. A diamond guitar by Truman Capote (1950)
5. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (1956)
6. Electra (Greece)
7. Medea (Greece)
8. The Story of an Hour (1894)
9. No One Writes to the Colonel
10. Big Mama's Funeral by Gabriel García Márquez
11. Tuesday Siesta by Gabriel García Márquez
12. One of these Days by by Gabriel García Márquez
13. There are no thieves in this town by Gabriel García Márquez
14. Balthazar's Marvellous Afternoon by Gabriel García Márquez
15. Montiel's Widow by Gabriel García Márquez
16. One day after Saturday by Gabriel García Márquez
17. Artificial Roses by Gabriel García Márquez
18. Recitatif by Toni Morrison
19. Jackie Roach by Cyril Hare
20. The Twelve Apostles by Cyril Hare
21. Mrs Eales by Cyril Hare
22. The Prodigal's Return by Cyril Hare
23. Au Cafe du Soleil by Cyril Hare
24. Not in the Inventory by Cyril Hare

Challenge #6 - Group Reads and/or Buddy Reads

1. Twelve Angry Men
2. The Lais of Marie de France
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
4. The Book of the City of Ladies
5. Electra
6. Parable of the Sower
7. The Conference of the Birds
8. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
9. Medea
10. The Story of an Hour
11. The Blue Castle
12. Lady Windermere's Fan

Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors

1. E.M. Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
2. Fernando Pessoa - The Anarchist Banker
3. Véronique Tadjo - The Blind Kingdom
4. Reginald Rose - Twelve Angry Men
5. Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories
6. Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies

Challenge #9 � Fiction/Non-Fiction

Completed
Climate change
Fiction: Parable of the Sower
Non-fiction: Losing Earth: A Recent History

Windrush generation
Fiction: The Lonely Londoners
Non-fiction: To Sir, With Love


Options
Noel Stretfeild - Vicarage Family and Theatre Shoes (box marked Children)

WWII - Anne Frank and Carries War

Judith Kerr - Creatures and one book

Grief - Susan Hill and The Year of Magical Thinking

Salman Rushdie - Jaguar Smile and one book

Tolstoy - No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy

Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

Female Science Fiction authors
Old: The Blazing World
New: Parable of the Sower

Barsetshire
Old: The Last Chronicle of Barset
New: Wild Strawberries

Options:

Crickets in the title - Dickens and Times Square

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Wow, Carolien! You are very ambitious! I am getting a lot of reading ideas from your lists. I will be watching what you read in 2023!! :)

Welcome to the buffet, looking forward to dining with you. See you at the dessert table, enjoy.

Bob wrote: "Welcome to the buffet, looking forward to dining with you. See you at the dessert table, enjoy."

You mean you don't start at the dessert table? I always do!

Hope there is enough dessert to go around! Love your second or worse list--might have to choose something there.

I just go through the polls until I run out of time, put anything that I might read on the list and then see what happens during the year!

Does anyone have recommendations for short stories by female authors? My short story reading skewed about two thirds male in 2022 and I want to add more female authors in that category, but I'm starting the year with 4 collections by male authors which is not a good sign. I've got Seven Gothic Tales planned, but need some more.

Carolien wrote: "Does anyone have recommendations for short stories by female authors? My short story reading skewed about two thirds male in 2022 and I want to add more female authors in that category, but I'm sta..."

I took a look at your short story shelf and these are a few I can think of right now

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf
The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier or Don't Look Now and Other Stories
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

I love Kate Chopin but couldn't find any collected works.

Doris Lessing has a lot of short story collections too.

Shaina wrote: "Carolien wrote: "Does anyone have recommendations for short stories by female authors? My short story reading skewed about two thirds male in 2022 and I want to add more female authors in that cate..."

I agree wholeheartedly with all of those, would like to add in Edith Wharton and Willa Cather :).

Shaina wrote: "Carolien wrote: "Does anyone have recommendations for short stories by female authors? My short story reading skewed about two thirds male in 2022 and I want to add more female authors in that cate..."

Thank you! I like Ursula K Le Guin and the library has this one! And The Birds came out of a box yesterday, so will add it to the pile.

Janelle wrote: "Doris Lessing has a lot of short story collections too."

I didn't know that, will see what I can find, thank you!

Thanks, Terris! I enjoy both authors, so will look for short stories specifically.

Wow--these are such great suggestions!

