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For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2022 – September

By August 31, 2022News

Once again this year we have decided on an inclusive challenge with 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!

September’s categories are:-

EASY – ALPHABETICAL CHALLENGE

Read a book by an author whose name begins with an I or a U. Slightly more unusual letters for this month!

Here are just a few suggestions for each letter.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Naomi Ishiguro, Christopher Isherwood, Laila Ibrahim, Eowyn Ivey, Eva Ibbotson, John Irving.

Barry Udall, John Updike, Lisa Unger, Jean Ure, Jane Urquart, Barry Unsworth, Jennifer Uglow, Lisa Unger.

 

HARD – MONTHLY CATEGORY CHALLENGE

Read a book published between 1980 and 1989.

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

Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy

Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris

Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Light a Penny Candle – Maeve Binchy

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule

The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler

Gorky Park – Martin Cruz Smith

There are even more suggestions in our blogs

The Bestselling Fiction of the Last One Hundred Years: 1980

The Bestselling Fiction of the Last One Hundred Years: 1989

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 I or a U (or both) and read a book published between 1980 and 1989.

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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