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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

New and Old TBR

Old school
1. Adam Bede by George Eliot
2. The Devil's Pool by George Sand
�3. The Odd Women by George Gissing fin Aug27 4*

New school
�4. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck fin Jul11 5*
�5. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh fin Jul27 3*
�6. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham fin Jan12 4*

Wild cards
�7. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro fin Apr30 4*
�8. The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters fin Apr23 5*
9. At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
�10. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry fin Sep17 3*
�11. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger fin Jan26 4*
12. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Alternates
� 13. His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Émile Zola fin Feb9 5*
� 14. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell fin Oct10 4*
15. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

10/15

2. Second place or worse

New School
�1. On the Beach by Nevil Shute fin Jan29 2*
�2. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro fin Apr30 4*
�3. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh fin Jul27 3*

2. Go tell it on the mountain
3. The painted veil
4. A town like Alice
6. The jungle
9. Independent People
10. Blood meridian
11. The moon is a harsh mistress
12. The death of the heart




Old School
�1. L'Assommoir by Émile Zola fin Mar17 5*
�2. Nana by Émile Zola fin May14 5*
�3.The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola fin Jul9 5*
�4. The Odd Women by George Gissing fin Aug27 4*
�5. Germinal by Émile Zola fin Sep26 5*
�6. The Masterpiece by Émile Zola fin Oct26 5*


1. Poor folk Dostoyevsky
2. Saga of gosta berling
5. Sentimental education Flaubert
7. Paris spleen Baudelaire
8. Waverley
9. Adam Bede
11. A sentimental journey Sterne
12. Germinal
13. Indiana
15. Oblomov
16. The black sheep balzac
17. Tara’s bulba Gogol
18. Man and wife wilkie Collins
19. The doctors wife Braddon

Short Story/Novella
� 1. The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue fin Feb28 4*
� 2. An Imaginative Woman by: Thomas Hardy fin Nov12 5*
� 3. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield fin Nov24 5*

2. The altar of the dead henry James
4. The great god pan
5. The lifted veil
6. The devils pool
7. The lady in the looking glass
8. The poor Clare
9. The loved one Evelyn Waugh
10. The man who planted trees
14. Old possums book of practical cats
15. No one writes to the colonel Gabriel Garcia Marquez
16. Phedre jean Racine
17. Fraulein else Arthur schnitzler
18. The drivers seat Muriel spark
19. A hunger artist Kafka



Quarterly Long Read
1. Le Morte d’Arthur
2. The sagas of the Icelanders Jane smiley
3. The betrothed manzoni
4. No name Wilkie Collins
5. Sons and lovers
6. Of human bondage
7. Ada or ardor.
8. Testament of youth
9. East Lynne

3. Decade challenge

1880 � Nana by Émile Zola
1881 � The Loan by Machado de Assis
1882 � Pot Luck by Émile Zola
1883 � The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
1884 � The Bright Side of Life by Émile Zola
1885 � Germinal by Émile Zola
1886 � The Masterpiece by Émile Zola
1887 � Earth by Émile Zola
1888 � The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy
1889

1960 � Sleep With Slander by Dolores Hitchens
1961 � The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
1962
1963 � The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
1964 � Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
1965
1966 � Les Belles Images by Simone de Beauvoir
1967 � Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
1968 � A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez
1969

Century challenge
1820-29 � At The Sign Of The Cat And Racket by Honoré de Balzac
1830-39 � Notre-Dame de Paris The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
1840-49 � The Chimes by Charles Dickens
1850-59 � Bleak House by Charles Dickens
1860-69 � A Bad Business by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1870-79 � L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
1880-89 � Germinal by Émile Zola
1890-99 � The Odd Women by George Gissing
1900-09 � The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
1910-19 � The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
1920-29 � The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle
1930-39 � The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
1940-49 � The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
1950-59 âœ� ¸é³ó¾±²Ô´Ç³¦Ã©°ù´Ç²õ by Eugène Ionesco
1960-69 � The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
1970-79 � The Omen by David Seltzer
1980-89 � The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
1990-99 � The Dying Fall by J.G. Ballard

