Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I've completed G (message 17) and posted my review above.

I'll jump in on this, with the self imposed rule of making it classics only. :)

A: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
B: Beowulf by Unknown
C: The Chimes by Charles Dickens
D: Dubliners by James Joyce
E:
F:
G:
H: The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
I: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
J:
K:
L:
M:
N:
O: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
P:
Q:
R:
S: The Saga of the Volsungs by Anonymous
T:
U:
V:
W:
X:
Y:
Z

I've completed M & Q (message 17).

Adding T (message 3)

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Adding C

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Loh wrote: "A-Z Title Challenge
Jan 1- Dec 31, 2018
17/26 Completed

A The Alchemist // Paulo Coelho January 9
B Beyond Good and Evil // Friedrich Nietzsche M..."

Adding O - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

(Message 3)

Adding F (message 3)

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott

Adding K

Kidnapped

Adding Q

Quicksand

Added H in message 52.

I need to stop reading titles with letters I've already done. =)

Update #2

A-Z Title Challenge 2018
January 1st 2018-December 31st 2018
15/26

A: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
B: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
C: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
D:
E:
F: The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
G: Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien
H: The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo
I: Ironweed by William Kennedy
J: Jak pokochać centra handlowe by Natalia Fiedorczuk
K:
L: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
M: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
N: Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
O: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
P: Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Q:
R:
S:
T: A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen edited by Susannah Carson
U:
V:
W: Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną by Dorota Masłowska
X:
Y:
Z:

Halfway through the year and 18/26

A: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
B: The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya
C: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
E: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
F: Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
G: Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf
H: Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling
I: The Iron Trial by Holly Black
L: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo
M: Medea by Euripides
O: The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling
P: The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
Q: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
R: Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
S: Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
T: Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
V: The Venetian Affair by Helen MacInnes
W: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I've updated my list (message 49) with my last book.
I have completed my A-Z Title Challenge for 2018. Hurray! This was my first year doing the A-Z Challenges and it was a blast.

Tammy wrote: "I've updated my list (message 49) with my last book.
I have completed my A-Z Title Challenge for 2018. Hurray! This was my first year doing the A-Z Challenges and it was a blast."

Congrats Tammy
Nice going.

Halfway through the year I'm only missing 5 letters (C,K,X,Y,Z - see message 8) - offcourse some of the harder ones - will have to make an effort for those for the remainder of the year.

12/26

A- The Alchemist
B- Blindness
C-Catilina's Riddle
D-The Defenceless
E-The Exiled
F-
G-The Goldfinch
H-The Hummingbird
I-
J-
K-
L-
M-Middlesex
N-
O-Orlando
P-Purple Hibiscus
Q-
R-
S-
T-The Taliban Cricket Club
U-
V-A Visit from the Goon Squad
W-
X-
Y-
Z-

Julie wrote: "Halfway through the year I'm only missing 5 letters (C,K,X,Y,Z - see message 8) - offcourse some of the harder ones - will have to make an effort for those for the remainder of the year."

Nice work on the challenge.

Jess wrote: "12/26

A- The Alchemist
B- Blindness
C-Catilina's Riddle
D-The Defenceless
E-The Exiled
F-
G-The Goldfinch
H..."


Welcome to the challenge. Hope you have fun with it.

Adding G (message 3)

A Good Place to Come from by Morley Torgov

Tammy wrote: "I've updated my list (message 49) with my last book.
I have completed my A-Z Title Challenge for 2018. Hurray! This was my first year doing the A-Z Challenges and it was a blast."

Congrats. And congrats to everyone else who is doing an awesome job too. I love to see the lists of books people read, and this challenge along with others is great for that.

