Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

I’m not doing any new challenges in 2017. I’ve limited myself to just my ongoing goals as listed below.

Continuing Goals for 2017
Read A Book From Every Year Since I Was Born (Completed)
50 States Challenge-Read a book set in all 50 states
Group Bookshelf Books-Read unread books on shelf - 208/250 - 42 unread as of 2/4/19 - 83.20%

Master List of Books on the Catching Up on the Classics Group Bookshelf, chronological order:

(view spoiler)[2010 Group Reads: Read 3/3=0
✓1. 11/9/10 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
✓2. 11/9/10 The Catcher in the Rye
✓3. 11/30/10 Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

2011 Group Reads: Read 22/22=0
✓4. 1/1/11 Gulliver's Travels
✓5. 1/1/11 Treasure Island
✓6. 1/1/11 The Time Machine
✓7. 1/30/11 Doctor Zhivago
✓8. 2/19/11 Oliver Twist
✓9. 2/19/11 The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
✓10. 4/12/11 A Farewell to Arms
✓11. 4/12/11 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
✓12. 4/12/11 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
✓13. 5/26/11 Les Misérables
✓14. 5/31/11 The Scarlet Pimpernel
****Joined Group June 22, 2011
✓15. 6/30/11 The House of the Seven Gables
✓16. 6/30/11 Wuthering Heights
✓17. 6/30/11 The Three Musketeers
✓18. 8/26/11 Vanity Fair, by Thackeray
✓19. 8/26/11 Heart of Darkness/The Secret Sharer
✓20. 9/27/11 Dracula
✓21. 9/27/11 The Picture of Dorian Gray
✓22. 10/30/11 The Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald
✓23. 10/30/11 Northanger Abbey
✓24. 12/1/11 A Christmas Carol
✓25. 12/1/11 The Sound and the Fury

2012 Group Reads: Read 17/22=4
✓26. 1/1/12 Rebecca
✓27. 1/1/12 Mansfield Park
✓28. 1/1/12 The Name of the Rose
✓29. 1/1/12 Jane Eyre
✓30. 2/18/12 The Maltese Falcon
31. 2/18/12 Out of Africa
✓32. 2/18/12 A Clockwork Orange
✓33. 2/18/12 The War of the Worlds
✓34. 2/18/12 Anna Karenina
✓35. 2/18/12 North and South
✓36. 5/30/12 Gone with the Wind
✓37. 5/30/12 The Iliad
✓38. 5/30/12 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
✓39. 5/30/12 Ben-Hur
✓40. 5/30/12 Lonesome Dove
✓41. 5/30/12 The Caine Mutiny
42. 6/5/12 The Good Soldier Švejk
✓43. 9/26/12 King Lear
✓44. 9/26/12 Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
45. 9/26/12 Rob Roy
46. 9/26/12 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
✓47. 9/26/12 Paradise Lost

2013 Group Reads: Read 22/23=1
✓48. 12/19/12 East of Eden
✓49. 12/19/12 The Count of Monte Cristo
✓50. 2/7/13 Snow Falling on Cedars
✓51. 2/7/13 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
✓52. 2/28/13 Pride and Prejudice
✓53. 4/11/13 Fahrenheit 451
✓54. 4/11/13 The Woman in White
✓55. 4/21/13 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
✓56. 5/23/13 David Copperfield
✓57. 5/23/13 One Hundred Years of Solitude
✓58. 6/29/13 1984
✓59. 6/29/13 Tess of the d'Urbervilles
✓60. 7/8/13 Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary Voyages, #3)
✓61. 7/29/13 Jamaica Inn
✓62. 8/6/13 Robinson Crusoe
✓63. 9/3/13 A Study In Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1
64. 9/4/13 Despair
✓65. 9/20/13 We Have Always Lived in the Castle
✓66. 9/20/13 Frankenstein
✓67. 10/20/13 Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1)
✓68. 11/1/13 The Turn of the Screw
✓69. 12/1/13 Brave New World
✓70. 12/1/13 Around the World in Eighty Days

2014 Group Reads: Read 25/27=2
✓71. 12/15/13 The Beautiful and Damned
72. 1/6/14 Twelve Years a Slave
✓73. 1/13/14 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide #1)
✓74. 1/16/14 War and Peace
✓75. 1/19/14 Sense and Sensibility
✓76. 2/1/14 A Passage to India
✓77. 2/4/14 The Portrait of a Lady
✓78. 4/1/14 The Scarlet Letter
****Became a Moderator, March 1, 2014
✓79. 3/1/14 Slaughterhouse-Five
✓80. 4/1/14 To Kill a Mockingbird
✓81. 5/31/14 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
✓82. 5/1/14 Lolita
✓83. 5/1/14 Crime and Punishment
✓84. 6/1/14 The Grapes of Wrath
✓85. 6/1/14 Emma
✓86. 7/1/14 The Handmaids Tale
✓87. 7/1/14 Great Expectations
✓88. 7/31/14 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
✓89. 8/11/14 The Phantom of the Opera
✓90. 8/31/14 The Secret Garden
✓91. 9/1/14 The Invisible Man
✓92. 10/1/14 Peter Pan
✓93. 10/01/14 A Tale of Two Cities
✓94. 11/1/14 The Bell Jar
✓95. 12/1/14 Love in the Time of Cholera
✓96. 12/1/14 Cranford
✓97. 12/3/14 Alice in wonderland

