Reading the 20th Century

A project for 2011 and 2012.

Reading the Twentieth Century: One hundred books, one for each year …

Some will be rereads and some will be brand new old books.

20 down and 80 to go !

1900
1901
1902 – The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910 – The City of Beautiful Nonsense by E Temple Thurston
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918 – Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
1919
1920 – In The Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926 – As It Was by Helen Thomas
1927
1928
1929 – The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
1930
1931 – Gwendra Cove & Other Cornish Sketches by C C Rogers (Lady Vyvyan)
1932
1933
1934 – Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
1935
1936 – Monogram by Gladys Bronwyn Stern
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946 – Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955 – The Tigress on the Hearth by Margery Sharp
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960 – The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
1961
1962
1963 – The New Moon with the Old by Dodie Smith
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969 – The Play Room by Olivia Manning
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981 – Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon
1982
1983 – The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
1984 – Mother Love by Domini Taylor
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994 – Pippa Passes by Rumer Godden
1995
1996 – Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark
1997
1998
1999 – Buried in Cornwall by Janie Bolitho