Around the Year in 52 Books discussion
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Group Reading Timeline (2020)
1580s - Murder by Misrule1900s - My Ántonia
1940s - The Railwayman's Wife
1940s - Indian No More
1960s - Hidden Figures
Mod
1810s - An Arrangement of Sorts
1810s - The Viscount Who Loved Me
1880s - An Unseen Attraction
1910s - My Brilliant Career
1920s - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1940s-2000s - Une vie
1960s - The British Museum Is Falling Down
1980s - Spirit of Steamboat
1940s- Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific1942-1999- All the Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings
1960s, 1980s, 2000s- The Kite Runner
1980s- The Garden of Evening Mists
1980s- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
2010s-Dopesick
1930s-1940s - The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II1930s-2010s - The Island of Sea Women
1960s - Half of a Yellow Sun
1960s - Where the Crawdads Sing
1970s-2010s - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
1980s - The Last Detective
1990s - Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
1990s - present - Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
2000s - The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
2010s - We Need New Names
2010s - My Sister, the Serial Killer
2018 - 1 the Road
1565 - The Jew of Malta1123-1174 - The Pillars of the Earth
1980s-1930s (its in reverse chronology) Time's Arrow
1979 - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
1710s - Foe
1990s -The Shipping News
2010s - An American Marriage
1920s - Jazz
I am so excited that we are doing this. I love historical fiction, so I think this will be fun. I included in my previous post just books that are set in real historical time. What will the policy be about books set in near (or further) future? For example, I read Childhood's End, written in 1953, set starting in the 1980s, and then moving into the 2080s.Or alternate histories, like The Man in the High Castle, set in the second half of the 20th century, but in an alternate timeline? Just want to know what to add or not?
Again, so excited for this timeline. And thanks for putting in the work!
1885 - To The Bright Edge of the World1989 - The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
1860s - Little Women
2000s - Broken Harbor
2010s - Magpie Murders
I don't tend to read a lot that specifies the year, but these are the ones I could find out:1750s The Foundling
1789 ԳԳé
1950s The Calculating Stars
2010s The Places I've Cried in Public
2020s Parable of the Sower
2059 The Last Day
Fun!2010s: Forged in Desire
1810s: The Duke and I
2010s: The Dry
2050s and 1340s: Doomsday Book
2010s: Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
1610s: Blood Water Paint
1970s: Everything I Never Told You
1940s-1950s: Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
2010s: Overruled
1830s Middlemarch1870s Afterlands
1890s The Night Circus
1930s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1970s Rainey Royal
1990s - 2010s Saint X
1990s Lions
2010s Mad Country
2010s Autumn
2010s American Dirt
2080s FKA USA
Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć - 1990s and 2000sPamiętajcie, że byłem przeciw. Reportaże sądowe - 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Idk, it covers timeline from around 753 BCE to 212 CE.
1921-2001 Red at the Bone2009 Mr. Mercedes
2000 My Year of Rest and Relaxation
1600s-1960s If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
1860s The Gambler
1970s If Beale Street Could Talk
1950s The Secrets We Kept
2010s: Such a Fun Age; Our Stop; Convenience Store Woman1840s: My Plain Jane
1890s: The Picture of Dorian Gray
1314: Why Is Nothing Ever Simple?
1820: A Gathering of Shadows; A Conjuring of Light
1910s Women in Love1910s & 1940x The Alice Network
1950x My Cousin Rachel
1950s The Golden Notebook
2000s Angels & Demons
1390s The Canterbury Tales
1880s King Solomon's Mines
1926 - Silhouette of a Sparrow2010s - The Woman in the Window
1950s - The Hours Before Dawn
1880 - The Witches of New York
2010s - The Silent Patient
1790s - A Tale of Two Cities
2010s - My Sister, the Serial Killer
1980s - Payment in Blood
1970 - Murder on the Red RiverBackdrop to the story was the Vietnam war, but 1970 was referenced in a newspaper date.
1210-1184 BCE - The Song of Achilles - This book starts 16 years before the Trojan War, which historians date at 1194-1184 BCE, and ends when the war does.
2050's Judgment in Death1820-1840 Great Expectations
1840's Unfortunate Emigrants
1960's Something's Happening Here: A Sixties Odyssey from Brooklyn to Woodstock
1931-1945 Papillion
1945 (Bombing of Dresden): Slaughterhouse-Five(and lots of other years too, since Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time, but that's the main one)
1975 (Fall of Saigon) - The Sympathizer
Mod
1840s-1850s - Daughter of Fortune1990s, 2000s - A Woman is No Man
1960s, 2000s - Chances are
1860s-1870s - The Removes
1890s - Moloka'i
1920s - The Paris Wife
1850s - The Wonder
1880s, 2000s = Unsheltered
1890s - The Downstairs Girl1929 - 1929
1930 - 1930
1931 - 1931
1937 - Shanghai Girls
1969 - The Immortalists
1974 - The Great Alone
This what I can figure out.Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. 8th Century BC
Darktown by Thomas Mullen. 1948.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. 1996-1997.
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey. 1921.
Cherokee America by Margaret Verble. 1875
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. 1873-1900
Endurance:Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. 1914
A Woman of No Importance:The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell. 1942
A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles. 1922
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory. 1648
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. 1960-1970
2013-2015 - The Maximum Security Book Club
1970's (really the 1910's - 1970's, but events of 1970's is the real focus) The House of the Spirits
My Dear Hamilton:A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray & Lara Kamoie. 1757-1854
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Rules:
Only submit the books you've finished reading.
Sure, a lot of us have our reading plans solidified for the whole year but plans have a way of changing even when we don't expect it. It is for this reason we ask that you only submit books that you're done reading. This way, if that book you thought you'd love ends up in your did-not-finish pile or you take an unexpected hiatus from the group, we won't have to go back and try and figure out what was or wasn't read and we can end the year with a pretty accurate record.
Around the Year Challenge books only, please.
We're going to limit this to books for the main challenge to keep things simpler. If you want to create your own timeline, the mods would be happy to send you the info on the site used.
Fiction, non-fiction, doesn't matter.
As long as the book is provides reasonable information about the dates in which it takes place, you can share all books read. Some books let us know a general idea of setting (i.e. present time). This timeline is only going to provide books by the decade (with specific years when possible) so a general idea is likely fine.
Multiple years/decades:
For now, you can feel free to include multiple years for a single book. As you will see in the early books added (Recursion, for example), we can list a book once within a decade even if there are multiple years represented. Just keep in mind, your book will likely not be the "Featured Book" for the displayed decade.
Special requests?
I have created a preliminary timeline based on predicted decades. Please just post your book's info in the comments and I can expand the timeline if needed (i.e. before or after current decades)
The software allows the timeline to be updated as soon as I enter data in the source spreadsheet. Just click the link below to see the current graphic. Note, the source spreadsheet will be updated when possible, likely 2-3 times per month.
Updated: 1/1/2021