1brakketh
Hey All,
Just came across this challenge and thought it would be fun. I will attempt novel titles first:
ALPHABET I
A: Anno Dracula by Kim Newman, finished 4th March 2016.
B: The Broken Ear by Hergé, finished 12th March 2016.
C: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, finished 13th March 2016.
D: Double Star by Robert Heinlein, finished 14th February 2016.
E: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, finished 16th March 2016.
F: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, finished 21st February 2016.
G: Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks, finished 12th March 2016.
H: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, finished 13th February 2016.
I: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, finished 23rd January 2016.
J: Jimmy the Hand by Raymond E. Feist & Steve Stirling, finished 3rd May 2016.
K: Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey, finished 20th January 2016.
L: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, finished 16th January 2016.
M: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett, finished 28th February 2016.
N: The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan, finished 14th January 2016.
O: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, finished 22nd March 2016.
P: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, finished 8th April 2016.
Q: The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth, finished 27th February 2016.
R: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, finished 2nd February 2016.
S: Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly, finished 12th March 2016.
T: Titan by Ben Bova, finished 9th March 2016.
U: Ubik by Philip K. Dick, finished 29th June 2016.
V: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold, finished 1st May 2016.
W: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, finished 9th February 2016.
X: X-Men: Messiah Complex by various, 8th May 2016.
Y: Yes Please by Amy Poehler, finished 7th January 2016.
Z: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, finished 30th January 2016.
7th January 2016 to 29th June 2016 to complete. I am now working more on the 1001 Novels list so will link these two challenges in my next alphabet read through.
Just came across this challenge and thought it would be fun. I will attempt novel titles first:
ALPHABET I
A: Anno Dracula by Kim Newman, finished 4th March 2016.
B: The Broken Ear by Hergé, finished 12th March 2016.
C: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, finished 13th March 2016.
D: Double Star by Robert Heinlein, finished 14th February 2016.
E: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, finished 16th March 2016.
F: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, finished 21st February 2016.
G: Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks, finished 12th March 2016.
H: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, finished 13th February 2016.
I: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, finished 23rd January 2016.
J: Jimmy the Hand by Raymond E. Feist & Steve Stirling, finished 3rd May 2016.
K: Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey, finished 20th January 2016.
L: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, finished 16th January 2016.
M: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett, finished 28th February 2016.
N: The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan, finished 14th January 2016.
O: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, finished 22nd March 2016.
P: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, finished 8th April 2016.
Q: The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth, finished 27th February 2016.
R: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, finished 2nd February 2016.
S: Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly, finished 12th March 2016.
T: Titan by Ben Bova, finished 9th March 2016.
U: Ubik by Philip K. Dick, finished 29th June 2016.
V: The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold, finished 1st May 2016.
W: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, finished 9th February 2016.
X: X-Men: Messiah Complex by various, 8th May 2016.
Y: Yes Please by Amy Poehler, finished 7th January 2016.
Z: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, finished 30th January 2016.
7th January 2016 to 29th June 2016 to complete. I am now working more on the 1001 Novels list so will link these two challenges in my next alphabet read through.
2brakketh
I have been thinking about what I should do for the next alphabet challenge and I am thinking that I will go with author surname (not sequential) and listed in any edition of the 1001 books to read before you die series:
ALPHABET II
Atwood, Margaret - The Robber Bride finished 6th July 2016.
Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch finished 13th July 2016.
Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep finished 22nd July 2016.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Possessed finished 22nd October 2016.
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man finished 22nd October 2016.
Fleming, Ian - Casino Royale finished 1st August 2016.
Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South finished 2nd September 2016.
Haggard, H. Rider - She: A History of Adventure finished 12th July 2016.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - A Pale View of the Hills finished 18th December 2016.
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw finished 10th November 2016.
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible finished 11th October 2016.
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild finished 13th July 2016.
Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore finished 20th July 2016.
Orwell, George - 1984 finished 4th July 2016.
Palahniuk, Chuck - Choke finished 3rd October 2016.
Queneau, Raymond - Exercises in Style finished 31st December 2016.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Émile finished 20th November 2016.
Swift, Jonathan - A Modest Proposal finished 7th July 2016.
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden finished 30th December 2016.
Updike, John - Rabbit, Run finished 8th November 2016.
Verne, Jules - Around the World in 80 Days finished 11th July 2016.
Wyndham, John - The Day of the Triffids finished 13th July 2016.
Xueqin, Cao - A Dream of Red Mansions Volume 1 finished 29th December 2016.
Yourcenar, Marguerite - Memoirs of Hadrian finished 6th December 2016.
Zola, Émile - Thérèse Raquin finished 29th August 2016.
edit: This challenge started 30th June 2016.
edit: (6th July): Aiming to complete this Alphabet by 31st December 2016, interested to see if I can make it.
edit: Challenge completed 31st December 2016
ALPHABET II
Atwood, Margaret - The Robber Bride finished 6th July 2016.
Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch finished 13th July 2016.
Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep finished 22nd July 2016.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Possessed finished 22nd October 2016.
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man finished 22nd October 2016.
Fleming, Ian - Casino Royale finished 1st August 2016.
Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South finished 2nd September 2016.
Haggard, H. Rider - She: A History of Adventure finished 12th July 2016.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - A Pale View of the Hills finished 18th December 2016.
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw finished 10th November 2016.
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible finished 11th October 2016.
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild finished 13th July 2016.
Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore finished 20th July 2016.
Orwell, George - 1984 finished 4th July 2016.
Palahniuk, Chuck - Choke finished 3rd October 2016.
Queneau, Raymond - Exercises in Style finished 31st December 2016.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Émile finished 20th November 2016.
Swift, Jonathan - A Modest Proposal finished 7th July 2016.
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden finished 30th December 2016.
Updike, John - Rabbit, Run finished 8th November 2016.
Verne, Jules - Around the World in 80 Days finished 11th July 2016.
Wyndham, John - The Day of the Triffids finished 13th July 2016.
Xueqin, Cao - A Dream of Red Mansions Volume 1 finished 29th December 2016.
Yourcenar, Marguerite - Memoirs of Hadrian finished 6th December 2016.
Zola, Émile - Thérèse Raquin finished 29th August 2016.
edit: This challenge started 30th June 2016.
edit: (6th July): Aiming to complete this Alphabet by 31st December 2016, interested to see if I can make it.
edit: Challenge completed 31st December 2016
3brakketh
edit: this message refers to ALPHABET I.
I am a little bothered by the stalling of my Alphabet read as I have felt like I cannot start my second run until I complete the first. I have just borrowed Ubik from my local library so will complete the first list within the next couple of weeks. I had assumed that X would be the hardest title to complete but have read the listed X-Men graphic novel and Xenocide without having read a book title starting with U.
I am a little bothered by the stalling of my Alphabet read as I have felt like I cannot start my second run until I complete the first. I have just borrowed Ubik from my local library so will complete the first list within the next couple of weeks. I had assumed that X would be the hardest title to complete but have read the listed X-Men graphic novel and Xenocide without having read a book title starting with U.
