I forgot to post this on Wednesday, like I usually do.
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: complete!
- 1965-1974: complete!
- 1975-1984: entry needed for 1981
- 1985-1994: complete!
- 1995–2004: entry needed for 2003
- 2005-2014: complete!
- 2015-2024: complete!
Only three books to go! They are all big honkers!
Since February 26, 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:
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs for 1861
- The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer for 1934
- Mrs. McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie for 1952
- The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith for 1952
- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym for 1952
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene for 1955
- Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen for 1993
- Moo by Jane Smiley for 1995
- Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle by Katie Whitaker for 2002
- Looking for Alaska by John Green for 2005
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay for 2006
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver for 2007
What? Me Read? 
Oh wow, you’re nearly there!
Yay!
Wow! You’re almost there! I think that’s a pretty amazing accomplishment! What did you think of The Quiet American? I have it but haven’t read it yet.
It has some problems, but in general I liked it a lot. I think my review is coming up in a few weeks.
Such a fun project!
Yes, but it came to dominate most of my reading the last six months. I would stop briefly to pick up a few other challenges, but otherwise, I have completely ignored my regular To Read pile, which is getting huge. Simon of Stuck in a Book started the challenge, and he’s got only one more to go. He has so many books, though, that he said he had something to pick from for each year, whereas, I had to look in the library or buy many of the books.
BRAVA! You’re sooooooooooooooooooo close. Keep going!
Thanks!
Woohoo! Nearly there! Looking forward to your review of The Quiet American…