2015 Group Reads: Read 28/32=4
✓98. 1/1/15 The Canterville Ghost
✓99. 1/7/15 Things Fall Apert
✓100. 2/1/15 Mrs. Dalloway
✓101. 2/1/15 Notes From Underground
✓102. 3/1/15 The Age of Innocence
✓103. 3/14/15 Beowulf
104. 4/1/15 The Leopard
✓105. 4/1/15 The Moonstone
✓106. 5/1/15 The Murders on the Rue Morgue
✓107. 5/1/15 The Plague
✓108. 6/1/15 Little Women
109. 6/1/15 The Princess Bride
110. 6/1/15 Don Quixote
✓111. 7/1/15 Persuasion
✓112. 7/1/15 Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
✓113. 7/30/15 Candide
✓114. 8/1/15 Madam Bovery
✓115. 8/1/15 All Quiet on the Western Front
✓116. 9/1/15 The Return of the Native
✓117. 9/1/15 Mary Poppins
✓118. 9/14/15 At the Mountains of Madness
✓119. 9/25/15 The Stand
✓120. 10/1/15 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
✓121. 10/1/15 The Red Pony
✓122. 10/1/15 Matilda
✓123. 10/31/15 The Tell Tale Heart
✓124. 11/1/15 The Awakening
✓125. 11/2/15 Anne of Green Gables
✓126. 12/1/15 The Little Prince
✓127. 12/1/15 The Hobbit
✓128. 12/2/15 Middlemarch
✓129. 12/2/15 Heidi

2016 Group Reads: Read 33/39=6
✓130. 1/1/16 The Diary of a Young Girl
✓131. 1/2/16 The Stranger
✓132. 2/1/16 The Island of Dr. Moreau
✓133. 2/1/16 Agnes Gray
✓134. 2/1/16 Of Mice and Men
✓135. 2/1/16 The Martian Chronicles
✓136. 3/1/16 To the Lighthouse
137. 3/1/16 The Idiot
138. 3/1/16 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
✓139. 3/1/16 The Metamorphosis
✓140. 4/1/16 Watership Down
✓141. 4/1/16 Black Beauty
✓142. 4/1/16 Siddhartha
✓143. 5/1/16 The Fall of the House of Usher
✓144. 5/1/16 The Master and Margarita
145. 5/1/16The Brothers Karamazov
✓146. 6/1/16 Animal Farm
147. 6/1/16 Uncle Tom's Cabin
✓148. 6/1/16 Lord of the Flies
149. 6/1/16 Bleak House
✓150. 7/1/16 And Then There Were None
✓151. 7/1/16 The Yellow Wall-Paper
✓130 152.7/1/2016 The Odyssey
✓153. 8/1/16 The House of the Spirits
✓154. 8/1/16 The Death of Ivan Ilych
✓155. 8/1/16 The Merchant of Venice
✓156. 9/1/16 The Lord of the Rings
✓157. 9/1/16 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
✓158. 9/1/16 Invisible Man
✓159. 9/1/16 Breakfast at Tiffany's
✓160. 10/1/16 Lady Susan
✓161. 10/1/16 In Cold Blood
✓162. 10/1/16 Far from the Madding Crowd
✓163. 11/1/16 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
✓164. 11/1/16 The Birds
✓165. 11/1/16 Kidnapped
✓166. 12/1/16 Ivanhoe
✓167. 12/1/16 The Remains of the Day
✓168. 12/1/16 The Pearl

2017 Group Reads Read 34/37=3
✓169. 1/1/17 Hard Times
✓170. 1/1/17 Lady Chatterley's Lover
✓171. 1/1/17 An Ideal Husband
172. 2/1/17 The Canterbury Tales
✓173. 2/1/17 The Lottery
✓174. 2/1/17 Beloved
✓175. 3/1/17 A Wrinkle in Time
✓176. 3/1/17 A Doll's House
✓177. 3/1/17 Villette
✓178. 4/1/17 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
✓179. 4/1/17 Memoirs of a Geisha
✓180. 4/7/17 Dead Souls
✓181. 5/1/17 Othello
✓182. 5/1/17 The House of Mirth
✓183. 5/1/17 The Little Mermaid
✓184. 6/1/17 The Old Man and the Sea
✓185. 6/1/17 My Cousin Rachel
✓186. 6/1/17 Twelfth Night
✓187. 7/1/17 The Pit and the Pendulum
✓188. 7/1/17 The Color Purple
189. 7/1/17 The Last of the Mohicans
✓190. 8/1/17 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
✓191. 8/1/17 Three Men in a Boat
✓192. 8/1/17 A Rose for Emily
✓193. 9/1/17 The Jungle Book
✓194. 9/1/17 The Haunting of Hill House
✓195. 9/1/17 The Call of Cthulhu
✓196. 10/1/17 For Whom the Bell Tolls
✓197. 10/1/17 Walden
✓198. 10/1/17 The Raven and Other Poems
✓199. 11/1/17 The Trial
✓200. 11/1/17 The Black Tulip
✓201. 11/1/17 The Gift of the Magi
202. 12/1/17 Ulysses
✓203. 12/1/17 Alias Grace
✓204. 12/1/17 A Room of One's Own
✓205. 12/7/17 Romeo and Juliet

