My Progress in A Century of Books

A Century of Books

The challenge is to read a book published in every year of the 20th century. 

I will be tracking this at this link I plan to get more serious about this in 2019 and really go after these books rather than just getting them by chance as I have been doing up to now.

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1913 Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon. Finished August 1, 2020
1914:
1915:
1916 Ambulance No. 10 by Leslie Buswell. Finished October 14, 2020
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1925:
1926 The Misunderstanding by Irene Nemirovsky. Finished December 19, 2019
1927:
1928 Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm. Finished December 1, 2016
1929 Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. Finished June 28, 2023
1930:
1931 Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles. Finished March 16, 2021
1932:
1933:
1934 Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins. Finished October 23, 2020
1935:
1936:
1937 They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer. Finished October 20, 2017
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1940:
1941 The Storm by George R. Stewart. Finished September 25, 2021
1942 The Widening Stain by W. Bolingbroke Johnson. Finished June 16, 2021
1943:
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1945:
1946 The King's General by Daphne du Maurier. Finished September 13, 2019
1947:
1948 The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Finished October 6, 2019
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1951:
1952 Campbell's Kingdom by Hammond Innes. Finished September 3, 2017
1953:
1954:
1955 Red Lights by Simenon. Finished April 16, 2016
1956 Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto. Finished December 15, 2016
1957 On the Beach by Nevil Shute. Finished August 31, 2017
1958 Peace River Country by Ralph Allen. Finished July 7, 2019
1959 The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns. Finished August 28, 2022
1960:
1961 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Finished September 28, 2020
1962:
1963 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Finished December 27, 2018
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1965:
1966 A Stitch in Time by Hilda Kassell. Finished July 14, 2019
1967:
1968:
1969 Fat City by Leonard Gardner. Finished June 1, 2020
1970 A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill. Finished November 10, 2017
1971 Not to Disturb by Muriel Spark. Finished September 8, 2019
1972 Chase by Dean Koontz. Finished February 26, 2015
1973 Love Letters to Baruch by Margaret Lawrence Greene, Finished June 27, 2019
1974 The Last of the Country House Murders by Emma Tennant. Finished July 2, 2020
1975 Crazy Salad by Nora Ephron. Finished August 10, 2021
1976:
1977 Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood. Finished November 4, 2019
1978 Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan. Finished February 1, 2015
1979:
1980:
1981 A Start in Life by Anita Brookner. Finished August 8, 2018
1982:
1983 Pitch Dark by Renata Adler. Finished December 14, 2022
1984:
1985 Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd. Finished February 14, 2018
1986:
1987 The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin. Finished January 26, 2020
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1989:
1990 Is There a Cow in Moscow by Charles Harrington Elster. Finished May 21, 2023
1991 The "Natural Inferiority" of Women, compiled by Tama Starr. Finished May 23, 2016
1992 Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon. Finished May 4, 2023
1993 Biografi by Lloyd Jones. Finished December 29, 2015
1994 Keeper 'n Me by Richard Wagamese. Finished January 11, 2015
1995 Sabriel by Garth Nix. Finished February 20, 2015
1996 White Rabbit by Kate Phillips. Finished December 3, 2018

1997 Frameshift by Robert J. Sawyer. Finished March 14, 2015
1998 Götz and Meyer by David Albahari. Finished December 26, 2015
1999 Death of an Addict by M.C. Beaton. Finished August 20, 2020