In January, I foolishly decided to join Simon Thomas’s Century of Book Challenge, even though I knew that reading 100 books, one for each year in a century, from 1925-2024, would be tough because last year I only read 169. So, how am I doing?
I decided that the method I chose last month to keep track was meaningless to anyone but me, so it makes more sense if I list the years for which I don’t yet have entries. If you want to see the details, see my Century of Books page.
- 1925-1934: entries needed for 1926-31
- 1935-1944: entries needed for all years except 1941 and 1943
- 1945-1954: entries needed for all years except 1947
- 1955-1964: entries needed for all years except 1958 and 1959
- 1965-1974: entries needed for all years except 1965, 1972, and 1974
- 1975-1984: entries needed for all years except 1976
- 1985-1994: entries needed for all years
- 1995–2004: entries needed for all years
- 2005-2014: entries needed for all years except 2009, 2010, and 2012
- 2015-2024: entries needed for 2015 and 2024
Read in February (up to today):
- Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White from 1932
- The Warrielaw Jewel by Winifred Peck from 1933
- Wonder Cruise by Ursula Bloom from 1934
- Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Ursula Orange from 1941
- Weatherley Parade by Richmal Crompton from 1943
- Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette from 1976
- Murder at the Residence by Stella Blómkvist from 2012
- Mrs, March by Virginia Feito from 2021
- Chenneville by Paulette Jiles, The Bookbinder by Pip Williams, and Somebody’s Fool by Richard Russo from 2023
What? Me Read? 
Many thanks for the mentions! 🙂
Yes, several of your books are on my list! If only there were more!
That’s impressive for February! If you can keep that rate up you’ll sail through the challenge.
Yes, but I seem to have a lot of books from the same year.
😂