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
Great list, 3M! I’m consider rejoining.
Yay! I hope you will, Joy. It’s fun to compare notes.
I’m definitely in. Reading books across time was so much fun for me. I’m glad I got to read so many different ideas and thoughts. I’ll let you know when I post my list. Thanks for hosting this.
Hi 3M!
Congratulations!!! You have won THE ONLY ROAD NORTH by Mirandette! I can’t wait for you to read it.
Please send me your name and address to non_fiction_five_challenge at yahoo dot com, and I’ll send it out to you within the next couple of days.
Joy
Yeah!! I’ll be in for a Decades challenge part 2!! I am working to finish up the rest of this years by December!!
Tenant of Wildfell Hall was really good! I read it this year!! If you check out my list of books read, you can even read my review!
Great list!
This sounds really fun! I have a couple of questions though. Do you have to read them in order or can you skip around? And do you have to limit yourself to one every month?
Hi, Karen! you can skip around–you don’t have to read them in order. You can also read them as fast or as slow as you want, as long as you finish 8 books in 8 consecutive decades!
I have actually read 8 of the books on your list and two of them are on my top ten favorite books of all time–Middlemarch and The Poisonwood Bible. I hope you enjoy them! This sounds like a great challenge.
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