A Century of Books: How Am I Doing? September Report

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?

Here are the holes in my project with the books listed for this month below. If you want to see the details, see my Century of Books page.

• 1925-1934: entries needed for 1928, 1929, and 1931
• 1935-1944: entry needed for 1939
• 1945-1954: entries needed for 1945, 1948, 1949, and 1950
• 1955-1964: entries needed for all years except 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, and 1962
• 1965-1974: entries needed for 1967, 1969, 1971, and 1973
• 1975-1984: entries needed for all years except 1975, 1976, 1978, and 1983
• 1985-1994: entries needed for all years except 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1992
• 1995–2004: entries needed for all years except 1998, 1999, and 2004
• 2005-2014: entries needed for all years except 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2014
• 2015-2024: complete!

Since August 28, I read the following books:

• Maitland: Scenes from Scottish Life by Margaret Oliphant from 1851 (too early for this project)
• Germinal by Émile Zola from 1885 (too early)
• Dead Ernest by Alice Tilton from 1944
• The Chateau by William Maxwell from 1961
• Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie from 1970
• Fifth Business by Robertson Davies from 1970
• Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer from 1970
• Tropical Issue by Dorothy Dunnett from 1983
• Death of a Hollow Man by Caroline Graham from 1989
• I’m Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnambalam from 2022
• The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves from 2024