Janet's Reading Through The Decades Challenge **Completed**

[Janet]

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

[sirinrob]

Suggestions for 1980's non-fiction 'Chaos' by James Gleick, 'Set In a Silver Sea' Arthur Bryant, 'The Living Planet' David Attenborough

[Janet]

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 ).

[Janet]

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

[Janet]

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

[Janet]

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!)

[Janet]

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!)

[Janet]

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

[Janet]

1970s fiction book - 1970 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach - 9/10

 

19 books read = 57.58%

 

19 books read 14 to go

[Janet]

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.

 

[chesilbeach]

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

[Janet]

 

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?

[Janet]

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!

[Janet]

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

[Univerze]

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.

[Janet]

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.

[Janet]

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

[Janet]

24 books read = 72.73%

 

24 books read 9 to go

[Janet]

Non-fiction 2000s - 2004 - Yes Man by Danny Wallace - 9/10

 

25 books read = 75.76%

 

25 books read 8 to go

[Janet]

2000s children's book - Kiss of Death by Malcolm Rose

 

26 books read = 78.79% 7 to go

[Janet]

Today I finished Delight by J B Priestley, first published in 1949

 

27 books read = 81.82%

 

27 books read 6 to go

[Janet]

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

[Janet]

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

[Janet]

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

[Janet]

Finished Montacute House by Lucy Jago this morning.

 

31 books read = 86.11%

 

31 books read 5 to go