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

In January 2024, 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 was trying to finish by the end of December, but I clearly didn’t make it.

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: complete!
• 1935-1944: complete!
• 1945-1954: entry needed for 1948
• 1955-1964: entries needed for 1955
• 1965-1974: complete!
• 1975-1984: entry needed for 1981
• 1985-1994: entry needed for 1993
• 1995–2004: entries needed for 1995, 2002, and 2003
• 2005-2014: entries needed for 2005, 2006, and 2007
• 2015-2024: complete!

Since January 29, I read the following books. The ones for this project are listed in bold. As you can see, I concentrated this month on books for this project:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for 1813
• One by One They Disappeared by Moray Dalton for 1929
• The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien for 1960
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner for 1971
• September by Rosamunde Pilcher for 1990
• American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis for 1991
• The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett for 1997
• Erasure by Percival Everett for 2001
• Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism for 2021
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus for 2022
• What Sheep Do in Iceland When Nobody’s Around by Brian Pilkington for 2023