Another Century of Books – 1922 to 2022

I attempted and successfully completed a Century of Books project in 2014, and tried it again twice more, not quite making it to completion but having good fun in the quest and discovering some new-to-me writers.

This time round I’m going to cut out two whole decades of the 20th Century and do the hundred years starting in 1922, ending in 2022. So really a century plus one year!

See way down below for how this whole concept started, and my linked listS to the books I read in 2014, 2017 and 2018.

My personal goal this time round is to complete the challenge by December 31, 2022.  As in previous Century projects, I am aiming to read books which are either new-to-me, or re-reads of ones which I haven’t yet written about.

I noticed the following quote on another reader’s blog, and I had to laugh. Yup. The boasting takes a back seat to the enjoyment for most of us, but I think it’s a factor for sure!

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it” – Bertrand Russell

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1928 ~ Cullum by E. Arnot Robertson

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1931 ~ My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes

1932 ~ Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

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1936 ~ Susan Settles Down by Molly Clavering

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1939 ~ Touch Not the Nettle by Molly Clavering

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1943 ~ They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple

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1946 ~ The Snake Pit  by Mary Jane Ward

1946 ~ also The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer

1947 ~ Black Fountains by Oswald Wynd

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1951 ~ The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein

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1954 ~ The Four Winds by David Beaty

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1966 ~ Norwood by Charles Portis

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1969 ~ Jade by Sally Watson

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An Incomplete Second Century of Books – 1900 to 1999

I really loved doing the Century of Books project in 2014, so much so that I’m going to repeat it in 2018. I’m looking forward to the quest for books from every year, 1900 to 1999, and discovering some new-to-me writers, and having the wonderful experience of experiencing the century through its popular fiction.

See way down below for how this whole concept started, and my linked list to the books I read in 2014.

My personal goal is to complete the challenge by January 31, 2019. (I’d originally planned on a December 2018 deadline, but my life got out of my control for a bit there in 2018, so I’m awarding myself a make-up month.) As last time round, I am aiming to read books which are either new-to-me, or re-reads of ones which I haven’t yet written about.

I noticed the following quote on another reader’s blog, and I had to laugh. Yup. The boasting takes a back seat to the enjoyment for most of us, but I think it’s a factor for sure!

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it” – Bertrand Russell

1901 ~ The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells

1902 ~ Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

1904 ~ Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips Oppenheim

1905 ~ The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

1906 ~ The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

1908 ~ What Every Woman Knows by J.M. Barrie

1911 ~ Mother by Kathleen Norris

1912 ~ The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole

1913 ~ Laddie by Gene Stratton-Porter

1914 ~ The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart

1916 ~ The Flower-Patch Among the Hills by Flora Klickmann

1920 ~ The Story of Doctor Dolittleby Hugh Lofting

1921 ~ The Girls by Edna Ferber

1922 ~ The Camomile by Catherine Carswell

1924 ~ Mrs. Harter by E.M. Delafield

1926 ~ Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim

1927 ~ The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

1930 ~ Barren Corn by Georgette Heyer

1932 ~ Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols

1932 ~ also: Heat Lightning by Helen Hull

1933 ~ Lost Horizon by James Hilton

1934  ~ Mr. Finchley Discovers His England by Victor Canning

1934 ~ also: The Sycamore Tree by Elizabeth Cambridge

1935 ~ The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

1936 ~ The Two Doctors by Elizabeth Cambridge

1937 ~ White Hell of Pity by Norah Lofts

1938 ~ Spring Always Comes by Elizabeth Cambridge

1938 ~ also: The Lady and the Unicorn by Rumer Godden

1939 ~ The Runaway by Kathleen Norris

1940 ~ Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

1941 ~ Fear for Miss Betony by Dorothy Bowers

1943 ~ Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh

1944 ~ Pastoral by Nevil Shute

1947 ~ The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute

1947 ~ also: Home Port by Olive Higgins Prouty

1948 ~ The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp

1948 ~ also: Panthers’ Moon by Victor Canning

1949  ~ Turvey by Earle Birney

1950 ~ Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell

1951 ~ Appointment With Venus by Jerrard Tickell

1952 ~ The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle

1953 ~ Out of the Deeps a.k.a. The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham

1954 ~ The Whistling Shadow by Mabel Seeley

1955 ~ The October Country by Ray Bradbury

1957 ~ Tamarac by Margaret Hutchison

1957 ~ also: Twelve Girls in the Garden by Shane Martin

1957 ~ also: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

1957 ~ also: The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier

1958 ~ Robinson by Muriel Spark

1958 ~ also: The Land God Gave to Cain by Hammond Innes

1958 ~ also: The Visitors by Mary McMinnies

1959 ~ The Crab-Apple Tree by Richard Church

1960 ~ Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham

1961 ~ Marnie by Winston Graham

1962 ~ The Satan Bug by Alistair MacLean

1962 ~ also: Hand in Glove by Ngaio Marsh

1964 ~ The Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen

1966 ~ Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

1967 ~ The Owl Service by Alan Garner

1968 ~ Greensleeves by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

1968 ~ also: Chocky by John Wyndham

1971 ~ The Little Broomstick by Mary Stewart

1972 ~ The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

1972 ~ also: The Twelfth Mile by E.G. Perrault

1973 ~ Saint Jack by Paul Theroux

1973 ~ also The Victorian Album by Evelyn Berckman

1974 ~ The Man from Greek and Roman by James Goldman

1975 ~ Stranger at Wildings by Madeleine Brent

1976 ~ Playground by John Buell

1978 ~ Beauty by Robin McKinley

1978 ~ also: The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays by Mordecai Richler

1982 ~ The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

1984 ~ Volkswagen Blues by Jacques Poulin

1989 ~ A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

1990 ~ Closed at Dusk by Monica Dickens

1991 ~ Cabin at Singing River by Chris Czajkowski

1992 ~ Acquired Tastes by Peter Mayle

1996 ~ The Moorchild by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

1996 ~ also: A Peaceful Retirement by Miss Read

1997 ~ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

1998 ~ The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

1999 ~ No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

An Incomplete Century of Books – 2017 version – 1900 to 1999

I set out in 2017 to complete a second Century project, but somewhere lost my way. Here are the ones I managed to get reviews up for. Trying again to do it start to finish in 2018.

1900 ~ The Visits of Elizabeth by Elinor Glyn

1900 ~ Also: Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome

1901 ~ The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed

1901 ~ Also: On the Other Side of the Latch by Sara Jeannette Duncan

1906 ~ The Slave of Silence by Fred M. White 

1922 ~ The Lark by E. Nesbit

1926 ~ Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1928 ~ Bitter Heritage by Margaret Pedler

1930 ~ Twice Dead by E.M. Channon

1934 ~ Wonder Cruise by Ursula Bloom

1934 ~ Also: Shabby Tiger by Howard Spring

1936 ~ Little G by E.M. Channon

1938 ~ Swiss Sonata by Gwethalyn Graham

1939 ~ Tryst by Elswyth Thane

1941 ~ Shelter by Marguerite Steen

1942 ~ The Angel with the Trumpet by Ernst Lothar

1945 ~ Portrait of Adrian by Ursula Orange

1946 ~ Chloe Marr by A.A. Milne

1947 ~ The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck

1947 ~ Also: Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson

1948 ~ A Candle for St. Jude by Rumer Godden

1950 ~ The Spanish Gardener by A.J. Cronin

1951 ~ The Loved and Envied by Enid Bagnold

1953 ~ The Foolish Immortals by Paul Gallico

1953 ~ Also: A Sunset Touch by Howard Spring

1954 ~ Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson

1955 ~ Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute

1956 ~ Death in Cyprus by M.M. Kaye

1957 ~ Thalia by Frances Faviell

1959 ~ A Chelsea Concerto by Frances Faviell

1961 ~ The Removers by Donald Hamilton

1974 ~ Country Chronicle by Gladys Taber

A Century of Books – 1900 to 1999

Inspired by Simon’s personal challenge, detailed here on his Stuck-in-a-Book blog post, I have decided to join in the 2014 Century of Books. The plan is to read a book for every year of the 20th century and review them on our personal blogs. To help keep track of the Century reviews, I’ll be listing and linking them on this page.

