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1917-19751917
❎1. Anne's House of Dreams
2. His Last Bow: 8 Stories
3. Summer
4. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
5. Growth of the Soil
1918
❎1. My Ántonia
2. The Elements of Style
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. The Land That Time Forgot
5.The Madman
1919
1. Demian
2. My Man Jeeves
❎3. Rainbow Valley
4. Winesburg, Ohio
5. The Moon and Sixpence
1920
❎1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
❎2. The Age of Innocence
3. This Side of Paradise
4. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
5. Women in Love
1921
❎1. Mrs. Dalloway
2. We
❎3. Rilla of Ingleside
❎4. The Forsyte Saga
5. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
1922
1. Siddhartha
2. The Velveteen Rabbit
3. Ulysses
4. The Beautiful and Damned
5. The Waste Land and Other Poems
* ❎The Secret Adversary
1923
1. The Prophet
❎2. Whose Body?
❎3. Emily of New Moon
4. Bambi
❎5. The Murder on the Links
1924
❎1. The Man in the Brown Suit
2. A Passage to India
❎3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
4. The Most Dangerous Game
5. The Magic Mountain
1925
❎1. The Great Gatsby
❎2. The Trial
3. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
4. An American Tragedy
5. Mein Kampf
1926
1. The Sun Also Rises
2. Winnie-the-Pooh
❎3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
4. The Richest Man in Babylon
5. The Castle
1927
❎1. To the Lighthouse
2. Steppenwolf
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop
4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
❎5. The Big Four
1928
❎1. Lady Chatterley's Lover
2. Orlando
3. The House at Pooh Corner
4. The Call of Cthulhu
❎5. The Mystery of the Blue Train
1929
❎1. All Quiet on the Western Front
❎2. A Farewell to Arms
3. The Sound and the Fury
4. A Room of One's Own
❎5. Letters to a Young Poet
1930
1. As I Lay Dying
❎2. Murder at the Vicarage
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. The Little Engine That Could
