2024 Challenge HQ

 I continue cutting back on challenges, but one I'm not cutting back on is:


Gilion's European Reading Challenge

Read five (or more) books set in unique European countries. Gilion's original challenge post is here.

My sign up is here.

The books:

1.) Stephen Budiansky/Journey to the Edge of Reason (Austria)
2.) Goethe/Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Germany) 
3.) Konstantin Stanislavski/My Life In Art (Russia)
4.) Virginia Woolf/The Waves (U.K.)
5.) Carlo Levi/Christ Stopped at Eboli (Italy)
6.) Serhiy Zhadan/The Orphanage (Ukraine)
7.) Ana Blandiana/The Architecture of Waves (Romania)
8.) Josef Škvorecky/The End of Lieutenant Boruvka (Czech Republic)
9.) James Baldwin/Giovanni's Room (France)
10.) Kurban Said/Ali and Nino (Azerbaijan)
11.) Sholom Aleichem/Wandering Stars (Moldova)
12.) J. G. Farrell/Troubles (Ireland)
13.) Kurban Said/The Girl From The Golden Horn (Bosnia)
14.) Tom Reiss/The Orientalist (Turkey)
15.) Henrik Ibsen/Rosmersholm (Norway)

The Classics Club

Books I've read this year for my ongoing Classics Club challenge:

2.) Virginia Woolf/The Waves
3.) James Baldwin/Giovanni's Room
4.) George Bernard Shaw/Major Barbara
 
and that completes my first Classics Club list!

From a not-yet-organized new Classics Club list:

1.) Konstantin Stanislavski/My Life in Art
2.) Anna Seghers/The Seventh Cross

Link to last year's omnibus challenge post.

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