The Reading Challenge Group discussion

My goal is to make a big dent in my ebook collection. I made good progress in 2021 and hope to do even better in 2022.
That isn't going to stop me from reading paper books and borrowing books from the library, or from Libby, of course!

Libby! The best app ever! Good luck with making that dent :)

Thanks! I'm going to need it!

Good luck with your challenge, Rosemarie!

Thank you!

Monthly Genre Challenge

January:
1. Over Sea, Under Stone
2.Foucault's Pendulum
3. The Cape Cod Mystery

February:
1. Watership Down
2. The Wasps
3. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

March:
1. Cat Among the Pigeons
2. Les Chemins de la mer
3. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

April:
1.Three Men in a Boat
2. The Crime at Black Dudley
3.The Heads of Cerberus

May:
1. Knock, Murderer, Knock!
2.Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
3. The Clocks

June:
2.The Wind in the Willows
1. Peanuts Dell Archive
3. Web

July:
1. The Island of Horses
2. Der Weg zum Glück 2 Der Silberbauer
3. Le Superbe Orénoque

August:
1.Curtain
2. The Hobbit
3. A Fragment of Life

September:
1.The Stars My Destination
2. The Little Nugget
3. Malevil

October:
1.The Little Witch
2.The Three Imposters
3. Old Mother West Wind

November:
1.Tomorrow Is a Stranger
2. Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After
3. Hay Days: Memories of Country Life in the 1920s

December:
1. Uncle Cornelius, His Story
2. The Gifts of the Child Christ
3. Grandpa's Witched-Up Christmas

Chunksters/Doorstops

1. Foucault's Pendulum 641 pages
2. Michel Strogoff 446 pages
3. The Mysteries of Udolpho 875
4. Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk 733
5. Hector Servadac 539
6. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman 465
7. Watership Down 478
8. Les cloches de Bâle 439
9. David Elginbrod 459
10. The Antiquary 542
11. Das Vergessene Dorf 590
12. Don Camillo e il suo gregge 441
13. Anton Reiser 440
14. L'anno di Don Camillo 519
15. The Robots of Dawn 423
16. Fairhaven Rising 464
17. Dracula 400
18. Der ewige Brunnen 977
19. Sketches by Boz 708
20. The Vicar of Bullhampton 425
21. Belinda 434
22. Le Superbe Orénoque 411
23. Der Weg zum Glück 1 Auf der Alm 600
24. Der Weg zum Glück 2 Der Silberbauer 612
25. Mathias Sandorf 647
26. Oscar and Lucinda 520
27. Der Weg zum Glück 3 Zweimal Gerettet 619
28. Der Weg zum Glück. Vierter Band 658
29. Malevil 636
30. Saints and Villains 488
31. Der Weg zum Glück. Fünfter Band 618
32. Der Weg zum Glück. Sechster Band 573
33. Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea 429
34. Gedichte Ausgabe Letzter Hand 420
35. Armadale 784
36. Parzival: Vollständige Ausgabe der 16 Bücher in der Übersetzung von Karl Simrock 676
37. Deux ans de vacances 544
38. Have His Carcase 476

