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
Fleur in her World 
What an interesting project! Have you pre-selected the books or are you just seeing how they fit in as you go?
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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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!
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!
Very original challenge….I will follow your progress and hope to discover some interesting books as well!