The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Number of books read - 39

Number from BBC Big Read top 200 list - 11
(Aiming for 5+ per year)

Monthly genres challenge

January: Contemporary/Literary Fiction - The Girl on the Train
February: Romance/Chick Lit - The Girl at the Lion d'Or
March: Mystery - The Blind Assassin
April: Fantasy - The Lollipop Shoes
May: Comedy/Tragedy - Lord of the Flies
June: Travel/Survival/Adventure - Eat, Pray, Love
July: Young Adult/Middle Grade - Looking for Alaska
August: Science Fiction/Dystopia - The Machine Stops
September: Historical Fiction - The Remains of the Day
October: Horror/Thriller/Paranormal - The Woman in White
November: Classics - dorian gray? Sherlock?
December: Children's - Carrie's War

New to you in 2018

This challenge will run from January to June 2018.

Challenge yourself to read some authors that are new to you

Level One: Test the Waters (1 New Author)
1. Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

Level Two: Wade in the Shallow End (3 New Authors)
2. M.C. Beaton, The Quiche of Death
3. E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

Level Three: Take a Swim (6 New Authors)
4. Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
5. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
6. William Golding, Lord of the Flies

Let’s have pie- Guardian list

Themes

1. ✔️Comedy - 4/7/18
2. ✔️Crime - 30/10/18
3. Family & Self (dorian gray?)
4. ✔️Love - 3/3/18
5. ✔️Science Fiction & Fantasy - 9/1/18
6. ✔️State of the Nation - 22/5/18
7. ✔️War & Travel - 8/12/18

Levels

Level 1: Just a Taste
1. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett - 9/1/18
2. A Room with a View, E.M. Forster- 3/3/18
Level 2: Getting Greedy
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain- 22/5/18
4. Cold Comfort Farm , Stella Gibbons - 4/7/18
Level 3: I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing
5. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins - 30/10/18
6. Carrie's War, Nina Bawden - 8/12/18
7.

Cereal Numbers: The Series Challenge 2018

Level 1: Grab A Spoon: 3-4 books/volumes of the same series
1) The Quiche of Death
2) The Vicious Vet
3) Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
4) Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley

Haunted by Emily Brontë
Gothic books

Level 1: Wander the Windy Moors at Night
1. Rebecca, 4/10/18
2. The Woman in White, 30/11/18
3.

Travel the world in 2018. Books must be set in the region to count for the challenge, but can be either fiction or nonfiction

Around the World
1st Leg: North America - Canada The Blind Assassin
2nd Leg: South America
3rd Leg: Europe - France The Lollipop Shoes
4th Leg: Middle East
5th Leg: Africa - Botswana The Kalahari Typing School for Men
6th Leg: Asia - India/Bali Eat, Pray, Love
7th Leg: Australia & Oceania

I like this format..I'm going to try it

Alphabet Soup
(Ignore “the, a” etc)

A- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
B- The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
C- The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
D-
E- Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
F- The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith
G- The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
H- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
I- Inferno, Dan Brown
J-
K- The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith
L- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
M- The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
N-
O-
P- The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Q- The Quiche of Death, M.C. Beaton
R- A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
S- Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
T-
U-
V- The Vicious Vet, M.C. Beaton
W- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
X-
Y-
Z-

Planned reading from ones that have been on shelf for ages already

5 Old School (1899 and earlier)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848
✔️The Woman in White, 1859
✔️The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
Little Women, 1868
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890

5 New School (1900-1949)
✔️A Room with a View, 1908
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, 1945
✔️Cold Comfort Farm, 1932
✔️Rebecca, 1938
Anne of Avonlea, 1909

10 Contemporary (1950+)
✔️Lord of the Flies, 1954
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984
Corelli's Mandolin, 1994
Love in the Time of Cholera, 1985
✔️High Fidelity, 1995
The Joy Luck Club, 1989
The Group, 1963
My Sister's Keeper, 2005
✔️ The Blind Assassin, 2000
Cloud Atlas, 2004

Missing vowels

No As- High Fidelity 10/9/18
No Es-
No Is- Lola Rose 16/9/18
No Os- Rebecca 4/10/18
No Us- The Remains of the Day 30/9/18
No Ys- The Woman in White 30/10/18