Ebook Extravaganza

1. Das Gelübde Jan 7
2. Michel Strogoff Jan 10
3. The Well-Beloved Jan 13
4. Solaris Jan 18
5. Time's Laughingstocks And Other Verses Jan 19
6. La Fortune des Rougon Jan 24
7. Das steinerne Herz Jan 29
8. Hector Servadac Feb 4
9. The Festival Feb 5
10. The Insanity of Jones Feb 6
11. De kleine Johannes Feb 10
12. The Door in the Wall Feb 12
13. The Shunned House Feb 12
14. The Glamour of the Snow Feb 13
15. The Wendigo Feb 14
16. Sand Feb 17
17. Castle Craneycrow Feb 19
18. The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices Feb 22
19. The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing Feb 28
20. The Stray Lamb Mar 3
21. David Elginbrod Mar 4
22. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo Mar 7
22. A Hidden Life and Other Poems Mar 14
23. The Antiquary Mar 21
24. In the Vault Mar 25
25. Seltsame Leiden eines Theaterdirektors Mar 29
26. Ein Abenteuer auf Ceylon Mar 30
27. Robur-le-Conquérant Apr 3
28. Cool Air Apr 6
29. Anton Reiser : ein psychologischer Roman Apr 11
30. A Knight of the Cumberland Apr 17
31. Three Men in a Boat Apr 22
32. Pauline Apr 23
33. Tales of Terror and Mystery Apr 30
34. Young Goodman Brown May 2
35. When Worlds Collide May 13
36. Angelika May 14
37. Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober May 17
38. Nuggets and Dust: panned out in California by Dod Grile May 19
39. An Old Captivity May 20
40. Wenn die Äpfel reif sind May 23
41. Späte Rosen May 23
42. The Chronic Argonauts May 24
43. Ashes of the Beacon May 24
44. Le Phare du bout du monde May 29
45. The Centaur June 4
46. The Cossacks June 10
47. The Call of Cthulhu June 11
48. Pickman's Model June 12
49. The Wind in the Willows June 23
50. The White People June 25
51. The Raid June 25
52. The Vicar of Bullhampton by June 28
53. The Real Thing June 29
54. Die Serapions-Brüder - erster Band July 8
55. Le Superbe Orénoque July 11
56. The Light Princess July 12
57. A Dream of John Ball July 14
58. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 1830 July 16
59. Turnabout July 21
60. The Red Hand July 25
61. Der Weg zum Glück 1 Auf der Alm July 26
62. A Fragment of Life August 7
63. Der Weg zum Glück 2 Der Silberbauer August 9
64. Mathias Sandorf August 21
65. Der Weg zum Glück 3 Zweimal Gerettet September 21
66. Knulp by Hermann Hesse August 29
67. Der Weg zum Glück. Vierter Band by October 14
68. The Three Imposters October 24
69. Der Weg zum Glück. Fünfter BandOctober 30
70. Der Weg zum Glück. Sechster Band November 1
71. Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea November 6
72. Gedichte Ausgabe Letzter Hand November 14
73. Salomé November 15
74. The Man Who Was Afraid November 22
75. Die Serapions-Bruder: Gesammelte Erzahlungen Und Mahrchen; Bd. 2, Aus: Ausgewahlte Schriften E. T. A. Hoffmann's Ausgewahlte Schriften, Bd. 2 November 25
76. Armadale November 28
77. Parzival: Vollständige Ausgabe der 16 Bücher in der Übersetzung von Karl Simrock November 30
78. The Dunwich Horror December 1
79. Thurlow's Christmas Story December 2
80. Le Spleen de Paris December 4
81. Uncle Cornelius, His Story December 8
82. Deux ans de vacances December 14
83. The Cruel Painter December 16
84. The Gray Wolf December 21
85. The Gifts of the Child Christ December 22
86. Das Christkind December 24
87. Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge December 26
88. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle December 27

