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Challenge number 9Fiction and Non fiction
Select five different subjects of interest to you and read a fiction book and a non-fiction book about that subject. Total number of books for this challenge is ten.
Roaring Twenties
Fiction - The Runaway Daughter - Joanna Rees
Non-Fiction - The Glorious Guinness Girls
Australia
Fiction - Arson in Australia - Ruby Bay series - Samantha Silver
Non-Fiction - Our home on Wheels - Youtube channel Flying the Nest - Stephen and Jessica Parry-Valentine
James Michener
Fiction - Any Novel by James Michener
Non-Ficton - The world is my home - James Michener autobiography
Sea Travels/Castaway/Stranded
Fiction - Swiss Family Robinson (1812)
Non-Fiction - Mutiny on the Bounty or other true shipwreck stories
Scopes Trial
Fiction - Evolution - Stephen Baxter
Non fiction - Monkey Girl - Edward Humes
Challenge Number 12 Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
MY Author Alphabet List for 2023
And NO these are NOT all classics.
Does that break the rules?
If it does then I will just scrap this challenge.
Please advise down below, Thanks.
A - Adam Higginsbotham - Midnight in Chernobyl
B - B B Alston - Amari and the Night Brothers
C - Carl Sagan - Billions & Billions
D - Suyi Davies Okungbowa - Son of the Storm
E - Erle Stanley Gardner - Perry Mason - free choice
F - Fonda Lee - Jade City - OR - Don Foster - Author Unknown
G - Scott Gottlieb - Uncontrolled Spread (covid pandemic)
H - Edward Humes - Monkey Girl - OR Jose Hernandez
I - Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (1989) - Walter Isaacson - The Code Breaker
J - Javier Sierra - Lost Angel - OR - Jose Hernandez
K - R F Kuang - Poppy Wars - OR - J Robert Kennedy - free choice - OR Kate Mascarenias - Pyschology of time travel
L - Lawrence Levy - To Pixar and beyond
M - Frances Mayes - Under the Tuscan Sun
N - Natasha Ngan - Girls of Paper & Fire
O - Olivia Blake - The Atlas Six - OR - Oksana Marifioti - American Gypsy
P - Stel Pavlou - Decipher
Q - Julia Quinn - The Secret Diaries
R - Rebecca Roanhorse - Black Sun - OR - Reeves Stevens - Search
S - Carly Simon - Boys in the Trees
T - George Takei - To the Stars
U - Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose or Foucaults Pendulum
V - Nghi Vo - The Empress of Salt & Fortune - OR Jules Verne
W - Hannah Whitten - For the Wolf - OR - the color Purple by Alice Walker - OR - Einstein by Walter Isaacson
X - Malcolm X - Biography
Y - Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens
Z - Zora Neale Hurston - Their eyes were watching god - OR Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Labyrinth of the spirits
Below Only One Letter Needed for Successful Challenge
X - Y - Z
Total = 24 Books
Challenge number 13A-Z - Titles Challenge - optional
Good luck with the challenges, Robynne!
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Have fun with your challenges next year, Robynne! You have a lot of good reading ahead of you :)
I am planning to do challenges 4, 9 and 12.
Perhaps also Number 13 if I can get my books organised.
Cheers