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Rosemarie's 2020 Shelf Clearing Challenge
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I have actually been making decent progress reading books from my shelves, but have been reading more ebooks as well.
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Level 1 Base Camp
1. Kilmeny of the Orchard
2. The Lost Stradivarius
3. Les Contemplations
4. The White Company
5. Benediction
Level 2 Start the climb
6. Romola
7. Les Vaines Tendresses
8. Middlesex
9. The Big Bow Mystery
10. Amerika
11. The Souls of Black Folk
12. Crónica del alba, 3
13. Shane
14. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
15. Hillsboro People
Level 3 Going higher
16. Poemas Amorosos, Antologia
17. Die Walküre
18. Siegfried: Zweiter Tag Aus Dem Bühnenfestpiel "Der Ring Des Nibelungen"
19. The Thirty-first of June
20. Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
21. She: A History of Adventure
22. The House of the Arrow
23. The Ballad of the White Horse
24. The Conference of the Birds
25. The Way We Live Now
26. Doña Bárbara
27. The Kalevala
28. Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
29. Oliver Twist
30. Yellow Boots
Level 4
31. Pan Tadeusz
32. The Historian
33. La tía Julia y el escribidor
34. Cheaper by the Dozen
35. John Halifax, Gentleman
36. The Moorland Cottage
37. Poor Caroline
38. Mother Carey's Chickens
39. A Gentleman in Moscow
40. Lausbubengeschichten und Tante Frieda
41. Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest
42. Cinco esquinas
43. Evelina
44. Light in August
45. The Beggar's Opera
46. The Problem of Pain
47. Pierre et Jean
48. The Light That Failed
49. The Optimist's Daughter
50. La Folle Journée Ou Le Mariage de Figaro
Round 1 completed on July 15.
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Kilmeny of the Orchard
From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture
Three John Silence Stories
Winter: Atlantic Canadian Stories
Life's Little Ironies
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
The Souls of Black Folk
The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History
Jeremy: The Tale of An Honest Bunny
The Accusation
Poemas Amorosos, Antologia
The Enchanted April
Götterdämmerung: Dritter Tag Aus Dem Bühnenfestspiel "Der Ring Des Nibelungen"
Christopher and Columbus
84, Charing Cross Road
The Moving Toyshop
Doña Bárbara
Yellow Boots
An Ideal Husband
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
The Z Murders
Nathan der Weise
Unterm Rad
The October Country
Rupert Annual No. 55: 70th Anniversary Issue
The Quest of Iranon by H.P. Lovecraft
Finished challenge on October 25.
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Moon Magic: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car
Frost Bitten Winter: Carmilla
Chilly Days of Winter: Winter: Atlantic Canadian Stories
Chinese New Year: The Accusation
Books with Heart: The Romance of the Rose
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January: The Pastures of Heaven, Benediction, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Memories
February: Shane, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
March: The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Moving Finger, The Dain Curse, The House of the Arrow, Murder by the Book
April: The Man Who Spoke Snakish
May: The Complete "Peanuts" Volume 2: 1953 to 1954, The Massacre At Paris: With The Death Of The Duke Of Guise,The Best of Archie Comics, Book 1
June: Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture, Le Chancellor
July: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Turtle of Oman, Stig of the Dump, I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade, Rickshaw Girl, Tuck Everlasting
August: The Food of the Gods, Nightfall
September: Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
October: The Halloween Tree, The Black Cat, The Room in the Dragon Volant
November: The Four Feathers, South Riding
Decembr: The Tailor of Gloucester, The King of the Golden River
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1.Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
2. When Marnie Was There
3. Topper
4. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
5. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
6. The Mouse and His Child
7. She: A History of Adventure
8. The Thirty-first of June
9. Incredible Adventures
10. The Man Who Spoke Snakish
11. When the World Shook: Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot
12. The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
13. Der Goldene Topf
14. Glinda of Oz
15. The Green Child
Challenge completed on September 29.
