Decades Challenge Complete!

I read a lot more consecutive decades in 2007, but I still had fun reading my choices and enjoyed the challenge.  I just decided to list all the books that fit a particular decade.

My favorites were probably the oldest book, Dracula and the first three books of the Anne of Green Gables series. Maus I and II were my favorites of the newer titles.

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What I read:

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)

1940’s

• Embers by Sandor Marai

1950’s

• 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)

1970’s

• 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

1980’s

• 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

1990’s

• 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