2018 Group Reads Read 30/38=8
✓206. 1/1/18 Macbeth
207. 1/1/18 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
✓208. 1/1/18 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
✓209. 2/1/18 Faust: First Part
✓210. 2/1/18 Tender Is the Night
✓211. 2/1/18 The Importance of Being Earnest
✓212. 3/1/18 White Nights
✓213. 3/1/18 The Art of War
✓214. 3/1/18 A Wizard of Earthsea
✓215. 4/1/18 The House on Mango Street
✓216. 4/1/18 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
✓217. 4/1/18 Silas Marner
✓218. 5/1/18 Waiting for Godot
✓219. 5/1/18 The Mill on the Floss
✓220. 5/1/18 A Room with a View
221. 6/1/18 The Once and Future King
✓222. 6/1/18 Ten Days in a Mad-House
223. 6/1/18 Giovanni's Room
224. 6/1/18 Demons
✓225. 7/1/18 Cold Comfort Farm
✓226. 7/1/18 Summer
✓227. 7/1/18 The Sorrows of Young Werther
✓228. 8/1/18 Hamlet
229. 8/1/18 Light in August
✓230. 8/1/18 The Return of the Soldier
✓231. 9/1/18 Jude the Obscure
✓232. 9/1/18 The Arabian Nights
✓233. 9/1/18 The Secret History
✓234. 9/1/18 Rip Van Winkle
✓235. 10/1/18 Flowers for Algernon
✓236. 10/1/18 The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
✓237. 10/1/18 The Last Day of a Condemned Man
238. 11/1/18 Shirley
✓239. 11/1/18 The Left Hand of Darkness
✓240. 11/1/18 The Cricket on the Hearth
✓241. 12/1/18 From the Earth to the Moon
✓242. 12/1/18 As I Lay Dying
✓243. 12/1/18 The Postman Always Rings Twice
✓244. 12/1/18 The Pillars of the Earth (hide spoiler)]

2019 Group Reads 30/38=8 to read
✓245. 1/1/19 Much Ado About Nothing
✓246. 1/1/19 Common Sense
✓247. 1/1/19 Howards End
✓248. 2/1/19 The Joy Luck Club
249. 2/1/19 Eugene Onegin
✓250. 2/1/19 Chess Story
✓251. 3/1/19 Foundation
✓252. 3/1/19 Pygmalion
✓253. 3/1/19 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
✓254. 4/1/19 The Professor
✓255. 4/1/19 Night
✓256. 4/1/19 Kindred
✓257. 5/1/19 The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
✓258. 5/1/19 Wide Sargasso Sea
✓259. 5/1/19 The Prince
✓260. 6/1/19 The Epic of Gilgamesh
✓261. 6/1/19 Midnight's Children
262. 6/1/19 Like Water for Chocolate
✓263. 6/1/19 The Emperor's New Clothes
✓264. 7/1/19 The Happy Prince
265. 7/1/19 Pale Fire
266. 7/1/19 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
✓267. 8/1/19 The Magic Shop
✓268. 8/1/19 Antigone
269. 8/1/19 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
✓270. 9/1/19 The Valley of Fear
✓271. 9/1/19 A Pair of Blue Eyes
✓272. 10/1/19 The Dead
✓273. 10/1/19 The End of the Affair
✓274. 10/1/19 The Thanksgiving Visitor
✓275. 11/1/19 A Christmas Memory
✓276. 11/1/19 Utopia
277. 11/1/19 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
✓278. 11/1/19 Joan of Arc
✓279. 12/1/19 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
✓280. 12/1/19 Stoner
✓281. 12/1/19 The Divine Comedy
✓282. 12/1/19 The Cask of Amontillado

Master List of Books on the Catching Up on the Classics Group Bookshelf, chronological order: Page #2

✓ Completed

2020 Group Reads: 21/36=15 to read
✓283. 1/1/20 The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
✓284. 1/1/20 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
✓285. 1/1/20 Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
✓286. 1/30/20 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
✓287. A Modest Proposal
✓288. Death on the Nile
✓289. The Lover
290. The Mayor of Casterbridge
291. The Thorn Birds
✓292. The Alchemist
✓293. 3/31/20 Dr. Faustus
✓294. 3/31/20 White Fang
295. 4/1/20 Dangerous Liaisons
✓296. 4/30/20 The Country of the Blind
297. 4/30/20 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
✓298. 4/30/20 Meditations
✓299. There Will Come Soft Rains
✓300. Brideshead Revisited
301. A Journal of the Plague Year
302. The Mysteries of Udolpho
✓303. Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
✓304. 2001: A Space Odyssey
305. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
✓306. The Nose
307. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other
Stories
308. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
309. The Fire Next Time
✓310. The Pickwick Papers
✓311. Tortilla Flat
312. La Dame aux Camélias
313. Our Man in Havana
✓314. 84, Charing Cross Road
✓315. Julius Caesar
✓316. A Simple Heart
317. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
✓318. The Winter's Tale

2021 Group Reads
✓319. The Captain's Daughter
✓320. Ender's Game
321. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
✓322. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
323. I, Claudius
✓324. The Warden
✓325. A Streetcar Named Desire
✓326. Their Eyes Were Watching God
✓327. Don Juan
✓328. Gooseberries
✓329. The Giver
✓330. Fathers and Sons
✓331. Babette’s Feast
✓332. Wives and Daughters
✓333. Dandelion Wine
✓334. Moll Flanders
✓335. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
✓336. Letters to a Young Poet
✓337. Goblin Market
338. Père Goriot
339. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
✓340. Antony and Cleopatra
✓341. The Necklace
342. Orlando
✓343. The Misanthrope
✓344. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
345. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
346. Hunger
✓347. The Fall
✓348. The Decameron
✓349. The Gold Bug
✓350. The Last Question
✓351. The Book of Tea
352. The Prince and the Pauper
✓353. The Call of the Wild
354. Metamorphoses
✓355. A Christmas Tree

