Decades 09 Challenge

This is an interesting challenge and goes hand in hand with the Countdown Challenge. Now all my decades will be complete this year.

The goal is to read 9 books in 9 consecutive decades, not including books from 2000 and higher. Read more here.

• 1800s and Earlier – Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus (620-560 BC)
• 1810s – Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1818)
• 1820s -
• 1830s -
• 1840s -
• 1850s – Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
• 1860s -
• 1870s -
• 1880s -
• 1890s – Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)
• 1900s – Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1908)
• 1910s – The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1910)
• 1920s – Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)
• 1930s – If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland (1938)
• 1940s – Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (1942)
• 1950s – The Chronicles of Narnia: Magician’s Nephew (1955)
• 1960s – James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (1961)
• 1970s – Maus by Art Spiegelman (1973)
• 1980s – The Witches by Roald Dahl (1983)
• 1990s – Trunk Music by Michael Connelly (1997)

Decades 08 Challenge – COMPLETE

While I never offiicially joined the 2008 Decades Challenge, I kept track on my own, not thinking I would actually make it.

The goal was to read 8 books in 8 consecutive decades, published before 2000.

Here’s my list:

• 1830s – Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe (part of Eight Tales of Terror)
• 1840s – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• 1850s – Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• 1860s – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• 1870s – Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• 1880s – Treasure Island by Robert Louise Stevenson
• 1890s – War of the Worlds by HG Wells
• 1900s – Wonder Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum