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I'm in as usual for the two A-Z challenges (12+13), New authors (7) and maybe a few others...

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse (7 books: two books from New School, two from Old School, two from Short Story/Novella, and one from the Quarterly Long Read.)
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge (DONE)
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge (DONE)
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors (DONE)
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge

Author Challenge: 21/26 read
I feel like an old pro at this :) I'm taking note of people with less frequent first letters and saving them for this...
A Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Zikora
B Djuna Barnes The Lydia Steptoe Stories
C Anton Chekhov Onkel Vanja
D Tove Ditlevsen De voksne
E Annie Ernaux Simpel lidenskab
F Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything Tiny Habits
G Caroline Storgaard Gyldmark: Jeg
H Yu Hua: En virkelighed
I Arnaldur Indriðason Nordmosen
J Fleur Jaeggy Proleterka
K Ismail Kadare Elegy for Kosovo
L Mark Lanegan Devil in a Coma
M Patrick Modiano Memory Lane
N Sebastian Nathan Honey Moon
O Nnedi Okorafor LaGuardia
P Hugo Pratt El Gaucho (& Milo Manara)
Q
R Ulla Ryum Natsangersken
S Knud Sørensen:Den aften da Børglum Kloster ikke var der
T Lisa Taddeo Weekend i forstaden
U
V
W Virginia Woolf: Orlando
X
Y Tiphanie Yanique Kvinde, hustru, kone aka Wife.
Z

Title Challenge: 24/26 read
Same as above! I always try to get a head start on the less frequent letters, so December doesn't drown in XYZ and random E, I or Q-books.
A Adressaten ubekendt by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
B Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World by Ian Wright
C The Catalyst 33 by Ирена Јорданова / Irena Jordanova
D Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan
E Elegy for Kosovo: Stories by Ismail Kadare
F Frie oplevelser by Shahrnush Parsipur
G El Gaucho by Milo Manara & Hugo Pratt
H Hinterhof - mit liv som dominatrix by Anna Rakhmanko
I Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
J Jeg by Caroline Storgaard Gyldmark
K Kvinder i kamp: 150 års kamp for frihed, lighed, søsterskab! by Marta Breen
L The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
M Memory Lane - en fortælling by Patrick Modiano
N Nordmosen by Arnaldur Indriðason
O Orlando by Virginia Woolf
P S. S. Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy
Q
R Rizzio by Denise Mina
S The Succesor by Ismail Kadare
T Tritonus - En skærgårdsfortælling by Kjell Westö
U The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila
V En virkelighed by Yu Hua
W Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
X The Xenophobe's Guide to the Danes by Helen Dyrbye et al.
Y
Z Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Challenge #3 - Century Challenge
(I tend to not finish this, but hey, there's a whole new year to try again...) Ok, I'll concede to counting some men, this year...
Books (7/11 read)
1890-1899 (man) Onkel Vanja by Anton Chekhov (1897)
*1900-1909 Plan: Miles Franklin: My Brilliant Career 1901 (+ Australia!) Kindle.
*1910-1919 Plan: Kejseren av Portugalien (1914)
1920-1929 Orlando by Virginia Woolf 1928. The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes (1922-24)
1930-1939 Adressaten ubekendt by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (1938)
*1940-1949 Plan: Kallocain by Karin Boye (1940)
1950-1959 (man) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1952)
1960-1969 Natsangersken by Ulla Ryum, De voksne by Tove Ditlevsen (1969)
*1970-1979
1980-1989 Konens historie by Ursula K. Le Guin (1982)
1990-1999 Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (1991)


My list of possible authors to read (still trying to go outside the anglo-american sphere) Ideas:(view spoiler)[

1890s Selma Lagerlöf Gösta Berling's Saga 1891
1900s Miles Franklin My Brilliant Career 1901 (+ Australia!)
Selma Lagerlöf The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1910s Grazia Deledda Reeds in the Wind 1913
1920s Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter 1920, Colette Claudine's House 1922, Nella Larsen: Passing 1929, Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (1920)
1930s Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm 1932, María Luisa Bombal New Islands: And Other Stories 1939
1940s...
1950s Janet Frame Owls Do Cry 1957 (+NZ), Fumiko Enchi The Waiting Years1957 (+Japan)
1960s Natalia Ginzburg The Little Virtues 1962, Lydia Chukovskaya Sofia Petrovna 1965, Flora Nwapa Efuru 1966, Evgenia Ginzburg Journey into the Whirlwind 1967, Simin Daneshvar A Persian Requiem 1969 (+Iran)
1970s Sula by Toni Morrison 1973, Annie Ernaux Cleaned Out 1974, Rebeka Njau Ripples in the Pool 1975, E.M. Broner A Weave of Women 1978, Angela Carter Saints and Strangers 1979, Elfriede Jelinek Les amantes
1980s Annie Dillard Living by Fiction 1983, Ken Bugul The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman 1984, Mavis Gallant The Pegnitz Junction: A Novella and Five Short Stories 1984 (+ Canada)
1990s Yvonne Vera Butterfly Burning 1998
2000s Sefi Atta Everything Good Will Come 2001

