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Bob Kaufman (bobkaufman) | 680 comments Completed 26 /26

Read a book from the combined Boxall 1001 book lists with an author’s name that fits each letter of the alphabet. To complete the A to Z Challenge, you may use either the author’s first, middle, or last name, the nationality of the author, or, in a pinch, a book by the author with a one word title (exactly one word).

A: Adeline Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, 3/28.
B: Henri Barbusse, The Inferno, 4/22
C: Corinne Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 3/6
D: Dorothy Richardson, Pilgrimage: Pointed Roofs
E: Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel, 3/16
F: Federico de Roberto, The Viceroys, 1/9
G: Benito Pérez Galdós, Compassion (the English translation of Misericordia), 1/12
H: H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay, 1/24
I: Italo Svevo, As a Man Grows Older, 2/3
J: James Stephens, The Charwoman's Daughter, 3/10
K: Karl Kraus, The Last Days of Mankind, 4/21
L: Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh, 1/23
M: Ian MacPhearson, Wild Harbour, 4/18
N: Edith Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones; Summer; 4/1
O: George Orwell, Burmese Days, 4/27
P: Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, 5/18
Q: Quartet by Jean Rhys, 5/27 (this was in a pinch)
R: Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World, 3/5
S: Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 5/4
T: Jean Toomer, Cane, 4/4
U: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 3/30.
V: Vassilis Vassilikos, Z, 4/30
W: Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, 2/24
X: Zhang Xianliang, Half of Man Is Woman, 5/24
Y: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 3/7
Z: Géza Gárdonyi, whose birth name was Geza Ziegler, Eclipse of the Crescent Moon, 2/23.


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Bob Kaufman (bobkaufman) | 680 comments Half way there.


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Bob Kaufman (bobkaufman) | 680 comments Finished today. My 'Q' book was in a pinch as I used the one word title of the book. No repeats, no re-reads.


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