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message 1: by Rosemarie (last edited Jun 25, 2020 09:37AM) (new)

Rosemarie | 3952 comments This is a list of the books I have read over the years.
1917-1936

1917:

1. Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
*3. Summer by Edith Wharton
5. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

1918:

1. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
*3. The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
*4. The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs

1919:

1. Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend by Hermann Hesse
*2. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
3. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
4. Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery
5. The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

1920:

2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
4. The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

1921:

1. Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
2. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
3. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
4. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
5. Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

1922:

1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. Ulysses by James Joyce
3. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
*5. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

1923:

2. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
3. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
4. Bambi by Felix Salten
5. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

1924:

1. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
2. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
*4. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
5. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

1925:

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
*3. Der Prozess by Franz Kafka

1926:

1. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
*2. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
5. The Castle by Franz Kafka

1927:

1. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
2. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

1928:

1. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
3. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
*4. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
*5. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

1929:

1. All Quiet on the Western Front
*4. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

1930:

*1. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
2. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
*3. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
4. The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
*5. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

1931:

1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
*3. The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
*5. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft


1932:

1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

1933:

1. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
*2. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
3. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
*4. The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack
5. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

1934:

1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
2. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
5. I, Claudius by Robert Graves

1935:

1. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
4. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
5. Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

1936:

3. The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
4. The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments 1937 - 1956

1937:

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
5. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

1938:

1. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
*2. Anthem by Ayn Rand
3. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
4. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
5. Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina

1939:

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
3. Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
5. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

1940:

2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

1941:

1. Curious George by H.A. Rey
2. Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
3. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
5. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

1942:

1. The Stranger by Albert Camus
2. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
* 3. The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
4. The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey
5. The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

1943:

1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
3. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
4. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
5. The Plague by Albert Camus

1944:

2. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
3. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
4. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
5. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

1945:

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
*2. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
4. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
5. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

1946:

4. Hiroshima by John Hersey

1947:

1. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
*3. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
*4. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
*5. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald

1948:

1. Corduroy by Don Freeman
2. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
4. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
*5. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

1949:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
*2. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
*3. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

1950:

1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
2. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
*5. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

1951:

1. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
4. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
5. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

1952:

1. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
2. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
3. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
*5. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

1953:

1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
2. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
3. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
*4. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
5. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

1954:

1. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
3. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

1955:
*1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
*4. Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
*5. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary

1956:

1. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
2. The Last Battle
*3. Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
4. The Fall by Albert Camus


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments 1957 - 1976

1957:

1. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
3. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
5. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

1958:

1. Night by Elie Wiesel
2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
5. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

1959:

*2. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
4. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
*5. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

1960:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
3. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
4. Are You My Mother? P.D. Eastman

1961:

1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
4. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
5. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

1962:

1. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
3. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

1963:

1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
5. Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

1964:

1. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
5. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

1965:

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

1966:

1. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
*3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
*4. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

1967:

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
4. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
5. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

1968:

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
3. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

1969:

1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
5. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

1970:

*1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
4. Ringworld by Larry Niven

1971:

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
*3. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
*4. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom

1972:

1. Watership Down by Richard Adams
*3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
5. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

1973:

2. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
*3. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
5. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle

1974:

1. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

1975:

2. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
3. Shōgun by James Clavell

1976:

5. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert


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2014:

2. The Martian by Andy Weir


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1966

4. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1971

3. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1955

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1919

2. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

I now have all five books for 1919.


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1926

2. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1953

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1952

Waiting for Godot

Update 1971

The Lorax


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1930

As I Lay Dying


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1942

The Boxcar Children


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1917

Summer

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Howl and Other Poems


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Rosemarie | 3952 comments Update 1938

Anthem


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