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2020 Classic Decades Challenge

*Original challenge inspiration from Bookworm Bitches*

This challenge is designed for you to read a book set or published in each decade a month.

- You may go in any order you prefer.
- Below is a template if you so choose to go chronologically.
- The decades included are all considered classics (50+ years).
- All books must be read in 2020.

Below is a link to a Goodreads list for a particular decade if you are having trouble. The link also includes various links to other books in various decades.

Decade Book Suggestions: Best Books of the Decade - 1860 & More


2020 Classic Decades Challenge
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2020.
Completed:

1. January (1850 -1859)
2. February (1860 - 1869)
3. March (1870 - 1879)
4. April (1880 - 1889)
5. May (1890 - 1899)
6. June (1900 - 1909)
7. July (1910 - 1919)
8. August (1920 - 1929)
9. September (1930 - 1939)
10. October (1940 - 1949)
11. November (1950 - 1959)
12. December (1960 - 1969)

Completed Participants
Jazzy

2020 Classic Decades Challenge

12/12

✅ 1. January (1850 -1859)
The History of Rome, Vol 1 (1854) - Theodor Mommsen

✅ 2. February (1860 - 1869)
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) - Christina Rossetti

✅ 3. March (1870 - 1879)
Les Vaines Tendresses (1875) - Sully Prudhomme

✅ 4. April (1880 - 1889)
The Happy Prince (1888) - Oscar Wilde

✅ May (1890 - 1899)
The Lady with the Little Dog (1899) - Anton Chekhov

✅ 6. June (1900 - 1909)
The Secret Key, and Other Verses (1906) - George Essex Evans

✅ 7. July (1910 - 1919)
The Beast in the Cave (1918) - H.P. Lovecraft

✅ 8. August (1920 - 1929)
Big Blonde (1929) - Dorothy Parker

✅ 9. September (1930 - 1939)
A Rose for Emily (1930) - William Faulkner

✅ 10. October (1940 - 1949)
The Little Prince (1943) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

✅ 11. November (1950 - 1959)
The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1957) - Dodie Smith

✅ 12. December (1960 - 1969)
Dune (1965) - Frank Herbert

2020 Classic Decades Challenge
Duration: January 1st - December 31, 2020.
Completed:

1. January (1850 -1859)
2. February (1860 - 1869)
3. March (1870 - 1879)
4. April (1880 - 1889)
5. May (1890 - 1899)
6. June (1900 - 1909)
7. July (1910 - 1919)
8. August (1920 - 1929)
9. September (1930 - 1939)
10. October (1940 - 1949)
11. November (1950 - 1959)
12. December (1960 - 1969)

2020 Classic Decades Challenge
Duration: January 1st - December 31, 2020.
Completed:

1. January (1850 -1859) Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
2. February (1860 - 1869) Litte Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
3. March (1870 - 1879)
4. April (1880 - 1889) The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1882)
5. May (1890 - 1899)
6. June (1900 - 1909) Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (1909)
7. July (1910 - 1919)
8. August (1920 - 1929)
9. September (1930 - 1939) Mary Poppins by P.L Travers (1934)
10. October (1940 - 1949)
11. November (1950 - 1959) East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
12. December (1960 - 1969)

2020 Classic Decades Challenge

Completed: 7/12

1. January (1850 -1859)
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (1st published in 1853)

2. February (1860 - 1869)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (first published in 1865)

3. March (1870 - 1879)
4. April (1880 - 1889)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (first published in 1882)

5. May (1890 - 1899)
6. June (1900 - 1909)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (first published August 1901)

7. July (1910 - 1919)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (first published in 1911)

8. August (1920 - 1929)
9. September (1930 - 1939)
10. October (1940 - 1949)
Faro's Daughter (first published in 1941)

11. November (1950 - 1959)
12. December (1960 - 1969)
True Grit (first published in 1968)

January - The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Published 1851.

