2019 Challenge HQ

This is the headquarters for all the reading challenges I sign up for in 2019.

Back To The Classics Challenge (12 books)


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Classic in Translation:
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Hmm, the first substitution already...

Classic Play:
George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Classic from Africa:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between. Though I still mean to read more Mahfouz... 

Classic From A Place You've Lived:
Saul Bellow's Dangling Man

Classic From the Americas:
Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. Set in Mexico, written (mostly) in Canada.

20th Century Classic:
Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil. 1945.

Very Long Classic
J.R.R.Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Longer even than the Decameron, which I was already counting as long.

Classic by a Female Author
George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life.

Classic Tragedy
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.


European Reading Challenge (5 books)


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1.) Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday. Austria.
2.) Robert Gerwarth's The Vanquished: Why The First World War Failed To End. Latvia.
3.) Boreslav Pekic' Houses. Serbia.
4.) Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Italy.
5.) Endre Farkas' Never, Again. Hungary.
6.) Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad. Poland.
7.) Eric Ambler's The Light of Day. Turkey.
8.) Mircea Cartarescu's Blinding. Romania.
9.) Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian. France.
10.) Hannah Arendt's Men in Dark Times. Germany
11.) George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life. UK.
12.) Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Monaco.

Roof Beam Reader TBR Challenge (12 books with 2 alternates)


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1.) Eleanor Catton/The Luminaries
2.) Marisha Pessl/Special Topics in Calamity Physics
3.) Xialou Guo/A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
4.) John Hollander/Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems
5.) Brad Leithauser/Darlington's Fall
6.) Anne Sexton/The Complete Poems
7.) Eileen Chang/Love In A Fallen City
8.) Dorothy Baker/Young Man With A Horn
9.) Christopher Priest/Inverted World
10.) Michael Bond/Monsieur Pamplemousse Omnibus, Vol. 1
11.) Sparkle Hayter/The Last Manly Man
12.) Ngaio Marsh/Overture to Death

Alternates:

1.) George Bernard Shaw/Pygmalion
2.) Jules Verne/Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea


Just the Facts, Ma'am Vintage Mystery Challenge Golden Era (6 books)


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Where: Ellis Peters' Fallen Into The Pit (Set in a small village)
When: Ngaio Marsh' Overture To Death (During a performance)
Who: Ronald Knox's The Footsteps at the Lock (Professional sleuth)
Why: Margery Allingham's Mystery Mile (Author not from your country)
What: Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (Written by more than one person)

Just the Facts, Ma'am Vintage Mystery Challenge Silver Era (6 books)


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Where: Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel (Set in a capitol city: London)
Why: Sara Paretsky's Indemnity Only (Author from your country: US)
Who: Agatha Christie's By The Pricking of My Thumbs (Professional is main sleuth)

Read it again, Sam Challenge (16 books)

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1.) Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
2.) Carmen Archilochi, tr. Guy Davenport.
3.) Penelope Fitzgerald's The Gate of Angels.
4.) Don Marquis' archy and mehitabel.
5.) Alexandra Oliver's Meeting the Tormentors in the Safeway.
6.) Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad.
7.) Sara Paretsky's Indemnity Only.
8.) Eric Ambler's The Light of Day.
9.) J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
10.) J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
11.) J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers
12.) J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King
13.) Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
14.) Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
15.) Thomas Mann's The Story of a Novel
16.) Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

Mount TBR Challenge (60 books)

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1.) Xiaolu Guo's A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
2.) Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
3.) Eileen Chang's Love In A Fallen City
4.) Boreslav Pekic' Houses
5.) Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
6.) Marisha Pessl's Special Topics In Calamity Physics
7.) R. K. Narayan's The Painter of Signs
8.) George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
9.) Dorothy Baker's Young Man With A Horn
10.) John Fowles' The Magus
11.) Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between
12.) Agatha Christie's At Bertram's Hotel
13.) Ellis Peters' Fallen Into The Pit
14.) Saul Bellow's Dangling Man
15.) Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy
16.) Eric Ambler's Dirty Story
17.) Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries
18.) Malcolm Lowry's Under The Volcano
19.) Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil
20.) Olivia Manning's School For Love
21.) Sparkle Hayter's The Last Manly Man
22.) Ngaio Marsh' Overture To Death
23.) Penelope Lively's The Road To Lichfield
24.) Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger
25.) Mircea Cartarescu's Blinding: The Left Wing
26.) Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian
27.) Lives of the Later Caesars
28.) Hannah Arendt's Men in Dark Times
29.) Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
30.) Margery Allingham's Mystery Mile
31.) George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life
32.) Judith Wright's Five Senses: Selected Poems
33.) Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
34.) Agatha Christie's By The Pricking of My Thumbs
35.) Garry Trudeau's The Doonesbury Chronicles
36.) Margaret Atwood's Survival

Chunkster Challenge (100 points)


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1.) Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.  471 pages. 
5 (Non-fiction) + 1 (translated)
Total Cumulative Points: 6
2.) Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. 658 pages.
5 (Adult) + 1 (translated) + 2 (before 1800)
Total Cumulative Points: 14
3.) Ellen Kushner's (et al.) Tremontaine. 673 pages.
5 (Adult)
Total Cumulative Points: 19
4.) Marisha Pessl's Special Topics In Calamity Physics. 514 pages.
5 (Adult)
Total Cumulative Points: 24
5.) John Fowles' The Magus. 668 pages.
5 (Adult)
Total Cumulative Points: 29
6.) Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy. 838 pages.
5 (Non-fiction)
Total Cumulative Points: 34
7.) Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries. 834 pages.
5 (Adult)
Total Cumulative Points: 39
8.) Dan Simmons' Hyperion. 477 pages.
5 (Adult) + 1 (Second new to me author)
Total Cumulative Points: 45
9.) Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil. 482 pages.
5 (Adult) + 1 (translated)
Total Cumulative Points: 51
10.) Mircea Cartarescu's Blinding: The Left Wing. 464 pages.
5 (Adult) + 1 (translated)
Total Cumulative Points: 57
11.) J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. 531 pages.
5 (Adult)
Total Cumulative Points: 62
12.) J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King.
5 (Adult)
Total Cumulative Points: 67
13.) Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. 534 pages
5 (Adult) + 1 (translated)
Total Cumulative Points: 73
14.) Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. 867 pages
10 (Long Adult) + 2 (Before 1800)
Total Cumulative Points: 85


plus a link to my multi-year Classics Club Challenge


Books read this year:

1.) Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
2.) George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
3.) Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School For Scandal
4.) Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy
5.) Malcolm Lowry's Under The Volcano
6.) Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil
7.) Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country
8.) George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life
9.) Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

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