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

�1. 19th Century, The Abbé Mouret's Sin by Émile Zola fin Jan5 4*
�2. 20th Century, The Well by Elizabeth Jolley fin Jan11 4*
�3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic, Violeta by Isabel Allende fin Apr18 5*
�4. Current or Past Group Read The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham fin Jan12 4*
�5. An Author not read before, The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen fin Feb11 4*
�6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks fin May11 4*
�7. Science Fiction, Voices from the Radium Age edited by Joshua Glenn fin Mar27 4*
�8. A book originally written in a language other than your own, A Bad Business by Fyodor Dostoevsky fin Jan25 5*
�9. A Banned Book, July's People by Nadine Gordimer fin Jan19 4*
�10. Nonfiction, Thomas Hardy: The Time Torn Man by Claire Tomalin fin Jan27 5*
�11. Mystery/Crime, Sleep With Slander by Dolores Hitchens fin Feb20 4*
�12. Horror or Humor, Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu finished Jan3 4*

5. Short stories

1. A Dry, Quiet War by Tony Daniel 4*
2. How the Poor Die by George Orwell 3*
3. Malaria by Giovanni Verga 3*
4. A Legend of Old Egypt by Bolesław Prus 3*
5. At The Sign Of The Cat And Racket by Honoré de Balzac 4*
6. In Defence of English Cooking by George Orwell 3*
7. Recitatif by Toni Morrison 4*
8. The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue fin Feb28 4*
9. The Ball At Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac fin Mar3 4*
10. The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty fin Mar14 4*
11. Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain fin Mar26 3*
12. The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson fin Mar26 4*
13. The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster fin Mar26 5*
14. The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle fin Mar26 4*
15. The Red One by Jack London fin Mar26 2*
16. The Comet by W.E.B. Du Bois fin Mar27 5*
17. The Jameson Satellite by Neil R. Jones fin Mar27 5*
18. The Gospel According to Mark by Jorge Luis Borges fin Apr6 4*
19. So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan fin Apr10 3*
20. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne fin May3 4*
21. The Hand by Guy de Maupassant fin May3 4*
22. Mother Savage by Guy de Maupassant fin May4 5*
23. The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne fin May9 3*
24. The Drunkard's Death by Charles Dickens fin May10 4*
25. The Begging-Letter Writer by Charles Dickens fin May16 4*
26. The Purse by Honoré de Balzac fin May18 4*
27. Astronaut by Maria Dahvana Headley fin May19 3*
28. The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol fin May20 4*
29. The Chronologist by Ian R. MacLeod fin May21 4*
30. A Descent into the Maelstrom - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story fin May27 3*
31. The Drowned Giant by J.G. Ballard fin May29 5*
32. The Dying Fall by J.G. Ballard fin May29 5*
33. The Very Pulse of the Machine by Michael Swanwick fin May30 4*
34. The Landlady by Roald Dahl fin Jun3 4*
35. The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe fin Jun15 3*
36. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe fin Jun22 4*
37. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy fin Jun22 4*
38. Ms. Found in a Bottle - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story fin Jun28 4*
39. The Real Thing by Henry James fin Jun29 4*
40. Three Detective Anecdotes by Charles Dickens fin Jul8 3*
41. The Storm by Kate Chopin fin jul8 4*
42. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin fin Jul14 5*
43. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad fin Jul26 4*
44. Misery by Anton Chekhov fin Aug5 5*
45. Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe fin Aug6 3*
46. Secret Sorrow by Knut Hamsun fin Aug 11 4*
47. The Goblins who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens fin Aug15 3*
48. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton fin Aug24 5*
49. Shadow: A Parableby Edgar Allan Poe fin Aug 27 4*
50. The Tuggses at Ramsgate by Charles Dickens fin Sep3 3*
51. Paul's Case by Willa Cather fin Sep6 4*
52. Hands by Sherwood Anderson fin Sep12 3*
53. Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe fin Sep17 4*
54. Lying Awake by Charles Dickens fin Sep19 5*
55. Night Walks by Charles Dickens fin Sep22 5*
56. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe fin Oct2 4*
57. A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf fin Oct11 4*
58. The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe fin Oct15 4*
59. Before the Law by Franz Kafka fin Oct16 5*
60. The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac fin Oct30 4*
61. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez fin Nov1 4*
62. Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence fin Nov1 5*
63. The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf fin Nov3 4*
64. The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence fin Nov9 4*
65. Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield fin Nov14 4*
66. The Imp of the Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe fin Nov16 5*
67. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield fin Nov23 5*
68. Before the Party by W. Somerset Maugham fin Dec4 4*
69. The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell fin Dec5 3*
70. Morella by Edgar Allan Poe fin Dec13 4*
71. Barn Burning by William Faulkner fin Dec24 3*
72. Barn Burning by Haruki Murakami fin Dec24 4*
73. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner fin Dec27 3*