4brakketh
Very pleased to manage to just get in under the wire for the second alphabet. I have found that reading the 1,001 list in this manner means I am reading a broader range of authors. For ALPHABET III I will do the same thing except I will replace the Q author with an author with a surname starting with B as I have the most of these authors still to read.
ALPHABET III
Atwood, Margaret - Cat's Eye finished 5th January 2017.
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre finished 21st January 2017.
Christie, Agatha - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd finished 11th January 2017.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground finished 15th January 2017.
Eliot, George - Middlemarch finished 3rd March 2017.
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones finished 31st March 2017.
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Mary Barton finished 16th March 2017.
Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha finished 9th February 2017.
Irving, John - A Prayer for Owen Meany finished 14th January 2017.
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady finished 7th April 2017.
Kadare, Ismail - The Successor finished 31st May 2017.
London, Jack - Martin Eden finished 26th January 2017.
Maugham, W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage finished 2nd June 2017.
Nabakov, Vladimir - Ada finished 29th May 2017.
Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient finished 27th April 2017.
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago finished 12th March 2017.
Q (B)arker, Pat - Regeneration finished 14th February 2017.
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front finished 27th February 2017.
Salinger, J. D. - The Catcher in the Rye finished 30th April 2017.
Thiong'o, Ngugi wa - Petals of Blood finished 7th May 2017.
Ugrešić, Dubravka - The Museum of Unconditional Surrender finished 27th February 2017.
Voltaire - Candide finished 15th January 2017.
Wyndham, John - The Midwich Cuckoos finished 5th March 2017.
Xueqin, Cao - A Dream of Red Mansions Volume II finished 18th June 2017.
Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen finished 5th January 2017.
Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We finished 2nd June 2017.
edit: Challenge started 31st December 2016, goal is to complete by 30th June 2017.
edit: Challenge completed 18th June 2017.
ALPHABET III
Atwood, Margaret - Cat's Eye finished 5th January 2017.
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre finished 21st January 2017.
Christie, Agatha - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd finished 11th January 2017.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground finished 15th January 2017.
Eliot, George - Middlemarch finished 3rd March 2017.
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones finished 31st March 2017.
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Mary Barton finished 16th March 2017.
Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha finished 9th February 2017.
Irving, John - A Prayer for Owen Meany finished 14th January 2017.
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady finished 7th April 2017.
Kadare, Ismail - The Successor finished 31st May 2017.
London, Jack - Martin Eden finished 26th January 2017.
Maugham, W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage finished 2nd June 2017.
Nabakov, Vladimir - Ada finished 29th May 2017.
Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient finished 27th April 2017.
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago finished 12th March 2017.
Q (B)arker, Pat - Regeneration finished 14th February 2017.
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front finished 27th February 2017.
Salinger, J. D. - The Catcher in the Rye finished 30th April 2017.
Thiong'o, Ngugi wa - Petals of Blood finished 7th May 2017.
Ugrešić, Dubravka - The Museum of Unconditional Surrender finished 27th February 2017.
Voltaire - Candide finished 15th January 2017.
Wyndham, John - The Midwich Cuckoos finished 5th March 2017.
Xueqin, Cao - A Dream of Red Mansions Volume II finished 18th June 2017.
Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen finished 5th January 2017.
Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We finished 2nd June 2017.
edit: Challenge started 31st December 2016, goal is to complete by 30th June 2017.
edit: Challenge completed 18th June 2017.
5brakketh
And the challenge rolls on, continuing to find this a really great way to force myself to read a variety of authors from the list. For ALPHABET IV I now need to replace Q and Y with B as I still have the most of these authors remaining.
ALPHABET IV
Anonymous - Arabian Nights finished 21 April 2018.
Banks, Iain - The Wasp Factory finished 30th September 2017.
Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone finished 2nd February 2018.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov finished 2nd May 2018.
Eliot, George - Daniel Deronda finished 23rd August 2017.
Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant’s Woman finished 3rd July 2017.
García Márquez, Gabriel - One Hundred Years of Solitude finished 20th July 2017.
Hardy, Thomas - The Mayor of Casterbridge finished 25th July 2017.
Irving, John - The Cider House Rules finished 9th December 2017.
James, Henry - The Ambassadors finished 17th January 2018.
Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's Ark finished 7th January 2019.
Lawrence, D.H. - Aaron's Rod finished 28th November 2017.
McEwan, Ian - Enduring Love finished 13th November 2017.
Nin, Anais - Delta of Venus finished 6th January 2022.
Ovid - Metamorphoses finished 19th January 2022.
Pierre, DBC - Vernon God Little finished 7th October 2017.
Q (B)ellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March finished 27th June 2017.
Roth, Philip - The Plot Against America finished 21st December 2018.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin finished 16th July 2017.
Tóibín, Colm - The Master finished 28th February 2019.
Undset, Sigrid - Kristin Lavransdatter finished 11th May 2020.
Vidal, Gore - Myra Breckinridge finished 13th April 2022.
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray finished 4th November 2017.
Xueqin, Cao - A Dream of Red Mansions Volume III finished 14th February 2023.
Y (D)ocotorow, E. L. - Billy Bathgate finished 9th March 2020.
Zola, Émile - Germinal finished 10th March 2022.
Challenge started 18th June 2017, goal is to complete by 31st December 2017.
edit: completed 14th February 2023 - what a mission.
ALPHABET IV
Anonymous - Arabian Nights finished 21 April 2018.
Banks, Iain - The Wasp Factory finished 30th September 2017.
Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone finished 2nd February 2018.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov finished 2nd May 2018.
Eliot, George - Daniel Deronda finished 23rd August 2017.
Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant’s Woman finished 3rd July 2017.
García Márquez, Gabriel - One Hundred Years of Solitude finished 20th July 2017.
Hardy, Thomas - The Mayor of Casterbridge finished 25th July 2017.
Irving, John - The Cider House Rules finished 9th December 2017.
James, Henry - The Ambassadors finished 17th January 2018.
Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's Ark finished 7th January 2019.
Lawrence, D.H. - Aaron's Rod finished 28th November 2017.
McEwan, Ian - Enduring Love finished 13th November 2017.
Nin, Anais - Delta of Venus finished 6th January 2022.
Ovid - Metamorphoses finished 19th January 2022.
Pierre, DBC - Vernon God Little finished 7th October 2017.
Q (B)ellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March finished 27th June 2017.
Roth, Philip - The Plot Against America finished 21st December 2018.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin finished 16th July 2017.
Tóibín, Colm - The Master finished 28th February 2019.
Undset, Sigrid - Kristin Lavransdatter finished 11th May 2020.
Vidal, Gore - Myra Breckinridge finished 13th April 2022.
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray finished 4th November 2017.
Xueqin, Cao - A Dream of Red Mansions Volume III finished 14th February 2023.
Y (D)ocotorow, E. L. - Billy Bathgate finished 9th March 2020.
Zola, Émile - Germinal finished 10th March 2022.
Challenge started 18th June 2017, goal is to complete by 31st December 2017.
edit: completed 14th February 2023 - what a mission.