5. The Secret of the Old Clock
1931
❎1. The Good Earth
2. The Joy of Cooking
3. The Story of Babar
4. The Waves
5. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
1932
❎1. Brave New World
2. Little House in the Big Woods
3. Light in August
4. Cold Comfort Farm
5. Journey to the End of the Night
1933
1. Down and Out in Paris and London
2. The Red Pony
3. Farmer Boy
4. The Story About Ping
❎5. Lord Edgware Dies
1934
❎1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Tender Is the Night
3. Mary Poppins
4. Tropic of Cancer
❎5. I, Claudius
1935
1. Little House on the Prairie
2. Tortilla Flat
3. Caddie Woodlawn
4. Jamaica Inn
❎5. Death in the Clouds
1936
❎1. Gone with the Wind
2. How to Win Friends and Influence People
3. The Story of Ferdinand
❎4. The A.B.C. Murders
❎5. Anne of Windy Poplars
1937
❎1. The Hobbit
❎2. Of Mice and Men
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. Think and Grow Rich
❎5. Death on the Nile
1938
❎1. Rebecca
2. Anthem
3. Nausea
4. Out of the Silent Planet
5. Mr. Popper's Penguins
1939
❎1. The Grapes of Wrath
❎2. And Then There Were None
3. Madeline
4. The Big Sleep
5. By the Shores of Silver Lake
1940
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
3. Native Son
4. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
5. The Problem of Pain
*❎The Corinthian
1941
1. Curious George
2. Little Town on the Prairie
3. Make Way for Ducklings
4. The Black Stallion
❎5. Chess Story
1942
❎1. The Stranger
2. The Screwtape Letters
3. The Boxcar Children
4. The Poky Little Puppy
5. The Runaway Bunny
1943
❎1. The Little Prince
❎2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3. The Fountainhead
4. These Happy Golden Years
5. Johnny Tremain
1944
1. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
❎2. Ficciones
3. The Razor's Edge
4. The Hundred Dresses
5. No Exit
1945
❎1. Animal Farm
❎2. Pippi Longstocking
3. The Great Divorce
❎4. The Glass Menagerie
5. Cannery Row
1946
1. Man's Search for Meaning
❎2. The Pianist
❎3. All the King's Men
4. Hiroshima
5. Autobiography of a Yogi
1947
❎1. The Diary of a Young Girl
2. Goodnight Moon
❎3. A Streetcar Named Desire
4. The Pearl
❎5. The Plague
1948
1. I Capture the Castle
2. Blueberries for Sal
3. Cry, the Beloved Country
4. The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
❎5. The Lottery
1949
❎1. 1984
2. Death of a Salesman
3. The Intelligent Investor
4. The Second Sex
❎5. Crooked House
1950
❎1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2. I, Robot
3. The Story of Art
❎4. The Martian Chronicles
5. A Town Like Alice
1951
❎1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Foundation
❎3. Prince Caspian
4. The Day of the Triffids
5. The Illustrated Man
1952
1. Charlotte's Web
❎2. The Old Man and the Sea
❎3. East of Eden
4. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
5. Mere Christianity
1953
❎1. Fahrenheit 451
❎2. The Crucible
3. The Silver Chair
4. Nine Stories
5. Second Foundation
1954
❎1. The Fellowship of the Ring
❎2. Lord of the Flies
❎3. The Two Towers
4. The Horse and His Boy
5. I Am Legend and Other Stories
1955
❎1. Lolita
❎2. The Return of the King
❎3. The Magician's Nephew
❎4. On the Road
5. Harold and the Purple Crayon
1956
1. The Last Battle
2. Howl and Other Poems
3. Old Yeller
4. The Fall
5. M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
*❎The Burden
1957
1. Atlas Shrugged
2. The Cat in the Hat
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
❎4. Doctor Zhivago
5. Little Bear
1958
❎1. Night
❎2. Things Fall Apart
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's
4. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
5. The Once and Future King
1959
1. A Separate Peace
2. Starship Troopers
3. The Sirens of Titan
❎4. The Haunting of Hill House
5. A Canticle for Leibowitz
1960
❎1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Green Eggs and Ham
❎3. Island of the Blue Dolphins
4. Are You My Mother?
5. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
1961
❎1. Catch-22
❎2. James and the Giant Peach
3. Where the Red Fern Grows
4. Stranger in a Strange Land
❎5. The Phantom Tollbooth
1962
❎1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
❎2. A Clockwork Orange
❎3. The Man in the High Castle
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes
5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
1963
1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. The Bell Jar
3. Cat's Cradle
4. Amelia Bedelia
5. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1964
1. The Giving Tree
❎2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. A Moveable Feast
4. The Book of Three
5. Harriet the Spy
1965
1. Dune
❎2. In Cold Blood
❎3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
4. Stoner
5. The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1966
❎1. Flowers for Algernon
2. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
4. The Crying of Lot 49
❎5. Wide Sargasso Sea
1967
❎1. The Outsiders
❎2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
❎3. The Master and Margarita
4. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
1968
1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. A Wizard of Earthsea
4. Corduroy
5. The Last Unicorn
1969
❎1. Slaughterhouse-Five
❎2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
❎4. The Godfather
5. The Andromeda Strain
1970
1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
