SA Book & Challenge Lovers discussion

The goal of this challenge is to use the the first or last name of an author of a book you have read about between January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022 and list it below. The first letter in the name or surname must correspond to a certain letter in the alphabet.

You may use books you read for other challenges. Any format is acceptable - paper, audio and ebooks.

Total books to be read is 25. You may not use the same book twice, but you may use the same author twice for different books by the same author.

One letter can be excluded at your discretion. It can be any one of them.

Please remember that only books with 120 pages or more counts.

You can keep track of your challenge in this thread

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Wayne J's 2022 Author Challenge (23/25)

A : Agatha Christie - Endless Night
B : Christianna Brand-Death in High Heels
C : Chinua Achebe- No Longer at Ease
D : Assia Djebar - Children of the New World
E : Ellis Peters - Monk's Hood
F : J Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
G : Georges Simenon - The Late Monsieur Gallet
H : Mary H Kingsley - Travels in West Africa
I : Jorge Icaza - The Villagers
J : John Irving - Setting Free the Bears
K : Kingsley Amis - The Folks That Live on the Hill
L : Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity
M : AA Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
N : Nick Middleton - The Last Disco In Outer Mongolia
O : George Orwell - Homage To Catalonia
P :Amy Poehler - Yes Please
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R : J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
S : Albie Sachs - Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
T : J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion
U : Umberto Eco - Baudolino
V : Yvonne Vera - Butterfly Burning
W : W. Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge
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Y : Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Z : Zhou Haohui - Death Notice

My spot: 21/25

A: Dark planet warriors - Anna Carven
B: Cursed - Benedict Jacka
C: Out of darkness - Anna Carven
D: Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon
E: Fellowship of fear - Aaron Elkins
F: X-clan: the origin - Lexi C Foss
G: Pink Moon - Tana Gray & Annabel Chase
H: The Laughing Corpse - Laurell K Hamilton
I: Emerald Blaze - Ilona Andrews
J: Our game - John le Carre
K: Dance with the devil - Sherrilyn Kenyon
L: Guilty pleasures - Laurell K Hamilton
M: Untamed shore - Silvia Moreno Garcia
N: The dark witch - Nora Roberts
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P: Black notice - Patricia Cornwell
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R: The girl in cabin 13 - AJ Rivers
S: Heart of a cat - SE Smith
T: Die again - Tess Gerritsen
U: Pay dirt - Chris Underwood
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W: Death’s disciple - James Whitworth
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Z: You can run - Rebecca Zanetti

Completed: 3/25
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C: Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)
D: Deon Meyer (Ikarus)
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V: V.E. Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)
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26/26

A - Catherine Aird - The Religious Body
B - Barbara W. Tuchman - Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
C - Sarah Caudwell - The Shortest Way to Hades
D - Dalene Matthee - Susters van Eva
E - Ellis Peters - Dead Man's Ransom
F - Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Gambler
G - Rumer Godden - Black Narcissus
H - Georgette Heyer - Behold, Here's Poison
I - Ianthe Jerrold - The Studio Crime
J - Alka Joshi - The Henna Artist
K - M.M. Kaye - Death in the Andamans
L - L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
M - Yamen Manai The Ardent Swarm
N - Naguib Mahfouz - The Harafish
O - Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
P - E.R. Punshon - Dictator's Way
Q - Kwei Quartey - Murder at Cape Three Points
R - Ronald Knox - The Three Taps
S - Albie Sachs - The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
T - Elizabeth Taylor - Angel
U -Luis Alberto Urrea - The House of Broken Angels
V - Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth
W - David Williams - Unholy Writ
X - Qiu Xiaolong - Enigma of China
Y - Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
Z - Oksana Zabuzhko - Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex

Diane's Spot:

23/25

A – Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
B - Susan Wise Bauer - The Story of the World #3. Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the Frist to the Forty-Niners by
C – Celeste Ng - Everything I never told you
D – Dorothy Gilman - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
E - Elizabeth Gaskell - North & South
F -Foley, Lucy - The Guest List by Lucy Foley
G – Geraldine Brooks - Year of wonders by Geraldine Brooks
H – Heller, Jospeh - Catch 22
I - Isaac Asimov - Foundation [Public Order] # 1
J – John Green – The Anthropocene Reviewed
K – Laura Dave - The Last Thing He Told me by Laura Dave
L - Lange, John - Grave Descend
M - McCullough, Colleen - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
N - Neil Gaiman - Coraline Graphic Novel by P. Craig Russell and Neil Gaiman
O – Octavia E. Butler - Kindred
P - Penny, Louise - State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
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R - Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
S - Swanson, Peter - The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
T - The Marlow Murder Club, Marlow Murder Club #1 by Robert Thorogood
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V - Victoria Hislop One August Night by Victoria Hislo
W - Magda: My journey by Magda Wierzycka
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Y - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Z - Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

I'm done!

Well done!