Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die discussion

Scavenger Hunt 2023 Challenge

8/12 done - 2 in progress

1. Read a book written by an author from a country around the Pacific Rim (excluding the United States).
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru

2. Read a book published by a small press, a university press, or an independent press.

3. Read a book that is not a novel.
Storm of Steel - memoir by Ernst Junger.

4. Read a book dealing with mental illness.
Correction - by Thomas Bernhard.

5. Read a debut novel.
Threepenny Novel - by Bertolt Brecht. He was primarily a playwright, this was his only novel.

6. Read a book in honor of Queen Elizabeth II (1926 -- 2022). Be creative – it could be written by an author named Elizabeth, a book with a character named Elizabeth, a book featuring a royal or an Elizabethan character, etc.
Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas

7. Read a book that can be classified as genre fiction (e.g. science fiction, mystery, romance, fantasy, horror, etc.). (Contributed by SaraSian)

8. Read a book from a country with 5 or fewer books on the Boxall list.
The Blind Owl, Iran, by Sadegh Hedayat.

9. Read a book that has won a literary award or was written by an author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Knot of Vipers- by Francois Mauriac

10. Read a book that caused a scandal when it was published or has been banned.

11. Read a book with a one word title.
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharev & De Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

12. Read a book using the theme of 23.

I finished two in the past week, now 10/12 done - 1 in progress and 1 yet to start.

Task #2 book is the one I'm halfway through, taking a short break from: On the Heights of Despair published by a university press- it's a translation from Romanian.

#7 was Gabriela: Clove and Cinnamon Many readers classified it as a romance- it is also historical fiction, set around the 1920s in Brazil.

#10 was Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan. He was imprisoned at age 16 for making preparations for bombing some place in England- he was an IRA member and was unapologetic for this in the memoir and it was banned in Ireland and Australia.

#12 I haven't yet started- that will be Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo published in 1923,