❎2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
❎3. The Bluest Eye
4. Ringworld
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
1971
1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. The Lorax
3. Go Ask Alice
4. The Hiding Place
❎5. The Exorcist
1972
❎1. Watership Down
2. Ways of Seeing
3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
4. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
5. All Creatures Great and Small
1973
❎1. The Princess Bride
2. Breakfast of Champions
3. Rendezvous with Rama
4. Jaws
5. A Wind in the Door
1974
❎1. Where the Sidewalk Ends
❎2. Carrie
3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
❎4. Helter Skelter
5. The Forever War
1975
1. 'Salem's Lot
2. Tuck Everlasting
3. Shōgun
❎4. Crocodile on the Sandbank
5. Strega Nona
1976 - 20181976
❎1. Interview with the Vampire
2. The Selfish Gene
3. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
4. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
5. Children of Dune
1977
❎1. The Shining
2. Bridge to Terabithia
❎3. The Thorn Birds
❎4. The Silmarillion
5. A Scanner Darkly
1978
❎1. The Stand
2. The World According to Garp
❎3. The Westing Game
4. Night Shift
5. Eye of the Needle
1979
❎1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
❎3. The Neverending Story
4. The Dead Zone
❎5. Flowers in the Attic
1980
1. The Bourne Identity
❎2. The Name of the Rose
3. A People's History of the United States
4. A Confederacy of Dunces
5. The Clan of the Cave Bear
1981
1. A Light in the Attic
2. Red Dragon
3. Cujo
4. Midnight's Children
❎5. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1982
❎1. The Color Purple
2. The Gunslinger
3. The BFG
4. The Mists of Avalon
❎5. The House of the Spirits
1983
❎1. Pet Sematary
2. The Color of Magic
❎3. The Witches
4. Christine
5. Alanna: The First Adventure
1984
❎1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Neuromancer
4. Thinner
5. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1985
❎1. The Handmaid's Tale
❎2. Ender's Game
❎3. Love in the Time of Cholera
❎4. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
5. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
1986
❎1. It
2. Hatchet
❎3. Howl's Moving Castle
4. Speaker for the Dead
5. Love You Forever
1987
❎1. Watchmen
2. Misery
❎3. Beloved
❎4. A Brief History of Time
❎5. Norwegian Wood
1988
❎1. The Alchemist
❎2. Matilda
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Wall and Piece
5. Batman: The Killing Joke
1989
1. A Time to Kill
❎2. The Pillars of the Earth
❎3. The Joy Luck Club
4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
5. Number the Stars
1990
1. Jurassic Park
❎2. Good Omens
❎3. The Eye of the World
4. Oh, The Places You'll Go!
5. V for Vendetta
1991
❎1. Outlander
2. The Firm
3. American Psycho
4. Redeeming Love
5. Sophie's World
1992
❎1. The Secret History
2. The Pelican Brief
3. She's Come Undone
❎4. Dragonfly in Amber
❎5. Snow Crash
1993
❎1. The Giver
2. Along Came a Spider
3. The Client
❎4. The Virgin Suicides
❎5. Girl, Interrupted
1994
❎1. One for the Money
❎2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
4. Wizard's First Rule
5. Snow Falling on Cedars
1995
❎1. The Golden Compass
2. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
3. A Child Called "It"
4. Kiss the Girls
5. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
1996
❎1. A Game of Thrones
❎2. The Notebook
❎3. Bridget Jones's Diary
❎4. Into the Wild
❎5. Fight Club
1997
❎1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
❎2. Memoirs of a Geisha
3. Tuesdays with Morrie
4. The Red Tent
5. Ella Enchanted
1998
❎1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2. Holes
❎3. A Clash of Kings
❎4. The Poisonwood Bible
5. Digital Fortress
1999
❎1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
❎2. The Perks of Being A Wallflower
❎3. A Walk to Remember
4. Speak
5. The Bad Beginning
2000
1. Angels & Demons
❎2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
❎3. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
❎4. Me Talk Pretty One Day
❎5. Confessions of a Shopaholic
2001
❎1. Life of Pi
2. The Secret Life of Bees
❎3. American Gods
❎4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
5. Dead Until Dark
2002
1. The Lovely Bones
2. Eragon
3. Middlesex
❎4. Coraline
5. Deception Point
2003
❎1. The Kite Runner
❎2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
❎3. The Time Traveler's Wife
❎4. The Da Vinci Code
❎5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2004
❎1. My Sister's Keeper
❎2. Something Borrowed
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
4. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
5. Cloud Atlas
2005
1. Twilight
❎2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
❎3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
❎4. The Book Thief
❎5. The Lightning Thief
2006
1. Eat, Pray, Love
❎2. Water for Elephants
3. New Moon
❎4. The Girl Who Played with Fire
❎5. The Road
2007
❎1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
❎2. City of Bones
3. Eclipse
❎4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
5. Thirteen Reasons Why
2008
❎1. The Hunger Games
2. Breaking Dawn
3. The Host
4. Paper Towns
❎5. City of Ashes
2009
❎1. Catching Fire
❎2. The Help
3. The Maze Runner
❎4. If I Stay
❎5. City of Glass
2010
❎1. Mockingjay
2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
3. Room
❎4. Clockwork Angel
