I began this challenge a couple of years ago, completed 25% of it then it got away from me. Simon of Stuck in a Book and Claire of Captive Reader have resurrected it for 2018. I decided I would try to contribute more titles to this challenge again. I really enjoy the books of the 20th Century and I am sure I have enough of them on my shelves that are not read I could seek out. Fingers crossed.
Century of Books Challenge
- 1901
- 1902
- 1903
- 1904
- 1905
- 1906
- 1907
- 1908
- 1909
- 1910
- 1911: Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
- 1912
- 1913
- 1914:
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
- 1919
- 1920 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- 1921
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1925
- 1926: Before the Bombardment by Osbert Sitwell
- 1927: Patrol by Philip MacDonald
- 1928
- 1929
- 1930
- 1931
- 1932: Across Lapland by Olive Murray Chapman; Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- 1933: Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell;
- 1934
- 1935
- 1936
- 1937
- 1938: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell and Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- 1939: Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
- 1940
- 1941
- 1942: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner
- 1943: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
- 1944
- 1945: Animal Farm– George Orwell – Penguin Books.
- 1946: King Penguin- A Book of Toys by Gwen White – Penguin Books
- 1947
- 1948: Painting As A Pastime by Winston Churchill
- 1949: Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household- Penguin Books
- 1950
- 1951: A Rough Shoot by Geoffrey Household – Penguin Books
- 1952
- 1953
- 1954
- 1955 Reunion in Florida by Tod Claymore
- 1956
- 1957: The Comforters by Muriel Sparks and The Pink & the Brown by Hugh Atkinson and The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp
- 1958: A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney (Play)
- 1959
- 1960
- 1961: Fairy Tales of New York by J. P. Donleavy – Random House
- 1962
- 1963: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin – Dial Press
- 1964: A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967: The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien
- 1968: The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead
- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972 All Creatures Great and Small- James Herriot
- 1973: The Old Dog Barks Backwards by Ogden Nash
- 1974
- 1975: The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
- 1976
- 1977: Apple of My Eye by Helene Hanff
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987: The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991 A Bike Ride by Anne Mustoe
- 1992 A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park
- 1993
- 1994
- 1995: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- 1999
- 2000
(The following is a “Maybe” as a couple of others doing this challenge are reading the years 1919 to 2018.) We’ll see.
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010: A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life by Juanita Phillips (so much fun to read)
- 2011: I’m Over All That by Shirley MacLaine
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014: The Truth About theHarry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
- 2015
- 2016: The Mad Magpie by Gregg Dreise
- 2017. The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (so far my favourite book of the year. Very funny.)
- 2018: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Enjoy life with the Penguin and me..books, travels, photography from Tasmania 
I’m in awe of people who are planning to do this in a year. Your approach seems much more manageable especially if you want to keep your sanity.
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I like the idea of this. I think Lisa has it running somewhere on her blog too. Is the rule to only include books you’ve reviewed on your blog/s? I certainly wouldn’t do it in one year but, like you, as an interesting exercise.
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Yes the book must be reviewed, but in my case I will just talk about it as I don’t do formal reviews. Others do that so much better than I do and I don’t like the idea of having to do a more formal review hanging over my head while I’m reading the book. I did review the previous books on my list in blogspot but the links became broken when blogspot crashed on me. Though I have noticed once in awhile they do work. Who knows? It is fun. I would like to find some older Australian books to fill in some of the dates. Would be fun.
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this appears to be an interesting challenge… are the years when the book was published? or written?… no, that’s silly; it must be the first… and are the books ones you’ve just read this year?
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It is when the book was published. The people who set up this challenge are doing all the books in one year. I will take (have taken) more time. I will read them as I go, then post them up. To me the speed of reading doesn’t matter, I just want to experience books in that time of history. If you don’t follow Simon of Stuck in a Book you might find his posts interesting as he loves the old authors and books, especially around WWI and II.
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tx; i’ll take a look…
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Hurrah! Happy reading.
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Now- to get started. I love the beginning of a new year!! haha
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