Short story collections
1. A Bad Business by Fyodor Dostoevsky 5*
2. They by Kay Dick fin Feb28 4*
3. Voices from the Radium Age edited by Joshua Glenn fin Mar27 4*
4. A Postcard for Annie by Ida Jessen fin Apr12 4*
5. Life Ceremony: Stories by Sayaka Murata fin Apr28 4*
6. Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories by Isaac Babel fin May6 4*
7. This All Come Back Now edited by Mykaela Saunders fin May17 5*
8. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt fin Jun9 4*
9. Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens fin Jun24 3*
10. Jizzle by John Wyndham fin Jul7 4*
11. Total: Stories by Rebecca Miller fin Jul10 4*
12. Ancient Sorceries Deluxe Edition by Algernon Blackwood fin Sep9 4*
13. Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories edited by Audrey Niffenegger fin Oct22 3*
14.The Looking-Glass: Essential Stories by Machado de Assis fin Dec17 4*
15. Twain Illustrated: Three Stories by Mark Twain fin Dec18 4*
15. Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy fin Dec27 4*

6. 2022 group reads

1. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 4*
2. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 4*
3. Blindness by José Saramago 4*
4. The Hand by Guy de Maupassant 4*
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 4*
6. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck 5*
7. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 4*
8. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 3*
9. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay 5*
10. Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe 4*
11. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 3*
12. The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf 4*
13. Before the Party by W. Somerset Maugham 4*


The house of mirth
Nausea
The Kreuzer sonata
Villette
Of human bondage

7. New authors

1. Elizabeth Jolley The Well fin Jan11 4*
2. W. Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge fin Jan12 4*
3. Nevil Shute On the Beach fin Jan29 2*
4. Elizabeth Bowen The House in Paris fin Feb11 4*
5. Halldór Laxness Salka Valka fin Feb14 4*
6. Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre-Dame fin Feb19 5*
7. Charles Baudelaire The Flowers of Evil fin Feb22 4*
8. Rebecca West The Return of the Soldier fin Feb23 5*
9. Samuel BeckettWaiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts fin Mar18 3*
10. Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie fin Mar20 3*
11. Violet Jacob Flemington fin Mar22 4*
12. Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter fin Mar30 4*
13. José Saramago Blindness fin Apr12 4*
14. Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown fin May3 4*
15. Anita Desai Clear Light of Day fin May4 4*
16. Isaac Babel Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories fin May 6 4*
17. Gwendolyn Brooks Maud Martha fin May11 4*
18. Marian Engel Bear fin Jun23 3*
19.Evelyn Waugh Scoop fin Jul27 3*
20. Sabahattin Ali Madonna in a Fur Coat fin Aug7 4*
21. George Gissing The Odd Women fin Aug27 4*
22. Patricia Highsmith The Talented Mr. Ripley fin Oct30 3*
23. Samuel ButlerErewhon: 150th Anniversary Edition fin Dec11 3*

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.

1976
1. Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick
2 The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
�3 Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie fin Jun12 3*
4. The Takeover by Muriel Spark
5. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
6. My Name is Legion by Roger Zelazny
�7. A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively fin Sep11 4*
�8. Bear by Marian Engel fin Jun23 3*
�9. The Omen by David Seltzer fin Oct22 4*
10. The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett

1876
1. �His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Émile Zola 5*
2. �The Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. �The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. �The Peasant Marey by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne
6. Daniel Deronda
7. The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
8. The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins
9. The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
10. Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen

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.

