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Classics A - Z Authors 2019

This challenge is a great way to explore new authors and diversify your bookshelves.

Guidelines:
- Read one author for each letter of the alphabet.
- Either choose by first or last name for your entire post.
- For X, Y & Z, the letters can be found anywhere in the author's name to qualify.
- Classics are +50 years.
- Only books read in 2019 apply. Please include your read date.
- Be creative and happy reading!

Example 1:
A - Austen, Jane {01/12}
B - Balzac, Honore {07/30}
C ...

Example 2:
A: Astrid Scholtes’s Four Dead Queens (Jan 12)
B: Barbara Taylor’s The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times (July 30th)
C: …

Below are links to authors with tougher letters (X/Y/Z)
Author - X, Y, & Z
Author - X
Author - Y
Author - Z

Here is a template you can copy and use!

CLASSICS A-Z AUTHOR CHALLENGE 2019

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CLASSICS A-Z AUTHOR CHALLENGE 2019

16/26

A: Sholom Aleichem - Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance (1888)

✅B: Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine (1957) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[28/2/19]

✅C: Agatha Christie - 4.50 from Paddington (1957) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[19/1/19]

✅D:Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) [31/5/19] ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

✅E: Jeannette Eyerly - A Girl Like Me (1966) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[17/3/19]

F: F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender Is the Night (1934)

✅G: Ivan Goncharov - The Same Old Story (1847) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[5/5/19]

✅H: Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (1862) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[11/2/19]

I: Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House (1879)

✅J: James Joyce - Dubliners (1914) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[12/3/19]

✅K: Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (1915) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[8/5/19]

L: Jack London - The Call of the Wild (1903)

✅M: George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind (1871) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[28/5/19]

✅N: Sōseki Natsume - I Am a Cat: Three Volumes in One (1905) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[7/5/19]

✅O: Kakuzō Okakura - The Book of Tea (1906) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[30/1/19]

P: Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Q: Raymond Queneau - Exercises in Style (1947)

✅R: George W.M. Reynolds - Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf (1846-7) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ [27/4/19]

✅S: Johanna Spyri - Heidi (1880) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[28/4/19]

✅T: Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons (1862) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[17/2/19]

U: James Ramsey Ullman - The Day on Fire (1958)

V: Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)

✅W: Richard Wright - Native Son (1940) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[24/5/19]

X: Lu Xun - The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (<1936)

✅Y: Leo Tolstoy - Youth (1852) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[27/5/19]

Z: Émile Zola - Germinal (1885)

CLASSICS A-Z AUTHOR CHALLENGE 2019

?/26

A: Aesop - Aesop's Fables (about 560 BC) ⭐⭐⭐[15 Apr 2019]

B: Samuel Beckett - Malone Dies
⭐[10 Feb 2019]

C: Kate Chopin - The Awakening ⭐⭐⭐[12 May 2019]

D: Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle ⭐⭐⭐⭐ [11 May 2019]

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F: Benedict Freedman - Mrs. Mike ⭐⭐⭐⭐[6 Jan 2019]

G: Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories ⭐⭐⭐⭐[16 Jan 2019]

H: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[2 May 2019]

I:

J: Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐[2 Apr 2019]

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L: Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook ⭐⭐⭐⭐[19 Mar 2019]

M: Somerset Maugham - Cakes and Ale ⭐⭐⭐[28 Jan 2019]

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P: Barbara Pym - Excellent Women ⭐⭐⭐[10 May 2019]

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R: Philip Roth - The Plot Against America ⭐⭐⭐[6 Mar 2019]

S: Johanna Spyri - Heidi ⭐⭐⭐⭐[8 Mar 2019]

T: Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ⭐⭐⭐[15 May 2019]

U: Leon Uris - Exodus ⭐⭐⭐⭐[13 Jan 2019]

V: Voltaire - Candide ⭐⭐⭐⭐[8 Mar 2019]

W: Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest ⭐⭐⭐⭐[1 May 2019]

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Jazzy wrote: "CLASSICS A-Z AUTHOR CHALLENGE 2019

13/26

A: Sholom Aleichem - Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance (1888)

✅B: Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine (195..."

How do you add the author's photos?

Easy peasy lemon squeezy Kelly!

Okay, when you go to add book/author there is a little circle to tick with either link or image so tick image.

OR when you have the link (without the spaces directly before or after the brackets) that says
[ author:Victor Hugo|13661 ]
Victor Hugo

you can type the word image after the word author
[ authorimage:Victor Hugo|13661 ]


The same goes for books, except for photos you click the circle that says 'cover' or add the word cover in the link directly after the word book - no spaces

I'm doing very well on the A-Z titles, but I'm not sure I can finish the A-Z author challenge before the end of the year, so may have to carry it over in 2020!

How is everyone else coming along?

Perhaps we may extend this to 2020?
What do you say?

I guess no one got this challenge completed, but well done to everyone who tried!