Decades ‘08
Read at least 8 books in 8 consecutive decades in ‘08. You may cross-post with other challenges and/or change your list at any time. The only restriction is that books in the 2000’s do not count! (Decades ‘08)
Progress: 6 out of 8 read.
Decades read: 1850s, 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s x2, 1940s x2.
Decades to read: 1870s & 1900s.
Here is my, at the moment disastrously long, list.
1850s
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1860s
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1870s
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson
1880s
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Adventures of Huckeberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
1890s
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Dracula by Bram Stoker
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
1900s
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
1910s
Howards End by E. M. Forster
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1920s
The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
1930s
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Skicka hem N:r 7 by Lisa Eurén-Berner
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
1940s
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Biggles in the Baltic by Captain W.E. Jones
Biggles Sees It Through by Captain W.E. Jones
The Robe by Lloyd C Douglas
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
1950s
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
1960s
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1970s
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Princess Bride by William Goldman
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
1980s
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Redwall by Brian Jacques
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

10 Comments
Add your own1. 3M | January 4th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Wow, I hope you’re justing picking and choosing from these! Great ideas.
Welcome to the challenge.
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