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Aubrey/Maturin 4 Year Chapter-a-Week Read-along Odyssey – Year Four – Hosted by yours truly
- The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian (January 1-March 10) – Finished March 17, 2024
- The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian (March 17-May 19)
- The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O’Brian (May 26-July 28)
- The Hundred Days by Patrick O’Brian (August 4-October 6)
- Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O’Brian (October 13-December 15)
- Twenty-One by Patrick O’Brian (December 22-29)
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2024 Fantasy Classics Chapter-a-Day Read-along – Hosted by yours truly
The Chronicles of Narnia (January 1-April 14)
- The Magician’s Nephew (January 1-14) – January 14, 2024
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (January 15-30) – January 30, 2024
- The Horse and His Boy (January 31-February 13) – February 13, 2024
- Prince Caspian (February 14-27) – February 27, 2024
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (February 28-March 13) – March 13, 2024
- The Silver Chair (March 14-29) – March 29, 2024
- The Last Battle (March 30-April 14) – April 14, 2024
The Lord of the Rings (April 15-June 15)
- The Fellowship of the Ring (April 15-May 6)
- The Two Towers (May 7-27)
- The Return of the King (May 28-June 15)
The Harry Potter Series (June 16-December 31)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (June 16-July 2)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (July 3-July 20)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (July 21-August 11)
- Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire (August 12-September 17)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (September 18-October 25)
- Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince (October 26-November 24)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (November 25-December 31)
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Mount TBR Reading Challenge (Pike’s Peak, 12 books) – Hosted by Bev at My Reader’s Block
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare – January 12, 2024
- The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis – January 14, 2024
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens – January 22, 2024
- The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare – January 25, 2024
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – January 30, 2024
- The Horse and His Boy – C.S. Lewis – February 13, 2024
- Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis – February 27, 2024
- The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis – March 29, 2024
- The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis – April 14, 2024
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The Shakespeare Project (continued from last year) – Hosted by Benjamin McEvoy at the Hardcore Literature Book Club
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- The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare – April 13, 2023
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare – April 19, 2023
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare – April 20, 2023
- Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare – April 21, 2023
- The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare April 21, 2023
- Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare – April 23, 2023
- Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare – April 28, 2023
- Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare – April 30, 2023
- Venus and Adonis – May 2, 2023
- Richard III by William Shakespeare – May 6, 2023
- King John by William Shakespeare – May 7, 2023
- Richard II by William Shakespeare – May 13, 2023
- Romeo and Juliet – May 29, 2023
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – June 10, 2023
- Love’s Labour’s Lost – June 27, 2023
- Henry IV, Part 1 – July 28, 2023
- The Merchant of Venice – January 12, 2024
- The Merry Wives of Windsor – January 25
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Henry V
- As You Like It
- Julius Caesar
- Hamlet
- Twelfth Night
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- Troilus and Cressida
- Measure for Measure
- Othello
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- Antony and Cleopatra
- All’s Well that Ends Well
- Timon of Athens
- Pericles
- Coriolanus
- The Sonnets (and A Lover’s Complaint)
- Cymbeline
- The Winter’s Tale
- The Tempest
- Henry VIII
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
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Deal Me In Short Stories Essay Challenge – Hosted by Jay at Bibliophilopolis – This year I am going to switch it up and go for essays instead of short stories, using A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring For, and Appreciating Books, edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan
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♦ Diamonds
A♦ In a Second-Hand Bookshop – Christopher Morley – Read January 28, 2024
2♦ Unpacking My Library – Walter Benjamin – Read March 17, 2024
3♦ The Ritual – Rob Kaplan
4♦ How to Get Started in the Book Business – Stuart Brent/Look Who’s Been Remaindered Now
5♦ Ten Best-Selling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty or More Times
6♦ Lending Books – Anatole Broyard – Read January 21, 2024
7♦ On the Return of a Book Lent to a Friends – Christopher Morley
8♦ Welcome Home Borrowed Book – Anonymous – Read January 14, 2024
9♦ How to Justify a Private Library – Umberto Eco
10♦ How to Organize a Public Library – Umberto Eco
J♦ Samuel Pepys’s Library – Nicholas Basbanes
Q♦ Pillow Books – Clifton Fadiman
K♦ The New Lifetime Reading Plan – Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major
♥ Hearts
A♥ Comfort Found in Good Old Books – George Hamlin Fitch
2♥ The Collector – Susan Sontag
3♥ Bibliomania – Gustave Flaubert/All the Friedrich Nietzsche You’ll Ever Need
4♥ Bibliomania- Roger Rosenblatt – Read January 7, 2024
5♥ The Book Action – Solly Ganor
6♥ From Areopagitica – John Milton
7♥ Books Unread – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
8♥ The Books That Shaped the American Character – Jonathan Yardley
9♥ The Books That Changed America – Robert B. Downs
10♥ The Commerce of Reading – Michel de Montaigne
J♥ Book Collecting – Robertson Davies/Holy Cow!
Q♥ Bibliomaniacs – John Michell
K♥ They Don’t Call It a Mania for Nothing – Harold Rabinowitz/Bibliolexicon – Read February 18, 2024
♣ Clubs
A♣ What Is the Matter with the Bookshop? – A. Edward Newton/Non-Books
2♣ Ten Memorable Books That Never Existed
3♣ The Last of His Race – A. Edward Newton – Read February 4, 2024
4♣ The Perfect Book – William Keddie
5♣ Books Are the Windows of the Soul – Henry Ward Beecher
6♣ How Reading Changed My Life – Anna Quindlen/Three by Quindlen
7♣ Talking of Old Books – A. S. W. Rosenbach – Read March 10, 2024
8♣ Potch – Leo Rosten/Damn It! Wait Your Turn!
9♣ A Good Time to Start a Book Club – Al Silverman
10♣ Invasion of the Book Envelopes – John Updike/And to Some People We Night Not Sell It at Any Price
J♣ My Friends – Petrarch
Q♣ Norman Mailer’s Ten Favorite American Novels
K♣ W. Somerset Maugham’s Ten Greatest Novels
♠ Spades
A♠ The Bible Through the Ages – Ben D. Zevin
2♠ Aldus Manutius – William Dana Orcutt
3♠ Benjamin Franklin’s Epitaph
4♠ The Collector – William Targ
5♠ The Newark Public Library – Philip Roth
6♠ Why Does Nobody Collect Me? – Robert Benchley – Read February 11, 2024
7♠ How Not to Care for Books – Holbrook Jackson
8♠ On Reading and Collecting – Herbert Faulkner West
9♠ How to Care for Books – Estelle Ellis and Caroline Seebohm
10♠ Fifteen Books We Would Memorize If We Were the “Living Books” in Ray Bradbury’s Novel Fahrenheit 451 – The Editors/I Just Like to Be in Their Presence Occasionally
J♠ The 100 Greatest Novels in the English Language – A. Edward Newton
Q♠ Top 100 English-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century – The Editors of the Modern Library, 1998
K♠ 91 Chambers Street – Edward Robb Ellis
