Have you read a book published in every year you've been alive?

[Raucous]

Michelle wrote: "I wonder just how many of us began our reading careers with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys...I know that I was a ND junkie."

Tom Swift for me. They were all from the same publisher.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

It looks like I've read a book for every year until, weirdly. 1944. Several in 45 and 43, but none in 44

[CBRetriever]

Allison wrote: "It looks like I've read a book for every year until, weirdly. 1944. Several in 45 and 43, but none in 44"

I was OK for 44 and could have chosen

Dragonwyck
Forever Amber
Friday's Child
or
Green Dolphin Street

I used to read a lot of what was called Historical Fiction (this later morphed into the soft porn Historical Romances whereupon I gradually stopped reading it. I remember really enjoying all four of those books and I reread Friday's Child recently and it still was a good read

[Stephen]

The ones I’ve found for 1944 are Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord and the Enid Blyton children’s book The Island of Adventure.

[Stephen]

So far I’ve made it to 1875 (The Law and the Lady and The Adolescent).

[Stephen]

Took it back to 1850. (David Copperfield and The Scarlet Letter).

[Meredith]

This was a fun question! I was surprised that I did have books for every year since I was born (1971) because I didn't realize how many pre-GR reads I'd added, including back to books read grade school. My first 'missed' year is 1940. But I'll be checking to see if there's more I can add to my Read pile on the past year's lists.

[Bnz]

Becky wrote: "
I'm not quite 1030, but sometimes I feel like it."

Tell me about it... :-(

I am far too negligent in maintaining my GR bookshelves to be certain, but this is quite likely. After all, 1957 was not that long ago...

[Stephen]

I haven’t found anything for 1846.

[CBRetriever]

Stephen wrote: "I haven’t found anything for 1846."

The Count of Monte Cristo
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are first translated into English
The Three Musketeers was first translated into English in 1846

[Stephen]

I’ve read The Three Musketeers, but it doesn’t seem fair to count the translation.

[Billy]

Though huge, The Count of Monte Cristo is a must read!

[Stephen]

I think I started it once a long time ago, but for some reason didn’t get very far.

[Sarah]

I was surprised to only be missing 2023 and my birth year...I'm sure someone read me a book in my first year...wonder if that counts as pre-audible or perhaps not since I don't remember it!

My oldest book in GR (from 1400) is one of my faves though technically it's a newer translation: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience

[CBRetriever]

Stephen wrote: "I’ve read The Three Musketeers, but it doesn’t seem fair to count the translation."

it's kinda a new book as most of the translations took a few liberties with the text.

[Stephen]

CBRetriever wrote: "Stephen wrote: "I’ve read The Three Musketeers, but it doesn’t seem fair to count the translation."

it's kinda a new book as most of the translations took a few liberties with the text."

The thing is, I counted original publication of a few other foreign language books. I shouldn’t do both.

[Monica]

I am missing 3 years: 1967, 1975 and 1981. Interestingly enough, if my reading this year goes as planned, I will knock out 67 and 75 without having planned for it (by "it" I mean reading a book published for every year I have been alive)...

[Anna]

Yes, original pub date of course, not edition pub date! :o

(Unless someone wants to do it differently, which is also fine :D)

[AndrewP]

I thought this was supposed to be books read in years you have been alive. Apparently we have a few vampires who were alive in the 1800's :)

[Anna]

Haha yes, but some of us like to always go the extra mile and/or create more challenges for ourselves :D

(And tbf, I did ask for dead people and time travellers to participate, so we don't know when anyone was born!)

[Stephen]

I wanted to see how far back I could go. I’ll probably read Poor Folk at some point, which would give me 1846, but I’m in no hurry.

[Sarah]

Stephen wrote: "I wanted to see how far back I could go. I’ll probably read Poor Folk at some point, which would give me 1846, but I’m in no hurry."

That is crazy impressive!

[Stephen]

I find it a little surprising, but there it is.

[AndrewP]

The oldest books on my read list are Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince - Pub 1513 and Kramer and Sprenger's The Malleus Maleficarum Pub 1485.

No way i'am going to be able to fill in all the years up until today :)

[CBRetriever]

1666 for The Blazing World and Other Writings is my earliest. There are probably short stories/novellas/poems that were older like Grendel

[Yrret]

No. I’ve been reading in earnest and for leisure since I was 17 y/o. Many years have elapsed since then lol.