Missing: I, Q, U, X, Y
Potential – Erin’s challenge
Another 2017 bookish challenge. This one runs on Goodreads from 1/1/17 to 12/31/17
Goal
Going from A – Z, and using authors’ first or last names, read the alphabet. For “X” and “Z” you may use authors with those hard to find letters in their names. Unless, of course, you’re a ‘purist.’
Yes, you may use an author twice, once with their first name, and again with their last.
Runwright’s Note: I’ll be using their surnames to complete the challenge
A. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / The Thing Around Your Neck or Sarah Andersen / Adulthood Is A Myth 109 pages 4 stars completed 2/6/17
B. Dishka Basu / The Windfall completed 8/26/17
C. Open City /Teju Cole
D. Nicole Dennis-Benn / Here Comes The Sun 349 pages 4 stars completed 2/20/17
E. Mariana Enriquez /Things We Lost In The Fire Stories 208 pages 4 stars completed 3/5/17
F. Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 326 pages 5 stars completed 1/21/17
G. Seth Godin /Purple Cow 210 pages 4 stars completed 3/11/17
H. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time /Mark Haddon 226 pages completed 7/16/17 4 stars
I. Kazuo Ishiguro
J. Howard Jacobson / Shylock Is My Name 288 pages 4.5 stars completed 1/7/16
K. Jamaica Kincaid /Annie John
L. Philip Lewis /The Barrowfields
M. Christopher McDougall /Born To Run
N. The Time Traveller’s Wife /Audrey Niffenegger
O. Helen Oyeyemi/ What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 4 stars 325 pages completed 2/24/17
P. – Jodi Picoult /Small Great Things 4 stars 458 pages completed 6/24/17
Q. Matthew Quick?
R. Amy Rivers /Best Laid Plans & Other Disasters / 3 stars 224 pages completed 2/27/17
S. Elizabeth Strout /Olive Kitteridge or Robin Sloan /Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hr Bookstore 4 stars 288 pages completed 3/24/17
T. Colm Toibin / The Testament of Mary 2 stars 81 pages completed 3/18/17
U. John Updike?
V. Lara Vapnyar /Still Here 4 stars 329 pages completed 8/17/17
W. Colson Whitehead / The Colossus of New York 158 pages 4 stars completed 1/27/17
X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y. – (in a pinch could use Homegoing /Yaa Gyasi 300 pages 5 stars completed 5/12/17) Jane Yolen
Z. Markus Zusak /The Book Thief 552 pages 4 stars completed 4/13/17