The Decades ’09 Challenge is being hosted by Michelle here.

The rules are:

1. Read a minimum of 9 books in 9 consecutive decades in ‘09.
2. Books published in the 2000’s do not count.
3. Titles may be cross-posted with any other challenge.
4. You may change your list at any time.

This is going to suit me well. I love reading books from different periods and reading a book from each year of the 20th century will help me towards my long term goal of having a list of 100 book that I have read and recommend for each year of the 20th century.

It may well change, but here is my initial list, one for each decade of the 20th century.

• The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1909)
• The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (1915)
• The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey (1929)
• Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann(1932)
• Doreen by Barbara Noble(1946)
• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym (1952)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson(1966)
• Mrs palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971)
• The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns(1985)
• Symposium by Muriel Spark (1999)

Eight are from my TBR and one is a book that I have been looking for a good excuse to buy!