My personal goal is to complete the challenge by December 31, 2014. I am aiming to read books which are either new-to-me, or ones which I haven’t read for many years. I have quite a few prospective reads already picked out, as I’ve been planning to participate in this project for quite some time, after reading the posts of other bloggers who’ve tackled it in the past.

1900 ~ Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant.

1901 ~  My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

1902 ~ Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

1903 ~ Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

1903 ~ Also: Brewster’s Millions by Richard Greaves aka George Barr McCutcheon

1904 ~ The Treasure by Selma Lagerlöf

1904 ~ Also: Green Mansions by W.H. Hudson

1904 ~ Also: Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

1905 ~ The Princess Priscilla’s Fortnight  by Elizabeth von Arnim

1905 ~ Also: The Orchid by Robert Grant

1905 ~ Also: Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

1906 ~ The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1906 ~ Also: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

1907 ~  New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin

1908 ~ The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

1908 ~ Also: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies

1908 ~ Also: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

1909 ~ A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

1910 ~ Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by The Baroness Orczy

1911 ~ A Safety Match by Ian Hay

1912 ~ Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

1912 ~ Also: Olivia by O. Douglas (Original title: Olivia in India)

1913 ~ Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber

1914 ~ The Little Straw Wife by Margaret Belle Houston

1915 ~ For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil

1916 ~ Non-Combatants and Others by Rose Macaulay

1917 ~ The Setons by O. Douglas (Anna Buchan)

1918 ~ Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert Jenkins

1919 ~ Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim

1919 ~ Also: Jeremy by Hugh Walpole

1920 ~ Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

1920 ~ Also: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1921 ~ Her Father’s Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter

1922 ~ Humbug by E.M. Delafield

1923 ~ Jeremy and Hamlet by Hugh Walpole

1924 ~ The Green Bay Tree by Louis Bromfield

1924 ~ Also: The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield (Fisher)

1925 ~ Love by Elizabeth von Arnim

1926 ~ Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West

1927 ~ Jalna by Mazo de la Roche

1927 ~ Also: Jeremy at Crale by Hugh Walpole

1928 ~ The Basil and Josephine Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1929 ~ Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

1930 ~ Staying with Relations by Rose Macaulay

1931 ~ Highland Fling by Nancy Mitford

1932 ~ Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield

1932 ~ Also: Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford

1933 ~ The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God by George Bernard Shaw

1934 ~ The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull

1935 ~ Susan and Joanna by Elizabeth Cambridge

1936 ~ The American Flaggs by Kathleen Norris

1937 ~ The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett

1938 ~ The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe by Erle Stanley Gardner

1938 ~ Also: Kindling by Nevil Shute (Original title: Ruined City)

1938 ~ Also: Claudia by Rose Franken

1939 ~ Claudia and David by Rose Franken

1940 ~ The English Air by D.E. Stevenson

1940 ~ Also: The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County by Edgar Rice Burroughs

1941 ~ The Blind Man’s House by Hugh Walpole

1941 ~ Also: Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes

1942 ~ Crooked Adam by D.E. Stevenson

1942 ~ Also: Assignment in Brittany by Helen MacInnes

1942 ~ Also: Pied Piper by Nevil Shute

1942 ~ Also: The Sea-Gull Cry by Robert Nathan

1942 ~ Also: West with the Night by Beryl Markham

1943 ~ Lady in Waiting by Rory Gallagher

1944 ~ Yours is the Earth by Margaret Vail

1945 ~ The Gilded Ladder by Laura Conway (aka Hebe Elsna ~ both are pseudonyms of Dorothy Phoebe Ansle)

