A Century of Books


I saw this at Stuck In A Book and although I don't want to make it a challenge nor to worry about when I complete it I thought it would be fun to make a list as I read. I'm including fiction and non-fiction and books I don't write posts for.

1900
1901
1902 - The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
1903
1904
1905 - The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
1906
1907 - The Longest Journey by E.M.Forster
1908 - The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1909

1910 - Howards End by E.M.Forster
1911 - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
1912 - Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
1913
1914
1915 - The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
1916
1917
1918 - My Antonia by Willa Cather
         - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
         
1919

1920
1921
1922 - The Red House Mystery by A.A.Milne
1923 - The Ladies of Lyndon by Margaret Kennedy
1924 - The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
1925 - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1926
1927 - Crazy Pavements by Beverley Nichols
1928
1929 - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

1930 - The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
1931 - Five Red Herrings by Dorothy Sayers
1932 - Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers
1933 - Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
1934 - Miss Buncle's Book by D.E.Stevenson
1935 - The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh
           Full House by M J Farrell ( Molly Keane)
1936 - South Riding by Winifred Holtby
1937 - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
1938
1939 - One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens

1940
1941
1942 - Danger Point by Patricia Wentworth
1943 - Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh
1944
1945 - Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham
1946 - Westwood by Stella Gibbons
1947
1948 - The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
1949 - A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor

1950 - The Summer School Mystery by Josephine Bell
1951 - The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
1952 - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
1953 - The Ivory Dagger by Patricia Wentworth
1954 - The Watersplash by Patricia Wentworth 
1955 - The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham
1956 - Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart
1957
1958 - A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
1959 - The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns

1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965 - The Sun in Scorpio by Margery Sharp
1966
1967 - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
1968 - the Secret House of Death by Ruth Rendell
1969 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976 - Rose: My Life in service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison
1977 - Quiet as a Nun - Antonia Fraser
1978 - Tartan Tragedy by Antonia Fraser
1979 - Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden

1980 - The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
1981 - Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
1982 - Union Street by Pat Barker
1983 - The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
1984
1985 - Missus by Ruth Park
1986 - A Taste for Death by P.D.James
1987 - Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1988 - Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
1989 - 'have the men had enough?' by Margaret Forster

1990 - The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
1991 - The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope
1992 - Random Passage by Bernice Morgan
1993 - Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
1994 - Waiting for Time by Bernice Morgan
1995 - Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard
1996 - The Meeting Place by Mary Hocking
1997 - Bound Feet and Western Dress by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
1998 - Ferney by James Long
1999 - The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif


1 comment:

  1. I like this idea! :) And I like your laid back attitude about it! :)

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