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1. The A.B.C. Murders
2. Swan Song
3. The Big Bow Mystery
4. Foreign Bodies
5.The Hound of the Baskervilles
6. The Moving Finger
7. The Dain Curse
8. The House of the Arrow
9. Murder by the Book
10. The Carter of 'La Providence'
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A Handful of Dust
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952
Murder at the Vicarage
Carmilla
Memories
The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Middlesex
Contact
First bingo on Feb. 8-the N's
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Crónica del alba, 3
The Provinces Of The Roman Empire: The European Provinces
Lettre à ma mère
Second Bingo on Feb. 24 - the 2's
Die Walküre
Third Bingo on Mar. 6 - the G's
The Blue Fox
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1. A Canticle for Leibowitz
2. Plan for Chaos
3. 2061: Odyssey Three
4. Stand on Zanzibar
5. Out of the Silent Planet
6. The Skylark of Space
7. Perelandra
8. That Hideous Strength
9. Lucifer's Hammer
10. The Poison Belt
11. The Food of the Gods
12. Nightfall
13. Sans dessus dessous
14. The Kraken Wakes
15. The Stars, Like Dust
16. Skylark Three
17. The Naked Sun
18. Metropolis
19. The Runaway Skyscraper
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The Lost Stradivarius
The Pastures of Heaven
The Admirable Crichton
Benediction
Reim und Zeit: Gedichte
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen
Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller: Ein Herbstgeschenk für Freunde des Weines
Murder in A-Major
Les Vaines Tendresses
The Flies / Les Mouches
Sweet Thursday
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes & But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
La Chambre Bleue
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Pan Tadeusz
La tía Julia y el escribidor
John Halifax, Gentleman
Pierre et Jean
A Small Place
Finished on October 1.
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1. Les Contemplations
2. Romola
3. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
4. Crónica del alba, 3
5. Middlesex
6. Christopher and Columbus
7. Stand on Zanzibar
8. Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
9. Oliver Twist
10. Züricher Novellen
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1. The White Company
2. Romola
3. One Crazy Summer
4. The Little Duke: Richard the Fearless
5. The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai
6. Züricher Novellen
7. A Gentleman in Moscow
8. Cinco esquinas
9. Les Défricheurs d'éternité
10. The Time of the Goats
11. The Scholars
12. Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
13. Poison Island
14. Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time
15. Lily's Crossing
Challenge completed in October.
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Kilmeny of the Orchard
Three John Silence Stories
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist's Exile from Eden
Erniedrigte und Beleidigte
The Historian
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
Pollyanna Grows Up
The Optimist's Daughter
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
Shadows on the Rock
The Snow Goose
Taking a break from this challenge. I think that's it for 2020. I passed go once due to two trips to Book Ban!
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Professor Plum)
Pietr the Latvian (Sergeant Grey)
Cherry Ames, Flight Nurse (Nurse White)
Death in Captivity (Colonel Mustard)
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (Reverend Green)
Poor Caroline (Mr. Body)
The Case of the Howling Dog(Miss Scarlet)
Greenmantle (Mr. Brown)
Babbitt (Mrs. Peacock)
Challenge completed on October 17
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Discovering the Kingdom of Benin
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Three More John Silence Stories
Huis Clos
Shane
Tales and Fantasies
Scoop
The Romance of the Rose
Hillsboro People
Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds
What the Moon Saw
Lighthouse, the Cat, and the Sea, The: A Tropical Tale
The Ballad of the White Horse
Lady Windermere's Fan
Summer Lightning
My Childhood
A Long Fatal Love Chase
The Great Divorce
Murder Underground
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
From the Dust Returned
Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce
The Complete English Works
The Moorland Cottage
Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Round the Bend
Amerika
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
Rickshaw Girl
The Four Feathers
Challenge completed November 2.
