100 Years of Books

100 Years of Books

A new project for 2014, 2015 and beyond – 100 years  and 100 books.

I have read 43 of 100 books – 57 to go!

1850 –
1851 –
1852 –
1853 – Bleak House by Charles Dickens
1854 – Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern
1855 –
1856 –
1857 –
1858 –
1859 –
1860-
1861 –
1862 –
1863 – The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
1864 –
1865 – Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
1866 – Griffith Gaunt by Charles Reade
1867 – Cometh Up as a Flower by Rhoda Broughton
1868 –
1869 –
1870 –
1871 –
1872 –
1873 –
1874 –
1875 –
1876 –
1877 –
1878 – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
1879 – Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer
1880 –
1881 – Policy and Passion by Rosa Praed
1882 –
1883 –
1884 – Jill by Amy Dillwyn
1885 –
1886 – A World of Girls by L T Meade
1887 – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
1888 – The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy
1889 –
1890 –
1891 – Mona and True Love’s Reward by Mrs Georgie Sheldon
1892 –
1893 – In the Vine Country by Somerville & Ross
1894 – Esther Waters by George Moore
1895 – The Young Pretenders by Edith Henrietta Fowler
1896 –
1897 –
1898 –
1899 –
1900 –
1901 –
1902 –
1903 – The Girl Behind the Keys by Tom Gallon
1904 –
1905 –
1906 –
1907 – The Twelfth Hour by Ada Leverson
1908 –
1909 –
1910 – The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
1911 – Mr Perrin and Mr Traill by Hugh Walpole
1912 – Alexander’s Bridge by Willa Cather
1913 –
1914 –
1915 – I Pose by Stella Benson
1916 –
1917 –
1918 – The Man Who Lost Himself by Henry de Veere Stacpoole
1919 –
1920 – The Adventurous Lady by J C Snaith
1921 –
1922 –
1923 – None-Go-By by Mrs Alfred Sidgwick
1924 – Still She Wished for Company by Margaret Irwin
1925 – The Mother’s Recompense by Edith Wharton
1926 – Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1927 – Red Sky at Morning by Margaret Kennedy
1928 – Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
1929 – Modesta by G B Stern
1930 – The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield
1932 – Three Fevers by Leo Walmsley
1933 –
1934 – Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell
1935 – Four Gardens by Margery Sharp
1936 –
1937 – Enchanter’s Nightshade by Ann Bridge
1938 – The Wild Geese by Bridget Boland
1939 – Nine Pounds of Luggage by Maud Parrish
1940 – The English Air by D E Stevenson
1941 – The Castle on the Hill by Elizabeth Goudge
1942 –
1943 –
1944 –
1945 – Haxby’s Circus by Katharine Susannah Prichard
1946 –
1947 –
1948 –
1949 – The Auction Sale by C. H. B. Kitchin

7 responses

    • A bit of both – I’m reading the books I want to read and filling years as I can, but I also have a notebook with a page per year to note possible titles that I’ll use when I need to.

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  2. You never seem to see these sort of books in second hand shops any more – it’s just (unfortunately!) the last few Richard and Judy selections! Totally rubbish, I think!

  3. I agree with crimeworm.I have given up looking in charity/secondhand shops for gems.It is such a shame.I think some charity shops bin odd or older books in favour of new paperbacks which can be read from the library for free.

    • I’d love to find some Golden Age crime (not originals, obviously, but from the 70s or 80s) – even some Ross MacDonald books, but it’s the same tripe in every shop – sometimes more than one copy of each book. I remember all of the elderly widows and unmarried women in our tiny village had tons of books. And they all took a broadsheet every day, and loved doing the crossword. Of course, nowadays you’d be told not to go in anyone’s house, probably quite rightly! But it was a tiny village on the Isle of Mull – so quiet!

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