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Aubrey/Maturin 4 Year Chapter-a-Week Read-along Odyssey – Year Two – Hosted by yours truly
- Desolation Island, chapters 6-10 by Patrick O’Brian (January 2-30) – January 30, 2022
- The Fortune of War by Patrick O’Brian (February 6-April 3) – April 3, 2022
- The Surgeon’s Mate by Patrick O’Brian (April 10-June 19) – June 19, 2022
- The Ionian Mission by Patrick O’Brian (June 26-September 4) – September 4, 2022
- Treason’s Harbor by Patrick O’Brian (September 11-November 13) – November 13, 2022
- The Far Side of the World, chapters 1-6 by Patrick O’Brian (November 20-December 25) – December 25, 2022
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2022 Musketeer Chapter-a-Day Read-along – Hosted by yours truly
Oxford World Classics Edition Schedule
- Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (January 1 to April 7) – April 7, 2022
- The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas (April 8 to December 31)
- Part I: The Vicomte de Bragelonne (April 8 to July 8) – July 8, 2022
- Part II: Louise de la Vallière (July 9 to October 2) – October 2, 2022
- Part III: The Man in the Iron Mask (October 3 to December 31) – December 31, 2022
Alternate Public Domain Edition Schedule
- Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (January 1 to April 7)
- The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas (April 8 to December 31)
- Part I: The Vicomte de Bragelonne (April 8 to June 21)
- Part II: Ten Years Later (June 22 to August 25)
- Part III: Louise de la Vallière (August 26 to October 31)
- Part IV: The Man in the Iron Mask (November 1 to December 31)
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European Reading Challenge (Aiming for Five Star Deluxe Entourage Level, 5 books) – Hosted by Gilion at Rose City Reader
European Countries:
- France: Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas – April 7, 2022
- United Kingdom: The Fortune of War by Patrick O’Brian – April 3, 2022
- Austria: Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl – May 14, 2022
- Greece: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare – July 22, 2022
- Malta: Treason’s Harbor by Patrick O’Brian – November 13, 2022
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Historical Fiction Reading Challenge (Aiming for Renaissance Reader Level, 10 books) – Hosted by Marg at The Intrepid Reader
- Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas – April 7, 2022
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas – July 8, 2022
- Louise de la Vallière by Alexandre Dumas – October 2, 2022
- The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas – December 31,2022
- Desolation Island by Patrick O’Brian – January 30, 2022
- The Fortune of War by Patrick O’Brian – April 3, 2022
- The Surgeon’s Mate by Patrick O’Brian – June 19, 2022
- The Ionian Mission by Patrick O’Brian – September 4, 2022
- Treason’s Harbor by Patrick O’Brian – November 13, 2022
- TBD
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Mount TBR Reading Challenge (Aiming for Mount Blanc, 24 books) – Hosted by Bev at My Reader’s Block
- In Conversation with God: Advent/Christmas (Vol. 1) by Francis Fernandez – January 9, 2022
- The Big Book of Christian Mysticism by Carl McColman – January 17, 2022
- Divine Intimacy, Volume 1 (Revised edition) by Fr. Gabriel – January 17, 2022
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis – February 6, 2022
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl – May 14, 2022
- Awareness – Anthony de Mello – June 30, 2022
- Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening – Cynthia Bourgeault – December 17, 2022
- 50 Great Short Stories – Milton Crane, editor – December 18, 2022
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Deal Me In Short Stories Challenge – Hosted by Jay at Bibliophilopolis – This year I am going back to the classics with a set of stories by some of the greatest writers of all time. Since there are only 50 stories in this anthology, I will pick a story from a random anthology when I draw the King or Queen of Spades.
