Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

Scavenger Hunt, 2024 – Completions


Have you completed the Scavenger Hunt, 2024?

First, congratulations!!

Now, post you achievement here.

I completed this couple days ago. Thank you again for the challenge.

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Mia wrote: "I completed this couple days ago. Thank you again for the challenge.

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Congratulations, Mia! Impressive list -- thanks for the idea on Task 6. I'm currently reading The Tin Drum and was pondering what to read on the other side.

Mia wrote: "I completed this couple days ago. Thank you again for the challenge.

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Congratulations, Mia.

Thank you, Karen and Bob.

I completed the scavenger hunt yesterday. This is my list. Thanks for another great scavenger hunt!

caterspotaters wrote: "I completed the scavenger hunt yesterday. This is my list. Thanks for another great scavenger hunt!"

Congratulations, caterpotaters! Impressive list -- many of my favorites!

caterspotaters wrote: "I completed the scavenger hunt yesterday. This is my list. Thanks for another great scavenger hunt!"

Congratulations, caterspotaters.

So that makes me the bronze finisher this year :) just completed it today (my list is the second one down on the plans page). woot!

Amanda wrote: "So that makes me the bronze finisher this year :) just completed it today (my list is the second one down on the plans page). woot!"

Congrats to Mia and Caterspotaters as well :)

Amanda wrote: "So that makes me the bronze finisher this year :) just completed it today (my list is the second one down on the plans page). woot!"

Congratulations, Amanda!!

Amanda wrote: "So that makes me the bronze finisher this year :) just completed it today (my list is the second one down on the plans page). woot!"

Congratulations, Amanda.

Way to go Mia, caterspotaters, and Amanda!

I completed this today, 4/30. My final book, Z by Vassilis Vassilikos, was for Task 4.

Bob wrote: "I completed this today, 4/30. My final book, Z by Vassilis Vassilikos, was for Task 4."

Congratulations!

I've finished! This is the first challenge I've finished in all my years in the group. My list is in the plans page.

Petra wrote: "I've finished! This is the first challenge I've finished in all my years in the group. My list is in the plans page."

Congratulations!!!

I've finished today. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Completed today with almost all female authors (one of the war books was by a male author because women didn’t write much about WW1).

Rosemary wrote: "I've finished today. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Congratulations!

SaraSian wrote: "Completed today with almost all female authors (one of the war books was by a male author because women didn’t write much about WW1)."

Well done!!

I finished today!

I completed today.

Maddy wrote: "I finished today!"

Congratulations!!

Dina wrote: "I completed today."

Congratulations!!

Completed the challenge on December 2, 2024!

Finished

1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 24.

Phantastes by George MacDonald who was born in 1924, 5/10/2024

2. Read a Boxall list book by a Scottish author.

The Accidental by Ali Smith, 10/14/2024

3. Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama died 500 years ago in 1524. Read a Boxall book by an author from one of the countries along the routes of his 3 voyages or a book by a Portuguese author.

July's People by Nadine Gordimer, 12/15/2024

4. Read a Boxall list book from one of the Boxall authors who died in 2024.

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. 11/15/2024

5. Read a Boxall book told from a child’s perspective or with a child as a main character.

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, 10/20/2024

6. World War I began on July 28, 1914. Read a Boxall list book that features World War I or another war, and then read a Boxall list book from the other side of the conflict. (0/2)

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 7/9/2024 - Napoleon's war.

Having trouble finding a book on the other side so may consider this challenge as completed as it can be for me.

7. Read a Boxall book by an author who is also a scientist.

Contact by Carl Sagan, 11/5/2024

8. Read a Boxall list book that has over 100,000 ratings.

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, 384,441 ratings,5/25/2024

9. January 21, 2024 will mark 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin, founding head of the government of Soviet Russia. Read a Boxall list book by a writer that lived in or is currently living in a communist country.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, 11/27/2024

10. Read a Boxall book with a wilderness setting (desert, mountains, moors, etc.).

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 6/6/2024

11. 2024 will be the Centennial of the enactment of the Immigration Act of 1924 in the United States. Read a Boxall book where immigration is a central element or that features an immigrant as a main character.