6owlie13
Great challenge! Just wanted to say The Cider House Rules is one of my favorite books. (Although A Prayer by Owen Meany probably edges it out. Since both are on your lists, I'd be interested to see what you think after you finish Rules.)
8brakketh
I think my thoughts must be relatively close to yours as I too have a slight preference from A Prayer for Owen Meany over The Cider House Rules. For me it is something about the way the outsider is portrayed as observing and engaging with niches of America. Never really living complete lives while still being satisfied with their assigned roles.
9brakketh
Indeed, I get caught up with specific authors which means that I can finish all authors with surnames starting with a given letter in a short period of time. Let the replacement continue.
10brakketh
Only managed 12 of the 26 in my goal timeframe. I am going to redouble my efforts and hopefully will finish off the remaining 14 in the next couple of months.
11brakketh
Long break but finally starting to finish off a letter or two more. Hoping that I'll be able to get through the remainder over the Australian Summer.
12brakketh
5 left in this alphabet. Hopefully will be able to complete in 2020. Sigrid Undset was a wonderful treat of a discovery.
13brakketh
3 left now, I don't have any of these on my shelves so will be doing some library searching to get copies to finished off.
14brakketh
I still find this a great system to encourage me to vary my reading across the 1001 list. Where I have completed all of a letter I will be replacing with a common letter (B), so without further ado on to...
ALPHABET V
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef - In the Heart of the Seas finished 21 February 2023.
Banville, John - The Untouchable finished 31 March 2023.
Coetzee, John Maxwell - Youth finished 20 February 2023.
Dickens, Charles - Martin Chuzzlewit finished 24 June 2023.
Edgeworth, Maria - Castle Rackrent finished 12 June 2023.
Farrell, J. G. The Singapore Grip finished 16 September 2023.
Gombrowicz, Witold - Ferdydurke finished 18 October 2023.
Hesse, Hermann - The Glass Bead Game finished 24 April 2023.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - An Artist of the Floating World finished 13 April 2023.
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man finished 2 November 2023.
Kundera, Milan - Ignorance finished 11 June 2023.
Leonard, Elmore - City Primeval finished 21 November 2023.
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain finished 27 August 2023.
Naipaul, V. S. - The Enigma of Arrival finished 18 May 2023.
Oates, Joyce Carol - Blonde finished 23 March 2023.
Pynchon, Thomas - Mason and Dixon finished 12 May 2023.
Q (B)rontë, Anne - Agnes Grey finished 6 April 2023.
Réage, Pauline - The Story of O finished 24 December 2023.
Smith, Zadie - White Teeth finished 10 March 2023.
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons finished 5 May 2023.
U (B)rontë, Charlotte - Villette finished 3 June 2023.
Vittorini, Elio - Conversations in Sicily finished 31 December 2023.
Wyndham, John - Chocky finished 15 April 2023.
Xianliang, Zhang - Half of Man is Woman finished 12 March 2023.
Y (B)arbusse, Henri - Inferno finished 5 January 2024.
Zola, Émile - Nana finished finished 25 May 2023.
Challenge 5 January 2024, started February 2023. Focused more on my alphabets in 2023 so happy to have completed another.
ALPHABET V
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef - In the Heart of the Seas finished 21 February 2023.
Banville, John - The Untouchable finished 31 March 2023.
Coetzee, John Maxwell - Youth finished 20 February 2023.
Dickens, Charles - Martin Chuzzlewit finished 24 June 2023.
Edgeworth, Maria - Castle Rackrent finished 12 June 2023.
Farrell, J. G. The Singapore Grip finished 16 September 2023.
Gombrowicz, Witold - Ferdydurke finished 18 October 2023.
Hesse, Hermann - The Glass Bead Game finished 24 April 2023.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - An Artist of the Floating World finished 13 April 2023.
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man finished 2 November 2023.
Kundera, Milan - Ignorance finished 11 June 2023.
Leonard, Elmore - City Primeval finished 21 November 2023.
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain finished 27 August 2023.
Naipaul, V. S. - The Enigma of Arrival finished 18 May 2023.
Oates, Joyce Carol - Blonde finished 23 March 2023.
Pynchon, Thomas - Mason and Dixon finished 12 May 2023.
Q (B)rontë, Anne - Agnes Grey finished 6 April 2023.
Réage, Pauline - The Story of O finished 24 December 2023.
Smith, Zadie - White Teeth finished 10 March 2023.
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons finished 5 May 2023.
U (B)rontë, Charlotte - Villette finished 3 June 2023.
Vittorini, Elio - Conversations in Sicily finished 31 December 2023.
Wyndham, John - Chocky finished 15 April 2023.
Xianliang, Zhang - Half of Man is Woman finished 12 March 2023.
Y (B)arbusse, Henri - Inferno finished 5 January 2024.
Zola, Émile - Nana finished finished 25 May 2023.
Challenge 5 January 2024, started February 2023. Focused more on my alphabets in 2023 so happy to have completed another.
16brakketh
Continuing to enjoy this restriction on the way I'm reading through the 1001 list so on again to alphabet 6. Where I have completed all of a letter I will be replacing with a common letter (B), so without further ado on to...
ALPHABET VI, started 6 January 2024
Ageyev, M - Novel with Cocaine finished 5 February 2024.
Borges, Jorge Luis - Labyrinths finished 9 January 2024.
Cain, James M - The Postman Always Rings Twice finished 7 January 2024.
D'Annunzio, Gabriele - The Child of Pleasure finished 25 January 2024.
Egan, Jennifer - A Visit from the Goon Squad finished 7 January 2024.
Fakinou, Eugenia - Astradeni finished 31 January 2024.
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomovka finished 31 January 2024.
Hesse, Herman - Steppenwolf finished 20 February 2024.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Unconsoled finished 10 February 2024.
Jones, David - In Parenthesis finished 25 March 2024.
Kipling, Rudyard - Kim finished 20 February 2024.
Lermontov, Mikhail - A Hero of Our Time finished 16 January 2024.
Melville, Herman - Billy Budd finished 8 January 2024.
Naipaul, V. S. - In A Free State finished 21 January 2024.
O'Connor, Flannery - Wise Blood finished 12 January 2024.
Pynchon, Thomas - Vineland finished 14 February 2024.
Q (B)ellow, Saul - Humboldt's Gift finished 28 January 2024.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - The Confessions finished 14 June 2024.
Swift, Jonathan - A Tale of the Tub finished 22 March 2024.
Tolstoy, Leo - The Kreutzer Sonata finished 11 January 2024.
U (B)ellow, Saul - Seize the Day finished 10 January 2024.
Valera, Juan - Pepita Jimenez finished 3 April 2024.
Woolf, Virginia - The Years finished 29 February 2024.
X (B)ellow, Saul - The Victim finished 17 February 2024.
Y (B)ellow, Saul - Dangling Man finished 3 February 2024.
Zweig, Stefan - Amok finished 23 April 2024.
Challenge completed 14 June 2024...
ALPHABET VI, started 6 January 2024
Ageyev, M - Novel with Cocaine finished 5 February 2024.
Borges, Jorge Luis - Labyrinths finished 9 January 2024.
Cain, James M - The Postman Always Rings Twice finished 7 January 2024.
D'Annunzio, Gabriele - The Child of Pleasure finished 25 January 2024.
Egan, Jennifer - A Visit from the Goon Squad finished 7 January 2024.
Fakinou, Eugenia - Astradeni finished 31 January 2024.
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomovka finished 31 January 2024.
Hesse, Herman - Steppenwolf finished 20 February 2024.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Unconsoled finished 10 February 2024.
Jones, David - In Parenthesis finished 25 March 2024.
Kipling, Rudyard - Kim finished 20 February 2024.
Lermontov, Mikhail - A Hero of Our Time finished 16 January 2024.
Melville, Herman - Billy Budd finished 8 January 2024.
Naipaul, V. S. - In A Free State finished 21 January 2024.
O'Connor, Flannery - Wise Blood finished 12 January 2024.
Pynchon, Thomas - Vineland finished 14 February 2024.
Q (B)ellow, Saul - Humboldt's Gift finished 28 January 2024.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - The Confessions finished 14 June 2024.
Swift, Jonathan - A Tale of the Tub finished 22 March 2024.
Tolstoy, Leo - The Kreutzer Sonata finished 11 January 2024.
U (B)ellow, Saul - Seize the Day finished 10 January 2024.
Valera, Juan - Pepita Jimenez finished 3 April 2024.
Woolf, Virginia - The Years finished 29 February 2024.
X (B)ellow, Saul - The Victim finished 17 February 2024.
Y (B)ellow, Saul - Dangling Man finished 3 February 2024.
Zweig, Stefan - Amok finished 23 April 2024.
Challenge completed 14 June 2024...
17brakketh
Alphabet 7 of the 1001. I'll keep replacing exhausted letters with B.
ALPHABET VII, started 28 October 2024
Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim finished 14 November 2024.
Burney, Frances - Camilla finished 30 October 2024.
Conrad, Joseph - Lord Jim finished 14 December 2024.
Diderot, Denis - Rameau's Nephew finished 24 November 2024.
Eugenides, Jeffery - The Virgin Suicides finished 12 January 2025.
Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections finished 8 January 2025.
Greene, Graham - The Third Man finished 10 January 2025.
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises finished 7 December 2024.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go finished 26 December 2024.
Johnson, Samuel - Rasselas finished 22 November 2024.
Kafka, Franz - The Castle finished 13 January 2025.
Larsen, Nella - Passing finished 17 January 2025.
Mansfield, Katherine - The Garden Party finished 25 January 2025.
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire finished 11 February 2025.
O'Brien, Edna - The Country Girls finished 6 February 2025.
Perkins Gilman, Charlotte - The Yellow Wallpaper finished 31 January 2025.
Q (B)urney, Frances - Evelina finished 2 November 2024.
Roth, Philip - Nemesis finished 12 February 2025.
Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma finished 15 January 2025.
Trollope, Anthony - Phineas Finn finished 21 January 2025.
U (B)urney, Frances - Cecilia finished 7 November 2024.
Vonnegut, Kurt - God Bless You Mr Rosewater finished 11 February 2025.
Wharton, Edith - The Glimpses of the Moon finished 9 January 2025.
X (B)arbusse, Henri - Under Fire finished 2 December 2024.
Y (B)ronte, Charlotte - Shirley finished 27 November 2024.
Zola, Émile - Drunkard finished 29 January 2025.
Challenge completed 12 February 2025
ALPHABET VII, started 28 October 2024
Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim finished 14 November 2024.
Burney, Frances - Camilla finished 30 October 2024.
Conrad, Joseph - Lord Jim finished 14 December 2024.
Diderot, Denis - Rameau's Nephew finished 24 November 2024.
Eugenides, Jeffery - The Virgin Suicides finished 12 January 2025.
Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections finished 8 January 2025.
Greene, Graham - The Third Man finished 10 January 2025.
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises finished 7 December 2024.
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go finished 26 December 2024.
Johnson, Samuel - Rasselas finished 22 November 2024.
Kafka, Franz - The Castle finished 13 January 2025.
Larsen, Nella - Passing finished 17 January 2025.
Mansfield, Katherine - The Garden Party finished 25 January 2025.
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire finished 11 February 2025.
O'Brien, Edna - The Country Girls finished 6 February 2025.
Perkins Gilman, Charlotte - The Yellow Wallpaper finished 31 January 2025.
Q (B)urney, Frances - Evelina finished 2 November 2024.
Roth, Philip - Nemesis finished 12 February 2025.
Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma finished 15 January 2025.
Trollope, Anthony - Phineas Finn finished 21 January 2025.
U (B)urney, Frances - Cecilia finished 7 November 2024.
Vonnegut, Kurt - God Bless You Mr Rosewater finished 11 February 2025.
Wharton, Edith - The Glimpses of the Moon finished 9 January 2025.
X (B)arbusse, Henri - Under Fire finished 2 December 2024.
Y (B)ronte, Charlotte - Shirley finished 27 November 2024.
Zola, Émile - Drunkard finished 29 January 2025.
Challenge completed 12 February 2025
18brakketh
Alphabet 8 of the 1001. I'll keep replacing exhausted letters with B.
ALPHABET VIII, started 12 February 2025
Apuleius - The Golden Ass finished 4 April 2025.
Brontë, Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall finished 14 February 2025.
Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo finished 14 March 2025.
Dickens, Charles - Nicholas Nickleby finished 12 March 2025.
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss finished 23 February 2025.
Ford, Ford Maddox - Parade’s End finished 3 March 2025.
Gallow, Janice - The Trick is to Keep Breathing finished 19 March 2025.
Hall, Radclyffe - The Well of Loneliness finished 8 March 2025.
Infante, Guillermo Cabrera - Three Trapped Tigers finished 26 February 2025.
Joyce, James - Ulysses finished 26 March 2025
King, Stephen - The Shining finished 28 March 2025.
Lovecraft, H. P. - At the Mountains of Madness finished 13 March 2025.
Morris, William - News from Nowhere finished 21 March 2025.
Nai'an, Shi - The Water Margin finished 7 March 2025
O'Brien, Edna - In the Forest finished 2 April 2025.
Peace, David - 1977 finished 3 April 2025.
Q (B)utler, Samuel - Erewhon finished 15 February 2025.
Rabelais, François - Gargantua and Pantagruel finished 13 February 2025.
Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle finished 21 March 2025.
Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair finished 18 February 2025.
U (B)ennett, Arnold - The Old Wives’ Tale finished 5 March 2025.
Van Eeden, Frederick - The Quest finished 28 February 2025.
Wallace, Lew - Ben-Hur finished 17 March 2025.
X (B)yatt, A. S. - The Children's Book finished 19 March 2025.
Y (B)hen, Aphra - Oroonoko finished 4 April 2025.
Zola, Emile - La Bête Humane finished 1 April 2025.
Challenge completed 4 April 2025
ALPHABET VIII, started 12 February 2025
Apuleius - The Golden Ass finished 4 April 2025.
Brontë, Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall finished 14 February 2025.
Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo finished 14 March 2025.
