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2021 Classics A - Z Authors

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 2021 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

2021 Classics A - Z Authors
3/26
A-Austin, Jane 05/21
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Classic A - Z Authors 2021 Challenge
12/04/21
24/26

A: Apollonius of Rhodes - The Voyage of Argo (The Argonautica) - circa 250 BC - (10/22/21)
B: Burnette, Frances Hodgson - Little Lord Fauntleroy - 1886 - (09/25/21)
C: Calvin, John - Truth for All Time - 1537 - (04/18/21)
D: Diderot, Denis - Rameau's Nephew* - 1761-1784 - (02/20/21)
E: Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Self-Reliance - 1841 - (11/04/21)
F: Freud, Sigmund - Civilization and Its Discontents - 1930 - (05/11/21)
G: Goldsmith, Oliver - She Stoops to Conquer - 1773 - (06/07/21)
H: Hammett, Dashielle - Red Harvest* - 1928 - (05/20/21)
I: Irving, Washington - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.] - 1819, 1820 - (03/13/21)
J: Jerome, Jerome K. - Three Men in a Boat - 1889 - (06/07/21)
K: Kerouac, Jack - Tristessa - 1960 - (11/10/21)
L: London, Jack - White Fang - 1906 - (05/15/21)
M: Morey, Walt - Gentle Ben - 1965 - (10/08/21)
N: Northup, Solomon - 12 Years a Slave - 1853 - (03/19/21)
O: Olsen, T. V. - The Man from Nowhere - 1959 - (11/20/21)
P: Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49* - 1965 - (06/11/21)
Q: Queen, Ellery - The House of Brass - 1968 - (11/14/21)
R: Roper, Moses - Narrative of My Escape from Slavery - 1837 - (02/17/21)
S: Shaw, George Bernard - Arms and the Man - 1894 - (09/01/21)
T: Tournier, Paul - The Meaning of Gifts - 1961 - (02/10/21)
U: Uris, Leon - The Angry Hills - 1955 - (11/18/21)
V: Verne, Jules - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - 1869 - (10/13/21)
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Y: BunYan, John - Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners (autobiography) - 1666 - (12/04/21)
Z: ToZer, A. W. - The Pursuit of God - 1948 - (02/01/21)

* Listed in Boxall, et. al., 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Jazzy's Classic A - Z Authors 2021 Challenge
1/1/21 - 31/12/21
20/26

✅A: Miguel Ángel ASTURIAS - El Señor Presidente(1946)

✅B: Honoré de BALZAC - Colonel Chabert (1832)

✅C: Agatha CHRISTIE - Murder on the Orient Express (1936)

✅D: Daniel DEFOE - Robinson Crusoe (1719)

✅E: E.R. EDDISON - The Worm Ouroboros (1922)

✅F: Ian FLEMING - Dr. No (1958)

✅G: Elizabeth GASKELL - The Old Nurse's Story (1852)

✅H: Patricia HIGHSMITH - Ripley Under Ground (1970)

I: Christopher ISHERWOOD - A Single Man (1964)

✅J: Meindert DeJONG - The Wheel on the School (1954)

✅K: Yasunari KAWABATA - The Master of Go (1954)

✅L: Nella LARSEN - Quicksand (1928)

✅M: MOLIÈRE - Tartuffe (1664)

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✅O: George ORWELL - Animal Farm (1945)

✅P: Edgar Allan POE - The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

Q: Seabury QUINN (1889-1969) - The Horror on the Links

✅R: Rainer Maria RILKE - Letters to a Young Poet (1929)

✅S: Maj SJÖWALL - Roseanna (1965)

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✅U: UNKNOWN - Beowulf (900)

✅V: Kurt VONNEGUT Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

✅W: Patricia WENTWORTH - The Clock Strikes Twelve (1944)

X: Gao XINGJIAN - Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

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✅Z: Guido GEZELLE (1830–1899) - Poems of Guido Gezelle: A Bilingual Anthology

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Classic A - Z Authors 2021 Challenge
01/09/21
0/26

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Classic A-Z Authors 2021 Challenge

4/26

A: Alcott, Louisa May (3/14)
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C: Carroll, Lewis (3/22)
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We're running out of new books, maybe next year we should do A-Z Locations instead of authors :)

2021 Classics A - Z Authors

8/26

A - Aldous Huxley. Brave New World (11/03)
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J - John Steinbeck. The Wayward Bus (01/09)
K - Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (13/02)
L - Louisa May Alcott. Good Wives (12/04)
M - Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita (04/06); Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the wind (03/08)
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S - Shirley Jackson. We have always lived in the castle (29/10)
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Y - Yukio Mishima. Patriotism (15/03)
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📚2021 Classics A - Z Authors📚

Starting late and will probably not hit 26 by the end of 2021 but this will definitely get me to try and read more classics!

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 2021 apply. Please include your read date.

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