May as well do this one too, I love old books and obscure authors, etc. Here's the link to this challenge: http://retroreduxsreviews.blogspot.com/2011/01/2011-forgotten-treasures-challenge.html. I have put the original publication date in parentheses after the author in the list below for reference.
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1. The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum - Wallace Irwin (1901)
2. The Magic Soap Bubble - David Cory (1922)
3. The Wonderful O - James Thurber (1957)
Level 1 achieved - Jan. 28 2011
4. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets/George's Mother - Stephen Crane (1893/1896)
5. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (1811)
6. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (1938)
7. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle - Betty MacDonald (1947)
Level 2 achieved - May 30, 2011
8. The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder (1940)
9. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower - C.S. Forester (1950)
10. Co. Aytch - Sam R. Watkins (1882)
11. Lieutenant Hornblower - C.S. Forester (1952)
12. A Son of Rest - Nat M. Wills (1903)
13. Little Town on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder (1941)
14. These Happy Golden Years - Laura Ingalls Wilder (1943)
15. The Vaudevillians - Bill Smith (1976)
16. The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare (1958)
17. Taggart - Louis L'Amour (1959)
18. Miss Library Lady - Ann McLelland Pfaender (1954)
19. Jinny Williams Library Assistant - Sara A. Temkin and Lucy A. Hovell (1962)
20. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (1860)
21. My Antonia - Willa Cather (1918)
22. The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie (1924)
23. A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1917)
24. Alexander the Great - John Gunther (1953)
25. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
Level 3 achieved (bonus level) - Dec. 6, 2011
26. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake (1950)
27. Annie on My Mind - Nancy Garden (1982)
28. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869)
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