The longest month is finally at an end, we hope you’ve managed to use the time to read lots of books and are looking forward to February.
Once again this year we have decided on an inclusive challenge with the three options, Easy, Hard, and Super Reader but this year’s monthly category will be “Read Through the Decades” and the alphabetical part will be by author’s name. Hopefully, this will mean that everyone can join in, whether you read one book a month or three or more!
February’s categories are:-
EASY – ALPHABETICAL CHALLENGE
Read a book by an author whose name begins with a B or an N.
Here are just a few suggestions for each letter, obviously, there are lots more:
Bill Bryson, William Boyd, Fredrik Backman, The Brontes, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Pearl S Buck, Octavia E Butler, Judy Blume.
Jo Nesbo, Celeste Ng, Audrey Niffenegger, V.S. Naipaul, E Nesbitt, Jenny Nimmo, Patrick Ness, David Nicholls, Claire North.
HARD – MONTHLY CATEGORY CHALLENGE
Read a book published between 1910 and 1919.
Here are a few suggestions from the members of The Cwts Club Discussion Group.
Anne of the Island – L. M Montgomery
The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
The Magnificent Ambersons – Booth Tarkington
Howards End – E.M. Forster
There are even more suggestions in our blogs
The Bestselling Fiction of the Last One Hundred Years: 1918
The Bestselling Fiction of the Last One Hundred Years: 1919
SUPER READER – READ HARDER CHALLENGE
Read a book by an author whose name begins with a B or an N (or both) and read a book published between 1910 and 1919.
As in all our previous challenges, pick a book from our list, pop along to your local book shop or library, order something online or pick up something that’s already in your TBR pile.
Don’t forget to share what you are reading in our Cwts Club Discussion Group.
Happy reading in 2022!
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