Reading Round My Bookshelves

1.The Penguin John Lennon
2. Sunjata by Bamba Suso
3. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
4. Latitudes by Edwin Muir
5. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
6. Murder in Three Acts by Agatha Christie
7. A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
8. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
9. The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
10. Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk by Jaroslav Hašek
11. Der blinde Geronimo und sein Bruder by Arthur Schnitzler
12. The Satyricon by Petronius
13. My Universities by Maxim Gorky
14. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H.G. Wells
15. Death in the Air by Agatha Christie
16. The Wasps by Aristophanes
17. Random Harvest by James Hilton
18. Les cloches de Bâle by Louis Aragon
19. The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli
20. Selected Poems by John Clare
21. Les Chemins de la mer by François Mauriac
22. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
23. Rain by W. Somerset Maugham
24. Die Häschenschule. Ein lustiges Bilderbuch by Fritz Koch-Gotha
25. Die Häschenschule: Der Häschen-Schulausflug: Mini-Ausgabe by Albert Sixtus
26. Das Vergessene Dorf by Theodor Kröger
27. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
28. Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
29. The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
30. Table Talk: From Ben Jonson to Leigh Hunt
31. The Irish by Sean O"Faolain
32. The Clocks by Agatha Christie
33. Web by John Wyndham
34. Third Girl by Agatha Christie
35. Der ewige Brunnen by Ludwig Reiners
36. Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
37. The Scandal of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
38. La Bête du Gévaudan by Francois Fabre
39. Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
40. Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
41. The Twymans a Tale of Youth by Henry Newbolt
42. They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
43. Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
44. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
45. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
46. Curtain by Agatha Christie
47. Die ersten Deutschen. Der Bericht über das rätselhafte Volk der Germanen. by Siegfried Fischer-Fabian
48. Malevil by Robert Merle
49. The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
50. Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina
51. The Complete Poems by Catullus
52. Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
53. Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

You've got this! Wishing the best of luck! I'm trying to see if I can end the year with fewer books on my TBR than I begin with. It may not happen, but it's at least a good goal, ha ha!

Thank you, Eileen. I'm going to give it a shot!

Winter Bingo

The Penguin John Lennon
Sunjata
Michel Strogoff
The Cape Cod Mystery
Murder in Three Acts
A Pigeon and a Boy
The Dark Is Rising
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Hector Servadac
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
The Stray Lamb

Group/ Buddy Reads-January

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
The Cape Cod Mystery byPhoebe Atwood Taylor
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
Time's Laughingstocks And Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Murder in Three Acts by Agatha Christie
A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev
La Fortune des Rougon by Émile Zola
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk by Jaroslav Hašek

Ebook Author Collections

E.T.A. Hoffmann:
1. Das Gelübde
2. Das steinerne Herz
3. Seltsame Leiden eines Theaterdirektors
4. Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober
5. Die Serapions-Brüder - erster Band
6.E.T.A. Hoffmanns Sämtliche Werke, Vol. 6: Die Serapions-Brüder, Zweiter Band

Jules Verne:
1. Michel Strogoff
2. Hector Servadac
3. Robur-le-Conquérant
4. Le Phare du bout du monde
5. Le Superbe Orénoque
6. Mathias Sandorf
7. Deux ans de vacances

Thomas Hardy:
1. The Well-Beloved
2. Time's Laughingstocks And Other Verses
3. The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing

Books in German:

1. Das Gelübde
2. Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk
3. Das steinerne Herz
4. Der blinde Geronimo und sein Bruder
5. Das doppelte Lottchen
6. Die Häschenschule. Ein lustiges Bilderbuch
7. Die Häschenschule: Der Häschen-Schulausflug: Mini-Ausgabe
8. Das Vergessene Dorf
9. Seltsame Leiden eines Theaterdirektors
10. Ein Abenteuer auf Ceylon
11. Anton Reiser : ein psychologischer Roman
12. Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober
13. Angelika
14. Späte Rosen
15. Wenn die Äpfel reif sind
16. Der ewige Brunnen
17. Die Serapions-Brüder - erster Band
18. Der Weg zum Glück 1 Auf der Alm
19. Geschwister Tanner
20. Der Weg zum Glück 2 Der Silberbauer
21. Knulp
22. Der Weg zum Glück 3 Zweimal Gerettet
23. Die ersten Deutschen. Der Bericht über das rätselhafte Volk der Germanen.
24. Der Weg zum Glück. Vierter Band
25. Der Weg zum Glück. Fünfter Band
26.Der Weg zum Glück. Sechster Band
27. E.T.A. Hoffmanns Sämtliche Werke, Vol. 6: Die Serapions-Brüder, Zweiter Band
28. Parzival: Vollständige Ausgabe der 16 Bücher in der Übersetzung von Karl Simrock
29. Das Christkind

