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Here's my challenge. The idea is to read a book for A-Z by authour name, but where I already own it TBR or I can download it for free. I'm missing some letters and I am hoping for suggestions. A further challenge will be for me to review them in some way as I haven't written any book reviews since school. 26 books isn't perhaps much of a challenge, but I've never been one for the classics and there are some of those here. Just need to find those last 4 authors now. If I can't find them for free then I guess I'll buy something but only once I have read all the others :)

 

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

Beverley Barton – The Dying Game

Michael Connelly - Nine Dragons

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Janet Evanovich - Finger lickin’ Fifteen -

Christine Feehan – Magic in the Wind

Diana Gabaldon – An Echo in the Bone

Thomas Hardy – Tess and the d’Urbervilles

Washington Irving – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Peter James – The Perfect Murder

Lauren Kate – Fallen

Gaston Leroux – The Phantom of the Opera

Val McDermid – Fever of the Bone

Patrick Ness – The New World

Richard Olin – All Day Wednesday

Terry Prachett – The Colour of Magic

Q - ?

Tom Reynolds – Blood Sweat & Tea

C J Sansom – Dark Fire

Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina

U?

Jules Verne – The Mysterious Island

Alison Weir – Traitors of the Tower

X?

Y?

Emile Zola – The Dream

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Gleaned from Wiki (so you'd have to look into what you could get for free):

Q:

- Roberto Quaglia

- Erica Quest (a pseudonym of Nancy Buckingham and John Sawyer)

- Jorge Queirolo

- Amanda Quick (a pseudonym of Jayne Ann Krentz)

- Julia Quinn

 

U:

- Jenny Uglow

- Lisa Unger

- Tomi Ungerer

- Harilal Upadhyay

- John Updike (The Witches of Eastwick is VERY goo d- borrow it from your library!)

- Leon Uris

- Emma Maree Urquhart

 

X:

I'm sorry, I couldn't find any for X!

 

Y:

- Agustín Yáñez

- Michael Yarwood

- Dornford Yates

- Richard Yates

- William Butler Yeats

- Tamar Yellin

- Frank Yerby

- Jane Yolen

- Rebecca York

- Banana Yoshimoto

- Than Yutthachaibodin

- Ed Young

- Marguerite Yourcenar

- Gary Yukl

- Lin Yutang

 

Hope that's of some use to you. :)

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Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

 

Well that's A done!

 

I decided to start right at the top and was glad I did! I found it hard to get into at first, the language was so different to what I usually read, but was really enjoying it by the time I got a third of the way through! By halfway I didn't want to put it down! I loved the way she delevoped the characters. The annoying, the pompous, the devious and of course our hero and heroine :) After this I downloaded her entire collection, and if that's not a sign of a good read, I'm not sure what is :)

 

Now I've started B which is much different!

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Beverly Barton - The Dying Game

 

I don't think I can say too much about this book without giving the story away but here goes...

 

This one was a free download from Amazon so thought I would give it a go. The story is about a serial killer who is targetting former Beauty Queens. It was an enjoyable enough read, though it didn't make me want to immediately buy all her other work, though if I found them really cheap I probably would. I would give this one about 7/10

 

Michael Connelly - Nine Dragons

 

Some of the reviews of this one said that it was probably one of his weakest, and I'm sorry to say I would have to agree, but it was an easy enough read and I didn't actually find myself bored by it...could have done better I think, so a 6/10. I'm surprised at liking the Barton book better than the Connelly. Next is a classic, so I'll see how I do with that :)

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