Reading with Style discussion

Feel free to post your Five Years Through Summer Plans in this thread.

Still nothing set in stone, and this is 11 entries, so ...

2015 - Where My Heart Used to Beat
2010 - The Lonely Polygamist
2005 - The Sea
2000 - A Conspiracy of Paper
1995 - Dreams of My Russian Summers
1990 - Animal Dreams
1985 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
1980 - The Shooting Party
1975 - Searching for Caleb
1970 - A Bird in the House
1965 - Stoner

My Five Years Through Summer plan

1968 - The Nice and the Good
1973 - The Godwulf Manuscript
1978 - Heartstone
1983 - Tea with the Black Dragon
1988 - The Midnight Club
1993 - The Black Book
1998 - The Simple Truth
2003 - Dirty Work
2008 - The Bodies Left Behind
2013 - Helsinki Blood

Noting down my preferred choices at the moment...

1965/1970 - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1975 - The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor
1980 - Timescape
1985 - Mulengro
1990 - The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
1995 - American Plastic: A Cultural History or Slow River
2000 - Profit Beyond Measure or Learning Journeys: Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders or The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
2005 - Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership or Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine or Spin
2010 - Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business or Speak Swahili, Dammit ! or An Edible History of Humanity or Noise
2015 - From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History or Rust: The Longest War

My possibles. I have 11 so I can have a gap somewhere if I find a book's date is wrong, library takes too long, I want to use the books for other tasks, etc. If all goes well I will finish with 2008.

1963 - Inside Mr. Enderby, The Girls of Slender Means or The Graduate.
1968 - Dragonflight (lexile 940) or The Wedding Group.
1973 - Crash.
1978 - Life: A User's Manual (500+), The Singapore Grip (500+) or The Sea, the Sea.
1983 - A Very Great Profession (non-fic).
1988 - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh or Pratt of the Argus.
1993 - Trainspotting, The Eye in the Door, Strange Pilgrims, Such Times, Stone Cold or The House of Doctor Dee.
1998 - Glamorama (500+), The Sterkarm Handshake (lexile 850), Intimacy or Killing Grounds.
2003 - What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, The Colour or Pirates! (lexile 800).
2008 - The White Tiger, Home, The Sealed Letter, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society or Manhattan Noir 2.
2013 - Million Dollar Outlines (non-fic), Nothing (non-fic), The Cuckoo's Calling, Sisterland, The Detective's Daughter or A Dreadful Murder: The Mysterious Death of Caroline Luard.

Early 20th century, time to represent!

1901 Kim by Rudyard Kipling
1906 Botchan by Natsume Sōseki
1911 The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
1916 Uneasy Money by P.G. Wodehouse
1921 Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
1926 Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
1931 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
1936 A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
1941 Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
1946 The Hollow by Agatha Christie

With my ambition set at 1000% I am destined to fall out of this planning but... I think I should at least got through the first 3-5 NF books.

2014 - Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons
2009 - Australians: Origins to Eureka (Australians #1) by Thomas Keneally
2004 - Kokoda by Paul Ham
1999 - Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney by John Birmingham
1994 - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
1989 - A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
1984 - The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser
1979 - By Myself by Lauren Bacall
1974 - Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
1969 - The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi by Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
1964 - My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin

FYI, I found this site helpful with the older books!
Books of the Century

[Edited: Revised plan for 1994 backward]

1994 - The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller
1989 - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
1984 - The Songbirds of Pain: Stories from the inscape by Garry Douglas Kilworth
1979 - The Matarese Circle (Matarese Dynasty #1) by Robert Ludlum
1974 - The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
1969 - SKIPPED
1964 - My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin OR Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple #10) by Agatha Christie

Two possible lists, depending on what I can find in my house; all books that I already own:

1965 - Stoner by John Edward Williams
1970 - This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
1975 -
1980 - Sundiver by David Brin
1985 - Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
1990 - Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
1995 - Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
2000 - Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness by Tracy Kidder
2005 - Confessions of a Naughty Mommy: How I Found My Lost Libido by Heidi Raykeil
2010 - Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
2015 - Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman

OR

1966 - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
1971 -
1976 - The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg
1981 - The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
1986 - A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
1991 - Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler
1996 - Bound Feet & Western Dress by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
2001 - Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical by Anthony Bourdain
2006 - Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers by Amy Sutherland
2011 - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
2016 - Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

OK, and because I couldn't stop at just 10 books ( I need to bump up my reading through the century, I just kept going:

1951 : The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
1956 : The Burden by Mary Westmacott
1961: Wake in Fright: Filmed as The Outback by Kenneth Cook
1966: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
1971Zee & Co. by Edna O'Brien
1976: Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
1981: The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
1986: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
1991: Regeneration by Pat Barker
1996: We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

My proposed list, with 9 books that I own!