Dickens, Charles - Nicholas Nickleby finished 12 March 2025.
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss finished 23 February 2025.
Ford, Ford Maddox - Parade’s End finished 3 March 2025.
Gallow, Janice - The Trick is to Keep Breathing finished 19 March 2025.
Hall, Radclyffe - The Well of Loneliness finished 8 March 2025.
Infante, Guillermo Cabrera - Three Trapped Tigers finished 26 February 2025.
Joyce, James - Ulysses finished 26 March 2025
King, Stephen - The Shining finished 28 March 2025.
Lovecraft, H. P. - At the Mountains of Madness finished 13 March 2025.
Morris, William - News from Nowhere finished 21 March 2025.
Nai'an, Shi - The Water Margin finished 7 March 2025
O'Brien, Edna - In the Forest finished 2 April 2025.
Peace, David - 1977 finished 3 April 2025.
Q (B)utler, Samuel - Erewhon finished 15 February 2025.
Rabelais, François - Gargantua and Pantagruel finished 13 February 2025.
Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle finished 21 March 2025.
Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair finished 18 February 2025.
U (B)ennett, Arnold - The Old Wives’ Tale finished 5 March 2025.
Van Eeden, Frederick - The Quest finished 28 February 2025.
Wallace, Lew - Ben-Hur finished 17 March 2025.
X (B)yatt, A. S. - The Children's Book finished 19 March 2025.
Y (B)hen, Aphra - Oroonoko finished 4 April 2025.
Zola, Emile - La Bête Humane finished 1 April 2025.
Challenge completed 4 April 2025
19brakketh
Alphabet 9 of the 1001. I'll keep replacing exhausted letters with B.
ALPHABET IX, started 4 April 2025
Anonymous - The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter finished 20 July 2025.
Beckford, William - Vathek finished 19 April 2025.
Carey, Peter - Jack Maggs finished 6 May 2025.
Defoe, Daniel - Roxana finished 28 September 2025.
Edgeworth, Maria - Ormond finished 8 September 2025.
Forster, E. M. - A Passage to India finished 7 July 2025.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - The Sorrows of Young Werther finished 20 April 2025.
Hamsun, Knut - Hunger finished 9 September 2025.
Isherwood, Christopher - Berlin Stories finished 10 July 2025.
Johnson, B. A. - House Mother Normal finished 12 October 2025.
Kingsley, Charles - The Water Babies finished 23 September 2025.
Lewis, Matthew - The Monk finished 22 September 2025.
McEwan, Ian - Saturday finished 11 April 2025.
Naipaul, V. S. - A bend in the River finished 30 July 2025.
O'Connor, Flannery - Everything That Rises Must Converge finished 19 September 2025.
Paton, Alan - Cry, the Beloved Country finished 21 July 2025.
Q (B)unyan, John - The Pilgrim's Progress finished 20 April 2025.
Richardson, Samuel - Clarissa Harlowe finished 17 April 2025.
Sterne, Laurence - A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy finished 21 July 2025.
Trollope, Anthony - The Last Chronicle of Barset finished 12 August 2025.
U (B)utler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh finished 22 April 2025.
Von Kleist, Heinrich - Michael Kohlhaas finished 19 September 2025.
White, Patrick - The Living and the Dead finished 17 May 2025.
X (B)urroughs, William - Junky finished 9 August 2025.
Y (B)yatt, A. S. - Possession finished 12 September 2025.
Zweig, Stefan - The Royal Game finished 24 August 2025.
This finishes off the last of the I's too.
Challenge completed 12 October 2025
ALPHABET IX, started 4 April 2025
Anonymous - The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter finished 20 July 2025.
Beckford, William - Vathek finished 19 April 2025.
Carey, Peter - Jack Maggs finished 6 May 2025.
Defoe, Daniel - Roxana finished 28 September 2025.
Edgeworth, Maria - Ormond finished 8 September 2025.
Forster, E. M. - A Passage to India finished 7 July 2025.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - The Sorrows of Young Werther finished 20 April 2025.
Hamsun, Knut - Hunger finished 9 September 2025.
Isherwood, Christopher - Berlin Stories finished 10 July 2025.
Johnson, B. A. - House Mother Normal finished 12 October 2025.
Kingsley, Charles - The Water Babies finished 23 September 2025.
Lewis, Matthew - The Monk finished 22 September 2025.
McEwan, Ian - Saturday finished 11 April 2025.
Naipaul, V. S. - A bend in the River finished 30 July 2025.
O'Connor, Flannery - Everything That Rises Must Converge finished 19 September 2025.
Paton, Alan - Cry, the Beloved Country finished 21 July 2025.
Q (B)unyan, John - The Pilgrim's Progress finished 20 April 2025.
Richardson, Samuel - Clarissa Harlowe finished 17 April 2025.
Sterne, Laurence - A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy finished 21 July 2025.
Trollope, Anthony - The Last Chronicle of Barset finished 12 August 2025.
U (B)utler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh finished 22 April 2025.
Von Kleist, Heinrich - Michael Kohlhaas finished 19 September 2025.
White, Patrick - The Living and the Dead finished 17 May 2025.
X (B)urroughs, William - Junky finished 9 August 2025.
Y (B)yatt, A. S. - Possession finished 12 September 2025.
Zweig, Stefan - The Royal Game finished 24 August 2025.
This finishes off the last of the I's too.
Challenge completed 12 October 2025
20brakketh
Alphabet 10 of the 1001. Most unread is now letter S so will replace exhausted letters with S-authors.
ALPHABET X, started 13 October 2025
Azuela, Mariano - The Underdogs finished 22 October 2025.
Burroughs, William - The Wild Boys finished 14 December 2025.
Conrad, Joseph - The Shadow Line finished 12 November 2025.
Defoe, Daniel - The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders finished 2 November 2025.
Elliot, George - Adam Bede finished 13 October 2025.
Fielding, Henry - Joseph Andrews finished 18 October 2025.
Godwin, William - Caleb Williams finished 26 October 2025.
Hammett, Dashiell - Red Harvest finished 12 November 2025.
I (S)mollett, Tobias - The Adventures of Roderick Random finished 24 October 2025.
Jansson, Tove - The Summer Book finished 13 November 2025.
Kelman, James - The Busconductor Hines finished 20 November 2025.
Lennox, Charlotte - The Female Quixote finished 23 October 2025.
Maturin, Charles - Melmoth the Wanderer finished 16 November 2025.
Nashe, Thomas - The Unfortunate Traveller finished 18 November 2025.
Oz, Amos - A Tale of Love and Darkness finished 29 November 2025.
Pater, Walter - Marius the Epicurean finished 21 November 2025.
Q (S)trindberg, August - The Red Room finished 14 November 2025.
Richardson, Samuel - Pamela finished 21 October 2025.
Shibuku, Murasaki - The Tale of Genji finished 4 November 2025.
Turgenev, Ivan - On the Eve finished 14 October 2025.
U (S)mollett, Tobias - The Adventures of Peregrin Pickle finished 5 December 2025.
Varga, Giovanni - The House by the Medlar Tree finished 26 October 2025.
Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome finished 29 October 2025.
