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For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2022 – May

By April 29, 2022News

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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