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Classics A - Z Authors 2020

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 2020 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

A-Z Classic Author Challenge 2020

26/26

✅ A: Dante Alighieri - Inferno (1320) [4/1/20]

✅ B: Enid Bagnold - The Chalk Garden (1956) [24/1/2020]

✅ C: Anton Chekhov - The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 [23/1/20]

✅ D: Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground (1864) [19/1/20]

✅ E: George Essex Evans - The Secret Key, and Other Verses (1906) [31/1/2020]

✅ F: Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career (1901) [31/1/2020]

✅ G: Dan Greenburg - How to Be a Jewish Mother (1964) [26/1/2020]

✅ H: Frank Herbert - Dune (1965) [13/1/20]

✅ I: Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House (1879) [14/4/20]

✅ J: Shirley Jackson - The Lottery (1948) [23/1/20]

✅ K: Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous (1896) [13/2/2020]

✅ L: H.P. Lovecraft - The Beast in the Cave (1918) [1/1/20]

✅ M: Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Vol 1 (1854) [30/1/2020]

✅ N: Vladimir Nabokov - Spring in Fialta (1956) [2/4/2020]

✅ O: Kenzaburō Ōe - A Personal Matter (1964) [15/2/2020]

✅ P: Sully Prudhomme - Les Vaines Tendresses (1875) [8/1/20]

✅ Q: Raymond Queneau - Exercises in Style (1947) [24/7/20]

✅ R: H.A. Rey - Curious George (1941) [18/1/20]

✅ S: Dodie Smith - The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) [23/1/2020]

✅ T: Ethel Turner - The Family at Misrule (1895) [2/8/20]

✅ U: Sigrid Undset - Jenny (1911) [28/2/2020]

✅ V: Paul von Heyse - The Dead Lake and Other Tales (Translated by Mary Wilson) (1870) [22/2/2020]

✅ W: Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince (1888) [5/2/2020]

✅ X: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince (1943) [9/2/2020]

✅ Y: W.B. Yeats - W.B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney [29/2/2020]

✅ Z: Yevgeny Zamyatin - We (1921) [19/5/2020]

A-Z Classic Author Challenge 2020 (Last Names)
10/23/20
13/26

A: Austen, Jane - Persuasion* (1818) - (06/27/20)
B: Bunyan, John - The Pilgrim's Progress* (1678, 1684) - (05/07/20)
C: Carroll, Lewis - The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits (1876) - (03/16/20)
D: DeFoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders* (1722) - (01/14/20)
E:
F: Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury* (1929) - (03/14/20)
G:
H: Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon* (1930) - (Audio Book) - (10/23/20)
I:
J: Johnson, Samuel - The History of Rasselas, Prince of Albissinia* (1759) - (05/13/20)
K:
L: Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird* (1960) - (04/08/20)
M:
N:
O:
P:
Q:
R:
S: Swift, Jonathan - A Tale of a Tub* (1704) - (03/26/20)
T:
U: Unknown - The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2500 BC) - (05/19/20)
V: Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five* (1969) - (03/06/20)
W: Wells, H. G. - The Time Machine* (1895) - (01/17/20)
X:
Y:
Z: Hurston, Zora Neale - Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939) - (07/14/20)

* Listed in Boxall's, 1001 Books...Read...Die

Completed this challenge! Good luck Tim!

Jazzy wrote: "Completed this challenge! Good luck Tim!"

Thanks Jazzy. I have a way to go as I am attempting to complete three challenges. Congratulations on finishing the author challenge! You are an incredible reader! Good luck and keep reading!

Tim, I am an obsessive reader! Sometimes I read a lot and sometimes I don't. I'm just in one of those 'a lot' modes at the minute! I'm working on quite a lot of challenges, the biggest one I haven't completed is to read all the Nobel Laureates. I've only read 71 out of 117 so far :) x

Very impressive!