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

Use this Topic to discuss books you are reading or that fit the 1st Scavenger Hunt task.

Task 1: Read a Boxall book using the theme of 24. Everyone’s favorite is back (and probably will be for the next 98 years)! This is your chance to get creative. Here are a few possibilities to get you started.
    o 2024 – Chinese Year of the Dragon
    o International Year of Camelids (United Nations) – To raise awareness
        of the importance of camels and camel-like animals.
    o The Roaring Twenties (a book published or set in the 20s)
    o A book with 24 chapters.

I’m thinking of doing The Magic Mountain, published in 1924.

A non-exhaustive list of low-hanging fruit:

Published in '24:
Daniel Defoe's Roxana (1724)
James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
Charles Maturin's Albigenses (1824)
Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1924)
The first volume in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, Some Do Not... (1924)
E. M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924)
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924)
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1924)
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (1924)
The English translation of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1924)

Honoring Authors:
Wilkie Collins (b. 1824)
Charles Maturin (d. 1824)
Andrzej Szczypiorski (b. 1924)
James Baldwin (b. 1924)
Josef Skvorecky (b. 1924)
Truman Capote (b. 1924)
Franz Kafka (d. 1924)
Joseph Conrad (d. 1924)
Anatole France (d. 1924)

Entering the (US) public domain:
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The last volume of Parade's End, The Last Post
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
Story of the Eye by Georges Battaille

I'm going with one of the published in '24 books: The Albigenses from 1824.

I think I'll read a book that takes place in a day (24 hours). This might be the year I finally tackle Ulysses.

Misericordia by Benito Pérez Galdós, 1/12/24.
Explanation: the main character of the book is Benina. She is often referred to by another character as Angel. In Angel Numbers, 24 is about aligning your heart with your actions, finding a sense of balance and peace, and enjoying the beauty of life. This is definitely a lesson learned by Benina (aka Angel) during the telling of the story.

points for creativity?

Bob wrote: "Misericordia by Benito Pérez Galdós, 1/12/24.
Explanation: the main character of the book is Benina. She is often referred to by another character as Angel. In Angel Nu..."

Impressive!! Definitely worth bonus points!

I read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - Truman Capote was born in 1924.

I decided to nerd a little for this one... At the Mountains of Madness was serialized in 1936. (1+9) x 3 - 6 = 24 therefore I have found my 24 themed book. :-D

Isabel wrote: "I’m thinking of doing The Magic Mountain, published in 1924."

Ohh, I abandoned that book years ago. Not because I thought it was bad though. It's been sitting on my 'reading' shelf so maybe I'll join you and have the double satisfaction of completing this task and getting it off my list.

caterspotaters wrote: "I think I'll read a book that takes place in a day (24 hours). This might be the year I finally tackle Ulysses."

If you do and you can handle audiobooks I highly recommend this as a resource: https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-A...

The best reading I've heard.

Go Tell it on the Mountain also takes place in one day.

I just finished reading We. Wow - what an ending.

1924 is the year when the Surrealist movement was officially established. André Breton was one of its founding fathers and he wrote Nadja. Nadia was one of the main characters in season 6 of 24, and it’s also my sister’s name, so I’m going with André Breton’s Nadja.

In Veronika Decides to Die, Veronika is 24 years old.

The middle brother of The Brothers Karamazov is 24 (at least at the start of the book, I have no idea how long this thing will drag on... lol).

Under the Volcano takes place in a day (I believe).

Aha!! I have found a camel! Actually a whole herd of camels -- in Rickshaw Boy (aka Rickshaw) by Lao She.

I'm going to do One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as a book that takes place in 24 hours.

I read The Green Hat for this task.

The Scarlet Letter has 24 chapters as does Crash

Karen wrote: "Aha!! I have found a camel! Actually a whole herd of camels -- in Rickshaw Boy (aka Rickshaw) by Lao She."

Well done!


JM wrote: "Go Tell it on the Mountain also takes place in one day."

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day does as well.

Out of Africa has mentions of camels in it.

Just finished 'Miss Pettigrew lives for a day'. What a sweet book!