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Challenge yourself to read a book from each decade from 1900 to present day. (Please use original publication date, not re-issue date.)
You have 1 year to complete the challenge. (January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020) Sign up early and start counting your books NOW.
Good Luck & Have Fun.
(Copy and paste the decade list into the comment box below and then fill in the book title/author/year next to the correct decade once you've finished the book. To add books just click edit and add your book, no need to keep posting your entire list over and over.)

Ready ... Set ... Read :)

1900 - 1909 -
1910 - 1919 -
1920 - 1929 -
1930 - 1939 -
1940 - 1949 -
1950 - 1959 -
1960 - 1969 -
1970 - 1979 -
1980 - 1989 -
1990 - 1999 -
2000 - 2009 -
2010 - 2019 -
2020 ------- -

1900 - 1909 - The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy (1905)
1910 - 1919 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1910)
1920 - 1929 - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
1930 - 1939 - The Good Master by Kate Seredy (1935) TBR
1940 - 1949 - Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945)
1950 - 1959 - And Where Were You, Adam? by Heinrich Böll (1951) TBR
1960 - 1969 - One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
1970 - 1979 - The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart (1970)
1980 - 1989 - Different Seasons by Stephen King (1982)
1990 - 1999 - Naked In Death - J.D. Robb (1995)
2000 - 2009 - The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks (2003)
2010 - 2019 - Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (2013)
2020 ------- -

I should be able to do this because I'm in two groups that are intentionally reading some older books.

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I love doing this every year! Thanks, Edwina <3

1900 - 1909 - The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois – pub 1903 – read 4/25/20
1910 - 1919 - Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie – pub 1911 - read book (1904-play) – read 3/5/20
1920 - 1929 - To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - pub 1927 - read 12/3/20
1930 - 1939 - The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck - pub 1931 - read 12/7/20
1940 - 1949 – Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis – pub 1943 – read 3/2/20
1950 - 1959 - Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya - pub 1954 - read 9/1/20
1960 - 1969 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou – pub 1969 – read 3/8/20
1970 - 1979 - The Shining – Stephen King – pub 1977 – read 4/30/20
1980 - 1989 - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey – pub 1989 – read 4/7/20
1990 - 1999 - The Secret History – Donna Tartt – pub 1992 – read 3/30/20
2000 - 2009 - Thud #31 Discworld – Terry Pratchett – pub 2005 - read 3/10/20
2010 - 2019 – Hidden Bodies – Caroline Kepnes – pub 2016 – read 1/7/20
2020 ----- - Lost – James Patterson – pub 2020 – read 4/22/20
13/13 DONE - COMPLETED 12/7/2020

I'm in again. Looking forward to great reads... and inspiring book lists. Find my preliminary list of "12 Volumes of Representative Fiction from 120 and 1 Years of World Literature" on my book blog Edith's Miscellany.

1900 - 1909 - 1901 - The Fall of the King by Johnnes V. Jensen (read: Feb 19, 2020)
1910 - 1919 -
1920 - 1929 -
1930 - 1939 - 1933 - Industrial Park by Patrícia Galvão (read: Jan 24, 2020)
1940 - 1949 -
1950 - 1959 -
1960 - 1969 -
1970 - 1979 -
1980 - 1989 - 1987 - The Rainy Day Man by Amnon Jackont (read: Mar 07, 2020)
1990 - 1999 -
2000 - 2009 - 2003 - The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay (read: Jan 24, 2020)
2010 - 2019 -
2020 ------- -

My favorite challenge!

1900 - 1909 - (Old Rose and Silver, In the Days of the Comet, Betty Wales, Freshman.)
1910 - 1919 - (Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter - 1913)
1920 - 1929 - (The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - 1920)
1930 - 1939 - (Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante - 1938)
✓1940 - 1949 - The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson (1948)
1950 - 1959 - (The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare - 1958)
1960 - 1969 -
1970 - 1979 - (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - 1979)
1980 - 1989 - (The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazard - 1980)
✓1990 - 1999 - Beach Music by Pat Conroy (1995)
✓2000 - 2009 - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
✓2010 - 2019 - Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks (2018)
✓2020 - Find Me by Anne Frasier

I'll try.

1900 - 1909 -
1910 - 1919 -
1920 - 1929 - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927, completed)
1930 - 1939 - The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1939, completed)
1940 - 1949 -
1950 - 1959 - Notes Of A Native Son by James Baldwin (1955, completed)
1960 - 1969 -
1970 - 1979 - Man Ray: Masters of Photography Series (1973, completed)
1980 - 1989 - The Book of Qualities by J. Ruth Gendler (1984, completed)
1990 - 1999 - Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin (completed)
2000 - 2009 - Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall by Amy Chua (2007, completed)
2010 - 2019 - Slaves to Fortune by Tom Lanoye (2019, completed)
2020 - My Hair is Magic! by M.L. Marroquin (2020, completed)

I'll join! Thanks Edwina. :)
Jan 2020

This is the first challenge I've done and I am enjoying it so far. Didn't think I'd be able to cope but have a few more left so lets see how it goes. It's been interesting to see what everyone else is reading.
Aug 2020

All done! Can't believe it! Yay!! Thanks so much for organizing this. It was heaps of fun.
October 2020

1900 - 1909 – The Immoralist by Andre Gide (1902)

1910 - 1919 – The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan (1915)

1920 - 1929 – A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924)

1930 - 1939 – Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

1940 - 1949 – Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)

1950 - 1959 – The Quiet American by Graham Greene (1955)

1960 - 1969 – The Spy who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963)

1970 - 1979 – The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, translated into English by Edward Seidensticker (1970)

1980 - 1989 – Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje (1982)

1990 - 1999 – Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (1991)

2000 - 2009 – Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)

2010 - 2019 – Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (2017)

2020 - The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan (2020)

I was short by one book last year - maybe I'll do better this year.