One I think is lesser-known that I liked: Incidental Music: Stories by Françoise Sagan

And I've only read the title story, but bet this would be fun:
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers

I'm so excited you'll be reading Seven Gothic Tales. So good!

I will add Margaret Atwood to your list. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales is a great collection.

Kathleen wrote: "Wow--these are such great suggestions!

One I think is lesser-known that I liked: Incidental Music: Stories by Françoise Sagan

And I've only read the title story, b..."

Library has both so on the list they go, thank you!

Sara wrote: "I will add Margaret Atwood to your list. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales is a great collection."

I've only read one short story of hers previously and remember enjoying it. Library has this one as well, so will add it to the list. Thank you!

Elizabeth Taylor has several short story collections or if you want all the stories, Complete Short Stories, which includes an introduction by her daughter Joanna.

Marilyn wrote: "Elizabeth Taylor has several short story collections or if you want all the stories, Complete Short Stories, which includes an introduction by her daughter Joanna."

I adore Elizabeth Taylor, so will definitely look out for her! Thank you, Marilyn!

Last month I added, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton and Roman Fever and Other Stories to my TBR

Bob wrote: "Last month I added, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton and Roman Fever and Other Stories to my TBR"

Thank you so much!

Bob wrote: "Last month I added, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton and Roman Fever and Other Stories to my TBR"

I read The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton for last year's BINGO and really liked it. My review here if you're interested. Careful I have some spoilers, but they are tagged.

Thank you, Klowey! I like Wharton so this will be a good addition.

Great lists, Carolein. It looks like you have a good list of woman authors of short stories. Also, I like to go into the group's bookshelf by short stories and see which ones I've missed.

I need to work in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day on one of my challenges too.
I'm so glad you listed out so many second place or worse books, it will be much easier to come back over here to look. In fact, I may need to copy those over in the event that you delete them!

Sue wrote: "Great lists, Carolein. It looks like you have a good list of woman authors of short stories. Also, I like to go into the group's bookshelf by short stories and see which ones I've missed.

I need ..."

Hi Sue

I'll keep the second place or worst list. I just add to it at times and then copy it across for the next year!

Carolien wrote: "Sue wrote: "Great lists, Carolein. It looks like you have a good list of woman authors of short stories. Also, I like to go into the group's bookshelf by short stories and see which ones I've misse..."

I already copied it over and took off the ones I've read. That's a great idea to save it for next year!

Recomendo este livro incrível para todos

I've completed Challenge 7, Expanding your horizons and am halfway with the genre and century challenges. I've got more hope for the Old/New challenge this year.

Does anyone have suggestions for female African- American authors who were published in the 1930's and is NOT Zora Neale Hurston? Failing that, some male ones would be useful.

Carolien, I've read two books that fit your criteria but only one by a woman. I read Comedy: American Style by Jessie Redmon Fauset. The book by a male author was Black No More by George S. Schuyler. A few others by men that I have not read are Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher, and Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman.

Laurie wrote: "Carolien, I've read two books that fit your criteria but only one by a woman. I read Comedy: American Style by Jessie Redmon Fauset. The book by a male author was [boo..."

Thanks, all of these could work. I've wanted to read Langston Hughes for a while, this may be a good opportunity!

Congrats on finishing the new author challenge and good luck with your 1930's author search.

Great work on the new author challenge, Carolien! I couldn't find any 1930's books by female African American authors either. But Langston Hughes should be good. Enjoy!

This is not a recommendation but a recent discovery. Frye Street & Environs: The Collected Works of Marita Bonner by Marita Bonner has some short stories from the 1930s. The book is available on archive.org.

Marilyn wrote: "This is not a recommendation but a recent discovery. Frye Street & Environs: The Collected Works of Marita Bonner by Marita Bonner has some short stories from the 19..."

Thank you, Marilyn, I appreciate!

Congrats on completing your challenge!

Carolien, I have just read The Blazing World. There is enough thought-provoking stuff there that I have not yet written a review. . . .I would be interested in reading with you so that we can compare notes. Then maybe I could write a review.

Congrats, Carolien. I thought Nella Larsen right away, but alas 1929!

Cynda wrote: "Carolien, I have just read The Blazing World. There is enough thought-provoking stuff there that I have not yet written a review. . . .I would be interested in reading with you so that we can compa..."

I got a copy this weekend. Give me the rest of the week to just tidy up some loose ends and I'll let you know once I'm done. I'd like to hear your thoughts!