Reading Through the Decades (Challenge List)

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 will add links to my review in this page as I go along. Currently, I 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. Actually, I’ve read a fair number of 20th Century before this, a fact that surprised me. I guess the biggest gap I have in my reading rests on the classics and the contemporary works. This must be rectified by other Challenges.