A project for 2012 and 2013.

Reading the Twentieth Century: One hundred books, one for each year …

Done !!!

1900 – The Chase of the Ruby by Richard Marsh
1901 – My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
1902 – The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
1903 – The Daughters of a Genius: A Story of Brave Endeavour by Mrs George Horne de Vaizey
1904 – In The Bishop’s Carriage by Miriam Michelson
1905 – The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katherine Green
1906 – A Pixy in Petticoats by John Trevena
1907 – Through The Magic Door by Arthur Conan Doyle
1908 – The Fly on the Wheel – Katherine Cecil Thurston
1909 – The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy
1910 – The City of Beautiful Nonsense by E Temple Thurston
1911 – The Limit by Ada Leverson
1912 – Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
1913 – The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
1914 – The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
1915 – The Rose-Garden Husband by Margaret Widdemer
1916 – Come Out of the Kitchen! by Alice Duer Miller
1917 – Painted Clay by Capel Boake
1918 – Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
1919 – Aleta Day by Francis Marion Benyon
1920 – In The Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim
1921 – The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs
1922 – The Heir by Vita Sackville-West
1923 – The End of the House of Alard by Sheila Kaye-Smith
1924 – The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
1925 – Streamers Waving by G. H. B. Kitchin
1926 – As It Was by Helen Thomas
1927 – The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby
1928 – Cullum by E Arnot Robertson
1929 – The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
1930 – The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
1931 – Gwendra Cove & Other Cornish Sketches by C C Rogers (Lady Vyvyan)
1932 – Conversation Piece by Molly Keane
1933 – High Rising by Angela Thirkell
1934 – Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
1935 – White Ladies by Francis Brett Young
1936 – Monogram by Gladys Bronwyn Stern
1937 – Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson
1938 – Love in Our Time by Norman Collins
1939 – Heaven Lies About Us by Howard Spring
1940 – Rochester’s Wife by D E Stevenson
1941 – The Rich House by Stella Gibbons
1942 – Treveryan by Angela Du Maurier
1943 – The Landslide by Stephen Gilbert
1944 – No More Than Human by Maura Laverty
1945 – When All is Done by Alison Uttley
1946 – Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor
1947 – The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
1948 – Maidens’ Trip by Emma Smith
1949 – The Willow Cabin by Pamela Frankau
1950 – Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
1951 – Lucy Carmichael by Margaret Kennedy
1952 – Catherine Carter by Pamela Hansford Johnson
1953 – Murder in Time by Elizabeth Ferrars
1954 – Yew Hall by Lucy M Boston
1955 – The Tigress on the Hearth by Margery Sharp
1956 – The King of a Rainy Country by Brigid Brophy
1957 – The Happy Ending by Leo Walmsley
1958 – Down to the Sea in Ships by Ursula Bloom
1959 – Mizmaze by Mary Fitt
1960 – The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
1961 – The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
1962 – Coronation by Paul Gallico
1963 – The New Moon with the Old by Dodie Smith
1964 – Memories and Gardens by Marion Howard Spring
1965 – Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
1966 – This January Tale by Bryher
1967 – My Wife Melissa by Francis Durbridge
1968 – Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh
1969 – The Play Room by Olivia Manning
1970 – The Young Ardizzone by Edward Ardizzone
1971 – Penmarric by Susan Howatch
1972 – Limmerston Hall  by Hester W Chapman
1973 – The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
1974 – The Face of Trespass by Ruth Rendell
1975 – Lord of the Far Island by Victoria Holt
1976 – Tea by the Nursery Fire: A Children’s Nanny at the Turn of the Century by Noel Streatfeild
1977 – The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
1978 – A Five Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens
1979 – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
1980 – The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
1981 – Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon
1982 – The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman
1983 – The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
1984 – Mother Love by Domini Taylor
1985 – The Suspect by L R Wright
1986 – Tin Toys by Ursula Holden
1987 – Who Saw Him Die? by Sheila Radley
1988 – The Upstairs People by Jennifer Dawson
1989 – Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
1990 – Closed at Dusk by Monica Dickens
1991 – The Unforgiving by Charlotte Cory
1992 – Great Meadow by Dirk Bogarde
1993 – Pillion Riders by Elisabeth Russell Taylor
1994 – Pippa Passes by Rumer Godden
1995 – Touch and Go by Elizabeth Berridge
1996 – Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark
1997 – The Baby-Snatcher by Ann Cleeves
1998 – 253 by Geoff Ryman
1999 – Buried in Cornwall by Janie Bolitho