Monday, December 8, 2008

Decades 2009


I thoroughly enjoyed doing the Decades '08 challenge and found that it really made me read outside my comfort zone - so I'm definitely in for Decades 2009 hosted by Michelle from 1MoreChapter.

The challenge is to read a minimum of 9 books in 9 consecutive decades during 2009. All the rules are on the challenge blog. I can't seem to decide on my decades so I'm going to do a longer list of possibles and see how I do. :-)

Completed: 8/9 as of 17 June 2009

1840s
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)

1850s
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)

1860s
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)

1870s
Through the Looking Glass by Lewiss Carroll (1871)
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (1871)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)

1880s
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (1881)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott (1886)
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)

1890s
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1895)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)

1900s
The Wonderul Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery (1909)

1910s
Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter (1913)
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (1915)
Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery (1917)

1920s
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery (1921)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (1925)

1930s
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)
Brave New World by Adolphus Huxley (1932)
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

1940s
The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947)
The Plague by Albert Camus (1948)

1950s
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
Night by Elie Wiesel (1958)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

1960s
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1969)

2 comments:

Ronnica said...

You've got some good books on there!

joanna said...

I couldn't make up my mind so listed way too many! ;-)