Reading Through the Decades (Challenge List)
I got a free ride in the MRT this morning of because of Philippine Independence Day. Yay!
As I’ve mentioned yesterday, I’m participating in the By the Decade Reading Challenge hosted by 3M. According to the website, “The goal of the challenge is to read books from as many consecutive decades as possible.” The host is reading 15 books in all but I figure I should start slowly since it’s already halfway through 2007 and I want to coherently blog about my opinions on the books. So I came up with these 10, many of which will be subject to change based on availability/length/whim.
1900’s – A Room With a View, E.M. Forster
1910’s – Death in Venice and Seven other Stories, Thomas Mann
1920’s – Scaramouche, Rafael Sabatini
1930’s – Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
1940’s – Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
1950’s – Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
1960’s – A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
1970’s – Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
1980’s – Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
1990’s – Pig Tales, Marie Darrieussecq
2000’s – My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
I currently own most of these books except the Burgess and the Calvino, but I’m hoping that there will be cheap ones availalble in the second hand bookstore in UP AS walk. I was surprised that many of the books I’ve finished reading were actually released in the first half of the 20th Century. I guess the biggest gap I have in my reading rests on the classics and the contemporary works. This must be rectified.