Books in French:

1.Michel Strogoff
2. La Fortune des Rougon
3. Hector Servadac
4. Les cloches de Bâle
5. Les Chemins de la mer
6. Robur-le-Conquérant
7. Pauline
8. Le Phare du bout du monde
9. La Bête du Gévaudan
10. Le Superbe Orénoque
11. Le Bestiare ou Le Cortège d'Orphée
12. Alcools
13. Calligrammes, Poèmes de la Paix et de la Guerre
14. Mathias Sandorf
15. Malevil
16. Le Spleen de Paris
17. Deux ans de vacances
18. Les Fleurs du Mal

Translated Books:

1.Solaris Polish
2. Can't Pay? Won't Pay! Italian
3. A Pigeon and a Boy Hebrew
4. Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk Czech
5. The Satyricon Latin
6. My Universities Russian
7. The Wasps Greek
8. Padmarag Bengali
9. The Cossacks Russian
10. The Raid Russian

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Clue Challenge

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk
Somebody at the Door
Random Harvest
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Smallbone Deceased
The Citadel
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm

Not my cup of tea: Abandoned Books

1. Sunset Song
2. New Finnish Grammar
3. Une si longue lettre
4. The Irish R.M.
5. Katalin Street
6.Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
7. The Bell
8. The Enchanted Wanderer

Group/Buddy Reads February

The Festival by H.P. Lovecraft
The Insanity of Jones by Algernon Blackwood
Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner
The Shunned House by H.P. Lovecraft
Death in the Air by Agatha Christie
The Door in the Wall by H.G. Wells
The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon Blackwood
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Sand by Algernon Blackwood
The Man Who Found Out by Algernon Blackwood

*November 21 The Port of London Murders*

Ebook Author Collections

Algernon Blackwood:
1. The Insanity of Jones
2. The Glamour of the Snow
3. The Wendigo
4. Sand
5. The Centaur

H.G. Wells:
1. The Door in the Wall
2. The Chronic Argonauts

Books in Dutch:

De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

I love that you can read books in different languages! How many languages do you speak/read?

I'm fluent in three, English, German and French.
I can read and understand Italian,Spanish and Dutch, and speak it a little if I plan what I'm going to say first.
I can read Portuguese.
I started learning the four languages mainly for travel and reading. I like to be able to understand signs when I travel-which I sure hope happens soon!

Wow, that is amazing! I've never been good at languages (unlike my dad who was fluent in four--Taiwanese, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and English), but as an adult and a tutor, I decided I wanted to learn Spanish. So I'm currently working on that with Duolingo, but also looking for simple children's books in Spanish to try reading.

That's a good idea, especially if they're for beginning readers. You'll find that once you learn one new language it actually becomes easier to learn another one. I don't know exactly why, but it worked that way for me.
German is my first spoken language, and I studied French for five years in high school and four years in university.
The others were self-taught, but I was a qualified French teacher before I retired, so I have an advantage.
Four years of Latin in high school really helped with Italian.

One of my friends is using Duolinguo to learn Spanish too, also a retired French teacher.

That's very cool. I'll have to ask people for recommendations for children's Spanish books, but I might just browse what my library has!

You never know what you're going to find at the library. I found the comic strip For Better, For Worse in Spanish.