I finished this challenge! Good luck to everyone else x

2020 Classic Decades Challenge

Completed: 10/12

1. (1850 -1859) - Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities (1859) 24/05/2020
2. (1860 - 1869) - Louisa M. Alcott Little Women (1868) 05/09/2020
3. (1870 - 1879) - Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) 24/11/2020
4. (1880 - 1889) - Thomas Hardy The Withered Arm (1888) 01/10/2020
5. (1890 - 1899)
6. (1900 - 1909) - E.M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) 26/11/2020
7. (1910 - 1919) - Edith Wharton Summer (1917) 16/09/2020
8. (1920 - 1929) - Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) 28/06/2020
9. (1930 - 1939)
10. (1940 - 1949) - Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) 24/05/2020
11. (1950 - 1959) - William Golding Lord of the Flies (1954) 26/04/2020
12. (1960 - 1969) - Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) 05/07/2020

2020 Classic Decades Challenge
12/12

1. January (1850 - 1859) - Charles Dickens, Hard Times,* (1854), (10/10/20)
2. February (1860 - 1869) - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations,* (1861), (10/20/20)
3. March (1870 - 1879) - Henry James, Daisy Miller, (1878), (09/15/20)
4. April (1880 - 1889) - Robert Lewis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae*, (1889), (09/21/20)
5. May (1890 - 1899) - Henry James, What Maisie Knew*, (1897), (08/11/20)
6. June (1900 - 1909) - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles*, (1902), (09/14/20)
7. July (1910 - 1919) - Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out*, (1915), (07/25/20)
8. August (1920 - 1929) - Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse*, (1927), (07/29/20)
9. September (1930 - 1939) - Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts*, (1933), (09/22/20)
10. October (1940 - 1949) - Albert Camus, The Plague*, (1947), (11/06/20)
11. November (1950 - 1959) - C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Narnia #1, (1955), (08/12/20); C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Narnia #6, (1953), (09/05/20); C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Narnia #7, (1956), (09/08/20)
12. December (1960 - 1969) - Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*, (1961), (08/19/20)

* Listed in Boxall's, 1001 Books to Read Before You Die

I'm going to try this! It looks like fun..😁

2020 Classic Decades Challenge
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2020.
Completed:

1. January (1850 -1859) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

2. February (1860 - 1869) Little Women (1868)

3. March (1870 - 1879)

4. April (1880 - 1889) The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

5. May (1890 - 1899)

6. June (1900 - 1909) The Collected Fiction, Vol. 1: The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures (1906, 1907, 1914, 1915, 1916)
The Wizard of Oz (1900)

7. July (1910 - 1919) Dubliners (1914)
The Moon Pool (1919)

8. August (1920 - 1929) A High Wind In Jamaica (1928)

9. September (1930 - 1939) Turnabout (1931)

10. October (1940 - 1949) Lydia Bailey (1947)
The Tiger and the Rabbit and Other Tales (1946)
Pioneers of Puerto Rico (1944)
Animal Farm (1945)

11. November (1950 - 1959) Find the Feathered Serpent: A Science Fiction Novel (1952)
Miracles On Maple Hill (1956)
Our Man In Havana (1958)
The Secret of Saturn's Rings (1954)
Vault of the Ages (1952)
Vandals of the Void (1953)
Miracles On Maple Hill (1956)

12. December (1960 - 1969) The Birthday Party and the Room (1962)
Island (1962)
Never Cry Wolf (1963)
The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One (1960, 1968)
Soldier, Ask Not (1967)
True Grit (1968)



BONUS:

1820s: A Passage to India (1824)
1840s: Wuthering Heights (1847)

1970s: The Trumpet Of The Swan (1970)

Tim wrote: "2020 Classic Decades Challenge
12/12

1. January (1850 - 1859) - Charles Dickens, Hard Times,* (1854), (10/10/20)
2. February (1860 - 1869) - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations,* (1861), (10/20/20..."

I have completed this challenge for 2020. I enjoyed this challenge more than any in which I have previously participated. Thank you, Elizabeth for setting up and overseeing this challenge. Tim