Indigenous Australians
Nonfiction �Australia Day by Stan Grant fin Feb2 5*
Fiction � The Yield by Tara June Winch fin Aug21 5*

Irish actors
Nonfiction � Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne fin Nov30 4*
Fiction Actress by Anne Enright

Working class, Northern England
Nonfiction � The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell fin Oct10 4*
Fiction A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

Train (in the title!)
Nonfiction M Train by Patti Smith
Fiction Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Feminism
✅N´Ç²Ô´Ú¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende fin Sep18 4*
✅F¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo fin Nov29 3*

Thomas Hardy
✅N´Ç²Ô´Ú¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô Thomas Hardy: The Time Torn Man by Claire Tomalin fin Jan27 5*
✅F¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô by Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles fin Nov7

Emile Zola
Nonfiction Émile Zola: A Very Short Introduction by Brian Nelson
✅F¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Émile Zola fin Feb9 5*

Existentialism
Nonfiction At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others bySarah Bakewell
✅F¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô Les Belles Images by Simone de Beauvoir fin Sep14 5*

Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast
� Nonfiction Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art by G. Peter Winnington fin Mar31 4*
� Fiction Titus Awakes: The Lost Book of Gormenghast by Maeve Gilmore fin Jul14 3*

The Brontes
Nonfiction The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick by Sharon Wright
� Fiction The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan fin Jul3 5*

Disability
� Nonfiction The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy fin Apr17 4*
� Fiction Blindness by José Saramago fin Apr12 4*

Dickens
Nonfiction The Immortal Dickens by George Gissing
✅F¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô Bleak House by Charles Dickens fin May24 5*

English myth
✅N´Ç²Ô´Ú¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô : English Myths: From Beowulf to George and the Dragon fin Jun 10 4*
✅F¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô : The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry fin Sep17 3*

Cezanne/Impressionism
✅N´Ç²Ô´Ú¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô: Cezanne by Françoise Cachin fin Oct31 4*
✅F¾±³¦³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô : The Masterpiece by Émile Zola fin Oct26 5*

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.

Probably impossible for me, I just don’t read that much prior to 1800.

Challenge #11 - Old and New Linked Categories

Select five categories of your choice or use some of these sample categories. Once you make your category selections, link the categories by finding and reading an Old School (1899 or older) and a New School book (1900-1999) that contains some part or is all about your selected categories. It will be more interesting and more varied if you come up with your own categories.

Dystopia
� Erewhon: 150th Anniversary Edition by Samuel Butler fin Dec11 3*
� They by Kay Dick fin Feb27 4*

Medieval Paris
�The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo fin Feb19 5*
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

Jacobite Rebellion
Waverley by Walter Scott
�Flemington by Violet Jacob fin Mar22 4*

Journalism
New Grub Street by George Gissing
�Scoop by Evelyn Waugh fin Jul27 3*

Gothic/ghost story
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
This House Is Haunted by John Boyne
or The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Politics
� His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Émile Zola fin Feb9 5*
� Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. fin Jan16 3*

Working class/poverty/alcoholism
� L'Assommoir by Émile Zola fin Mar17 5*
� The Snapper by Roddy Doyle fin Mar22 4*

Union organising/ Workers rights
� Germinal by Émile Zola fin Sep26 5*
� Salka Valka by Halldór Laxness fin Feb14 4*

Running a store/business/capitalism
� The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola fin Jul9 5*
� The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck fin Jul11 5*

Teaching
� The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark fin Mar20 3*

Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge


A Anita Desai
B Honoré de Balzac
C Barbara Comyns
D Charles Dickens
E Elizabeth Bowen
F J. Sheridan Le Fanu
G Nadine Gordimer
H Dolores Hitchens
I Eugène Ionesco
J Elizabeth Jolley
K Milan Kundera
L Halldór Laxness
M W. Somerset Maugham
N Nathaniel Hawthorne
O George Orwell
P Ruth Park
Q
R Roddy Doyle
S Muriel Spark
T Claire Tomalin
U Silje O. Ulstein
V Victor Hugo
W Rebecca West
X
Y Yasushi Inoue
Z Émile Zola

Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge


A The Abbé Mouret's Sin
B A Bad Business
C Carmilla
D The Drunkard's Death
E Erewhon: 150th Anniversary Edition
F The Flowers of Evil
G The Glass Pearls
H His Excellency Eugène Rougon
I Immortality
J July's People
K A Kind of Loving
L L'Assommoir
M Maud Martha
N Nana
O Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories
P Playing Beatie Bow
Q
R The Razor's Edge
S Salka Valka
T Thomas Hardy: The Time Torn Man
U Uncle Vanya
V Voices from the Radium Age
W The Well
X
Y Young Goodman Brown
Z

I shall attempt to feast from the entire buffet, but I reckon #9 will be difficult and #10 impossible.

With Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks as my diversity classic, I’ve completed challenge #4

Janelle wrote: "With Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks as my diversity classic, I’ve completed challenge #4"

Congratulations! Looks like you really enjoyed that list of books.

Thanks Klowey :)

Janelle, what a wonderful list! I could spend hours looking through all the books you have listed. I liked how you paired your old and new and the fiction/non fiction.

Good luck with the challenge. I'll drop in again to look up some more books and lists (also to see your progress)

Thanks Shaina, I love looking at other people’s lists too :)

Congratulations on completing your Challenge. Member's Choice is a fun one! Way to go.

Janelle wrote: "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..."

I love your Fiction/Non-Fiction groups!

Lynn wrote: "Congratulations on completing your Challenge. Member's Choice is a fun one! Way to go."

Thanks Lynn :)

Klowey wrote: "I love your Fiction/Non-Fiction groups!"

Thanks Klowey, I read so much more fiction than nonfiction so I didn’t think this would be my sort of challenge but it’s working out okay :)

Great progress, Janelle! Your Member's Choice challenge shows how much variety you've already read. :-) Glad the Hardy biography was good!

Thanks Kathleen :)

I haven't visited here in a while. Wow you have finished 6 Challenges. Very nice!

Thanks Lynn :)
I’ll do a summing up after Christmas but I’m not expecting any major changes before then!

Final roundup for the year, I completed 6/13 challenges.

#1 old and newTBR 10/15
#2 second place or worse 3/4 (I didn’t read a long read loser)
#3 decade/century challenge : completed the century, my best decade was the 1880s 9/10
�#4 members choice 12/12
�#5 short stories : easily completed, really enjoyed the short stories I read this year!
�#6 group reads : I read 13
�#7 new authors : 23 new classic authors
#8 passage of time : 4/5 1876, 4/5 1976
�#9 fiction/nonfiction 5/5
#10 half a millennium twist : not attempted!
�#11 old and new linked 5/5
#12 alphabet author 24/26
#13 alphabet title 23/26


Favourites for the year
I really enjoyed all the Zolas, I read one a month and now have four to go in the Rougon-Macquart series.
Favourite new schools : Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Winter of Our Discontent
Favourite old school (other than Zola): Notre-Dame de Paris The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Favourite short stories : Mother Savage, Odour of Chrysanthemums and The Drowned Giant

Looking forward to next years challenges!

Well done, Janelle! I've got Picnic at Hanging Rock on the list for 2023, so glad to see you enjoyed it.

Thanks Carolien, I hope you enjoy Picnic as much as I did :)

Looks like you had a good year, Janelle! And my Mt TBR is benefiting from your favorites - thank you - I think ;)

Well done, Janelle! Happy to see Odour of Chrysanthemums and The Winter of Our Discontent, which I loved too, among your favorites. A great year!

Annette wrote: "Looks like you had a good year, Janelle! And my Mt TBR is benefiting from your favorites - thank you - I think ;)"

Thanks Annette and sorry about the TBR, mine just keeps growing too!

Kathleen wrote: "Well done, Janelle! Happy to see Odour of Chrysanthemums and The Winter of Our Discontent, which I loved too, among your favorites. A great year!"

Thanks Kathleen. Both of those have just stuck with me, Steinbeck in particular went straight to my favourites shelf!