Adding E

Eline Vere. Een Haagsche roman by Louis Couperus

Message 3

Current score: 21/26

A: All We Shall Know Mar 28
B: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood Jan 12
C: The Catcher in the Rye Jan 9
D: Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 1 Mar 17
E: Everless Jan 20
F: Fahrenheit 451 Feb 8
G: The Great Gatsby May 10
H: Hard Choices Jan 3
I: I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories Jul 10
J: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Aug 19
K: The Kite Runner
L: The Last Olympian Apr 6
M: The Magician's Nephew Jan 7
N: Norse Mythology Jan 24
O: Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 Aug 23
P: Purity Feb 18
Q: Quidditch Through the Ages
R: Red Clocks
S: Spinning Feb 16
T: There's Someone Inside Your House Feb 2
U: The Underground Railroad Jul 27
V: Villette
W: Worlds Collide Jan 3
X:
Y: Yes Please Feb 22
Z: The Zookeeper's Wife Aug 10

Adding B (message 3)

The Bride of Lammermoor

Adding Y

The Yellow Wallpaper and Selected Writings

Adding N

Naissance de l'Odyssée

Adding H

The Harbor Master

I'm currently reading for R and also have A, L, N, U, X, Y, and Z left (msg 17).

Update #3

A-Z Title Challenge 2018
January 1st 2018-December 31st 2018
21/26

A: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
B: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
C: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
D: Dunbar by Edward St. Aubyn
E: Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
F: The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
G: Girl with Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien
H: The House with the Blind Glass Windows by Herbjørg Wassmo
I: Ironweed by William Kennedy
J: Jak pokochać centra handlowe by Natalia Fiedorczuk
K: Król by Szczepan Twardoch
L: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
M: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
N: Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
O: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
P: Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Q:
R: Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
S: Sandro of Chegem by Fazil Iskander
T: A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen edited by Susannah Carson
U: Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
V:
W: Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną by Dorota Masłowska
X:
Y:
Z:

Down to only one letter missing: Y
I think I have a book for that in my e-reader, so should be able to finish fairly easily :)

Julie wrote: "Halfway through the year I'm only missing 5 letters (C,K,X,Y,Z - see message 8) - offcourse some of the harder ones - will have to make an effort for those for the remainder of the year."

I'm currently reading for L and U and have A, X, Y, and Z left.

Adding S to message 3

The Scarlet Letter

I need J and Z

A-Z 2018 Book Challenge
Start: 1/1/2018
Finish: 12/31/2018

A: Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi (finished on 4/27/18)
B: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (finished on 3/17/18)
C: A Conjuring of Light by V.E.Schwab (finished 4/21/18)
D: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (finished on 9/2/18)
E: Edgedancer by Branden Sanderson (finished 1/27/18)
F: Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi (finished 2/24/18)
G: Gemina by Amie Kaufman (finished on 5/18/18)
H: Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (finished on 8/17/18)
I: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman (finished on 5/6/18)
J:
K: Kick --- with Mel Robbins by Mel Robbins (finished on 7/10/18)
L: Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (finished on 8/23/18)
M: Matilda by Roald Dahl (finished on 4/1/18)
N: Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (finished on 3/21/18)
O: Obsidio by Amie Kaufman (finished on 5/19/18)
P: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (finished on 8/5/18)
Q:
R: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (finished 1/5/18)
S: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan (finished 3/2/18)
T: Russian Fariy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev (finished on 8/25/18)
U: Underground Airlines by Ben Winters (finished 3/15/18)
V: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Makenzi Lee (finished on 8/5/18)
W: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (finished 1/24/18)
X:
Y:
Z:

Wow, doing great there Tina.

19/26


AA Wizard of Earthsea
BBliss & Other Stories
CComing Up for Air
DDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality
E Excellent Women
FFive T'Ang Poets
GThe Gift of Rain/ The Gabriel Hounds
HHamlet
IAn Ideal Husband
JJude the Obscure
K Kreutzer sonata,Tolstoy Leo or king of elfland's daughter
LLeaves of Grass
MMurder on the Orient Express
N nine coaches waiting
OO Pioneers!
PPompeii
Q the quest of christa t
RA Room of One's Own
S Summer
TThe Things They Carried
UUnder the Lilacs
V vinland sagas,norse discovery of america
WThe Waverly Novels: Waverly
X xingu
Y a yellow raft in blue water
Z zoro by isabel allende

siriusedward wrote: "19/26


AA Wizard of Earthsea
BBliss & Other Stories
CComing Up for Air
DDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality
E Excellent Women
..."

some neat reads here - you've done almost 75% and not quite 3/4 way through the year - brill!!

A- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
B-
C- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
D- Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Michael Hecht
E- Emily Dickinson Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
F- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
G- Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
H- The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
I- The Iliad by Homer
J-
K-
L- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
M- The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
N- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
O-
P-
Q-
R- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
S- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
T- Terrorist Hunter by Anonymous
U- A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
V-
W-Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
X-
Y-
Z- Zen War Stories by Brian Daizen Victoria

I'm done
A-Z Title Challenge 2018 done
A-Uncle John’s All-Purpose Extra Strength Bathroom Reader – Bathroom Reader’s Institute*
B-The Best Christmas Pageant Ever-Barbara Robinson*
C-A Clean, Well-Lighted Place-Ernest Hemingway*
D-Dombey and Son-Charles Dickens*
E-Elephants Can Remember-Agatha Christie*
F-Flowers for Algernon-Daniel Keyes*
G-Green Eggs and Ham- Dr. Seuss*
H- A History of Witchcraft In England-Wallace Notestein*
I-The Infinite Sea-Rick Yancey*
J-Just Different Devils- Jinx Schwartz*
K-A Knight for Kallen-Lauren Linwood*
L-Love Brought Me Back-Natalie Cole*
M-Murder on the Orient Express-Agatha Christie*
N-New Moon- Stephenie Meyer*
O- The Other Queen-Philippa Gregory*
P-The Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux*
Q-The Clancys of Queens- Tara Clancy*
R-The Road to Memphis- Mildred D. Taylor*
S-Free Comic Book Day: Star Wars- Miles Lane*
T-Triple Detente- Piers Anthony*
U-Uncle Silas- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu*
V- Villette- Charlotte Bronte*
W-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- L Frank Baum*
X- X Marks the Scot- Kaitlyn Dunnett*
Y-The Yellow Wallpaper-Charlotte Perkins Gilman*
z-Zorba the Greek-Nikos Kazantzakis*

Way to go, Hayley!

Just have A to go!

Adding Z to message 3

Zaïre by Voltaire


I have one left to go- J

Way to finish Hayley and you've got this one Aubrey & Rosemarie.

I've got 4 left, J, N, U, & Y

I finished the challenge with
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe. (Message 3)

Rosemarie wrote: "I finished the challenge with
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe. (Message 3)"

Congrats! I may use that for my J!

Thank you. It was a very interesting play.

You made a great start, Helen. I see some of my favourites on your list. I really like the Susan Cooper Dark is Rising sequence.

That would be a really big book!

Challenge complete! Huzzah!

Aubrey wrote: "Challenge complete! Huzzah!"

Hooray for you.

Way to go, Aubrey!

Finished!!
Didn't realise I'd completed with Denise Mina's excellent debut Garnethill - but here it is: Something Old, something New, a bit of Africa and at least a handful of Nobel Prize winners:

A: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
B: The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa
C:Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh
D: A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré
E: Eget værelse by Virginia Woolf aka. A Room of One's Own
F: Fra samvittighedens republik by Seamus Heaney
G: Garnethill by Denise Mina
H: The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
I: I opstandelsens aske by Nelly Sachs
J: Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas by Dario Fo
K: King Leopold's Soliloquy by Mark Twain
...after reading King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
L: Lots hustru og andre kvinder by Wisława Szymborska
M: The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen
N: Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
O: Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
P: Poemas de Las Madres: The Mother's Poems by Gabriela Mistral
Q: The Quicksand by Edith Wharton
R: Russisk romantik - Pushkin: Fontænen i Bakhtjisaraj & Lermontov: Dæmonen
S: Sigøjnerballader by Federico García Lorca
T: The Time Machine by H G Wells
U: Ultralummets gidsler by Pierre Christin & J.C. Mézières
V: A Visit from the Goon Squad A Visit from the Goon Squad
W: Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi
X: XYZ - A Detective Story by Anna Katharine Green (1883)
Y: Yann Andréa Steiner by Marguerite Duras
Z: Zero K by Don DeLillo

