Saturday, March 03, 2012

A Century of Books



A reading project hosted by Simon T @ Stuck in a Book, in which we are to read and review a book published in every year of the Twentieth Century.  It started in January 2012, so I'm counting any books read after January 1st, even though I'm joining in March 2012.


Read so far:  18/100

1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905 - The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
1906
1907
1908 - Love's Shadow - Ada Leverson (read)
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922 - Red House Mystery - AA Milne (read)
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932 - Mrs Tim of the Regiment - DE Stevenson (read)
1933 - Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940 - Mrs Hargreaves - Frank Baker
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955 - The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
1956
1957
1958
1959 - Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
1960
1961 - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
1962
1963
1964 - A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
1965
1966 - The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
1967
1968 - The Laughing Policeman - Per Wahloo, Maj Sowall
1969 - The Fire Engine That Disappeared - Per Wahloo, Maj Sjowall (read)
1970 - The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980 - Happenstance - Carol Shields
1981 - The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987 - In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
1988
1989
1990 - Symposium - Muriel Spark
1991
1992 - Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys - Francesca Lia Block (read)
1993 - The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
1994 - Blood and Circuses - Kerry Greenwood
1995 - Death and Judgment - Donna Leon
1996 - Swann - Carol Shields
1997 - Larry's Party - Carol Shields
1998 - Black and Blue - Anna Quindlen
1999

Bonus Books

2000 - Miss Garnet's Angel - Sally Vickers
2001 - The Rose and the Beast - Francesca Lia Block
2002 - Watermelon - Marion Keyes
2003 - The Known World - Edward P Jones (read)
2004 - Old Filth - Jane Gardam
2005 - 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson (read)
2006 - The Tenderness of the Wolves - Stef Penney (read)
2007 - No Vulgar Hotel - Judith Martin
2008 - The Calling - Inger Ash Wolfe
2009 - Revenge of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
2010 - Faithful Place - Tana French
2011 - Half-Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
2012 - White Horse - Alex Adams
2013 - Life After Life - Kate Atkinson