Women Nobel Prize Winners:
Unread:
1928 - Sigrid Undset, 1993 - Toni Morrison, 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek, 2009 - Doris Lessing
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Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge One book per category for a total of 12 books. (12 read - finished 6/8)
1. 19th Century, Onkel Vanja by Anton Chekhov (1897)
2. 20th Century, S. S. Proleterka by Fleur Jaeggy
3. 21st Century Potential Future Classic, The Catalyst 33 by Ирена Јорданова
4. Current or Past Group Read, Orlando by Virginia Woolf
5. An Author not read before, Natsangersken by Ulla Ryum
6. Diversity Classic, read a book from a religion, culture, country, or race different than yours. The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila
7. Science Fiction, Den aften da Børglum Kloster ikke var der by Knud Sørensen
8. A book originally written in a language other than your own, En virkelighed by Yu Hua (Chinese)
9. A Banned Book, Frie oplevelser by Shahrnush Parsipur
10. Nonfiction, Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11. Mystery/Crime, Nordmosen by Arnaldur Indriðason
12. Horror or Humor Exit by Belinda Bauer

Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge
Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year. Read them all at once or spread them out, it's up to you.
24 read

Syrenerne blomstrer i Skt. Petersborg by Agustina Bessa-Luís
Apollo by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dominga by Agustina Bessa-Luís
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath
Om brud by Naja Marie Aidt (10 stories?)
Konens historie by Ursula K. Le Guin
Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
Weekend i forstaden by Lisa Taddeo


5 stories read in Voices: Short stories from the Seychelles Islands by Glynn Burridge (Do not recommend, hence only 5 read, not the full volume)

Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, male or female, from any genre or era you want

Knud Sørensen: Den aften da Børglum Kloster ikke var der
Caroline Storgaard Gyldmark: Jeg
Abdulai Sila: The Ultimate Tragedy
Arnaldur Indriðason: Nordmosen
Yu Hua: En virkelighed
Belinda Bauer: Exit
Lisa Taddeo: Weekend i forstaden
Ulla Ryum: Natsangersken
Ирена Јорданова Irena Jordanova: The Catalyst 33
Ismail Kadare The Successor, Elegy for Kosovo
Modiano Patrick Memory Lane

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse
(7 books: two books from New School, two from Old School, two from Short Story/Novella, and one from the Quarterly Long Read.)
...not sure about this, especially the Long read...

But here are some ideas carried over from last year:
Had a look through the nominations, and these look promising:

The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, 1942, 166 pages.
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1869
Beloved by Toni Morrison 1987 (+ Nobel),
Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen 1880, 152s
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 1980 (+ Nobel)
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann 1816, 84 pages
Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 134 p
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 1944, 174 p
Candide by Voltaire pub. 1759, 129 p
Gösta Berling's Saga by Selma Lagerlöf 1891, 368 p (+ Nobel)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (pub. 1937) 339 p.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 1760, 735 pages.
Laxness

Short ones:
The Star by Arthur C. Clarke, 10 pages, 1955
King Pest by Edgar Allan Poe, 19 pages 1835.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, 9 pages, 1865.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott 1884, 96 p.

Allright, let's see how I fare this year!

Great to see your challenges, Anetq. As always, looking forward to seeing your choices.

I've long since finished Challenge #7 - "Expand Your Horizon With New Authors", and I'm doing pretty well on both titles and authors, though an effort with the end of the alphabet now, will make for an easier end of the year...

Anetq wrote: "Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors
Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, male or female, from any genre or era you want


I think you have his name backwards.
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I have his Suspended Sentences to read. It looks really good. Let me know what you think of him.

Klowey wrote: "I think you have his name backwards.
I have his Suspended Sentences to read. It looks really good. Let me know what you think of him."

Yeah Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ has these 'wrong' versions of authors names, I'd hit one of them - fixed it. I liked it ok - I'd feared it'd be worse in the 'french film' tradition :)

Sooo I've finally read some books and remembered to update my challenges... I'm done with these two (see books above)
Challenge #4 - Members Choice Challenge (DONE)
Challenge #5 - Short Story Challenge (DONE)

Oddly this one is coming along nicely:
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge

And I'm doing better on titles (only H, Q & Y to go) than Authors (Missing F O Q U V X Z) but hey it's only the beginning of August...
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title Challenge

Congrats on finishing two challenges!

Congratulations on the two challenges you finished. You are close on the A-Zs as well. Nice job.