2015 Fifteen Dogs
2010 The Bird Detective : Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds
2005 A Field Guide to Getting Lost
2000 Independence Day: A Broken Heart's Voyage Around the USA
1995 When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
1990 The Eye of the World
1985 Shanghai
1980 Still Life with Woodpecker
1975 Islands in the Stream
1970If Only They Could Talk

Here's my first pass:

1903 The Ambassadors by Henry James

1908 The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
or
1908 The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

1913 Chance by Joseph Conrad
1918 The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1923 A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
1928 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
1933 Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 by Vera Brittain (non-fiction)
1938 Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (non-fiction)
1943 The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

1948 The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
or
1948 The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

1953 Cotillion by Georgette Heyer

1958 The Once and Future King by T.H. White

1963 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

1968 The Dark Ages by Isaac Asimov (non-fiction)

Well OK then --- see my next post below for the booklist I'm going to do instead of the above :)

My plan, starting with the books I need to borrow from the library

1965 Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
1970 Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
1975 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
1980 The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan
1985 Helliconia Winter by Brian W. Aldiss
1990 Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
1995 Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
2000 The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
2005 The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
2010 The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett

My initial plan, although I'll probably make changes later.

2014 (if needed) Long Man by Amy Greene or I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira
2009 The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker or The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
2004 Old Filth by Jane Gardam or The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
1999 To Siberia by Per Petterson or White Oleander by Janet Fitch
1994 The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama or Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
1989 A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle or The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks
1984 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks or Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
1979 So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell or Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
1974 Jaws by Peter Benchley or If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
1969 As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee or The Water is Wide: A Memoir by Pat Conroy
1964 The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence or The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell

Connie wrote: "My initial plan, although I'll probably make changes later.

2014 Long Man by Amy Greene or I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira
20..."

Thanks Connie..... I am doing the same years as you are and I had a gap for 1979....hope you don't mind if I plug your selection into my plan as well.

Ed wrote: "Connie wrote: "My initial plan, although I'll probably make changes later.

2014 Long Man by Amy Greene or I Always Loved You by [author:Robin Olive..."

Sure, we can compare reviews to see whether we liked the same books. Usually I end up switching some of my books to the regular RWS part of the challenge, and changing everything up anyway. But I think the planning is always fun!

Coralie wrote: "My plan, starting with the books I need to borrow from the library

1965 Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
1970 Being There by Jerzy Kosiński
19..."

I think you need ten books by ten different authors and you have Iain Banks on there twice. I'd hate for you to get caught with that!

I'm going to start with:

Stoner 1965
Play It as It Lays 1970

Then, I'm approaching it a little differently. I've made a separate list of the books on my TBR for 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, etc. and I'll pick by my mood at the time. This is a new approach for me. I need a break from planning ahead!

Rachelccameron wrote: "I think you need ten books by ten different authors and you have Iain Banks on there twice. I'd hate for you to get caught with that! "

We treat pseudonyms as different authors so Iain Banks and Iain M. Banks are two different authors for challenge purposes.

My tentative plan:

2014- Death in Venice, California by Vinton Rafe McCabe

2009- In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World by Justine Hardy

2004- Fifteen Years in Hell An Autobiography by Luther Benson

1999- Marcel Proust by Edmund
White

1994 - The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis

1989 - Mouthful of Rocks: Through Africa and Corsica in the French Foreign Legion by Christian Jenning

1984 - The Hostage by Zayd Mutee' Dammaj

1979 - So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

1974 - Ending Up by Kingsley Amis

1969 - The lemon by Mohammed Mrabet

Rachelccameron wrote: "I think you need ten books by ten different authors"

A useful reminder for me, thanks! I had J.G. Ballard twice on my list.

My current plan:

1970: Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
1975: Kate: The Life of Katharine Hepburn by Charles Higham
1980: Death in April by Andrew M. Greeley
1985: Private Screening by Richard North Patterson
1990: Ride With Me, Mariah Montana by Ivan Doig
1995: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
2000: Blessings From the Other Side: Wisdom and Comfort from the Afterlife for this Life by Sylvia Browne
2005: Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
2010: So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
2015: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

That's the plan, we'll see how well I stick to it...

Well, here's another plan:

1880: Washington Square by Henry James

1885: Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant; translated by Margaret Mauldon

1890:

1895:

1900:

1905:

1910:

1915:

1920:

1925: The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

1930: The 42nd Parallel (The U.S.A. Trilogy #1) by John Dos Passos

I just joined this group today, after spending all day yesterday figuring out my lists for the tasks. I have all 30 books, but don't know if I will finish since I'm starting a month late.

My FYTS list:
2014-1969

2014: Sixth Cycle by Darren Wearmouth
2009: The Last Bookstore In America by Amy Stewart
2004: Acadian Redemption by by Warren A. Perrin
1999: Sherlock Holmes and the Frightened Golfer by J.M. Gregson
1994: Breaking The Rules by Ruth Wind
1989: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
1984: The Creep by John T. Foster
1979: Sophie's Choice by William Styron
1974: Sharky's Machine by William Diehl
1969: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

These are all Kindle ebooks, since that's all I read.

Glad to join y'all!

Cindy

⚜Chalmation⚜ wrote: "I just joined this group today, after spending all day yesterday figuring out my lists for the tasks. I have all 30 books, but don't know if I will finish since I'm starting a month late.

My FYTS ..."

Welcome Cindy, hope you enjoy the challenge!

And don't worry, not all of us who are here for the whole season make it through all 30 books :)

Joining late, and only gonna read two-three years...being realistic...I'll keep updating my plan as I go along

2012: Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
2007: Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson (non-fiction)
2002: I Love You, You Idiot by Cathy East Dubowski
1997: tba
1992: tba
1987: tba
1982: tba
1977: tba
1972: tba
1967: tba