I’ve set myself a 2024 reading challenge! Long-time StuckinaBook readers will remember a few previous times I’ve done ‘A Century of Books’ – reading a book published every year for a century. I started doing 1900-1999, and a few times I’ve just done whatever the previous hundred years is. This year, I’ll be doing 1925-2024.
It’s a fun challenge because you don’t have to think about it much for the first half or so of the year – it just fills up by itself. And then the final months are an intense scramble to find books that fit the remaining spaces…
Of course, anybody is welcome to join in – or to make your own century, or do it over two years etc.
I’ll be filling up the gaps here with links to all my reviews. Wish me luck!
1925: The Chip and the Block by E.M. Delafield
1926
1927: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
1928: The Vicar’s Daughter by E.H. Young
1929
1930
1931: The Grasshoppers Come by David Garnett
1932: Gottfried Künstler by Vita Sackville-West
1933
1934: The Spring Begins by Katherine Dunning
1935: A Clergyman’s Daughter by George Orwell
1936
1937: I Would Be Private by Rose Macaulay
1938
1939: The Disappearing Duchess by Maud Cairnes
1940
1941: Death and Mary Dazill by Mary Fitt
1942: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
1943: A Garland of Straw by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1944
1945: Lady Living Alone by Norah Lofts
1946
1947
1948
1949: Ashcombe by Cecil Beaton
1950: I Will Hold My House by Marjorie Stewart
1951
1952: Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
1953: Landscape in Sunlight by Elizabeth Fair
1954
1955: The Oracles by Margaret Kennedy
1956: Why I’m Not A Millionaire by Nancy Spain
1957: The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
1958
1959
1960: Twice Lost by Phyllis Paul
1961: The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
1962
1963
1964: Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilet
1965
1966
1967
1968: The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973: The Cheval Glass by Ursula Bloom
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978: What’s For Dinner? by James Schuyler
1979
1980: Basic Black With Pearls by Helen Weinzweig
1981: From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987: Strangers by Taichi Yamada
1988: Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann
1989
1990
1991: The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996: True Stories by Helen Garner
1997
1998: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
1999
2000
2001
2002: Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño
2003
2004: Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009: 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology by Scott Lilienfeld et al
2010: By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
2011: Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson
2012
2013: Struggle Central by Thomas Zuniga
2014: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
2015: The World Between Two Covers by Ann Morgan
2016: This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell
2017: Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
2018: Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce
2019: Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
2020: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
2021
2022: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
2023: Day by Michael Cunningham
2024: A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton