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

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: entry needed for 1928
• 1935-1944: entry needed for 1939
• 1945-1954: entries needed for 1948 and 1950
• 1955-1964: entries needed for 1955, 1957, and 1960
• 1965-1974: entries needed for 1969 and 1973
• 1975-1984: entries needed for all years except 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1984
• 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 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2013
• 2015-2024: complete!

Since October 30,, I read the following books. As we’re closing in on the end of the year, I decided to mark the ones that fill one of my holes in bold from now on. I didn’t do well on this project this month because of the several other projects I was reading for in November.

• Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer from 1929
• Murder after Christmas by Rupert Latimer from 1944
• The Late Mrs. Prioleau by Monica Tindall from 1946
• The Dancing Bear by Frances Faviell from 1954
• The Fledgling by Frances Faviell from 1958
• The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence from 1964
• This Real Night by Rebecca West from 1984
• A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black from 2011
• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin from 2014
• Euphoria by Elin Cullhead from 2020
• The Trees by Percival Everett from 2021