X (S)mollett, Tobias - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker finished 31 October 2025.
Y (S)terne, Laurence - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy finished 29 October 2025.
Zweig, Arnold - The Case of Sergeant Grischa finished 17 December 2025.
This finishes off the last of the English language Z's.
Challenge completed 17 December 2025. Onwards!
ALPHABET X, started 13 October 2025
Azuela, Mariano - The Underdogs finished 22 October 2025.
Burroughs, William - The Wild Boys finished 14 December 2025.
Conrad, Joseph - The Shadow Line finished 12 November 2025.
Defoe, Daniel - The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders finished 2 November 2025.
Elliot, George - Adam Bede finished 13 October 2025.
Fielding, Henry - Joseph Andrews finished 18 October 2025.
Godwin, William - Caleb Williams finished 26 October 2025.
Hammett, Dashiell - Red Harvest finished 12 November 2025.
I (S)mollett, Tobias - The Adventures of Roderick Random finished 24 October 2025.
Jansson, Tove - The Summer Book finished 13 November 2025.
Kelman, James - The Busconductor Hines finished 20 November 2025.
Lennox, Charlotte - The Female Quixote finished 23 October 2025.
Maturin, Charles - Melmoth the Wanderer finished 16 November 2025.
Nashe, Thomas - The Unfortunate Traveller finished 18 November 2025.
Oz, Amos - A Tale of Love and Darkness finished 29 November 2025.
Pater, Walter - Marius the Epicurean finished 21 November 2025.
Q (S)trindberg, August - The Red Room finished 14 November 2025.
Richardson, Samuel - Pamela finished 21 October 2025.
Shibuku, Murasaki - The Tale of Genji finished 4 November 2025.
Turgenev, Ivan - On the Eve finished 14 October 2025.
U (S)mollett, Tobias - The Adventures of Peregrin Pickle finished 5 December 2025.
Varga, Giovanni - The House by the Medlar Tree finished 26 October 2025.
Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome finished 29 October 2025.
X (S)mollett, Tobias - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker finished 31 October 2025.
Y (S)terne, Laurence - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy finished 29 October 2025.
Zweig, Arnold - The Case of Sergeant Grischa finished 17 December 2025.
This finishes off the last of the English language Z's.
Challenge completed 17 December 2025. Onwards!
21brakketh
Alphabet 11 of the 1001. I'll continue replacing with S's as one of the most incomplete author surname letters.
ALPHABET XI, started 18 December 2025
Allain, Marcel & Souvestre, Pierre - Fantômas finished 7 January 2026.
Bazan, Emilia Pardo - The Manors of Ulloa finished 9 January 2026.
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans finished 20 January 2026.
De Camoes, Luiz vaz - The Lusiads finished 4 January 2026.
Equiano, Olaudah - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano finished 23 December 2025.
Fielding, Henry - Amelia finished 26 December 2025.
Goldsmith, Oliver - The Vicar of Wakefield finished 23 December 2025.
Hamsun, Knut - Growth of the Soil finished 7 January 2026.
I (S)cott, Walter - Ivanhoe finished 29 December 2025.
Jimenez, Juan Ramon - Platero and I finished 28 December 2025.
Kadare, Ismail - Broken April finished 1 February 2026.
Lagerlof, Selma - The Story of Gosta Berling finished 26 January 2026.
McEwan, Ian - Atonement finished 2 January 2026.
Némirovsky, Irène - Suite Française finished 31 January 2026.
Orwell, George - Coming Up for Air finished 23 January 2026.
Pushkin, Alexander - Eugene Oneguine finished 20 January 2026.
Q (S)cott, Walter - The Monastery finished 15 January 2026.
Ryūnosuke, Akutagawa - Rashōmon finished 19 December 2025.
Sinclair, May - Life and Death of Harriett Frean finished 5 January 2026.
Turgenev, Ivan - The Torrents of Spring finished 22 December 2025.
U (S)tendhal - The Red and the Black finished 25 January 2026.
von Goethe, Johann - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship finished 12 January 2026.
Wharton, Edith - Summer finished 9 January 2026.
X (S)tein, Gertrude - Three Lives finished 31 December 2025.
Y (S)and, George - The Devil's Pool finished 1 February 2026.
Z (S)ienkiewicz, Henryk - Quo Vadis finished 30 January 2026.
Challenge completed 1 February 2026.
ALPHABET XI, started 18 December 2025
Allain, Marcel & Souvestre, Pierre - Fantômas finished 7 January 2026.
Bazan, Emilia Pardo - The Manors of Ulloa finished 9 January 2026.
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans finished 20 January 2026.
De Camoes, Luiz vaz - The Lusiads finished 4 January 2026.
Equiano, Olaudah - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano finished 23 December 2025.
Fielding, Henry - Amelia finished 26 December 2025.
Goldsmith, Oliver - The Vicar of Wakefield finished 23 December 2025.
Hamsun, Knut - Growth of the Soil finished 7 January 2026.
I (S)cott, Walter - Ivanhoe finished 29 December 2025.
Jimenez, Juan Ramon - Platero and I finished 28 December 2025.
Kadare, Ismail - Broken April finished 1 February 2026.
Lagerlof, Selma - The Story of Gosta Berling finished 26 January 2026.
McEwan, Ian - Atonement finished 2 January 2026.
Némirovsky, Irène - Suite Française finished 31 January 2026.
Orwell, George - Coming Up for Air finished 23 January 2026.
Pushkin, Alexander - Eugene Oneguine finished 20 January 2026.
Q (S)cott, Walter - The Monastery finished 15 January 2026.
Ryūnosuke, Akutagawa - Rashōmon finished 19 December 2025.
Sinclair, May - Life and Death of Harriett Frean finished 5 January 2026.
Turgenev, Ivan - The Torrents of Spring finished 22 December 2025.
U (S)tendhal - The Red and the Black finished 25 January 2026.
von Goethe, Johann - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship finished 12 January 2026.
Wharton, Edith - Summer finished 9 January 2026.
X (S)tein, Gertrude - Three Lives finished 31 December 2025.
Y (S)and, George - The Devil's Pool finished 1 February 2026.
Z (S)ienkiewicz, Henryk - Quo Vadis finished 30 January 2026.
Challenge completed 1 February 2026.
22brakketh
Alphabet 12 of the 1001. Replacing with T's this time as I have a few to get through and have easy access.
ALPHABET XII, started 2 February 2026.
Atxaga, Bernando - Obabakoak finished 21 March 2026.
Ba, Mariama - So Long a Letter finished 5 March 2026.
Cleland, John - Fanny Hill finished 14 March 2026.
De Lobeira, Vasco - Amadis of Gaul finished 13 March 2026.
Edgeworth, Maria - The Absentee finished 20 March 2026.
Flaubert, Gustave - The Temptation of St Anthony finished 7 February 2026.
Gordimer, Nadine - Burger's Daughter finished 8 March 2026.
Hodgson, William Hope - The House on the Borderland finished 3 February 2026.
I (T)rollope, Anthony - Caste Richmond finished 17 March 2026.
