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Still in the planning stages, so I'll save a few spots for my buffet items.

Buffet Challenge #1
12 + 2 Old & New Classic Challenge

Catching Up on Group Classics (Old & New)
1899 and earlier/Old School
1. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas - Group Read: December 2017 26 April
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - Group Read: September 2015
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau - Group Read: November 2017

1900-1999/New School
4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - Group Read: December 2013 7 April
5. The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk - Group Read September 2012 22 April
6. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - Group Read: September 2016 6 April

Catching Up on Books on my Shelf
Wild Card Six
7. Lincoln by Gore Vidal - Date Added to Shelf: April 2010
8. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier - Added to Shelf: March 2011
9. I, Claudius by Robert Graves - Added to Shelf: August 2011
10. Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff - Added to Shelf: August 2011
11. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - Added to Shelf: October 2011: 5 April
12. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus - Added to Shelf: November 2011

Alternates
A-1. The Monk by Matthew Lewis - Added to Shelf: October 2013
A-2. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - Group Read: May 2017

Challenge #5 - Decade/Century Challenge
Read one book from 10 consecutive decades, one century total.

Katy's Century of Women writing Science Fiction

1900 - 1909: The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit, 1906 29 May
1910 - 1919: The Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens (Gertrude Barrows Bennett), 1918
1920 - 1929: Metropolis by Thea von Harbou, 1925
1930 - 1939: Anthem by Ayn Rand, 1938 10 Feb
1940 - 1949: Kallocain by Karin Boye, 1940 1 May
1950 - 1959: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett, 1955
1960 - 1969: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey, 1968 14 April
1970 - 1979: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974 5 April
1980 - 1989: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh, 1981
1990 - 1999: Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, 1991

Challenge #6 - Short Story Challenge
Read 24 short stories (or novellas). This equates to only two per month for the year.

1) The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, 1 Jan
2) The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson, 9 Feb
3) Anthem by Ayn Rand
4) The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin, 29 Mar
5) Grand Central Park by Delia Sherman in The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, 29 Mar
6) The End of the Duel by Jorge Luis Borges in The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction
7) The Lover by Marguerite Duras
8) Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
9) Calvary Boots by Elmore Leonard
10) Under the Friar's Ledge by Elmore Leonard
11) Three-ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard
12) Long Night by Elmore Leonard
13) The Captives by Elmore Leonard
14) Jugged by Elmore Leonard
15) The Kid by Elmore Leonard
16) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
17) Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
18) The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
19) Smith of Wootton Major by J.R.R. Tolkien
20) Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
21) The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
22) A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor
23) The River by Flannery O'Connor
24) The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor

Challenge #7 - 2020 Group Reads Challenge
Between New School, Old School, Short Story/Novella, and Quarterly Long read our group selects 40 new books per year to go on our book shelf. This challenge is to read 12 of these forty.

1) Stoner by John Williams
2) Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
3) Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
4) The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
5) White Fang by Jack London
6) Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
7) Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
8) The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
9) 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
10) Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
11) Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
12) The Lover by Marguerite Duras

Challenge #8 - A-Z Author Challenge


A) Isabel Allende -- The House of the Spirits
B) David W. Blight -- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
C) Agatha Christie --Death on the Nile
D) Mark Dunn -- Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
E) Kevin Emerson -- Last Day on Mars
F) Viktor E. Frankl -- Man's Search for Meaning
G) Malcolm Gladwell --Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
H) A.G. Howard -- Ensnared
I) James Islington -- The Shadow of What Was Lost
J) E.K. Johnston --A Thousand Nights
K) T. Kingfisher -- Clockwork Boys
L) Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
M) Patricia A. McKillip --The Book of Atrix Wolfe
N) E. Nesbit -- Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet
O) Anne Østby -- Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate
P) Annie Proulx -- Barkskins
Q) Kate Quinn -- The Huntress
R) Ayn Rand -- Anthem
S) Oliver Sacks --Gratitude
T) Douglas W. Tallamy --Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
U) Leon Uris -- Trinity
V) Ursula Vernon (penname: T. Kingfisher) -- The Wonder Engine
W) John Williams -- Stoner
X)
Y) Paul Yoon -- Run Me to Earth
Z) Carlos Ruiz Zafón -- The Shadow of the Wind

Challenge #9 - A-Z Title Challenge


A) Anthem by Ayn Rand
B) The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip
C) The Call of the Wild by Jack London
D) Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
E) Ensnared by A.G. Howard
F) Flamecaster by Cinda Williams Chima
G) Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
H) The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
I) In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
J)
K) Kallocain by Karin Boye
L) The Lover by Marguerite Duras
M) Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
N) Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards by Sara Bonnett Stein
O) The Oceans between Stars by Kevin Emerson
P) Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit
Q) Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine
R) The Room on Rue Amélie by Kristin Harmel
S) The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
T) Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
U) Untamed by A.G. Howard
V)
W) Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
X) Xingu by Edith Wharton
Y) Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard
Z) Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

Now to drool over the possible books to read in 2020, and finish a few more in 2019.

I keep hoping to read Albert Camus. Let me know if you want a buddy to read with. I would be glad to read with. Enjoy!

Cynda wrote: "I keep hoping to read Albert Camus. Let me know if you want a buddy to read with. I would be glad to read with. Enjoy!"

Not sure when I will be reading it. But with Camus, a buddy to read with is always a grand plan.

