This challenge comes from the Dead Writers Society on Goodreads. For each month a different genre has been listed.
Rule: Select a title written by a dead author for the genre of the month.
Goal: 24 books ~ Goal achieved reached 28 books for this challenge.
Some of these books I didn't quite finish in the correct month, but I attempted to. Mostly because I was behind at finishing before the month ended. One book was read early because it came in from the library ahead of schedule. See the list by clicking "Read More."
Month completed in parentheses.
January ~ Action/Adventure/Travel
[Notice: Original posting 2013-12-19 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]
Tags: 2013 Reads, Challenges, Dearly Departed, Genres, Completed
January ~ Action/Adventure/Travel
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (January '13)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (January '13)
- Around the World in Eight Days by Jules Verne (January '13)
- Cotillion by Georgette Heyer (February '13)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell (March '13)
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (March '13)
- Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (April '13)
- My Antonia by Willa Cather (April '13)
- The Virginian by Owen Wister (May '13)
- The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins (May '13)
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Mauier (June '13)
- Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie (June '13)
- The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit (July '13)
- The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit (July '13)
- Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (July '13)
- The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston (July '13)
- Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (July '13)
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (August '13)
- Hiroshima by John Hersey (August '13)
- The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson (November '13)
- The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen (September '13)
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Unknown, Traslated by Seamus Heaney (September '13)
- Nine Fairy Tales by Karel Capek and One More Thrown in for Good Measure by Karel Capek (October '13)
- Classics of the Macabre by Daphne du Maurier (October '13)
- Casting of the Runes and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James (November '13)
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (September '13)
- Mary Anne by Daphne du Mauier (December '13)
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (December '13)
[Notice: Original posting 2013-12-19 at Plethora of Books Blog: http://bookchallenges.weebly.com]
Tags: 2013 Reads, Challenges, Dearly Departed, Genres, Completed