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Here's the challenge board/bingo card:

docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/13gsf7rZApqNXmrVPiyLvZjMLojzM9biw/mobilebasic
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00:00 Intro
05:10 Genres
10:32 Eras
15:30 Continents
19:35 Features
25:00 Challenges
28:24 Conclusion
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Roy at @royreadsanything
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The TBR
*Genre*
1- Science fiction - 'The Nine Billion Names of Good" by Arthur C. Clarke
2- Fantasy - 'The Hoard of the Gibbelins" by Lord Dunsany
3- Mystery - "The Red Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle
4- Horror - "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacob's
5- Historical fiction - "The Man Who Would Be Kind" by Rudyard Kipling
6- Literary fiction - The Lady and the Dog" by Anton Chekhov

*Era"
7- 19th Century - "The Necklace"by Guy de Maupassant
8- 1900-1949 - "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway
9- 1950-1979 - "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
10- 1980-1999 - "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx
11- 2000-2019 - "The Sempico-Girl Diaries" by George Saunders
12- 2020+ - "The Answer Man" by Stephen King

*Continents*
13- North America - "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
14- Europe - "The Withered Arm" by Thomas Hardy
15- Africa - "The Sacrificial Egg" by Chicha Achebee
16- Asia - "Rashomon" by Ryun Osuke
17- South America - "Borges and I" by Jorge Luis Borges
18- Translation - "A Hunger Artist" by Fran, Kafka

*Features*
19- Twist ending - "An Occurrence St Oak Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
20- Child protagonist - "The Rocking Horse Winner" by DH Lawrence
21- Unreliable narrator - "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
22- First person narrator - "Araby" by James Joyce
23- Journey/Quest - "To Build a Fire," by Jack London
24- Supernatural - "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant

*Challenge*
25- Award Winner - "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
26- New-to-You Author - "The Apartment" by TC Boyle
27- Film/TV adaptation - "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx
28- Under 10 pages - "Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James
29- Over 30 pages - "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James
30- Free square - I'm going to choose this one later!

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