Janet Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 1950s Non-fiction - 1958 - A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby - 7/10 14 books read = 42.42% 14 books read 16 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Suggestions for 1980's non-fiction 'Chaos' by James Gleick, 'Set In a Silver Sea' Arthur Bryant, 'The Living Planet' David Attenborough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 Thanks for the suggestions. I will check them out. I'm sure to find the Attenborough one at the Bookbarn - there are usually lots of the 'BBC tie-in books' there (like about 1,000 secondhand copies of Palin's Pole to Pole ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 15, 2010 Author Share Posted January 15, 2010 Potential future reads: 1940s non-fiction Delight - J B Priestley - 1949 1980s non-fiction Chaos by James Gleick, Set In a Silver Sea Arthur Bryant, The Living Planet David Attenborough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted March 29, 2010 Author Share Posted March 29, 2010 (edited) Finished The History of Mr Polly by H G Wells - 7/10 15 books read = 45.45% 15 books read 18 to go (unless I add the 2010s!) ETA: Thought I might as well add The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters to this! 16 books read 17 to go (unless I add the 2010s!) Edited April 10, 2010 by Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 25, 2010 Author Share Posted April 25, 2010 Non-fiction - 1971 - 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff - 7�/10 17 books read = 51.52% 17 books read 16 to go (unless I add the 2010s!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted May 4, 2010 Author Share Posted May 4, 2010 1900s children's book - 1907 - The Enchanted Castle by E Nesbit - 7/10 18 books read = 54.55% 18 books read 15 to go (unless I add the 2010s!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted May 4, 2010 Author Share Posted May 4, 2010 REMAINING: 1900s - Non-fiction........................1960s - Fiction ............................................................Non-fiction 1910s - Non-fiction...................................Children's ...........Children's ..................................................1970s - Fiction 1920s - Non-fiction ..................................................1980s - Non-fiction 1930s - Children's.....................................Children's 1940s - Non-fiction........................1990s - Childrens ..................................................2000s - Non-fiction ............................................................Children's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 1970s fiction book - 1970 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach - 9/10 19 books read = 57.58% 19 books read 14 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted July 14, 2010 Author Share Posted July 14, 2010 1960s children's book - 1969 - Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer - 8/10 20 books read = 60.61% 20 books read 13 to go I think the sticking point of this is going to be the early decades' non-fiction! Does anyone have any suggestions for my missing ones? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 Had a quick look, and here are some suggestions: 1900's Non-fiction - Italian Hours by Henry James (1909) - collection of essays about Italy available as Penguin Classic 1910's Children's - Peter and Wendy by J.M.Barrie (1911) 1920's Non-fiction - Sea and Sardinia - D.H.Lawrence - more travel writing, but I liked it better than the novel I'd read of his. 1930's Children's - any of the first five of the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. My favourite was always On the Banks of Plum Creek Hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted July 14, 2010 Author Share Posted July 14, 2010 Hope that helps Definitely, particularly the non-fiction ones. Thank you. I've read Peter Pan recently actually (well, in the last few years) - I believe it's the now popular title of the same book? I wonder if it was before or after I started this challenge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 Thanks guys. Not too challenging - I'm going to attempt to finish it in 2009. Anyway, non-fiction - 1969 - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee - 10/10 21 books read 12 to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 1980s Children's book - 1983 - A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh - 9/10 22 books read = 66.67% 22 books read 11 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Univerze Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Ahh I looked up some things and see you can also read The Hobbit for the 1930's era, it was quite an nice read, maybe you've read it even? Or else, Mary Poppins? Check this site out.. It's got children's books and the year they were written/published in.. now you got me all interested too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 I have read The Hobbit, but Mary Poppins is a great shout! I love the Disney film apart from Dick Van Dyke's 'cockney' accent! - I'd love to see how the book compares. Thanks for the link too - very useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Non-fiction - 1908 - The Autobiography of a Super-tramp by W H Davies - 7/10 23 books read = 69.7% 23 books read 10 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 28, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2011 24 books read = 72.73% 24 books read 9 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted March 6, 2011 Author Share Posted March 6, 2011 Non-fiction 2000s - 2004 - Yes Man by Danny Wallace - 9/10 25 books read = 75.76% 25 books read 8 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted March 7, 2011 Author Share Posted March 7, 2011 2000s children's book - Kiss of Death by Malcolm Rose 26 books read = 78.79% 7 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted July 3, 2011 Author Share Posted July 3, 2011 Today I finished Delight by J B Priestley, first published in 1949 27 books read = 81.82% 27 books read 6 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted July 8, 2011 Author Share Posted July 8, 2011 Today I finished A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley, first published in 1939. I have revised this slightly by adding the 2010s to the challenge, so my new totals are as follows: 28 books read = 77.78% 28 books read 8 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted August 3, 2011 Author Share Posted August 3, 2011 Today I finished The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo, first published in 1995. 8/10 29 books read = 80.56% 29 books read 7 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 I forgot to add Solomon's Oak by Jo-Ann Mapson to this - fiction, published 2010 - 6/10 30 books read = 83.33% 30 books read 6 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 Finished Montacute House by Lucy Jago this morning. 31 books read = 86.11% 31 books read 5 to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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