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My List:

✅1. The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin - 10/4/23 - 4.5* - My Review
✅2. World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow - 2/1/23 - 5* - My Review
✅3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 2/3/23 - 4* - My Review
✅4. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 3/1/23 - 3* - My Review
✅5. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami - 3/24/23 - 4* - My Review
✅6. The Golden Bowl by Henry James - 6/9/23 - 4* - My Review
✅7. Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee - 5/30/23 - 4* - My Review
✅8. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review
✅9. American Pastoral by Philip Roth - 3/7/23 - 4* - My Review
✅10. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review
✅11. The Magician by Colm Tóibín - 9/13/23 - 4* - My Review
✅12. Libra by Don DeLillo - 2/18/23 - 3* - My Review
✅13. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 1/11/23 - 5* - My Review
✅14. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie - 5/28/23 - 4* - My Review
✅15. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - 3/4/23 - 5* - My Review
✅16. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - 1/19/23 - 4* - My Review

Joy, I've only read two books on your list, Suite Francaise, and A Beautiful Mind, but I enjoyed them very much. I hope you do too. All the best!

Some real literature there. I've only read Brideshead. Good luck with your 2023 challenges.

Joy D wrote: "My List:

1 The Keys of the Kingdom A.J. Cronin
2 World's Fair E.L. Doctorow
3 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
4 The Beautiful and the Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald
5 Killing Commendatore Haruki Mur..."
I loved The Accidental Tourist. One of my all time favorite books.

I have two of these on my list. Good luck!

I have only a couple of these on my tbr. I will definitely be lurking.

Good luck and happy reading, Joy!

A very ambitious list. I've only read Suite Française and loved it, I hope you will too. Good luck and happy reading!

Good luck with your choices!

I read Cronin's "The Citadel" very early this year and liked it, Joy. I hope you like "Keys" -- and your other choices as well!

I haven't read any from your selections. Wish you the best of luck with your challenge.

Thanks, everyone! I just returned to this thread to post my first completion, which was not only well-written but historically significant:

13. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 1/11/23 - 5* - My Review

Joy D wrote: "Thanks, everyone! I just returned to this thread to post my first completion, which was not only well-written but historically significant:

13. Suite Française by [author:Irène Némiro..."

So happy to hear this, doing a happy dance 💃

I loved that book too. Read it several years ago, and have recommended it to lots of people since then.

Laurel wrote: "I loved that book too. Read it several years ago, and have recommended it to lots of people since then."
Glad to hear you loved it too, Laurel!

Completed:
16. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - 1/19/23 - 4* - My Review

Finished:
2. World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow - 5* - My Review

Finished:
3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 4* - My Review

Joy D wrote: "Finished:
3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 4* - My Review"

Excellent review.

Bill wrote: "Joy D wrote: "Finished:
3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 4* - My Review"

Excellent review."
Thanks, Bill!

Finished this brilliant book and added it to my favorites:
8. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review

Joy D wrote: "Finished this brilliant book and added it to my favorites:
8. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review"

I've had this on my TBR for a long time...there used to be a way to see when a book was added, but with the new upgrade I can't see that anymore. Anyway...glad to see you liked it, I should bring it up and read it too.

Ioana wrote: "Joy D wrote: "Finished this brilliant book and added it to my favorites:
8. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review"

I've had this on my TBR for ..."

Ioana, if you go to the settings option on any of your bookshelves, you can check the box next to date added and that will add that option to whichever bookshelf you are currently in. I would recommend that you do your ALL bookshelf first.

Jackie wrote: "Ioana, if you go to the settings option on any of your bookshelves, you can check the box next to date added and that will add that option to whichever bookshelf you are currently in. I would recommend that you do your ALL bookshelf first."

I know that, but my TBR has a couple thousand books. I wish there was a way to go to a particular book and see when it was added to a shelf, this used to be an option in the past, but not now with the current "upgrade". Or if there is, I can't find it anymore...

Finished:
12. Libra by Don DeLillo - 2/18/23 - 3* - My Review

Finished:
4. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 3/1/23 - 3* - My Review

Finished:
15. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - 3/4/23 - 5* - My Review

Finished:
9. American Pastoral by Philip Roth - 3/7/23 - 4* - My Review

Ioana wrote: "Jackie wrote: "Ioana, if you go to the settings option on any of your bookshelves, you can check the box next to date added and that will add that option to whichever bookshelf you are currently in..."

mine still has the column- date added, which I can actually click to organize books in. Of course, I only keep 40-50 ( after a year, I delete those I don't plan on reading soon or using in the next years challenges.

Joy D wrote: "Finished:
15. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - 3/4/23 - 5* - My Review"

this was a 5 star read for me too- long long ago- it's one I added when or after I joined goodreads and rated but had no idea when I had read it.

Bonnie wrote: "mine still has the column- date added, which I can actually click to organize books in. Of course, I only keep 40-50 ( after a year, I delete those I don't plan on reading soon or using in the next years challenges"

I found it, that information is still there, but under "review". It seems you need more clicks now to get to the info that was easier available before. I really don't understand why this "upgrade" was necessary: less functionality, less info on the page due to the increased font and bigger ad banner, bigger cover photos, and all that requires more clicks to get to info that's 2-3 layers now...
Oh well, sorry for venting here.

Anyway...I realized that Flaubert's Parrot is sitting on my TBR since 2012, I really need to read it, so it's up my pile now. Thanks for the reminder.

Finished:
5. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami - 3/24/23 - 4.5* - My Review

Finished:
14. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie - 5/28/23 - 4* - My Review

Finished:
7. Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee - 5/30/23 - 4* - My Review

Finished:
6. The Golden Bowl by Henry James - 6/9/23 - 4* - My Review

Finished:
10. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review

Finished:
11. The Magician by Colm Tóibín - 4* - My Review

ooooh almost done!!!

Finished 16/16:
The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin - 10/4/23 - 4.5* - My Review

Challenge completed 10/4/23!

Congratulations, Joy D! It looks like you read a lot of great books! :-)

Yay. congratulations, Joy!! Woot!

You have a lot of 4 & 5 star reads, with a couple that have increased my TBR.

Thanks, Lea and Alondra!

Way to go, Joy!

Thank you, Jackie!

Congratulations, Joy! Love that you had so many 4 & 5 star reads!

Congratulations Joy!