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, 11/6/2024

12. Read a Boxall book that makes you laugh or has a happy ending.

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, 7/26/2024

The 12 Tasks are:

1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 24.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Takes place within 24 hours.

2. Read a Boxall list book by a Scottish author.
The Master of Ballantrae

3. Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama died 500 years ago in 1524. Read a Boxall book by an author from one of the countries along the routes of his 3 voyages or a book by a Portuguese author.
The Moor's Last Sigh India.

4. Read a Boxall list book from one of the Boxall authors who died in 2023.
Time's Arrow Martin Amis died in 2023.

5. Read a Boxall book told from a child’s perspective or with a child as a main character.
Atonement

6. World War I began on July 28, 1914. Read a Boxall list book that features World War I or another war, and then read a Boxall list book from the other side of the conflict.
Storm of Steel A German soldier’s diary from WW1.
Nightwood About Post-War Disillusionment.

7. Read a Boxall book by an author who is also a scientist.
Cat’s Cradle Vonnegut majored in biochemistry.

8. Read a Boxall list book that has over 100,000 ratings.
Northanger Abbey 536,000 ratings.

9. Read a Boxall list book by a writer that lived in or is currently living in a communist country.
We

10. Read a Boxall book with a wilderness setting (desert, mountains, moors, etc.).
Tarzan of the Apes

11. Read a Boxall book where immigration is a central element or that features an immigrant as a main character.
The Jungle The main characters are Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago, and the book is about how immigrants were exploited for labour.

12. Read a Boxall book that makes you laugh or has a happy ending.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller


I had a lot of fun with this. A big thank you to those of you who helped make the tasks.

Rusty wrote: "
Napoleon's war.
Having trouble finding a book on the other side so may consider this challenge as completed as it can be for me."

Probably a bit too late but there are several novels set during the Napoleonic wars. Vanity Fair, War and Peace, Les Mis, some of Stendhal’s and Balzac’s as well.

Caroline wrote: "The 12 Tasks are:

1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 24.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Takes place within 24 hours.

2. Read a Boxall list book by a Scottish author.
[book:Th..."

Congratulations!!

I completed the Scavenger Hunt today!

1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 24. Everyone’s favorite is back (and probably will be for the next 98 years)!
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
First published in 1924.

2. Read a Boxall list book by a Scottish author.
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

3. Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama died 500 years ago in 1524. Read a Boxall book by an author from one of the countries along the routes of his 3 voyages or a book by a Portuguese author.
de Gama traveled to Kerala, Kochi so I read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

4. Read a Boxall list book from one of the Boxall authors who died in 2023.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

5. Read a Boxall book told from a child’s perspective or with a child as a main character.
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

6. World War I began on July 28, 1914. Read a Boxall list book that features World War I or another war, and then read a Boxall list book from the other side of the conflict.
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

7. Read a Boxall book by an author who is also a scientist. (Note: The authors do not have to have degrees in a specific science. This can include science professors, researchers, and even (particularly pre-1900) authors who have a particular interest or fascination with science.
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

8. Read a Boxall list book that has over 100,000 ratings.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

9. January 21, 2024 will mark 100 years since the death of Vladimir Lenin, founding head of the government of Soviet Russia. Read a Boxall list book by a writer that lived in or is currently living in a communist country.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

10. Read a Boxall book with a wilderness setting (desert, mountains, moors, etc.).
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

11. 2024 will be the Centennial of the enactment of the Immigration Act of 1924 in the United States. Read a Boxall book where immigration is a central element or that features an immigrant as a main character.
White Teeth by Zadie Smith

12. Read a Boxall book that makes you laugh or has a happy ending.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Down to the wire: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Kimberly wrote: "I completed the Scavenger Hunt today!

1. Read a Boxall book using the theme of 24. Everyone’s favorite is back (and probably will be for the next 98 years)!
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
First published..."

Congratulations!

Beth wrote: "Down to the wire: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Congratulations!