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Decade Challenge

This will run all year.
The idea is to try to read and record ONE book originally published in each decade listed. Your end result should be a list of the 22 decades posted here, with one book you've read beside each decade. (Feel free to cut and paste the template below to get started.)

Some members will have posted a mockup of this challenge in their personal goal threads, for ease of organization. This is the official thread for posting lists and sharing ideas about how to complete this challenge.

Also, GR does a "Best Books of ____" by decade, which is really helpful. You can access through LISTOPIA or Google "Best Books of (decade/year)" to get to them.

Personally, I really love the way this challenge forces me to read beyond my comfort zone.

Decade Challenge
(Original publication date)

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:
1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989:
1990-1999:
2000-2009:
2010-2019:

I am in for this one again.

1800- 1809: Marmion by Walter Scott
1810 - 1819: Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann
1820 -1829: Konrad Wallenrod by Adam Mickiewicz
1830 - 1839: Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
1840-1849: La mare au diable by George Sand
1850- 1859: The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell
1860- 1869: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
1870- 1879: The House on the Beach by George Meredith
1880-1889: Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
1890 - 1899: The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
1900- 1909: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox Jr.
1910 - 1919: The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
1920 - 1929: The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
1930 - 1939: The Floating Admiral by Dorothy L. Sayers
1940 - 1949: Music at the Close by Edward Mccourt
1950-1959: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
1960-1969: Ox Bells and Fireflies by Ernest Buckler
1970-1979: Postscript To Adventure: The Autobiography Of Ralph Connor
1980-1989: Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing by Tomson Highway
1990-1999: Les Jardins de lumière by Amin Maalouf
2000-2009: Deafening by Frances Itani
2010-2019: Judas by Amos Oz

I have never completed this one, but find it so interesting! I hope to broaden my reading this year and at least complete 1900-2019!

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:


1900-1909: Just-So Stories (1902)
1910-1919: The Secret Garden (1911)
1920-1929:
1930-1939: Mary Poppins (1934)
1940-1949: The Long Winter (1940)
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979: The First Four Years (1971)
1980-1989:
1990-1999: In the Dark (1999)
2000-2009: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
2010-2019: Becoming (2018)

I’m in for this one!

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
✔️1850-1859: The Lifted Veil George Eliot 110 p.
29 march 2019 4 stars
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
✔️1880-1889: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 416 p. 19 january 2019 3 stars
✔️1890-1899: Hunger Knut Hamsun 134 p. 7 january 2019 4 stars first published 1890
✔️1900-1909:
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 304 p. 29 january 2019 3 stars
1907
✔️1910-1919:
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 230 p. 29 january2019 3 stars
1913
✔️1920-1929: IN OUR TIME Ernest Hemingway 213 p. 1/11/19 4 stars first published 1925
✔️1930-1939: Ali and Nino Kurban Said 288 p. 18 january 2019 4 stars
✔️1940-1949: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Agatha Christie 294 p. 17 january 2019 3 stars
✔️1950-1959: The Poisoned Crown Maurice Druon 294 p. 13/1/19 4 stars
✔️1960-1969: The Pale Horse Agatha Christie 259 p. 24 march 2019 3 stars
✔️1970-1979:
Het doek valt Agatha Christie 224 p. 31 january 2019 4 stars 1975
1980-1989:
✔️1990-1999: You Belong To Me Mary Higgins Clark 384 p. 1/7/2019 3 stars first published 1998
✔️2000-2009: The Burning Bridge John Flanagan 262 p. 1/13/19 3 stars
✔️2010-2019: Crudo Olivia Laing 1 january 2019 4 stars

I’ll give this one a shot!

Renee’s Decade Challenge 2019
(Original publication date)

1800-1809: The Lay of the Last Minstrel
1810-1819: The Absentee**
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899: The Picture of Dorian Gray**

1900-1909: Love Among the Chickens**
1910-1919: Piccadilly Jim**
1920-1929: The Mysterious Affair at Styles**
1930-1939: The Murder at the Vicarage**
1940-1949: Crooked House**
1950-1959: Ordeal by Innocence**
1960-1969: Hallowe'en Party
1970-1979: The Quick and the Dead**
1980-1989: The Witches**
1990-1999: Prince Joe**

2000-2009: A Rather Lovely Inheritance**
2010-2019: Macbeth**

** = finished

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859: A Tale of Two Cities 2/1 1859
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:
1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax 2/1 1966
1970-1979:
1980-1989: The Mist 2/14
1990-1999:
2000-2009: Alice I Have Been 2/1 2009
2010-2019: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2/1 2017

I'll see how many I'll get read.

Decade Challenge
(Original publication date)
(view spoiler)[
1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:
1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979: The Hot Rock 3/21/2019
1980-1989:
1990-1999: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 1/10/2019
2000-2009: Soul Eater, Vol. 06 3/25/2019
2010-2019: The Waiting Room 2/11/2019
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I’ve finished the 20th Century!! Woot Woot!

Way to go, Renee!

I just want to see how many decades I can hit!

(Original publication date)

1800-1809:
1810-1819: Pride and Prejudice
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899: The Time Machine
1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929: The Heart of a Dog
1930-1939: Murder on the Orient Express
1940-1949:
1950-1959: Fahrenheit 451
1960-1969: Flowers For Algernon
1970-1979: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1980-1989: Sourcery
1990-1999: Assassin's Apprentice
2000-2009: Lirael
2010-2019: Beneath the Skin: Great Writers on the Body

Doing this challenge made me realize that I tend toward certain decades more than others.

Me too, I (probably unsurprisingly) mostly read from 2000ish onward. I've been meaning to read more classics anyway and this will help push me to do so.

Decade Challenge (Original publication date)

I'll start this one as well since I have a lot of decades on my TBR list.

Updated: 12/22/2019
15 of 22 decades complete (in bold, others are planned)

1800-1809: Knickerbocker's History of New York
1810-1819: Persuasion
1820-1829: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1830-1839: Nature pub 1836, read 5/8/2019
1840-1849: The Double pub 1846, read 8/10/2019
1850-1859: Walden
1860-1869: Tales of a Wayside Inn 11/14/2019
1870-1879: Anna Karenina or Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
1880-1889: Flatland pub 1884, read 7/21/2019
1890-1899: Importance of Being Earnest
1900-1909: Anne of Green Gables
1910-1919: My Man Jeeves pub 1919, read 1/26/2019
1920-1929: Grand Hotel pub 1929, read 12/1/2019
1930-1939: The Murder at the Vicarage pub 1930, read 12/15/2019
1940-1949: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn pub 1943, read 9/17/2019
1950-1959: Waiting for Godot pub 1952, read 6/19/2019
1960-1969: Wide Sargasso Sea pub 1966, read 8/29/2019
1970-1979: Watership Down pub 1972, read 11/23/2019
1980-1989: The Color Purple pub 1982, read 5/31/2019
1990-1999: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Women's Work pub 1998, read 4/24/2019
2000-2009: The History of Love pub 2005, read 3/4/2019
2010-2019: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle pub 2018, read 1/5/2019

I finished the challenge (message 3).
I focussed on this challenge because some decades were much easier than others.

Now I can work on my other challenges.