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Shadow on the Mountain
They Were Divided
The Conference of the Birds
The Kalevala
Wilhelm Tell
A Woman of No Importance
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Noticia de un secuestro
The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake
The Massacre At Paris: With The Death Of The Duke Of Guise
The Moneylender of Toulouse
The Clue in the Old Stagecoach
Invisible Man
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
Bingo 1: the G's on May 31
The Princess and Curdie
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
Bingo 2: the 2's on June 15
Betsy in Spite of Herself
A Motor-Flight Through France
Bingo 3: the 5's on June 19
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Flag Day
Earth Day - Summer Lightning
April Fool - Leave It to Psmith
Spring Cleaning - Oliver Twist
Father's Day - Cheaper by the Dozen
Mother's Day - Mother Carey's Chickens
Flag Day - Canada by Mike Myers
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1.The Way We Live Now
2.The Kalevala
3. The Historian
4. Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest
5. David Copperfield
6. Lucifer's Hammer
7. Ayala's Angel
8. The History of Tom Jones
9. The Scholars
10. The Portable Milton
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The Way We Live Now
Trent's Last Case
The Snow Goose
The Ambassadors
The Cruel Sea
Erewhon
Greenmantle
Piccadilly Jim
Challenge completed on October 21
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Cards on the Table
A Murder Is Announced
Maigret in Vichy
The Hog's Back Mystery
Poirot Loses a Client
A Pocket Full of Rye
The Great Airport Mystery
The Cornish Coast Murder
The Mystery of the Green Ray
Murder in the Mews
Finished round 2 on July 22.
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La tía Julia y el escribidor
John Halifax, Gentleman
Invisible Man
A Gentleman in Moscow
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
Evelina
Twice-Told Tales
Light in August
The Mage-Fire War
The Ambassadors
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Paul Kelver a Novel
A Sicilian Romance
City of Lions
The Harlequin Tea Set
Light in August
Niebla
A Crime in Holland
An Expert in Murder
The Hollow Man
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
Memoirs of a Midget
Farewell Spain
A Girl of the Limberlost
The Dancing Floor
Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery
Love's Comedy
The First Four Years
The Maltese Falcon
Send for Paul Temple
Sad Cypress
Washington Black
Hiroshima
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Walnut Mansion
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
South Riding
Challenge completed on November 8
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The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
My Apprenticeship
The Problem of Pain
Le Château des Carpathes
Beyond Hitler's Grasp
Die Verwandlung
A Good Place to Hide: How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II
Up the Down Staircase
Stig of the Dump
The Summer Book
The Absentee
Stamboul Train
Clearvigil in Spring Clarivigilia Primaveral
Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent
Bingo #1- the I's
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
The History of Tom Jones
Tuck Everlasting
The Harp in the South
Bingo #2 - the 3's
The Mage-Fire War
Bingo #3 - the 4's
Journey by Moonlight
These Happy Golden Years
Bingo #4 - the O's
The Professor's House
Bingo #5 - the G's
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51. Up the Down Staircase
52. Ayala's Angel
53. The Absentee
54. Unterm Rad
55. Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent
56. Niebla
57. The Harp in the South
58. The Scholars
59. The Portable Milton
60. The Successor
61. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
62. The Cruel Sea
63. Memoirs of a Midget
64. Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time
65. Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G*** by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
66. Farewell Spain
67. The Dancing Floor
68. The Green Child
69. Origins, a memoir
70. Babbitt
71. Where Old Ghosts Meet
72. Gabriela Mistral Antología poética
73. Die Kirmes und andere Bildergeschichten by Wilhelm Busch
74. Lohengrin: Romantische Oper in 3 Aufzügen
75. Selected Essays
76. Bergheimat
77. Maddon's Rock
78. Les Contes du chat perché
79. The Sound of Coaches
80. The Goose Girl of Eriska, and Other Scottish Stories
81. Annals of the Parish: or The Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder
82. The Far Country
83. Colombe
84. Metropolis
85. Der Verdacht
86. The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash
87. In a Glass Darkly
88. Jäger des Spotts. Geschichten aus dieser Zeit.
89. Le Démon du bien
90. Tales My Father Taught Me
91. Storm Below
92. Gli dèi torneranno
93. Buonanotte, signor Lenin
94. Cyrano de Bergerac
95. Pilgrim's Inn
96. Lives of the Artists
97. The Marble Faun
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Murder in the Mill-Race: A Devon Mystery
Poirot Investigates
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
The Tuesday Club Murders
The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
The Chinese Orange Mystery
Buried for Pleasure
The Black Mountain
Black Run
The Four Just Men
Challenge finished on Nov 16
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The Cruel Sea
Babbitt
Washington Black
The Walnut Mansion
South Riding
Buonanotte, signor Lenin
The Mote in God's Eye
The Marble Faun
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My goodreads challenge goal is 211.
(This may seem geeky, but 211 is a prime number.)
I have increased my total to 240, which is divisible by a whole bunch of numbers.