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message 1: by Jenny, Certified Bookworm (new)

Dec 25, 2024 12:17PM

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Thanks to Renee again for this one!

This will run all year.
The idea is to try to read and record ONE book originally published in each decade listed. Your end result should be a list of the 22 decades posted here, with one book you've read beside each decade. (Feel free to cut and paste the template below to get started.)

Some members will have posted a mockup of this challenge in their personal goal threads, for ease of organization. This is the official thread for posting lists and sharing ideas about how to complete this challenge.

Also, GR does a "Best Books of ____" by decade, which is really helpful. You can access through LISTOPIA or Google "Best Books of (decade/year)" to get to them.

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message 2: by Jenny, Certified Bookworm (new)

Dec 25, 2024 12:18PM

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(Original publication date)

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:

1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989:
1990-1999:

2000-2009:
2010-2019:
2020-2024:

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message 3: by Denise (last edited Aug 31, 2025 08:07PM) (new)

Dec 25, 2024 10:54PM

I'm in. I like that it goes back to 1800..

1800-1809: Knickerbocker's History of New York
1810-1819: Mansfield Park
🔹1820-1829: The Complete Poems William Blake 17 Apr (1828)
1830-1839: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
1840-1849: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
🔹1850-1859: Walden, or Life in the Woods and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 22 Mar (1854)
1860-1869: War and Peace
1870-1879: Work: A Story of Experience
1880-1889: The Portrait of a Lady
🔹1890-1899: The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde 21 Feb. (1890)
🔹1900-1909: Anne of Avonlea L.M. Montgomery 24 May (1909)
🔹1910-1919: My Ántonia (1910)
1920-1929: A Farewell to Arms
1930-1939: And Then There Were None
🔹1940-1949: The Razor’s Edge W. Somerset Maugham 25 Jul (1944)
🔹1950-1959: A Separate Peace John Knowles 3 May (1959)
1960-1969: The Drowned World
🔹1970-1979: How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup J.L. Carr 24 Aug (1975)
🔹1980-1989: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Douglas Adams 17 Jul (1984)
🔹1990-1999: Bibliolepsy Gina Apostol 1 Mar (1997)
🔹2000-2009: Still Alice Lisa Genova 8 Jan (2007)
🔹2010-2019: Out of My Mind Sharon M. Draper 25 Jan (2010)
🔹2020-2024: How to Read a Book Monica Wood 20 Jan (2024)

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message 4: by Rosemarie, Obsessive Reader (last edited Sep 04, 2025 04:18PM) (new)

Dec 26, 2024 08:01AM

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I'm in too!

1802: Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802 by William Wordsworth

1839: The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

1850: The Wide, Wide World by Susan Bogert Warner

1862: Wild Wales by George Borrow
1864: Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
1869: L'Éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert

1874: Un hivernage dans les glaces by Jules Verne
1879: Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope

1881: Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
1883: Une vie by Guy de Maupassant
1886: Un billet de loterie: Le numéro 9672 by Jules Verne

1892: The Fate of Fenella by Arthur Conan Doyle
1895: The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
1899: There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg

1900: The Dance of Death by August Strindberg
1901: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
1908: The Iron Heel by Jack London

1910: Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse
1912: Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
1916: Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
1918: Der Untergang des Abendlandes by Oswald Spengler

1921: The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey
1922: The Man Who Knew Too Much by G.K. Chesterton
1923: The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1928: The Shore Road Mystery by Franklin W. Dixon

1930: The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1931: The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
1932: Death Lights a Candle by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
1933: The pilgrim's regress: An allegorical apology for Christianity, reason, and romanticism by C.S. Lewis
1934: Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
1936: Who Killed Stella Pomeroy? by Basil Thomson
1937: The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham
1938: The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe: A Perry Mason Mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner
1939: Seven Dead by J. Jefferson Farjeon

1940: The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
1941: The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
1942: Les Voyageurs de l'impériale by Louis Aragon
1943: The Art School Murders by Moray Dalton
1945: Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
1947: Rocketship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein
1948: Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein
1949: Carney's House Party by Maud Hart Lovelace

1950: Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace
1951: Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein
1952: The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein
1953: Winona's Pony Cart by Maud Hart Lovelace
1954: The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
1955: Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
1956: Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi

1961: This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster
1962: Winter in Thrush Green by Miss Read
1963: The Clocks by Agatha Christie
1964: A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
1966: That Quail, Robert by Margaret A. Stanger
1968: Classroom Chuckles by Bill Knowlton
1969: A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse

1971: Nemesis by Agatha Christie
1977: The Glimpses of the Moon by Edmund Crispin

1980: War, So Much War by Mercè Rodoreda

2001: A Ram in the Well by June Knox-Mawer

2010: Exiles from the War: The War Guest Diary of Charlotte Mary Twiss by Jean Little
2011: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
2012: The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price
2018: The Partition of Ireland by Cathleen Small

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message 5: by Vicky (last edited Jul 29, 2025 12:05PM) (new)

Dec 29, 2024 11:27AM

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message 6: by Jenny, Certified Bookworm (new)

Dec 31, 2024 05:58AM

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Glad to see everyone joining!

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