Oooh, I love that comic strip! I'll definitely take a trip over there this week and ask one of the librarians to direct me to the appropriate location! :)

Group/Buddy reads: March

David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Sultana's Dream and Padmarag by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Rain by W. Somerset Maugham
The Antiquary by Walter Scott
Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr
Don Camillo e il suo gregge by Giovannino Guareschi
L'anno di Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi

Ebook Author Collections

Thorne Smith:
1. The Stray Lamb
2. Turnabout

George MacDonald:
1. David Elginbrod
2. A Hidden Life and Other Poems
3. The Light Princess
4. The Giant's Heart
5. Uncle Cornelius, His Story
6. The Cruel Painter
7. The Gray Wolf
8. The Gifts of the Child Christ

Karl May:
1. Ein Abenteuer auf Ceylon
2. Der Weg zum Glück 1 Auf der Alm
3. Der Weg zum Glück 2 Der Silberbauer
4. Der Weg zum Glück. Vierter Band
5. Der Weg zum Glück. Dritter Band
6.Der Weg zum Glück. Fünfter Band
7. Der Weg zum Glück. Sechster Band

April Group/Buddy Reads

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Books vs Cigarettes by George Orwell
Double Sin and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft
Coming Attraction by Fritz Leiber
The Heads of Cerberus by Francis Stevens
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Pauline by George Sand
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

Books in Italian:

1. Don Camillo e il suo gregge by Giovannino Guareschi
2. L'anno di Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi
3. Il visconte dimezzato by Italo Calvino

Ebook Author Collections

Jerome K. Jerome:
1. Three Men in a Boat

John Fox Jr.:
1. A Knight of the Cumberland

Spring Bingo

Robur le conquérant
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Three Men in a Boat
Fairhaven Rising
Dracula
The Jack Tales
Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober

Books in Spanish

Romancero gitano by Federico García Lorca

Group/Buddy Reads: May

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Citadel by A.J. Cronin
When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie
Confessions of a Book Reviewer by George Orwell
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
The Jack Tales by Richard Chase
An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

Ebook Author Collections


Theodor Storm:
1.Angelika
2. Wenn die Äpfel reif sind
3. Späte Rosen

Ambrose Bierce:
1. Nuggets and Dust: panned out in California by Dod Grile
2. Ashes of the Beacon

June Group/Buddy Reads

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
Pickman's Model by H.P. Lovecraft
Web by John Wyndham
Third Girl by Agatha Christie
Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
The Real Thing by Henry James

Ebook Author Collections

Leo Tolstoy:
1. The Cossacks
2. The Raid

Arthur Machen:
1. The White People
2. The Red Hand
3. A Fragment of Life
4. The Three Imposters

July Group/Buddy Reads

Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
The Island of Horses by Eilís Dillon
City by Clifford D. Simak
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
The Giant's Heart by George MacDonald
The Light Princess by George MacDonald
The Storm by Kate Chopin
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit

Ebook Author Collections

William Morris:
1. A Dream of John Ball

Alfred Tennyson:
1. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 1830

Summer Bingo:

How I Discovered Poetry
Death on the Nile
The Big Time
A Dream of John Ball
Secret Water
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl
Clotel: or, The President's Daughter
Farmer in the Sky
Foundation's Edge
The Twymans a Tale of Youth
They Came to Baghdad
Nordenholt's Million

Did you read Foucault's Pendulum? You had it slated for January. If you would like a twin I have it on my list as well.

I did read Foucault's Pendulum-I should get a medal for doing a reading marathon with that book!

I'm not sure if I have it in me to tackle Foucault's Pendulum right now, lol! I read Name of the Rose in high school and I remembered finding it odd but I have an overall positive memory of it. I have no idea what I would think today!

August Group or Buddy Reads

Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
Geschwister Tanner by Robert Walser
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
Nordenholt's Million by J.J. Connington
Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Space Cat by Ruthven Todd

Ebook Author Collections August to December

Maxim Gorky
1. The Man Who Was Afraid


The Greatest Christmas Collection

1. Thurlow's Christmas Story by John Kendrick Bangs

Rainer Maria Rilke
1. Das Christkind

September Group and Buddy Reads

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Daffodil Affair by Michael Innes
Curtain by Agatha Christie
The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Autumn Bingo

The Daffodil Affair-O1