5. Matched
2011
1. Divergent
❎2. Fifty Shades of Grey
❎3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
4. Steve Jobs
❎5. Bossypants
2012
❎1. The Fault in Our Stars
❎2. Gone Girl
3. Insurgent
❎4. Me Before You
❎5. Cinder
2013
1. Eleanor & Park
2. Allegiant
❎3. The Goldfinch
4. Fangirl
❎5. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
2014
❎1. All the Light We Cannot See
❎2. Big Little Lies
3. We Were Liars
4. Yes Please
5. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
2015
❎1. The Girl on the Train
2. Red Queen
❎3. The Nightingale
❎4. A Court of Thorns and Roses
5. Everything, Everything
2016
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
2. When Breath Becomes Air
3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
4. The Woman in Cabin 10
5. Truly Madly Guilty
6. The Underground Railroad
*❎ Small Great Things
2017 (May still change)
❎1. Little Fires Everywhere
❎2. The Hate U Give
3. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
4. Into the Water
5. Before We Were Yours
6. Turtles All the Way Down
2018 (Will probably change)
1. The Woman in the Window
2. The Great Alone
3. Educated
4. An American Marriage
5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
6. Children of Blood and Bone
*❎Lethal White
POINTS BY YEAR1917: 5
1918: 0 (running total: 5)
1919: 2 (running total: 7)
1920: 6 (running total: 13)
1921: 3 (running total: 16)
1922: 1 (running total: 17)
1923: 4 (running total: 21)
1924: 6 (running total: 27)
1925: 5 (running total: 32)
1926: 2 (running total: 34)
1927: 6 (running total: 40)
1928: 6 (running total: 46)
1929: 1 (running total: 47)
1930: 2 (running total: 49)
1931: 0 (running total: 49)
1932: 5 (running total: 54)
1933: 2 (running total: 56)
1934: 5 (running total: 61)
1935: 1 (running total: 62)
1936: 7 (running total: 69)
1937: 7 (running total: 76)
1938: 5 (running total: 81)
1939: 2 (running total: 83)
1940: 1 (running total: 84)
1941: 2 (running total: 86)
1942: 5 (running total: 91)
1943: 6 (running total: 97)
1944: 1 (running total: 98)
1945: 7 (running total: 105)
1946: 2 (running total: 107)
1947: 7 (running total: 114)
1948: 2 (running total: 116)
1949: 6 (running total: 122)
1950: 1 (running total: 123)
1951: 5 (running total: 128)
1952: 2 (running total: 130)
1953: 6 (running total: 136)
1954: 7 (running total: 143)
1955: 6 (running total: 149)
1956: 1 (running total: 150)
1957: 1 (running total: 151)
1958: 5 (running total: 156)
1959: 2 (running total: 158)
1960: 6 (running total: 164)
1961: 7 (running total: 171)
1962: 3 (running total: 174)
1963: 0 (running total: 174)
1964: 2 (running total: 176)
1965: 1 (running total: 177)
1966: 2 (running total: 179)
1967: 6 (running total: 185)
1968: 0 (running total: 185)
1969: 5 (running total: 190)
1970: 3 (running total: 193)
1971: 2 (running total: 195)
1972: 5 (running total: 200)
1973: 5 (running total: 205)
1974: 3 (running total: 208)
1975: 2 (running total: 210)
1976: 5 (running total: 215)
1977: 7 (running total: 222)
1978: 6 (running total: 228)
1979: 7 (running total: 235)
1980: 1 (running total: 236)
1981: 1 (running total: 237)
1982: 6 (running total: 243)
1983: 6 (running total: 249)
1984: 5 (running total: 254)
1985: 7 (running total: 261)
1986: 6 (running total: 267)
1987: 7 (running total: 284)
1988: 6 (running total: 290)
1989: 3 (running total: 293)
1990: 3 (running total: 296)
1991: 5 (running total: 301)
1992: 2 (running total: 303)
1993: 7 (running total: 310)
1994: 6 (running total: 316)
1995: 5 (running total: 321)
1996: 8 (running total: 329)
1997: 6 (running total: 335)
1998: 7 (running total: 342)
1999: 7 (running total: 349)
2000: 5 (running total: 354)
2001: 7 (running total: 361)
2002: 2 (running total: 363)
2003: 10 (running total: 373)
2004: 6 (running total: 379)
2005: 5 (running total: 384)
2006: 2 (running total: 386)
2007: 7 (running total: 393)
2008: 6 (running total: 399)
2009: 7 (running total: 406)
2010: 6 (running total: 412)
2011: 4 (running total: 416)
2012: 8 (running total: 424)
2013: 3 (running total: 427)
2014: 6 (running total: 433)
2015: 7 (running total: 440)
2016: 1 (running total: 441)
2017: 1 (running total: 442)
2018: 1 (running total: 443)
1950 updated: +5(-1)Added: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Deleted: The Grand Sophy
Running total: 456
1965 updated: +2(-1)Added: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Deleted: Three Trapped Tigers
Running total: 459
Around the World in 80 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
Letters to a Young Poet (other topics)I, Claudius (other topics)
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Track 3 (Hardest)
Count the books you have read in each year set using the scoring below:
- 5 points if you have read the first book in the set
- 2 points if you have not read the first book, but read another book in the top 5
- 1 point if you have not read a book in the top five, but have read any other book first published during that year
- 1 point for each additional book you have read in the top 5
- BONUS: Add one additional point if you have read all five books in the set
Max points for each year = 10 points for a possible total of 1000 points for the whole century.
***You may use books you have already read during any time of your life toward any of these challenges.***
My original score: 443/1,000
Last score: 502/1,000