Bonus:
Ø Østersøer by Tomas Tranströmer

Congrats to you Anetq

Way to go, Anetq!

Excellent! Way to go Anetq!

Thanks Rosemarie & Katy - and good luck to those still working on their Q & X
(...that's me in the author challenge ;) )

While all the 2019 challenges are being posted, this seems like a good time to 'sneak in' to the 2018 challenges, and see how I would have done :D

(will update later)

MK's 2018 A-Z Title Challenge

A: - An Accidental Messiah, Angela's Ashes, Afterlife, Aaptiv Sleep Better, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
B: - Book Night on Union Station, Black Ice Burning, Brilliance, A Better World, The Bookseller, Blackfish City
C: - Cold Dream Dawning, Cassidy Lane, A Castle in Romagna, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, The Coral Island, or The Cricket on the Hearth
D:* Three Daughters (Three) Daughters*
E:* Aaptiv Everyday Meditation (Aaptiv) Everyday Meditation*
F: - Followed by Frost, The Fifth Doll, From a Paris Balcony, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Foe, Flint's Island, Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island
G: - Girl on a Wire, Girl in the Shadows, The Glass Magician, The Gambit, The Gray House, The Gray House, The Gorilla Hunters, God's Bits of Wood, A Grain of Wheat, The Gingerbread Cottage: A Christmas Novella, The Gingerbread Depot: A Christmas Novella
H: - The House by the Lake, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, The Hunting of the Snark, Hermann the Irascible
I: - The Immortal Circus: Act One, The Immortal Circus: Act Two, The Immortal Circus: Final Act, Indexing, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Into the Jungle: Stories for Mowgli, The Irish Piper
J: - Jerusalem Poker, Jericho Mosaic, The Jungle Book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
K:* - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden (The Girl Who Saved the) King of Sweden*
L: - The Last Town, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, A Lonely Dog on Christmas
M: - Meghan's Dragon, The Master Magician, Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet, Marooned: The Strange but True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe. A Morbid Taste for Bones
N: - Nile Shadows
O: - One Corpse Too Many
P: - The Paper Magician, Pines, Paris Time Capsule, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan – the Original Play by J. M. Barrie - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) (Delphi Parts Edition
Q:* - , Pale Queen Rising (Pale) Queen Rising*
R: - Reflections, The Rejected Writers' Book Club, Robinson Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe
S: - Sinai Tapestry, Simon Says: Tips for the Intrepid Time Traveler, Ship of Dreams, Ship of Fools, Ship Breaker, The Second Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Swallows and Amazons
T: - Timebound, Time's Edge, Time's Divide, Time's Echo, Time's Mirror, 2092, The Third Jungle Book, Treasure Island, The Time-Sweepers
U: - An Unexpected Afterlife, Up, Back, and Away, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
V: - A Visit From Saint Nicholas
W: - Written in Fire, Wayward, Whack Job, The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
X: - Pilot X? Hexes and X's (Z & C Mysteries Book 3)?
Y: - The Young Oxford Book of Folk Tales
Z: - Betty Zane? Zodiac?

* - used other than the first word of the title

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MK's 2018 Challenge Threads (or Posts) ...

• A-Z Author Challenge
• A-Z Title Challenge
• Classic Bingo Challenge
• Old & New Classic Challenge
• Quest for Women Authors Challenge

MK's Other Challenge Threads (or Posts) ...