How is it May already? The months are really flying by.
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 E or a Q.
Here are just a few suggestions for each letter, Q will be a bit trickier!
Ben Elton, Jenny Eclair, Esi Edugyan, Anne Enright, Barbara Erskine, Gavin Extence, Brett Easton Ellis, George Eliot, Dave Eggers.
Anna Quindlen, Matthew Quick, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Ellery Queen, Julia Quinn, Amanda Quick.
HARD – MONTHLY CATEGORY CHALLENGE
Read a book published between 1940 and 1949.
Here are a few suggestions from the members of The Cwts Club Discussion Group.
Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne Du Maurier
1984 – George Orwell
Sparkling Cyanide – Agatha Christie
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren
The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
The Loved One – Evelyn Waugh
There are even more suggestions in our blogs
The Bestselling Fiction of the Last One Hundred Years: 1940
The Bestselling Fiction of the Last One Hundred Years: 1949
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 E or a Q (or both) and read a book published between 1940 and 1949.
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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