2025 Reading Challenge discussion

In honour of the 100th anniversary of the Hollywood sign, read "A book related to Hollywood" - Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology - January 28
A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" - Survive the Night - February 24
The 23rd book on my TBR list - When We Were Vikings - March 11
A book with a con, deception, or fake - All's Well That Ends Well - April 26
A book with a mostly blue cover - The Silver Chalice - June 4
A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - June 20
A book related to a chess piece - The Wandering Fire - July 30
A novella - Of Mice and Men - August 30
A book with the theme of returning home - Go Set a Watchman - September 9
A book with a full name in the title - Daisy Darker - October 15
A title that contains a word often found in a recipe - The Book of Cold Cases - November 23
A book with an unusual or surprising title - Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball - December 17

Series

1. True Lies and The First Lie - January 9
2. Charmed & Deadly - January 17
3. City of Lost Souls - January 21
4. Allegiant - February 20
5. Prentice Alvin - April 2
6. The Arm of the Starfish - May 20
7. Something Rotten - May 27
8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - June 20
9. The Bride Wore Size 12 - June 24
10. Dark Days - July 23
11. The Wandering Fire - July 30
12. Eldest - September 4
13. City of Heavenly Fire - October 9
14. Like a Charm - October 13
15. Alvin Journeyman - November 25

Nobel

1. The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy - March 4
2. Penguin Island - May 15
3. Beloved - June 17
4. Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda - June 29
5. Of Mice and Men - August 30
6. The Fall of the King - Sept. 25
7. Doctor Zhivago - December 12

Random

1. Woman on the Edge - February 9
2. The Jane Austen Project - March 26
3. Alice - May 24
4. The Starless Sea - July 15
5. The Apollo Murders - August 22
6.. How a Woman Becomes a Lake - September 30
7. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - October 25

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Reading Shakespeare
8/37 = 22%

COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well -2023
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice - Grade 9
Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream - 2017
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale -2017

HISTORIES
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John - 2008
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III

TRAGEDIES
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet - Grade 13
Julius Caesar - Grade 10
King Lear
Macbeth - Grade 11 and 12
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida

Reading Nobel Laureates
19/116 = 16.4%

1901: Sully Prudhomme - Le Bonheur: Poeme (2022)
1902: Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy (2023)
1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray
1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz
1906: Giosuè Carducci
1907: Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book and Other Stories (2008)
1908: Rudolf Eucken
1909: Selma Lagerlöf
1910: Paul Heyse
1911: Maurice Maeterlinck
1912: Gerhart Hauptmann
1913: Rabindranath Tagore
1914 (Not awarded)
1915: Romain Rolland
1916: Verner von Heidenstam
1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan
1918 (Not awarded)
1919: Carl Spitteler
1920: Knut Hamsun
1921: Anatole France - Penguin Island (2023)
1922: Jacinto Benavente
1923: W. B. Yeats
1924: Wladyslaw Reymont
1925: George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (Grade 12)
1926: Grazia Deledda
1927: Henri Bergson
1928: Sigrid Undset
1929: Thomas Mann
1930: Sinclair Lewis
1931: Erik Axel Karlfeld
1932: John Galsworthy
1933: Ivan Bunin
1934: Luigi Pirandello
1935 (Not awarded)
1936: Eugene O'Neill
1937: Roger Martin du Gard
1938: Pearl S. Buck
1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1940-1943 (Not awarded)
1944: Johannes V. Jensen - The Fall of the King (2023)
1945: Gabriela Mistral
1946: Hermann Hesse
1947: André Gide
1948: T. S. Eliot
1949: William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (Grade 13)
1950: Bertrand Russell
1951: Pär Lagerkvist
1952: François Mauriac
1953: Winston Churchill
1954: Ernest Hemingway
1955: Halldór Laxness
1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957: Albert Camus - L'Étranger (2018)
1958: Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago (2023)
1959: Salvatore Quasimodo
1960: Saint-John Perse
1961: Ivo Andric
1962: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men (2023)
1963: Giorgos Seferis
1964: Jean-Paul Sartre - Huis Clos (Grade 13)
1965: Mikhail Sholokhov
1966: Shmuel Yosef Agnon / Nelly Sachs
1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias
1968: Yasunari Kawabata
1969: Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (2006)
1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (2022)
1971: Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda (2023)
1972: Heinrich Böll
1973: Patrick White
1974: Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson
1975: Eugenio Montale
1976: Saul Bellow
1977: Vicente Aleixandre
1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979: Odysseas Elytis
1980: Czeslaw Milosz
1981: Elias Canetti
1982: Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (2020)
1983: William Golding
1984: Jaroslav Seifert
1985: Claude Simon
1986: Wole Soyinka
1987: Joseph Brodsky
1988: Naguib Mahfouz
1989: Camilo José Cela
1990: Octavio Paz
1991: Nadine Gordimer
1992: Derek Walcott
1993: Toni Morrison - Beloved (2023)
1994: Kenzaburo Oe - Death by Water (2022)
1995: Seamus Heaney - Beowulf plus poems (2008)
1996: Wislawa Szymborska
1997: Dario Fo
1998: José Saramago
1999: Günter Grass
2000: Gao Xingjian
2001: V. S. Naipaul
2002: Imre Kertész
2003: J. M. Coetzee
2004: Elfriede Jelinek
2005: Harold Pinter
2006: Orhan Pamuk
2007: Doris Lessing
2008: J. M. G. Le Clézio
2009: Herta Müller
2010: Mario Vargas Llosa
2011: Tomas Tranströmer
2012: Mo Yan
2013: Alice Munro
2014: Patrick Modiano
2015: Svetlana Alexievich
2016: Bob Dylan
2017: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (2022)
2018: Olga Tokarczuk
2019: Peter Handke
2020: Louise Glück
2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah
2022: Annie Ernaux
2023: Jon Fosse

10/10

1. A book involving genetics and/or genealogy (because we have 23 pairs of chromosomes). - Allegiant
2. The 23rd book on a list (your TBR list, for example). - All's Well That Ends Well (from old list)
3. A book with five words in the title - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
4. A book based on Norse mythology (connection: Vanadium is the 23rd element and was named for Vanadis aka Freya). When We Were Vikings
5. A book about sheep or shepherds (because Psalm 23 starts "The Lord is my shepherd"). - Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can't Control
6. A book with flames on the cover or in the title (because a movie "23" was made about hacker Karl Koch who burned to death - possibly suicide - at the age of 23) - Charmed & Deadly
7. A title that starts with W (23rd letter in the English alphabet). - Woman on the Edge
8. A book set on an island (because 23 is one of the recurring numbers in LOST) - A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
9. A book about or set in an ancient civilization. (Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times). - The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy
10. A book less than 230 pages long. - True Lies