Jelinek, Elfriede - The Piano Teacher finished 14 February 2026.
Kawabata, Yasunari - Thousand Cranes finished 3 February 2026.
Larsen, Nella - Quicksand finished 13 March 2026.
Mackenzie, Henry - The Man of Feeling finished 15 February 2026.
Narayan, R. K. - The Guide finished 23 March 2026.
O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried finished 6 March 2026.
Pagnol, Marcel - Manon des Sources finished 3 March 2026.
Q (T)rollope, Anthony - He Knew He Was Right finished 22 March 2026.
Roth, Philip - American Pastoral finished 28 March 2026.
Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans finished 15 February 2026.
Tagore, Rabindranath - The Home and the World finished 18 March 2026.
U (T)urgenev, Ivan - A Lear of the Steppes finished 17 February 2026.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang - Elective Affinities finished 16 March 2026.
Wharton, Edith - Bunner Sisters finished 6 February 2026.
X (T)urgenev, Ivan - Virgin Soil finished 26 March 2026.
Y (T)ressell, Robert - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists finished 25 March 2026.
Z (T)olstoy, Leo - The Death of Ivan Ilyitch finished 26 March 2026.
Challenge completed 28 March 2026.
ALPHABET XII, started 2 February 2026.
Atxaga, Bernando - Obabakoak finished 21 March 2026.
Ba, Mariama - So Long a Letter finished 5 March 2026.
Cleland, John - Fanny Hill finished 14 March 2026.
De Lobeira, Vasco - Amadis of Gaul finished 13 March 2026.
Edgeworth, Maria - The Absentee finished 20 March 2026.
Flaubert, Gustave - The Temptation of St Anthony finished 7 February 2026.
Gordimer, Nadine - Burger's Daughter finished 8 March 2026.
Hodgson, William Hope - The House on the Borderland finished 3 February 2026.
I (T)rollope, Anthony - Caste Richmond finished 17 March 2026.
Jelinek, Elfriede - The Piano Teacher finished 14 February 2026.
Kawabata, Yasunari - Thousand Cranes finished 3 February 2026.
Larsen, Nella - Quicksand finished 13 March 2026.
Mackenzie, Henry - The Man of Feeling finished 15 February 2026.
Narayan, R. K. - The Guide finished 23 March 2026.
O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried finished 6 March 2026.
Pagnol, Marcel - Manon des Sources finished 3 March 2026.
Q (T)rollope, Anthony - He Knew He Was Right finished 22 March 2026.
Roth, Philip - American Pastoral finished 28 March 2026.
Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans finished 15 February 2026.
Tagore, Rabindranath - The Home and the World finished 18 March 2026.
U (T)urgenev, Ivan - A Lear of the Steppes finished 17 February 2026.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang - Elective Affinities finished 16 March 2026.
Wharton, Edith - Bunner Sisters finished 6 February 2026.
X (T)urgenev, Ivan - Virgin Soil finished 26 March 2026.
Y (T)ressell, Robert - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists finished 25 March 2026.
Z (T)olstoy, Leo - The Death of Ivan Ilyitch finished 26 March 2026.
Challenge completed 28 March 2026.
23brakketh
Just realised that I should have celebrated 10 years of alphabet-ting! Still finding it a fun way to vary my reading while helping with my love of completion.
24AnnieMod
>23 brakketh: Congrats! :)
25brakketh
Alphabet 13 of the 1001. Replacing with D's this time as I have a few to get through and have easy access.
ALPHABET XIII, started 28 March 2026.
Ammaniti, Niccolo - I'm Not Scared finished 15 April 2026.
Banks, Iain - The Player of Games finished 21 April 2026.
Cunningham, Michael - A Home at the End of the World finished 9 April 2026.
De Balzac, Honoré - Eugénie Grandet finished 21 April 2026.
Ellroy, James - The Black Dahlia finished 14 April 2026.
Frisch, Max - I'm Not Stiller finished 6 April 2026.
Gardonyi, Geza - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon finished 5 April 2026.
Huxley, Aldous - Antic Hay finished 23 April 2026.
I (D)e Balzac, Honoré - Father Goriot finished 24 April 2026.
Junger, Ernst - The Glass Bees finished 28 April 2026.
Kehlmann, Daniel - Measuring the World finished 1 May 2026.
Lewycka, Marina - A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine finished 24 April 2026.
Mauriac, Francois - Viper's Tangle finished 29 March 2026.
Novalis - Henry of Ofterdingen finished 25 April 2026.
O'Brien, Flann - At Swim Two Birds finished 9 May 2026.
Pessoa, Fernando - The Book of Disquiet finished 4 May 2026.
Q (D)os Passos, John - Manhattan Transfer finished 4 May 2026.
Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea finished 12 May 2026
Sagan, Carl - Contact finished 12 April 2026.
Tóibín, Colm - The Heather Blazing finished 14 April 2026.
U (D)octorow, E. L. - City of God finished 3 May 2026.
von Eichendorff, Joseph - From the Life of a Good-for-nothing finished 24 April 2026.
Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest finished 30 April 2026.
X (D)reiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie finished 18 April 2026.
Y (D)e Balzac, Honoré - Lost Illusions finished 8 May 2026.
Z (D)iaz, Junot - The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao finished 20 April 2026.
Challenge completed 12 May 2026.
ALPHABET XIII, started 28 March 2026.
Ammaniti, Niccolo - I'm Not Scared finished 15 April 2026.
Banks, Iain - The Player of Games finished 21 April 2026.
Cunningham, Michael - A Home at the End of the World finished 9 April 2026.
De Balzac, Honoré - Eugénie Grandet finished 21 April 2026.
Ellroy, James - The Black Dahlia finished 14 April 2026.
Frisch, Max - I'm Not Stiller finished 6 April 2026.
Gardonyi, Geza - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon finished 5 April 2026.
Huxley, Aldous - Antic Hay finished 23 April 2026.
I (D)e Balzac, Honoré - Father Goriot finished 24 April 2026.
Junger, Ernst - The Glass Bees finished 28 April 2026.
Kehlmann, Daniel - Measuring the World finished 1 May 2026.
Lewycka, Marina - A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine finished 24 April 2026.
Mauriac, Francois - Viper's Tangle finished 29 March 2026.
Novalis - Henry of Ofterdingen finished 25 April 2026.
O'Brien, Flann - At Swim Two Birds finished 9 May 2026.
Pessoa, Fernando - The Book of Disquiet finished 4 May 2026.
Q (D)os Passos, John - Manhattan Transfer finished 4 May 2026.
Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea finished 12 May 2026
Sagan, Carl - Contact finished 12 April 2026.
Tóibín, Colm - The Heather Blazing finished 14 April 2026.
U (D)octorow, E. L. - City of God finished 3 May 2026.
von Eichendorff, Joseph - From the Life of a Good-for-nothing finished 24 April 2026.
Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest finished 30 April 2026.
X (D)reiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie finished 18 April 2026.
Y (D)e Balzac, Honoré - Lost Illusions finished 8 May 2026.
Z (D)iaz, Junot - The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao finished 20 April 2026.