2022 Group Reads
✓356. Carmilla
357. The Gambler
✓358. The Razor's Edge
✓359. The Old Curiosity Shop
✓360. The Wasteland & Four Quartets
361. Nausea
✓362. Cyrano de Bergerac
✓363. Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
364. The Sun Also Rises
✓365. King Solomon's Mines
366. The Second Sex
367. Blindness
✓368. The Library of Babel
369. Aesop's Fables
370. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
✓371. The Kreutzer Sonata
✓372. The Hand
✓373. how the poor die
374. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
375. The House of the Dead
376. The Winter of Our Discontent
377. The Bostonians
✓378. Uncle VanyaBerenice
✓379. The Magic Mountain
✓380. Oedipus Rex
✓381. The Vicar of Wakefield
✓382. Murder on the Orient Express
383. Flush
384. Picnic at Hanging Rock
✓385. The Tempest
✓386. Berenice
✓387. Thérèse Raquin
✓388. The Talented Mr. Ripley
✓389. Of Human Bondage
390. The Blithedale Romance
391. The Satanic Verses
392. The Mark on the Wall
✓393. Before the Party
✓394. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
395. Foucault's Pendulum

2023 Group Reads
✓396. Twelve Angry Men
✓397. A Confederacy of Dunces
✓398. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
✓399. The Cider House Rules
✓400. The 39 Steps
401. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
✓402. The Praise of Folly
✓403. Death Comes for the Archbishop
404. Electra
✓405, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
✓406. Brokeback Mountain
407. Heart of a Dog
408. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
409. The Moon Is Down
410. The Big Sleep
411. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
✓412. Into the Wild
✓413. A Midsummer Night's Dream
414. Children of the Corn
✓415. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
✓416. Medea
✓417, Little Dorrit
✓418. The Power and the Glory
✓419. The Bear
✓420. Washington Square
421. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
✓422, The Story of an Hour
423. Lady Windermere's Fan
424. Kiss of the Spiderwoman
425. The Aeneid
426. The Loved One
✓427. Winnie-the-Pooh
428. The Way We Live Now
429. The Sound of Waves
✓430. The Night Before Christmas
✓431. The Sign of the Four
✓432. A Very Easy Death
433. Sula
434. The Symposium
435. Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power
436. Quicksand
437, Confessions
438. Swann's Way

My Unread Group Reads
350/438 - 88 unread as of 4/5/24 - 79.9%

*Books I have little or no real interest in. I may someday at least try them, but I'm in no hurry.

2010 Group Reads:
Completed

2011 Group Reads:
Completed

2012 Group Reads to Finish Year: 4
31. 2/18/2012 Out of Africa, by Dinesen, Isak
*42. 6/5/2012 The Good Soldier Švejk, by Hašek, Jaroslav
45. 9/26/2012 Rob Roy, by Scott, Walter
*46. 9/26/2012 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Kundera, Milan

2013 Group Reads to Finish Year: 1
64. 9/4/2013 Despair, by Nabokov, Vladimir

2014 Group Reads to Finish Year: 1
*72. 1/6/2014 Twelve Years a Slave, by Northrup, Solomon

2015 Group Reads to Finish Year: 3
104. 4/1/2015 The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
109. 6/1/2015 The Princess Bride, by William Golden
110. 6/1/2015 Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2016 Group Reads to Finish Year: 5
137. 3/1/2016 The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
138. 3/1/2016 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
145. 5/1/2016The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
147. 6/1/2016 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
149. 6/1/2016 Bleak House by Charles Dickens

2017 Group Reads to Finish Year: 2
*172. 2/1/17 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
*205. 12/1/17 Ulysses

2018 Group Reads to Finish Year: 7
207. 1/1/18 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
221. 6/1/18 The Once and Future King
*223. 6/1/18 Giovanni's Room
*224. 6/1/18 Demons
*229. 8/1/18 Light in August
238. 11/1/18 Shirley
*242. 12/1/18 As I Lay Dying

2019 Group Reads to Finish Year: 6
249. 2/1/19 Eugene Onegin
262. 6/1/19 Like Water for Chocolate
265. 7/1/19 Pale Fire
266. 7/1/19 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
269. 8/1/19 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
277. 11/1/19 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

2020 Group Reads: 13
290. The Mayor of Casterbridge
291. The Thorn Birds
295. Dangerous Liaisons
297. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
301. A Journal of the Plague Year
302. The Mysteries of Udolpho
*305. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
307. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other
Stories
308. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
*309. The Fire Next Time
312. La Dame aux Camélias
313. Our Man in Havana
317. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

2021 Group Reads 10
321. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
323. I, Claudius
338. Père Goriot
*339. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
*342. Orlando
345. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
346. Hunger
348. The Decameron
352. The Prince and the Pauper
354. Metamorphoses