Okay good. Let me know.

Great choices! I read both The Dispossessed and Lincoln in college. Both are great books. Hope you enjoy them.

Ha ha, I think I'm basically doing Challenge #6 by reading The Complete Stories and Poems by Poe this year, but that would make for a rather boring looking challenge.

Aubrey wrote: "Ha ha, I think I'm basically doing Challenge #6 by reading The Complete Stories and Poems by Poe this year, but that would make for a rather boring looking challenge."

Perhaps boring looking, but the reading will probably be great.

Love your Old and New plans, Katy. Five are books I really loved. Have fun!

Trying to see if I can find books for a women's decade or century of science fiction.

I’m not a science fiction person but a women’s history person so if you can find a century of women in sci fi I say go for it.

Katy wrote: "Trying to see if I can find books for a women's decade or century of science fiction."

This directory of works by women doesn't have tons in the way of sci-fi, but it does have a few that were published in the less popular decades: /topic/show/...

Aubrey wrote: "This directory of works by women doesn't have tons in the way of sci-fi, but it does have a few ..."

For Sci/Fi you really need to add the first (and by a woman) The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish published 1666.

I will if someone ever submits a review for it.

Katy wrote: "Trying to see if I can find books for a women's decade or century of science fiction."

If you're open to short stories, too, I just read one by Clare Winger Harris today. She was the first female sci-fi author to publish in sci-fi magazines under her own name starting in the 1920s. She was quite the trailblazer. Her stuff is pretty pulpy but in a fun way.

Leigh Brackett is a good one. She wrote over a pretty expansive period of time, but The Long Tomorrow is probably her best known novel.

James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Bradley) was prolific writer of both novels and short stories.

If you've never read Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, it's worth a look. I didn't like it, but it's interesting as a commentary on gender.

Closer to now is Nalo Hopkinson, who writes a lot of Afrofuturism and specifically Caribbean-influenced stuff. I'm using Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) this year for my Century Challenge.

Other awesome female sci-fi writers who have been at it for a while: C.J. Cherryh, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Andre Norton.

I could go on. :)

Here's a link that might also be helpful:

Sorry if you already know all of these. I kind of geek out over women in sci-fi.

My kind of geek out.

Thank you all. Here is my list for A Century of Women Writing Science Fiction /topic/show/...

Katy wrote: "Thank you all. Here is my list for A Century of Women Writing Science Fiction /topic/show/..."

Looks good. I'll be interested to see your thoughts on Metropolis. I've been thinking about reading that one.

Books planned for January

2 + 2 Old & New Classic Challenge
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Decade/Century Challenge
Anthem by Ayn Rand

Wow, quite an ambitious collection of challenges! =D I hope you enjoy all your selections! Happy New Year! ^_^

Finished Stoner by John Williams. My first group read (book) of the year. I did read the short story for this month too.

First of my women's century books read: 1930 - 1939: Anthem by Ayn Rand, 1938

Katy wrote: "First of my women's century books read: 1930 - 1939: Anthem by Ayn Rand, 1938"

I'm ashamed to say I don't remember it, but its been 6 or 7 years ago.

Some books don't stay with us.

Currently reading The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - Group Read: September 2016. For some reason I haven't gotten into this book. I have enjoyed other books by Allende, but this one hasn't grabbed me yet. Different seasons, different books? Think I can still finish before the month is over.

Next up is The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, as it is in two challenges.

Caught up on my short stories for the month. Six read in three months.

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin : On my Old & New and also Century Challenge.

Katy wrote: "The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin : On my Old & New and also Century Challenge."

I loved The Dispossessed. It is my favorite Le Guin so far.

It is really good. She is an amazing writer.

From my old & new (and also can add to alphabet challenges)
6. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - Group Read: September 2016

Finished one from my century challenge
1960 - 1969: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey, 1968

Finished a collection of short stories so that adds seven more to my short story challenge: Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard

I suppose I am pushing the book title challenge a bit with counting these two, but doing it anyway. :)

Y) Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard
Z) Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi

The alphabet challenge, for me at least, is without a doubt the hardest.

Bob wrote: "The alphabet challenge, for me at least, is without a doubt the hardest."

Well, I am trying to make it work. Those tricky letters are so hard to find a new book after you have done this a few years .

Finished today: The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas - Group Read: December 2017

I have now finished 5 books for the Old & New Challenge. All of them were read in April 2020. A positive for social isolation.

I'm glad you have been able to tackle so many challenge books while in isolation. I haven't fared as well and I am impressed by those who have. I keep meaning to read The Black Tulip so I am curious how you liked it.

It is a wonderful read. Perfect for me to read at this time.

Finished Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit. Used for the Century of Women writing Science Fiction and both Alphabet challenges.

Two more short stories read from this book: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham

I have six letters left in the ABC Author Challenge. I will need to do some work to get these trickier letters into my reading plans: O, Q, U, X, Y, and Z.

I've got I, Q, U, X, & Y, A-Z Challenges are the hardest, and I agree they require a lot of hunting.. I've got a book and author selected for I, but no clue on the rest.

Got my Z: Carlos Ruiz Zafón -- The Shadow of the Wind

Katy wrote: "Got my Z: Carlos Ruiz Zafón -- The Shadow of the Wind"

Its been 8 years since I read this. A lot of the detail has faded. When I see the title I always remember it as being a really good read.