My whole reason for being here is to boost my reading life with some added structure, and to that end, I've decided to participate in some reading challenges this year.
3M's Decades Challenge was a natural first choice. You can read all about it at the challenge site, but here's my proposed list (subject to change):
- 1991: Possession - A.S. Byatt
- 1989: A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- 1975: A Month of Sundays - John Updike
- 1964: In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- 1955: A Gift from the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- 1947: Galileo (American Version) - Bertolt Brecht
- 1938: Our Town - Thornton Wilder
- 1925: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1915: Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- 1906: The Man of Property - John Galsworthy
- 1891: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- 1881: Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
- 1875: The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
- 1866: Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 1859: A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- 1842: Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
- 1839: The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
- 1827: Vivian Grey - Benjamin Disraeli
- 1818: Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley
- 1795: Lady Susan - Jane Austen
- Others TBD
Welcome to the challenge. Awesome list!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading about the Decades Challenge on your blog, and then seeing that CQ is doing it too, well -- I'm in!
ReplyDeleteI just posted my list over on Wear the Old Coat.