2022 Group Reads 17
357. The Gambler
*361. Nausea
364. The Sun Also Rises
*366. The Second Sex
367. Blindness
369. Aesop's Fables
370. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
*374. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
375. The House of the Dead
376. The Winter of Our Discontent
377. The Bostonians
*383. Flush
384. Picnic at Hanging Rock
390. The Blithedale Romance
*391. The Satanic Verses
*392. The Mark on the Wall
*395. Foucault's Pendulum

2023 Group Reads 19
401. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
407. Heart of a Dog
408. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
409. The Moon Is Down
411. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
414. Children of the Corn
421. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
423. Lady Windermere's Fan
424. Kiss of the Spiderwoman
425. The Aeneid
426. The Loved One
428. The Way We Live Now
429. The Sound of Waves
433. Sula
434. The Symposium
435. Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power
436. Quicksand
437, Confessions
438. Swann's Way

Time for a newly popular 100 Years Before Me 1857-1956 Using Past and Future Reads. This could be multiple year challenge.

Born in 1957, First 25 Years - 1857-1881
1857 - Little Dorrit
1858 - Doctor Thorne
1859 - The Woman in White
1860 - The Mill on the Floss
1861 - Great Expectations
1862 - Les Misérables
1863 - Cousin Phillis
1864 - Journey to the Center of the Earth
1865 - From the Earth to the Moon
1866 - Crime and Punishment
1867 - Theresa Raquin
1868 - Little Women
1869 - War and Peace
1870 -
1871 - Through the Looking Glass
1872 - Middlemarch
1873 - A Pair of Blue Eyes
1874 - Far From the Madding Crowd
1875 - The Hand
1876 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1877 - Madame Bovary
1878 - Anna Karenina
1879 - The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
1880 - Heidi
1881 - The Portrait of a Lady

Second 25 Years - 1882-1906
1882 - Treasure Island
1883 -
1884 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1885 - King Solomon's Mines
1886 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1887 - The Canterville Ghost
1888 - The Lady with the Little Dog
1889 - The Kreutzer Sonata
1890 - The Sign of Four
1891 - Tess of the D’Urbervilles
1892 - The Yellow Wall-Paper
1893 - An Ideal Husband
1894 - The Christmas Hirelings
1895 - The Time Machine
1896 - The Country of the Pointed Firs
1897 - Liza of Lambeth
1898 - Youth, a Narrative
1899 - Heart of Darkness
1900 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1901 - Kim
1902 - The Virginian
1903 - The Call of the Wild
1904 - The Sea Wolf
1905 - Where Angels Fear to Tread
1906 - The Jungle

Third 25 Years -1907-1931
1907 - The Voice in the Night
1908 - The Wind in the Willows
1909 - The Last Trail
1910 - The Phantom of the Opera
1911 - Ethan Frome
1912 - A Princess of Mars
1913 - Sons and Lovers
1914 - The Jacket:
1915 - Of Human Bondage
1916 - Trifles
1917 - Summer
1918 - The Return of the Soldier
1919 - South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
1920 - The Wreath
1921 - The Wife
1922 - Captain Blood
1923 - The Murder on the Links
1924 - So Big
1925 - The Great Gatsby
1926 - Winnie-the-Pooh
1927 - Death Comes for the Archbishop
1928 - All Quiet on the Western Front
1929 - A Farewell to Arms
1930 - The Maltese Falcon
1931 - The Good Earth

Fourth 25 Years - 1932-1957
1932 - Brave New World
1933 - Lamb in His Bosom
1934 - Goodbye Mr. Chips
1935 - The African Queen
1936 - Drums Along the Mohawk
1937 - The Hobbit
1938 - The Yearling
1939 - The Grapes of Wrath
1940 - An Old Captivity
1941 - For Whom the Bell Tolls
1942 - Pied Piper
1943 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1944 - The Razor’s Edge
1945 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1946 - The King's General
1947 - A Streetcar Named Desire
1948 - No Highway
1949 - 1984
1950 - A Town Like Alice
1951 - The Caine Mutiny
1952 - East of Eden
1953 - The Old Man and the Boy
1954 - Nectar in a Sieve
1955 - The Breaking Wave
1956 - Old Yeller
1957 - Atlas Shrugged

