08 - A book published in the 20th century

[Sara]

Lots of great books to choose from! What are some great books from the last century that you've been meaning to read?

Listopia link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Milena]

My three favorite books from this past year were all published in the 20th century:

Rebecca
The House of the Spirits
The Secret History

[Karin]

This is a fairly easy one because there are so many still in print :) I have a number on my tbr, and am not sure which one I'll choose for this--most likely something that doesn't fit anywhere else.

[Hannah]

Schindler's List

[F]

Milena wrote: "My three favorite books from this past year were all published in the 20th century:

Rebecca
The House of the Spirits
The Secret History"

I didn't realize The Secret History was published in the 1990s! Very cool.

[Rachael]

Mine will be The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

[Rachel]

I have a lot from 1990s that I haven't read but I have narrowed it down to these for now:
The Witching Hour
Practical Demonkeeping
Real Murders
Jurassic Park

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

I'm using this one as a great excuse to continue with the Outlander series and will be reading either Voyager or Drums of Autumn =D

[Darci]

I'm going to use this prompt to continue with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe series. I'm on The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

[Jill]

F wrote: "Milena wrote: "My three favorite books from this past year were all published in the 20th century:

Rebecca
The House of the Spirits
The Secret History"

I ..."
I see a publication date of 2004 for The Secret History. Am I missing something?

[Heather L]

Jill wrote: "F wrote: "Milena wrote: "My three favorite books from this past year were all published in the 20th century:

Rebecca
The House of the Spirits
[book:The Secret History|2..."

Jill, It was originally published in 1992.

[Jill]

Heather L wrote: "Jill wrote: "F wrote: "Milena wrote: "My three favorite books from this past year were all published in the 20th century:

Rebecca
The House of the Spirits
[book:The Sec..."
Ah, I see! I know where to look now. Thanks! This is on my TBR so I might use it too!

[poshpenny]

This is a gimme for me. One of the many P.G. Wodehouse books I listen to each night will work. I'm sure I'll read at least one more Mrs Pollifax book. My next is A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax. Maybe I'll finally read all of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Or something from Ellery Queen. Maybe The Golden Compass

[SadieReadsAgain]

I'm going for The House of the Spirits

[Ally]

I'm probably reading Motherless Brooklyn for this one,

But also considering:




and

(recommended to me by my local bookshop owner)

[Megan]

Dumb question time: this means any book published between 1900 and 1999, correct?

[Diana]

Megan wrote: "Dumb question time: this means any book published between 1900 and 1999, correct?"

Not a dumb question. =) Yes. Anything published from 1900 to 1999 will work.

[Linda]

Megan wrote: "Dumb question time: this means any book published between 1900 and 1999, correct?"

Well, technically the 20th century would run from 1901 to 2000. But everybody seems to use the years you've said.

[Linda]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_ce...

[Karin]

Linda wrote: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_ce..."

This explains it well. People also kept thinking that 2000 meant the next millennia, but of course it started in 2001.


People also often confuse the following:

When you are age 19 they think you are in your 19th year, but you are in your 20th year (your first year is from birth to age 1, so it goes from there).

Also, pregnancies. I have met people who think that because it averages 40 weeks it is 10 months--if it were true, the year would have to have only 48 weeks in it; there are 13 weeks for every 3 months (roughly given the calendar, but 13 times 4 is 52). A ten month pregnancy is 44 weeks and those used to happen, and some of them were healthy at that point but they don't play the odds.

End of tangent.

[Evil Secret]

I finished
The Man in the High Castle Written in 1962
by Philip K. Dick
259 pgs I gave it a three star rating

[Ilham]

For the book written in the 20th century prompt, I’ll be starting Jude Devereaux’s famous romance novel, “A Knight in Shining Armour”, next. As soon as I’m done reading my current non-fiction, “The Demon in the Freezer” by Richard Preston

[Karin]

Mary Poppins is originally from the 1930s--for some reason I thought it was older1

[Cindy]

I read " What Little I Remember" by Otto Robert Frisch, published 1979.
Short book of anecdotes of his life as a nuclear physisit. He worked with many Nobel Prize winners; worked at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb; was part of many of the important discoveries in physics during the 20th century. Very entertaining book.

[Kim]

I read A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines for this prompt. It was published in 1993.

[SadieReadsAgain]

I read The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. I came to this book with no expectations, knowing only that I'd heard that of all Allende's books this is probably one of the best and it felt like a good place to start. And I wasn't disappointed, particularly as this book is a family saga set in a country I don't know a lot about - two things which will always appeal to me. But it takes more than a good premise to make a book worth reading, and this book has so much going for it. I loved the touches of magical realism, but that they were more accents to a book much more fully grounded in reality. And that reality was so fascinating - the power struggles of Chile throughout the 20th century, the class divides and prejudices of a society and how those play out within a family when the generations have different views, or when their hearts draw them to people across those divides. The story allows the ripples of time to pass so that the actions of one person or group can be seen as they spread across generations. There is so much sadness and violence in this story, it is a story of endurance and change. At times it can make for tough reading, and not all the characters are likeable. But at the same time, none are without understandable motivation. I was engaged the whole way through this story, and I'm intrigued to read more of Allende's work.

[Teri]

Anything by Agatha Christie

I read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

[Jennifer]

Saw an interview with Tatum O’Neal, inspired me to finally read this one:

[E]

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip was published in 1974.

[Sherri]

I finished Death At La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti #1) by Donna Leon. It was originally published in 1994.

[Shelley]

I read Midnight's Children it was really scattered which gets really old when the book is over 600 pages.

[Harry]

I read The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. First published in 1959 & I believe my first Kurt Vonnegut Jr. book. Got interested in him after seeing an exhibit of his artwork at Cornell U.

[Jennifer Muster]

I read Soulforge from the Dragonlance Universe for this challenge. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane bringing back the other books I read as a teenager!

[Britany]

Finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Cornerofmadness]

So many to chose from but I went with the first one I found on my shelves Ruins by Kevin J. Anderson

[Ashley]

I read Dragonfly in Amber as I trying to read this series and was excited that a few book could fit some prompts.

[Barbara]

I read The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes. It's a weird book. I wouldn't have thought a pirate book would be dull. But this one painfully is. There's a lot of meandering about. And the book was written in this faux old-timey speech that comes across as gimmicky, but is actually really distracting. And it's hard to find a good copy of the audiobook. It's available at Audible, but it's basically unlistenable. The narrator sounds like his voice is coming through an old fashioned radio.

[Tamara]

I read "Tambourines to Glory" by Langston Hughes published in 1958.

[Virginia]

I read The Grapes of Wrath for this prompt.