Challenge completed 12 May 2026.
26brakketh
Exciting times, getting into alphabet 14!
ALPHABET XIV, started 13 May 2026.
Ambler, Eric - Cause for Alarm finished 24 May 2026.
Baricco, Alessandro - Silk finished 1 June 2026.
Cather, Willa - The Professor's House finished 5 June 2026.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot finished 9 June 2026.
Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Marriage Plot finished 25 May 2026.
Flaubert, Gustave - Sentimental Education finished 2 June 2026.
Gissing, George - New Grub Street finished 29 May 2026.
Hollinghurst, Alan - The Swimming-Pool Library finished 18 May 2026.
I (M)eyer, Philipp - American Rust finished 24 May 2026.
Jung, Erica - Fear of Flying finished 16 May 2026.
Kotzwinkle, William - The Fan Man finished 14 June 2026.
Le Fanu, Joseph - Uncle Silas finished 17 June 026.
Mitford, Nancy - The Pursuit of Love finished 5 June 2026.
Nooteboom, Cees - All Souls' Day finished 31 May 2026.
O'Brien, Edna - Girl With Green Eyes finished 4 June 2026.
Proulx, Annie - The Shipping News finished 12 June 2026.
Q (M)augham, W. Somerset - Cakes and Ale finished 3 June 2026.
Rilke, Rainer Maria - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge finished 26 May 2026.
Stead, Christina - The Man Who Loved Children finished 30 May 2026.
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace finished 23 May 2026.
U (M)oore, Lorrie - A Gate at the Stairs finished 29 May 2026.
Vallejo, Fernando - Our Lady of the Assassins finished 7 June 2026.
West, Rebecca - The Return of the Soldier finished 30 May 2026.
X (M)acInnes, Colin - Absolute Beginners finished 15 May 2026.
Y (M)atesis, Pavlos - The Daughter finished 18 May 2026.
Z (M)cEwan, Ian - Amsterdam finished 20 May 2026.
Challenge completed 17 June 2026.
ALPHABET XIV, started 13 May 2026.
Ambler, Eric - Cause for Alarm finished 24 May 2026.
Baricco, Alessandro - Silk finished 1 June 2026.
Cather, Willa - The Professor's House finished 5 June 2026.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot finished 9 June 2026.
Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Marriage Plot finished 25 May 2026.
Flaubert, Gustave - Sentimental Education finished 2 June 2026.
Gissing, George - New Grub Street finished 29 May 2026.
Hollinghurst, Alan - The Swimming-Pool Library finished 18 May 2026.
I (M)eyer, Philipp - American Rust finished 24 May 2026.
Jung, Erica - Fear of Flying finished 16 May 2026.
Kotzwinkle, William - The Fan Man finished 14 June 2026.
Le Fanu, Joseph - Uncle Silas finished 17 June 026.
Mitford, Nancy - The Pursuit of Love finished 5 June 2026.
Nooteboom, Cees - All Souls' Day finished 31 May 2026.
O'Brien, Edna - Girl With Green Eyes finished 4 June 2026.
Proulx, Annie - The Shipping News finished 12 June 2026.
Q (M)augham, W. Somerset - Cakes and Ale finished 3 June 2026.
Rilke, Rainer Maria - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge finished 26 May 2026.
Stead, Christina - The Man Who Loved Children finished 30 May 2026.
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace finished 23 May 2026.
U (M)oore, Lorrie - A Gate at the Stairs finished 29 May 2026.
Vallejo, Fernando - Our Lady of the Assassins finished 7 June 2026.
West, Rebecca - The Return of the Soldier finished 30 May 2026.
X (M)acInnes, Colin - Absolute Beginners finished 15 May 2026.
Y (M)atesis, Pavlos - The Daughter finished 18 May 2026.
Z (M)cEwan, Ian - Amsterdam finished 20 May 2026.
Challenge completed 17 June 2026.
27brakketh
And we keep on rolling, alphabet 15!
ALPHABET XV, started 17 June 2026.
Ackroyd, Peter - The Lambs of London finished 17 July 2026.
Bowen, Elizabeth - The Heat of the Day
Chang, Jung - Wild Swans finished 27 June 2026.
DeLillo, Don - The Body Artist finished 26 June 2026.
Enright, Anne - The Gathering
Faber, Michel - Under the Skin finished 12 July 2026.
Gogol, Nikolai - Dead Souls finished 19 July 2026.
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 finished 21 July 2026.
I (M)anzoni, Alessandro - The Betrothed finished 5 July 2026.
Jie, Zhang - Leaden Wings
Kertesz, Imre - Fateless finished 25 June 2026.
Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street finished 12 July 2026.
Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas finished 16 July 2026.
Nooteboom, Cees - Rituals
Ōe, Kenzaburō - Nip the buds, shoot the kids
Palmen, Connie - The Laws finished 19 June 2026.
Q (M)ann, Thomas - Buddenbrooks finished 10 July 2026.
Rushdie, Salman - The Moor's Last Sigh
Stephens, James - The Charwoman's Daughter finished 15 July 2026.
Tartt, Donna - The Secret History finished 19 June 2026.
U (M)ultatuli - Max Havelaar finished 18 July 2026.
Vian, Boris - Froth on the Daydream finished 2 July 2026.
Woolf, Virginia - Night and Day finished 17 July 2026.
X (M)aupassant, Guy de - Bel Ami
Y (M)urdoch, Iris - The Sea, The Sea finished 10 July 2026.
Z (M)aupassant, Guy de - Pierre & Jean finished 28 June 2026.
ALPHABET XV, started 17 June 2026.
Ackroyd, Peter - The Lambs of London finished 17 July 2026.
Bowen, Elizabeth - The Heat of the Day
Chang, Jung - Wild Swans finished 27 June 2026.
DeLillo, Don - The Body Artist finished 26 June 2026.
Enright, Anne - The Gathering
Faber, Michel - Under the Skin finished 12 July 2026.
Gogol, Nikolai - Dead Souls finished 19 July 2026.
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 finished 21 July 2026.
I (M)anzoni, Alessandro - The Betrothed finished 5 July 2026.
Jie, Zhang - Leaden Wings
Kertesz, Imre - Fateless finished 25 June 2026.
Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street finished 12 July 2026.
Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas finished 16 July 2026.
Nooteboom, Cees - Rituals
Ōe, Kenzaburō - Nip the buds, shoot the kids
Palmen, Connie - The Laws finished 19 June 2026.
Q (M)ann, Thomas - Buddenbrooks finished 10 July 2026.
Rushdie, Salman - The Moor's Last Sigh
Stephens, James - The Charwoman's Daughter finished 15 July 2026.
Tartt, Donna - The Secret History finished 19 June 2026.
U (M)ultatuli - Max Havelaar finished 18 July 2026.
Vian, Boris - Froth on the Daydream finished 2 July 2026.
Woolf, Virginia - Night and Day finished 17 July 2026.
X (M)aupassant, Guy de - Bel Ami
Y (M)urdoch, Iris - The Sea, The Sea finished 10 July 2026.
Z (M)aupassant, Guy de - Pierre & Jean finished 28 June 2026.
