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My Dusty Musty TBR Clean-up Challenge-choose 3 books.
Dr ThornebyAnthony Trollope✔26/6/25★ ★ ★ ★
Crime and PunishmentbyFyodor Dostoevsky
Snow Falling on CedarsbyDavid Guterson
Star of the SeabyJoseph O'Connor
Just William: William's Treasure Trove (BBC Audio) by Crompton, Richmal on 07/01/2010 Unabridged editionbyRichmal Crompton
Moon TigerbyPenelope Lively
Challenge 6 - Group Reads, Buddy Reads, or Moderators Run Amok
1.The Merchant of VenicebyWilliam Shakespeare✔23/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2.The Seagullby Anton Chekhov✔24/1/25★ ★ ★ ★
3.The Angel at the GravebyEdith Wharton✔25/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
4.A Lost OpportunitybyLeo Tolstoy✔5/3/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
5.The Machine StopsbyE.M. Forster✔6/4/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
6 Call Me JoebyPoul Anderson✔1/6/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
7.Zero HourbyRay Bradbury✔1/7/25★ ★ ★ ★
8.Death in VenicebyThomas Mann5/7/25★ ★ ★ ★
9.PygmalionbyGeorge Bernard Shaw
10.Lost IllusionsbyHonoré de Balzac
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Challenge #17 - A-Z Author Challenge
A Tevye the MilkmanbySholom Aleichem✔8/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
BGo Tell It on the MountainbyJames Baldwin✔28/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
CThe PlaguebyAlbert Camus✔3/3/25★ ★ ★ ★
D Dostoevsky: Poor People Unabridged Audio MP3 by Fyodor Dostoevsky✔8/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
E Six Years at the Russian Court: Life with the family of Tsar Nicholas IIby Margaret Eager✔3/1/25★ ★ ★ ★
FCrossfireby Dick Francis✔12/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
GThe Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow - Augusta Groner Penguin books byAuguste Groner✔11/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
HHow It Feels to Be Colored MebyZora Neale Hurston✔29/3/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
IThe Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington Irving✔29/6/25★ ★ ★ ★
JRing A Rosesby Marie Joseph✔1/5/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
KThe Caller in the NightbyBurton Kline✔29/3/25★ ★
LCrow LakebyMary Lawson✔4/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
MThomas Cromwell: A Lifeby Diarmaid MacCulloch✔10/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
N Sipping From the Nile: My Exodus from EgyptbyJean Naggar✔29/5/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
OThe Impossible Firstby Colin O'Brady✔16/3/25★ ★ ★ ★
P The Daughter of the Commandant by Alexander Pushkin ✔5/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
*QThe Feather Pillow / El Almohadón de Pluma (New Translation - Bilingual Edition)byHoracio Quiroga✔10/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
RThe Box TunnelbyCharles Reade✔2/1725★ ★ ★
SThe Merchant of VenicebyWilliam Shakespeare✔23/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
TThomas Merton lectures in Thomas Merton on Pilgrimage to the Holy LandbyThomas Merton✔5/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
U Joseph Haydnby George P. Upton
VA severe mercy: C. S. Lewis and a pagan love invaded by Christ, told by one of the loversbySheldon Vanauken✔9/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
WThe Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary IbyAlison Weir✔9/3/25★ ★ ★ ★
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A - Z characters challenge
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A Inspector Alan Grant from The Man in the QueuebyJosephine Tey -1929✅
BBartholomew Farrell from Brat Farrarby Josephine Tey -1949✅
CCousin AmybyW. Somerset Maugham-(author 1874-1965) ✅
D Darius Clayhanger from ClayhangerbyArnold Bennett- 1910✅
E Etheria(can be spelt two other ways)from Thomas Merton on Pilgrimage to the Holy LandbyThomas Merton Taken from Thomas Merton's recordings as Master of Novices in Gethsemane Abbey,1965-1967 ✅
F Flag from The YearlingbyMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings- 1938✅
GGabriel from Go Tell It on the MountainbyJames Baldwin- 1953✅
H Hannah Jane from Hannah JanebyDavid Ross Locke-1881✅
IIrena Nikolayevna Arkadina fromThe Seagullby Anton Chekhov-1895✅
J Jesus Maria from Tortilla Flat-1935✅
K Betty Kane from The Franchise AffairbyJosephine Tey✅
LLydia Languish from The RivalsbyRichard Brinsley Sheridan-1775✅
M Margaret Eager from her memoir Six Years at the Russian CourtbyMargaret Eager- 1906✅
N Corporal Nym from Henry Vby William Shakespeare✅
O Caleb Oriel from Dr ThornebyAnthony Trollope-1858✅
P Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov from The Daughter of the Commandant by Alexander Pushkin-1836✅
QMonsignor QuixotebyGraham Greene-1940✅
RSir Walter Raleigh in Here Was A ManbyNorah Lofts-1936✅
S Shylock in The Merchant of VenicebyWilliam Shakespeare-1596✅
T Tevye in Tevye the MilkmanbySholom Aleichem-1894✅
U Ursula in Much Ado About NothingbyWilliam Shakespeare
V Queen VictoriabyE. Gordon BrowneIn his biography of Victoria and the achievements of her reign.-1915✅
W James Wormold from Our Man In HavanabyGraham Greene-1958✅
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ZQueen Zixi of Ix: The Story of the Magic CloakbyL. Frank Baum
RCG Maxi Challenge-DECADES
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1800-1809:
1810-1819:Frostiana: or, A History of the River Thames in a Frozen StatebyGeorge Davis
1820-1829:The Legend of Sleepy Hollowby Washington Irving✔29/6/25★ ★ ★ ★
1830-1839: The Daughter of the Commandant by Alexander Pushkin ✔5/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1840-1849:Dostoevsky: Poor People Unabridged Audio MP3 by Fyodor Dostoevsky✔20/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1850-1859:Dr ThornebyAnthony Trollope✔26/6/25★ ★ ★ ★
1860-1869:Gettysburg AddressbyAbraham Lincoln✔9/3/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1870-1879:The Rose of TuolumnebyBret Harte
