Anyone want to have a Decades ’08 Challenge? I’ve made up a new blog so you can sign up and post reviews through Mr. Linky. Check the rules out; there are a few minor changes. Hope to see you there!
My choices, which are subject to revision at any time:
1890’s
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
1900’s
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
1910’s
- Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
1920’s
- The Castle by Franz Kafka
1930’s
- Independent People by Halldor Laxness (1934-1935)
- Anthem by Ayn Rand (1938)
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- Things Fall Apart by Achebe (1958)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1960’s
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (a re-read)
- Bear by Marian Engel
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Detective Story by Imre Kertesz
- Transformations by Anne Sexton
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (1988)
- Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Strangers by Taichi Yamada
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
- The Twits by Roald Dahl
- The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
- Darkness Visible by William Styron
- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Anne-Marie MacDonald
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (1997)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Jacob Two Two’s First Spy Case by Mordecai Richler
- Kaddish for a Child Not Born by Imre Kertesz
- Maus II by Art Spiegelman
- Silk by Alessandro Baricco
- Snow by Maxence Fermine
- The Children of Men by P.D. James
