Decades 09

Challenge: to read a minimum of nine books from nine consecutive decades

For this project, I will be focusing mostly on 20th century and late 19th century classics, travelling downwards from the 1960s.

*  re-reads

1960s

1962: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

1962: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

1963: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

1963: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

1964: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl *

1966: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

1950s

1950: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

1951: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

1951: The Grass Harp by Truman Capote

1952: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis *

1940s

1942: The Stranger by Albert Camus

1943: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry *

1945: Animal Farm by George Orwell *

1947: The Pearl by John Steinbeck

1930s

1931: The Waves by Virginia Woolf

1930: Swallows & Amazons by Arthur Ransome *

1934: Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

1934: Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1920s

1922: Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf

1924: A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

1925: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald *

1926: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

1926: Mary, Vladimir Nabokov

1910s

1911: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

1915: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

1919: Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

1900s

1902: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

1906: The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

1908: A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

1903: The Ambassadors by Henry James

1890s

1890: Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

1897: Dracula by Bram Stoker

1880s

1880: Heidi by Johanna Spyri

1880: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1885: King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard *

1880: Washington Square by Henry James