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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 20:47:08 GMT
In this thread you will find the criteria you will need to fulfill in order to achieve each literary award.
Each award will have a separate post in this thread just to make each award clear.
Once you have completed all required criteria, PM me with links to the relevant reviews.
Reviews should include what you feel are the books strengths and weaknesses, quotes that stood out to you and your personal response to the book with reasons to support your praise and/or criticism.
A simple one line 'I enjoyed/did not enjoy this book' will not be considered a review nor will it be sufficient to achieve the award.
If you are the first person to review the book, don't forget to add a poll and rate it out of 5.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 20:53:59 GMT
The Harry Potter Award In order to achieve the Harry Potter Award, you will need to read the following books: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Harry Potter badge can be awarded.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 21:00:32 GMT
The Chronicles of Narnia Award In order to achieve the Chronicles of Narnia Award, you will need to read the following books: The Magicians Nephew
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and his Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last BattleEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Chronicles of Narnia badge can be awarded.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 21:08:47 GMT
The Tolkien Award In order to achieve the Tolkien Award, you will need to read the following books: The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the RingBoth books should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Tolkien badge can be awarded
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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 21:14:13 GMT
The Charles Dickens Award In order to achieve the Charles Dickens Award, you will need to any 3 of the following Charles Dickens novels: Bleak House
A Tale of Two Cities
The Pickwick Papers
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
Oliver TwistEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Charles Dickens badge can be awarded.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 21:20:46 GMT
The Shakespeare Award In order to achieve the Shakespeare Award, you will need to read any 3 of the following novels by William Shakespeare:
Hamlet
The Tempest
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Othello
King Lear
The Merchant of VeniceEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Shakespeare badge can be awarded
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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 21:22:55 GMT
The Tolstoy Award In order to achieve the Tolstoy Award, you will need to read: War and PeaceThe book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the review so that the Tolstoy badge can be awarded
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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 21:37:58 GMT
The Whodunit Award In order to achieve the Whodunit Award, you will need to read 10 books by the following authors: Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan-Doyle
John Grisham
John le Carre
Ian Rankin
Ruth Ware
Ruth Rendell
Stieg Larsson
Karin Slaughter
Gillian Flynn
Lynda la Plant
Jo Nesbo
Dan BrownThis award covers: Crime/Mystery/Thriller books. You do not have to read all 10 books by the same author. You can choose to read one book by each author or a couple of books from a few different authors. It is entirely up to you. Each book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Whodunit badge can be awarded.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 17, 2021 22:01:57 GMT
The Children's Classics Award In order to achieve the Children's Classics Award, you will need to read 10 books from the following selection of children's classics: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Peter Pan - J M Barrie
Little Women - Louisa May Allcot
The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Charlotte's Web - E B White
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa PearceEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Children's Classics badge can be awarded.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 19, 2021 7:51:09 GMT
The Horror Award In order to achieve the Horror Award, you will need to read: 5 books by Stephen Kingand: 5 books from any of the selected books below: Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
Bird Box - John Malerman
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis StephensonEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Horror Award badge can be awarded.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 20, 2021 9:21:18 GMT
The Classics Award In order to achieve the Classics Award, you will need to read any 10 of the following books: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Crime and Punishment - fyodor Dostoevsky
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
Emma - Jane Austen
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Wild Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Ben Hur - Lew Wallace
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Flowers in the Attic - Virginia AndrewsEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Classics Badge can be awarded.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 22, 2021 21:43:12 GMT
The Fantasy Award In order to achieve The Fantasy Award, you will need to read 10 books from the following selection of fantasy novels: The Illiad - Homer
Mythos - Stephen Fry
Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Circe - Madeline Miller
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien
Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Shadow & Bone - Leigh Badugo
The Cruel Prince - Holly Black
The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes - Suzanne Collins
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Acheron - Sherrilyn Kenyon
House of Earth and Blood - Sarah J. Maas
Twighlight - Stephenie Meyer
The Princess Bride - William GoldmanEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that The Fantasy badge can be awarded.
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Post by Hippiejo on May 22, 2021 22:38:48 GMT
The Romance Award
 In order to achieve the Romance Award, you will need to read 10 books from the selection below: Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Call Me by Your Name - Andre Aciman
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Walker
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Act your Age, Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird - Josie Silver
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
A Kingdom of Dreams - Judith McNaught
Normal People - Sally RooneyEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Romance Award badge can be awarded. Please note: Act your Age Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert is the third book in a series of three but has the highest ratings. Having said this, I am led to believe all three are great books so you may want to read the other two first.
1. Get a life, Chloe Brown
2. Take a Hint, Dani Brown
3. Act your Age, Eve Brown
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Post by Hippiejo on May 29, 2021 12:58:22 GMT
The Critical Thinking Award Initially I was intending to make this award The Political Award but as I was researching it, I felt that there is such a broad scope of subjects that can include conflicting political ideals that the term seemed too small. Therefore I have now named this award, The Critical Thinking Award and can include any book that could be deemed to make the reader think or challenges the norms. This is a very difficult topic to provide a subject list for, not only because it's hard to choose books without bias but also because they often easily cross over into dystopian themes. For this reason, I have just compiled a very general list of ideas for books that cover political and social justice themes. This will be one of the two awards that you do NOT have to choose exclusively from the list of books offered. You are more than welcome to review any book fictional or non-fictional that you feel deals with these subjects. You will need to read, rate and review 5 books that fit this genre. 1. 1984 - George Orwell
2. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
3. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
4. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
5. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
6. Animal Farm - George Orwell
7. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
8. The Davinci Code - Dan Brown
9. The Hate you Give - Angie Thomas
10. Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
11. V for Vendetta - Alan MooreEach book should be rated and reviewed in the appropriate thread. Once you've read, rated and reviewed, please PM a member of staff to verify the reviews so that the Critical Thinking badge can be awarded Please remember that any opinions regarding reviews for books of this nature do not necessarily reflect the opinions of staff on this forum and we ask reviews and responses to be sensitive and kind.
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