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For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2022 – June

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!

May’s categories are:-

EASY – ALPHABETICAL CHALLENGE

Read a book by an author whose name begins with an F or an R.

Here are just a few suggestions for each letter, obviously, there are lots more:

Stephen Fry, Lucy Foley, F Scott Fitzgerald, Sebastian Faulks, Carrie Fisher, Helen Fielding, Fannie Flagg, Gillian Flynn, Jonathan Franzen, Tana French.

Sally Rooney, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Kathy Reichs, Lynda Renham, Monique Roffey, Jon Ronson, Tatiana de Rosnay, Arther Ransome.

HARD – MONTHLY CATEGORY CHALLENGE

Read a book published between 1950 and 1959.

Here are a few suggestions from the members of The Cwts Club Discussion Group.

The Best of Dorothy Parker – Dorothy Parker

Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier

The Borrowers – Mary Norton

Three Blind Mice – Agatha Christie

There are even more suggestions in our blogs

The Bestselling Fiction of the Last One Hundred Years: 1950

The Bestselling Fiction of the Last One Hundred Years: 1959

There are also blogs for all the intervening years just use the search function on the website and put in the year you require.

SUPER READER – READ HARDER CHALLENGE

Read a book by an author whose name begins with an F or an R (or both) and read a book published between 1950 and 1959.

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.



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  • Susan says:

    Thanks for the 1950’s list. The Borrowers is a book I’ve always wanted to read, but don’t always think of when I’m hitting the stacks at the Kindle store. No more; I just bought it. Now it’s a quest for Author F/R.

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