1880-1889:The Kreutzer SonatabyLeo Tolstoy✔24/3/25★ ★ ★ ★
1890-1899: The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow - Augusta Groner Penguin books byAuguste Groner✔11/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1900-1909:-1906Six Years at the Russian Court: Life with the family of Tsar Nicholas IIby Margaret Eager✔3/1/25★ ★ ★ ★
1910-1919:The Hobo and the FairybyJack London✔9/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1920-1929:Mr. Know-AllbyW. Somerset Maugham✔25/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1930-1939:Here Was A ManbyNorah Lofts✔12/2/25★ ★ ★ ★
1940-1949:The Lady's Not for BurningbyChristopher Fry✔7/3/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1950-1959:Our Man In HavanabyGraham Greene✔15/1/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1960-1969:A Burnt-Out CasebyGraham Greene✔25/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1970-1979:A Severe MercybySheldon Vanauken✔9/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1980-1989:Dances with WolvesbyMichael Blake✔2/2/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
CURRENT MONTHLY CHALLENGES :
July 30 - International Friendship Day
1 Read a book that was translated from another language
2 Read a book where the main character goes to live in a different countryThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: Includes EbookbyJames Weldon Johnson✔2/7/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Lost Challenges "Clean it Out" JULY
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1. Read one book from your TBR OR from the pile you have at home.
2. Read one book from a series you have started and not finished.
Hands Down: Dick Francis Novels, Book 11by Felix Francis Sid Halley Series Book 6,Dick Francis Novels, Book 11.✔1/7/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Read one book that you bought or borrowed but have not yet read.Death in VenicebyThomas Mann.✔4/7/25★ ★ ★ ★
4. Read one book that will help with a difficult challenge. (Like an A-Z challenge that needs Q, U, & X)
5. Read one free book from your e-reader. (If you do not have an e-reader, read a book that has been on your TBR for more than a year)The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: Includes EbookbyJames Weldon Johnson✔2/7/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
RCG
Monthly Genre Challenge
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July- Children's/YA
1. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with J
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: Includes EbookbyJames Weldon Johnson✔2/7/25★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Read a book set in a place you would like to visit or revisitDeath in VenicebyThomas Mann✔1/7/25★ ★ ★ ★
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NBRC Finish the sentence "Fun" challenge.
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Monthly Genre Challenge
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RCG Maxi Challenge-DECADES
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NBRC Finish the sentence "Fun" challenge.
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COMPLETED
✅The Lost Challenges "Clean it Out" MAY
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✅The Lost Challenges "Clean it Out" JUNE
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✅June The Lost Challenges 6 books with water on the cover.
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✅ (complete 45 books 19/5/25
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✅ completed 27/4/25
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1 Read a book set during winter
2 Read a book that has “snow” or “winter” in the title, or a snow scene on the cover.
COMPLETE
February 17 - Random Acts of Kindness Day
1 Read a book that was given or recommended to you
2 Read a book where a main character is kind to other people
COMPLETE
March 20 - International Day of Happiness
1 Read a book that makes you happy
Just William: William's Treasure Trove (BBC Audio) by Crompton, Richmal on 07/01/2010 Unabridged editionbyRichmal Crompton
2 Read a book set in any country where you do NOT live
First LovebyIvan Turgenev
And Quiet Flows the DonbyMikhail Sholokhov
April 11 - National Pet Day
1 Read a book based on a true story about an animal
2 Read a fiction book that includes a pet
May 2 - International Harry Potter Day
1 Read a Young Adult book
2 Read a book that is part of a series Doctor ThornebyAnthony Trollope
June 8 - World Oceans Day
1 Read a book that includes travel by ship
2 Read a book set on or beside a river
July 30 - International Friendship Day
1 Read a book that was translated from another language
2 Read a book where the main character goes to live in a different country
August 30 - National Beach Day
1 Read a book where a beach is one of the settings
2 Read a book about a day out or a holiday
September 6 - Read a Book Day
1 Read a short story that you can finish in one day
2 Read a book that you have had on your list for a long time
October 31 - World Cities Day
1 Read a book set in a city you know well, or the capital city of your country
2 Read a book set in a city you would like to visit
November 27 - Thanksgiving Day
1 Read one of your favourite books
2 Read a book which includes a celebration (Christmas, birthday, wedding…)
December 31 - New Year’s Eve
1 Read a book for any challenge that you need to complete before the end of the year
2 Read a book where the word “end” is in the titleeserved!
Books mentioned in this topic
Joseph Haydn (other topics)Death in Venice (other topics)
The Box Tunnel (other topics)
Zero Hour (other topics)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: Includes Ebook (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
George P. Upton (other topics)Thomas Mann (other topics)
Charles Reade (other topics)
Ray Bradbury (other topics)
James Weldon Johnson (other topics)
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