1945 ~ Also: Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

1946 ~ My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin

1946 ~ Also: The Sudden Guest by Christopher La Farge

1947 ~ The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

1948 ~ North Face by Mary Renault

1948 ~ Also: Beowulf  by Bryher

1949 ~ The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams

1949 ~ Also: The Black Opal by Dorothy Maywood Bird

1949 ~ Also: Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple

1949 ~ Also: My Heart Shall Not Fear by Josephine Lawrence

1949 ~ Also: Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

1950 ~ Little Britches by Ralph Moody

1951 ~ Harem Scare’m by Rosemary Taylor

1951 ~ Also: Death on Milestone Buttress by Glyn Carr

1951 ~ Also: The Houses in Between by Howard Spring

1951 ~ Also: Neither Five Nor Three by Helen MacInnes

1952 ~ Harpoon Venture by Gavin Maxwell

1953 ~ A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz

1954 ~ My Mother-in-Law by Celeste Andrews Seton

1954 ~ Also: The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston

1955 ~ Mamma by Diana Tutton

1955 ~ Also: Trumpets Over Merriford by Reginald Arkell

1956 ~ Greenwillow by B.J. Chute

1956 ~ Also: The Visiting Moon by Celia Furse

1956 ~ Also: At Home in India by Cynthia Bowles

1957 ~ Repent at Leisure by Joan Walker

1957 ~ Also: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr

1958 ~ Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart

1959 ~ Station Wagon in Spain by Frances Parkinson Keyes

1959 ~ Also: Looking Up by Jane Boyle Needham & Rosemary Taylor

1960 ~ Pomp and Circumstance by Noël Coward

1961 ~ No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym

1962 ~ The Year of the Dream by Jane Collier

1962 ~ Also: The Shapes of Sleep by J.B. Priestley

1962 ~ Also: Something Wholesale by Eric Newby

1962 ~ Also: Ellison Wonderland by Harlan Ellison

1962 ~ Also: The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer

1963 ~ The Blue Sapphire by D.E. Stevenson

1963 ~ Also: Almost Like Sisters by Betty Cavanna

1963 ~ Also: Inside Daisy Clover by Gavin Lambert

1963 ~ Also: The Ballet Family by Jean Estoril (Mabel Esther Allen)

1964 ~ The Eyes Around Me by Gavin Black

1965 ~ The Sun in Scorpio by Margery Sharp

1965 ~ Also: The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark

1965 ~ Also: The Town in Bloom by Dodie Smith

1966 ~ The Land, The People by Rachel Peden

1967 ~ The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart

1968 ~ The Wind Off the Small Isles by Mary Stewart

1969 ~ Gerald and Elizabeth by D.E. Stevenson

1969 ~ Also: Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer

1969 ~ Also: Life with Daktari by Susanne Hart

1970 ~ Lovers All Untrue by Norah Lofts

1971 ~ Tregaron’s Daughter by Madeleine Brent

1972 ~ Charlotte by Norah Lofts

1973 ~ Deck with Flowers by Elizabeth Cadell

1974 ~ Look Back with Love by Dodie Smith

1975 ~ The Second Mrs. Giaconda by E.L. Konigsburg

1976 ~ Afternoon of a Good Woman by Nina Bawden

1977 ~ Life is a Banquet by Rosalind Russell and Chris Chase

1977 ~ Also: The Etruscan Smile by Velda Johnston

1977 ~ Also: Make a Cow Laugh by John Holgate

1977 ~ Also: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

1978 ~ Look Back with Mixed Feelings by Dodie Smith

1978 ~ Also: The Girl From the Candle-Lit Bath by Dodie Smith

1978 ~ Also: Within This Wilderness by Feenie Ziner

1979 ~ Look Back with Astonishment by Dodie Smith

1980 ~ Solomons Seal by Hammond Innes

1981 ~ Dodgem by Bernard Ashley

1982 ~ The Motive on Record by Dell Shannon

1983 ~ The Maze in the Heart of the Castle by Dorothy Gilman

1984 ~ Never a Dull Moment by Peggy Holmes

1985 ~ Look Back with Gratitude by Dodie Smith

1986 ~ Beyond the Blue Horizon by Alexander Frater

1987 ~ The Silk Vendetta by Victoria Holt

1988 ~ A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark

1989 ~ Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love (a.k.a. Indian Dust) by Rumer & Jon Godden

1990 ~ Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater

1991 ~ Family Money by Nina Bawden

1992 ~ Every Living Thing by James Herriot

1992 ~ Also: Dunster by John Mortimer

1993 ~ The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

1994 ~ Under the Hammer by John Mortimer

1995 ~ Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner

1995 ~ Also: Therapy by David Lodge

1996 ~ Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith by Valerie Grove

1997 ~ The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett

1998 ~ Stardust by Neil Gaiman

1999 ~ The Water in Between by Kevin Patterson