1900 - 1909 - The Jungle - Upton Sinclair (1905)
1910 - 1919 -Anne's House of Dreams - L.M. Montgomery (1917)
1920 - 1929 -Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne (1926)
1930 - 1939 -Little House in the Big Woods- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)
1940 - 1949 -The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis (1942)
1950 - 1959 - The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson (1959)
1960 - 1969 - One Small Candle: The Pilgrims' First Year in America - Thomas J. Fleming (1964)
1970 - 1979 - A Quiet Life - Beryl Bainbridge (1976)
1980 - 1989 - Beloved - Toni Morrison (1987)
1990 - 1999 -Snow Falling on Cedars- David Guterson (1994)
2000 - 2009 -Blue Diary - Alice Hoffman (2001)
2010 - 2019 -Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America- Eliza Griswold (2018)
2020 - Naked Came the Florida Man - Tim Dorsey (2020)

Finished on Dec. 28th - Whew!

I'll give it a try. And I will add all books I read, so that at the end of the year I can see from what decades I read more and/or less and maybe even change it up a little bit next year.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
1900 - 1909 -
1910 - 1919 -
1920 - 1929 -
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (1920)
1930 - 1939 -
1940 - 1949 -
1950 - 1959 -
1960 - 1969 -
1970 - 1979 -
1980 - 1989 -
1990 - 1999 -
2000 - 2009 -
Where Would I Be Without You? by Guillaume Musso (2009)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
2010 - 2019 -
The Power by Naomi Alderman (2016)
The Last by Hanna Jameson (2019)
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (2014)
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (2018)
Normal People by Sally Rooney (2018)
2020 ------- -

LAst year I didn't make it :)

This year I will try again!

1900 - 1909 -
1910 - 1919 -
1920 - 1929 -
1930 - 1939 -
1940 - 1949 -
1950 - 1959 -
1960 - 1969 -
1970 - 1979 -
1980 - 1989 -
1990 - 1999 - Brida (1990)
2000 - 2009 - An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
2010 - 2019 - De schilder en het meisje (2010)
2020

I didn’t try last year. This year I will... if I remember.
1900 - 1909 - The Heart of Darkness (1902)
1910 - 1919 -
1920 - 1929 -
1930 - 1939 - Bengal Nights (1933)
1940 - 1949 - De stilte der zee (1942)
1950 - 1959 - On The Beach (1957)
1960 - 1969 -
1970 - 1979 - Troubles (1970)
1980 - 1989 - Beloved (1987)
1990 - 1999 - Anna's Book (1993)
2000 - 2009 - People of the Book (2008)
2010 - 2019 - A Woman Is No Man (2019)
2020 ------- -

I have a question about Peter Pan. The last page says it was first written as a play and produced on the London stage in 1904. The play was a great success, and Barrie published the story in book form in 1911.

So which decade should I count it in 1900's or 1910's?

Great book BTW!

Diane wrote: "I have a question about Peter Pan. The last page says it was first written as a play and produced on the London stage in 1904. The play was a great success, and Barrie published the story in book f..."

If you read the play then 1900.
If you read the book then 1910.

Just a reminder to update this every once in a while.
:)

i have 3 left to read (20, 30 and 50) and have my books picked out for them

Finished my 1950 read today:
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya - READ 9/1/20

How is everyone doing with this challenge?
Looks like I still need to read 3 more books to finish it up.
Kind of got distracted by my other challenges. lol

My next 2 books will be 1920 and 1930 to complete this challenge.

I'm just finishing up my 1950s book. This may be the only challenge I finish this year.

not the "only" challenge. Looks like we'll both finish our GoodReads Reading Challenge goal. :)

Oh, yeah! Thanks for pointing that out, Diane :-)

Great job finishing, K M!!!

I just finished this challenge today!

Good Luck everyone
Enjoy your Reading!
Stay Healthy & Happy Holidays!

Not so fast on the congrats, Diane. From the "What was I thinking??" file: I was mistaken. I had been finishing up Peter Camenzind, somehow thinking it was my 50s book. It was actually a book from the monthly challenge ( 13th book on the shelf or something like that). When I finished, I started thinking about all the Hermann Hesse books I read in high school, and thought, no way was P. C. written in the 50s, especially if it was Hesse's first book. So, I looked at the copyright info, and sure enough, it was 1904! Nowhere near the 50s. Then I scrambled to find a short book from that decade and came up with The Haunting of Hill House. Better get busy with it.

Congratulations to you on finishing the Decades challenge, Diane.

thank you

Officially finished on December 28, and used the book (The Haunting of Hill House) in the other challenge as well!

Saw an item on local news last night about how the Little Free Libraries are very active in our town right now, so I think I'll be releasing some of these challenge books into them tomorrow.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Congratulations to those whom have finished this challenge!
Happy Reading and Happy New Year To All.

It was a good challenge!! Thanks so much for organising, Edwina. Happy New Year everyone!!