Using Past and Future Reads. Read A Book From Every Year Since I Was Born
Challenge Started January 2013
1957 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 7/4/13
1958 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 2/3/15
1959 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 8/5/15
1960 Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, 10/28/14
1961 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 3/30/15
1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 1/11/13
1963 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 2/3/13
1964 This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart, 3/17/16
1965 Dune by Frank Herbert, 6/20/15
1966 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 9/18/14
1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, 5/7/14
1968 True Grit by Charles Portis, 11/20/13
1969 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 11/24/13
1970 Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, 7/23/15
1971 Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks, 9/15/16
1972 Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, 11/21/15
1973 The Mediterranean Caper by Clive Cussler, 8/15/16
1974 A Cry of Angels by Jeff Fields, 1/27/14 (3rd Reread)
1975 Salem's Lot byStephen King, 10/25/14
1976 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer, 11/16/13
1977 Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer, 12/27/13
1978 The Stand by Stephen King, 10/6/13
1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1/16/13
1980 Cradle and All by James Patterson, 1/4/14
1981 Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, 8/8/16
1982 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 9/11/16
1983 First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, 5/8/15
1984 The House on Mango Street, 4/11/17
1985 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 10/22/13
1986 The Last Don by Mario Puzo, 9/6/14
1987 Beloved by Toni Morrison, 3/21/17
1988 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 2/6/13
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, 1/29/17
1990 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, 7/27/14
1991 New York Dead by Stuart Woods, 12/31/14
1992 Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, 8/21/13
1993 The Giver by Lois Lowry, 2/17/13
1994 Inca Gold by Clive Cussler, 1/21/14
1995 Imperfect Strangers by Stuart Woods, 9/16/13
1996 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, 2/28/14
1997 Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods, 11/25/13
1998 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, 4/28/13
1999 Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr, 4/16/15
2000 How the Dead Live by Will Self, 8/18/13
2001 The Christmas Train by David Baldacci, 12/6/13
2002 Blood Orchid by Stuart Woods, 7/28/14
2003 Flashback by Nevada Barr, 2/13/14
2004 Sacred Stone by Clive Cussler, 9/28/14
2005 Dark Watch by Clive Cussler, 11/13/14
2006 The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2/15/13
2007 The Quickie by James Patterson, 5/19/13
2008 The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, 9/1/13
2009 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, 12/26/14
2010 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, 3/31/13
2011 Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff, 8/10/13
2012 The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson, 12/10/13
2013 And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, 11/24/14
2014 Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett, 4/24/16
2015 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, 9/27/16
2016 Two If by Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard, 4/18/17
2017 The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff, 6/4/23
2018 The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton, 11/7/23
2019 The Huntress by Kate Quinn, 3/16/23
2020 The Authenticity Project, 4/13/25
2021 The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, 1/9/23
2022 Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, 7/23/23
2023 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, 2/15/24
2024 The Women, 3/11/25

The 10 best selling books for 1957 the year I was born. Not necessarily published that year.
Challenge Started 4/13/2011 Completed 7/10/16
✓#1 By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens, Read 5/18/2013, 3 Stars
✓#2 Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, Read 4/13/2011, 4 Stars
✓#3 Compulsion by Meyer Levin, Read 10/12/2014, 4 Stars
✓#4 Rally Round the Flag, Boys! by Max Shulman, Read 6/13/2013, 4 Stars
✓#5 Blue Camellia by Frances Parkinson Keyes, Read 6/21/16, 3.5 Stars
✓#6 Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson, Read 7/10/16, 2 Stars
✓#7 The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier, Read 4/8/2012, 4 Stars
✓#8 On the Beach by Nevil Shute, Read 10/17/2011, 5 Stars
✓#9 Below the Salt by Thomas B. Costain, 7/7/16, 4 Stars
✓#10 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Read 6/5/2011, 5 Stars

Ah I see that you are as inspired as I have been.

I love your quarterly round up!

You're doing amazingly well, especially for Bingo and the Women's Century challenge. I can't believe you've completed that one already!

For the bingo poetry square, how about something by Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allan Poe? Or some of Shakespeare's sonnets, to tick off the 1600 square at the same time? Or some Ancient Greek poetry, such as The Odyssey, or something by Sappho or Sophocles, also for the pre-1600 square? Something newer...Ted hughes, Maya Angelou, Seamus Heaney? I'm not a big poetry fan and just can't wrap my head around the usual suspects of Tennyson, Byron, Wordsworth, Blake, Keats etc. T.S Eliot is okay, but mostly goes over my head. I've enjoyed WW1 poetry, by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, as it's more realistic, which I can get a grip on. Though I suppose there's no rules against Dr Suess, if you're more of a 'green eggs and ham' kind of guy?!

Nice summary Bob. I may have to steal your idea -- I think it may help me solidify some plans for my next reading quarter.

Very organized! I might need to try that....

✔Read - 189* Books Owned -

1918 - His Family by Ernest Poole
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
✔1921 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
1922 - Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
1923 - One of Ours by Willa Cather
1924 - The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
✔1925 - So Big by Edna Ferber
1926 - Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
1927 - Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady by Lewis Bromfield
✔1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
1930 - Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge
1931 - Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
✔ 1932 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1933 - The Store by Thomas S. Stribling
✔1934 - Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
1935 - Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 - Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
✔ 1937 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
1938 - The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
✔*1939 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
✔1940 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
1942 - In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
1943 - Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
1944 - Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
1945 - A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
*1947 - All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
*1948 - Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
1949 - Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
✔1950 - The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
1951 - The Town by Conrad Richter
✔ 1952 - The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
✔ 1953 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1955 - A Fable by William Faulkner
1956 - Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
✔1958 - A Death in the Family by James Agee
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 - Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
✔ 1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1962 - The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
1963 - The Reivers by William Faulkner
1965 - The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
1966 - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
1967 - The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
1969 - House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
1970 - The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford
✔1972 - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
1973 -The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
✔ 1975 - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976 - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1978 - Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
1980 - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
✔*1981 -A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
*1982 - Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
✔1983 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1984 - Ironweed by William Kennedy
1985 - Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
✔ 1986 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
1987 - A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
✔1988 - Beloved by Toni Morrison
1989 - Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
1991 - Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1992 - A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
✔ 1994 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Prolux
1995 - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
*1998 - American Pastoral by Philip Roth
1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2001 -The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
2002 - Empire Falls by Richard Russo
2003 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones
✔ 2005 - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2006 - March by Geraldine Brooks
✔ 2007 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
✔ 2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2010 - Tinkers by Paul Harding
✔2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
*2013 - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
*2014 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
2015 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
2016 - The Sympathizer by Nguyen
2017 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
2018 - Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Bob wrote: "Second Quarter/Half Year Reading Update:
A snapshot of my progress so far this year. I have completed some challenges and made some progress on others.

A-Z Challenges:
Author 15/26 books complete..."

Wow Bob! Excellent challenges and progress!! :)

So many challenges and all going so well, amazing work this year Bob :)

Wow! Lots of reading Bob. I feel the same about those fast readers. Can't seem to stay caught up with my challenges. :)

Bob, you are amazing and very organized.

I second that. I am looking forward to your end of year review :)

Wow! Bob!

I didn't know that you were involved with so many challenges.

I really like the two that have to do with your age/birth year.

Great assessment Bob and well done!

This is great Bob! I'm with Andrea, I love your age/birth challenge! Very clever! :)

Bob, your success on these challenges is inspiring, as are your challenge ideas. I particularly like the Every Year Since I was Born challenge. It's got me thinking about 2017 ... but no, can't think of that yet! I have too much to read for 2016 still. Congrats!

You should have you E author since you read Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

I don't know how you keep track of all these challenges, let alone read all the books! Amazing job Bob.

Wow!

Amazing!! Good luck for 2017!

Awesome!

Way to go Bob! Best of luck for the new year! :)

You really did have a successful 2016. I understand about the burn-out after several years of challenges since I'm in the same boat. I too am forgoing all but my ongoing personal challenges. Good luck on yours and I wish you the best of happy reading in 2017.

A major personal goal/challenge COMPLETED
Read A Book For Every Year Since I Was Born
I started this challenge in 2013. This challenge took four years and four months years to finish.
Books Completed Between 1957-2016
Challenge Started January 2013 Finished April 2017

Book List
1957 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 7/4/13
1958 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 2/3/15
1959 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 8/5/15
1960 Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute, 10/28/14
1961 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 3/30/15
1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 1/11/13
1963 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 2/3/13
1964 This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart, 3/17/16
1965 Dune by Frank Herbert, 6/20/15
1966 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 9/18/14
1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, 5/7/14
1968 True Grit by Charles Portis, 11/20/13
1969 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 11/24/13
1970 Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, 7/23/15
1971 Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks, 9/15/16
1972 Innocent Erendira and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, 11/21/15
1973 The Mediterranean Caper by Clive Cussler, 8/15/16
1974 A Cry of Angels by Jeff Fields, 1/27/14 (3rd Reread)
1975 Salem's Lot byStephen King, 10/25/14
1976 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer, 11/16/13
1977 Shall We Tell the President? by Jeffrey Archer, 12/27/13
1978 The Stand by Stephen King, 10/6/13
1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1/16/13
1980 Cradle and All by James Patterson, 1/4/14
1981 Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, 8/8/16
1982 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 9/11/16
1983 First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, 5/8/15
1984 The House on Mango Street, 4/11/17
1985 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 10/22/13
1986 The Last Don by Mario Puzo, 9/6/14
1987 Beloved by Toni Morrison, 3/21/17
1988 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 2/6/13
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, 1/29/17
1990 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, 7/27/14
1991 New York Dead by Stuart Woods, 12/31/14
1992 Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, 8/21/13
1993 The Giver by Lois Lowry, 2/17/13
1994 Inca Gold by Clive Cussler, 1/21/14
1995 Imperfect Strangers by Stuart Woods, 9/16/13
1996 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, 2/28/14
1997 Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods, 11/25/13
1998 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, 4/28/13
1999 Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr, 4/16/15
2000 How the Dead Live by Will Self, 8/18/13
2001 The Christmas Train by David Baldacci, 12/6/13
2002 Blood Orchid by Stuart Woods, 7/28/14
2003 Flashback by Nevada Barr, 2/13/14
2004 Sacred Stone by Clive Cussler, 9/28/14
2005 Dark Watch by Clive Cussler, 11/13/14
2006 The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2/15/13
2007 The Quickie by James Patterson, 5/19/13
2008 The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, 9/1/13
2009 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, 12/26/14
2010 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, 3/31/13
2011 Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff, 8/10/13
2012 The Shadow Patrol by Alex Berenson, 12/10/13
2013 And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini, 11/24/14
2014 Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett, 4/24/16
2015 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, 9/27/16
2016 Two If by Sea by Jacquelyn Mitchard, 4/18/17 Last One
2017 - If every year from 1957-2016 is completed prior to my birthday in August I will consider this challenge complete

Looking back over this list a surprising number of good books were selected. These top ten are probably the best of the bunch.
A Cry of Angels
Trustee from the Toolroom
The Road - Haunts me still
Ender's Game
True Grit
The Stand
Dune
Stranger in a Strange Land
Doctor Zhivago
Flowers for Algernon

Wow Bob! Congratulations! What an awesome list! :)

Way to go Bob! That's a great challenge. I've only read 2 of your top 10, some good books on the list.

Well done Bob, that's great you've completed this challenge. I've only read one of the books you mention, Flowers for Algernon, which was a great book. I have a few of the others on my tbr list.

Well Done Bob!
I have just started a similar challenge (6 years down 47 to go!) and 4 years sounds like pretty good going!
good to see True Grit getting a mention - one of my fave reads of the last year

Bob, what a great accomplishment, and a really interesting list. I've now added The Road--sounds like a must.

Awesome accomplishment!

Congrats Bob!