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♦ Diamonds
A♦ “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield – Read February 13, 2022
2♦ “The Three-Day Blow” by Ernest Hemingway – Read October 2, 2022
3♦ “The Standard of Living” by Dorothy Parker – Read July 31, 2022
4♦ “The Saint” by V. S. Pritchett – Read January 9, 2022
5♦ “The Other Side of the Hedge” by E. M. Forster – Read April 17, 2022
6♦ “Brooksmith” by Henry James – Read March 27, 2022
7♦ “The Jockey” by Carson McCullers – Read July 17, 2022
8♦ “The Courting of Dinah Shadd” by Rudyard Kipling – Read July 24, 2022
9♦ “The Shot” by Alexander Poushkin – Read January 17, 2022
10♦ “Graven Image” by John O’Hara – Read September 18, 2022
J♦ “Putois” by Anatole France – Read July 17, 2022
Q♦ “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn” by Thomas Wolfe – Read October 16, 2022
K♦ “A. V. Laider” by Max Beerbohm – Read May 15, 2022
♥ Hearts
A♥ “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson – Read March 13, 2022
2♥ “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe – Read April 10, 2022
3♥ “Looking Back” by Guy de Maupassant – Read October 9, 2022
4♥ “The Man Higher Up” by O. Henry – Read May 22, 2022
5♥ “The Summer of the Beautiful White House” by William Saroyan – Read October 23, 2022
6♥ “The Other Two” by Edith Wharton – Read September 21, 2022
7♥ “Theft” by Katherine Anne Porter – Read December 11, 2022
8♥ “For Esmè — With Love and Squalor” by J. D. Salinger – Read May 29, 2022
9♥ “The Man of the House” by Frank O’Connor – Read April 24, 2022
10♥ “The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles” by Edmund Wilson – Read November 13, 2022
J♥ “The Giocanda Smile” by Aldous Huxley – Read January 30, 2022
Q♥ “The Curfew Tolls” by Stephen Vincent Benèt – Read December 11, 2022
K♥ “Father Wakes Up the Village” by Clarence Day – Read May 8, 2022
♣ Clubs
A♣ “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” by James Joyce – Read January 2, 2022
2♣ “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck – Read December 18, 2022
3♣ “The Door” by E. B. White – Read February 20, 2022
4♣ “An Upheaval” by Anton Chekhov – Read September 18, 2022
5♣ “How Beautiful with Shoes” by Wilbur Daniel Steele – Read March 20, 2022
6♣ “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf – Read February 5, 2022
7♣ “The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber – Read July 3, 2022
8♣ “The Schartz-Metterklume Method” by Saki – Read October 30, 2022
9♣ “The Death of a Bachelor” by Arthur Schnitzler – Read May 1, 2022
10♣ “The Apostate” by George Milburn – Read November 20, 2022
J♣ “The Phoenix” by Sylvia Townsend Warner – Read November 13, 2022
Q♣ “That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner – Read June 11, 2022
K♣ “The Law” by Robert M. Coates – Read April 2, 2022
♠ Spades
A♠ “The Tale” by Joseph Conrad – Read February 27, 2022
2♠ “A Girl from Red Lion, P.A.” by H. L. Mencken – Read June 5, 2022
3♠ “Main Currents of American Thought” by Irwin Shaw – Read August 7, 2022
4♠ “The Ghosts” by Lord Dunsany – Read September 18, 2022
5♠ “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne – Read January 23, 2022
6♠ “A String of Beads” by W. Somerset Maugham – Read June 26, 2022
7♠ “The Golden Honeymoon” by Ring Lardner – Read August 14, 2022
8♠ “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” by H. G. Wells – Read August 28, 2022
9♠ “The Foreigner” by Francis Steegmuller – Read March 6, 2022
10♠ “Thrawn Janet” by Robert Louis Stevenson – Read August 21, 2022
J♠ “The Chaser” by John Collier – Read June 20, 2022
Q♠ Wildcard: “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” by Dylan Thomas – Read November 27, 2022
K♠ Wildcard: “Teaching Others to Pray” by William Barry – Read December 29, 2022
