Decade Challenge

[Reena]

I enjoyed this challenge… it encouraged me to pick up books I’d been meaning to read (one day.) I continued with the challenge even though I’d finished, so I think I’ll join up again! Final list…

1914 – 1919:
(1918) My Antonia – Willa Cather [21/04/14]

1920 – 1929:
(1920) The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton [22/03/14]
(1926) Dream Story – Arthur Schnitzler [30/05/14]

1930 – 1939:
(1939) The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton [26/12/13]
(1936) Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell [31/01/14]
(1932) Brave New World – Aldous Huxley [02/07/14]

1940 – 1949:
(1943) The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton [26/12/13]
(1944) Anna and the King of Siam – Margaret Landon [15/02/14]
(1947) The Plague – Albert Camus [26/06/14]

1950 – 1959:
(1951) Spartacus – Howard Fast [18/02/14]
(1952) The Bridge over the River Kwai – Pierre Boulle [04/04/14]
(1954) A Spy in the House of Love – Anais Nin [31/05/14]
(1954) The Feast of July – H.E. Bates [04/08/14]

1960 – 1969:
(1962) One Few Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey [03/02/14]
(1968) True Grit – Charles Portis [27/03/14]
(1966) Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys [18/05/14]
(1965) Over Sea, Under Stone – Susan Cooper [11/08/14]

1970 – 1979:
(1973) Carrie’s War – Nina Bawden [27/12/13]
(1979) If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino [24/02/14]
(1974) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig [17/06/14]
(1976) Coming Through Slaughter – Michael Ondaatje [22/06/14]
(1979) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams [30/06/14]
(1978) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera [26/07/14]
(1973) The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper [17/08/14]
(1978) Where the Indus is Young – Dervla Murphy [21/08/14]

1980 – 1989:
(1983) The Woman in Black – Susan Hill [22/01/14]
(1989) Crazy Heart – Thomas Cobb [10/04/14]
(1987) Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively [16/04/14]
(1987) The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster [16/05/14]
(1988) Artists and Models – Anais Nin [31/05/14]
(1984) The Lover – Marguerite Duras [01/06/14]
(1985) The Roads to Sata: A 2000 Mile Walk Through Japan – Alan Booth [03/08/14]
(1989) A Year in Provence – Peter Mayle [08/08/14]

1990 – 1999:
(1993) Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks [03/10/13]
(1998) The Bomber – Liza Marklund [07/11/13]
(1991) The Matisse Stories – A.S. Byatt [21/11/13]
(1991) The Last Station – Jay Parini [03/12/13]
(1990) Death Comes to Pemberley – P.D. James [31/12/13]
(1999) The Wild Things – Dave Eggers [02/01/14]
(1997) The Way I Found Her – Rose Tremain [06/01/14]
(1993) Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen [04/02/14]
(1994) Prozac Nation – Elizabeth Wurtzel [11/02/14]
(1999) π: Screenplay & The Guerilla Diaries – Darren Aronofsky [16/03/14]
(1991) Wise Children – Angela Carter [06/05/14]
(1997) Animal Husbandry – Laura Zigman [09/05/14]
(1999) Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami [02/06/14]
(1990) The Diving Pool – Yoko Ogawa [03/06/14]
(1996) The Labrador Fiasco – Margaret Atwood [09/06/14]
(1991) A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley [21/06/14]
(1998) The Spell – Alan Hollinghurst [09/07/14]
(1992) Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France – Peter Mayle [09/08/14]
(1993) The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides [14/08/14]
(1991) The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan [23/08/14]

2000 – 2009:
(2004) Long Way Down – Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman [17/10/13]
(2001) The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd [21/10/13]
(2008) The Luminous Life of Lily Aphrodite – Beatrice Colin [26/10/13]
(2004) How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff [12/11/13]
(2005) Giotto’s Hand – Iain Pears [18/11/13]
(2002) Prime Time – Liza Marklund [16/12/13]
(2006) The Bullet Trick – Louise Welsh [23/12/13]
(2006) The Dead Fathers Club – Matt Haig [13/01/14]
(2007) The Road Home – Rose Tremain [16/01/14]
(2006) The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories – Susannna Clarke [19/01/14]
(2007) The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall [13/02/14]
(2004) Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Jeff Lindsay [22/02/14]
(2004) Dearly Devoted Dexter – Jeff Lindsay [24/02/14]
(2005) Arthur & George – Julian Barnes [17/03/14]
(2003) Starter For Ten – David Nicholls [30/04/14]
(2006) Timothy’s Book: Notes of an English Country Tortoise – Verlyn Klinkenborg [05/06/14]
(2005) Explorers of the New Century – Magnus Mills [15/06/14]
(2001) Legally Blond – Amanda Brown [29/06/14]
(2006) Last Will – Liza Marklund [13/07/14]
(2005) The Angel Experiment – James Patterson [15/07/14]
(2008) The Long Shadow – Liza Marklund [16/07/14]
(2001) Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides – Adam Nicolson [22/07/14]
(2007) Dexter in the Dark – Jeff Lindsay [02/08/14]
(2008) Dexter By Design – Jeff Lindsay [07/08/14]

2010 – 2014:
(2010) The Postcard Killers – James Patterson & Liza Marklund [20/11/13]
(2010) Naming the Bones – Louise Welsh [10/12/13]
(2012) The Silver Dark Sea – Susan Fletcher [05/03/14]
(2012) Tigers in Red Weather – Liza Klaussmann [01/04/14]
(2012) Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn [24/05/14]
(2012) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce Flynn [04/06/14]
(2012) The Girl who fell From the Sky – Simon Mawer [14/06/14]
(2010) Fang – James Patterson [23/07/14]

[K M]

My goodness, da-wildchildz, that list is quite an accomplishment. You've read a whole library!

[K M]

Bookguide, I'll see if the local library has a copy of Testament of Youth for this new decade challenge. Sounds interesting.

[K M]

I agree, Cheryl. I think it would be fun/interesting to talk a bit about what we're reading.

Cheryl in CC NV wrote: "Good point about the dearth of WWI lit. Erich Maria Remarque's classic dominates, I guess.

I'm not sure whether I want to do it again or not. Maybe if we had more discussion? Anyo..."

[Cheryl]

Thanks, K M, I'll go ahead and join the new challenge, then.

[Reena]

The best thing about commuting to work (or going anywhere,) on public transport is the time it gives you to read books, otherwise I would never have had the chance to this many in one year.