I am doing that challenge as well. Mine starts with 1952 and I was giving myself 3 years. I was on track but partway through last year I just quit doing all challenges. But I still have a number of books I intend to read for it. So now you've gotten me interested again in going back to it.

You had some terrific choices, Bob! I loved Trustee from the Toolroom, which led me to read more of Shute's books. He always has a message about how ordinary people can make a difference and he basically believes most people are good, even in wartime.

I read Ender's Game with a book club at the time the first Gulf War was starting and it was incredibly relevant, as that was the first war conducted partly by remote strikes.

Thanks everyone for your congratulations. Trying not to sound conceited, I have to agree this turned out to be a really good challenge and I enjoyed it.

Duane-of the two books on my top 10 you've read if one is not Trustee from the Toolroom, I think it is a book you would enjoy.

Pink-I agree Flowers for Algernon was a great read, heart wrenching, but really memorable.

Darren-True Grit is a true Western Classic. I enjoyed the book and both versions of the movie.

Kathleen-The Road has left me scared, when I think about the ending. I always wonder what if McCarthy had ended it differently? A tragedy become a horror.

Robin- Nevil Shute is one of my all-time favorite authors. I guess the reason is that he takes ordinary people and puts them in extraordinary situations, but never so farfetched as to not be believable. As for Ender’s Game, I thought it was fantastic, I’ve since read the three sequels.

I have a couple of hours free today, should have been reading, but I was curious about how I would have faired if I had put up a Bingo Challenge last December. As it turns out I've done well, I need N-1 & O-2 for a blackout.

B1: Written by Nobel Laureate-Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature-Beloved, 3/27/17
B2: Classic Comedy or Satire-The Merchant of Venice, 4/27/17
B3: Classic Tragedy-Othello, 4/27/17
B4: Classic Made into a Film/TV-Emma, 8/2/17
B5: Winner of a Foreign Literary Prize-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, The Man Booker Prize 1989, 1/2/17

I1: 20th Century Classic-The Power and the Glory, 2/28/17
I2: New-to-You Author-Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, 8/6/17
I3: Classic Play-The Importance of Being Earnest, 3/11/17
I4: Classic of More than 500 Pages-The Three Musketeers, 786 pages, 7/27/17
I5: 18th Century or Earlier Classic-Twelfth Night, 1601, 6/4/17

N1: South American Classic
N2: Short Story Classic-To Build a Fire, 4/16/17
N3: FREE SPACE-Kidnapped, 7/8/17
N4: Poetry Collection-The Raven and Other Poems, 10/6/17
N5: European Classic-Lady Chatterley's Lover, 9/30/17

G1: 19th Century Classic-Far from the Madding Crowd, 1/10/17
G2: Bokklubben (Norwegian Book Club) World Library List Book-Invisible Man, 7/1/17
G3: Classic Non-fiction-Night, 3/1/17
G4: Group Read-My Cousin Rachel, 9/2/17
G5: Classic Recommended by a Friend-Where the Red Fern Grows, Nadine, 1/2/17

O1: Literary Prize of Your Country/Region- Tennessee Williams, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955, 5/14/17
O2: Classic Folklore or Mythology
O3: Asian Classic-Memoirs of a Geisha, 4/9/17
O4: Classic Romance-Persuasion, 3/27/17
O5: Prize-Winning Female Author-Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia, Newbery Medal (1978), 5/21/17

Bob you did well. Mythology was a struggle for me as well. Katy read a book about Alaskan mythology that sounded interesting so I ended up reading it as well. I "cheated" and used Casey at the Bat for mine. South American it depends on what you are interested in. It is my preferred region to read about but that does not mean that everyone will enjoy the most famous books from the region.

I thought about using The Power and the Glory for N1, but it is set in Mexico, not South America. I also thought I could make an argument about The Great God Pan serving as Mythology O2. I was just curious, still pleased to have so many without any pre-planning.

Looks like a great bingo board without even trying!

Nice near Bingo Blackout without Trying.

Hmmm. Bob, I love the idea of trying to read all the books on the group shelf. I think I'll adopt that as a personal challenge for next year. I have some catching up to do.

Angie wrote: "Hmmm. Bob, I love the idea of trying to read all the books on the group shelf. I think I'll adopt that as a personal challenge for next year. I have some catching up to do."

the best part of trying is that there are so many good books on our shelf to choose from. It is also a challenge I don't ever expect to complete, but it is fun to try.

Very nice birthday challenge. I have read several of yours that I did not end up using in my list I am working on.

I have been thinking about a new personal challenge. It is just in the thought stage and can go in several different directions or be abandoned. I am not doing the Women's Challenge this year but I like many others seem to naturally read male authors, at least a little more than 50% of the time.

My goal is to increase my exposure to more women writers. I am thinking of going over the last two years and the upcoming years existing woman's challenge threads and try and pick at least one book from other members challenges.

It is just an idea but if I don't write it down I will not follow up. In this case I need a pencil, paper, and a few hours to go over all three years challenges listing books I am interested in pursuing. depending on the research it could turn out to be a good challenge.

I'm interested to know what you finally come up with. Who are some of your favorite female authors?

Bob, I think this is a great idea. I’m not doing the challenge this year either but I’m the opposite - I don’t need a challenge to be motivated to read women authors. This year however I’m mainly reading nonfiction and it happens that I’ll be reading more men than women. Yet, most of my favorite authors are women. I will be interested to see what you come up with.