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Dusting this off again… The Decade Challenge

This will run all year.
The idea is to try to read and record ONE book originally published in each decade listed. Your end result should be a list of the 22 decades posted here, with one book you've read beside each decade. (Feel free to cut and paste the template below to get started.)

Some members will have posted a mockup of this challenge in their personal goal threads, for ease of organization. This is the official thread for posting lists and sharing ideas about how to complete this challenge.

Also, GR does a "Best Books of ____" by decade, which is really helpful. You can access through LISTOPIA or Google "Best Books of (decade/year)" to get to them.

Personally, I really love the way this challenge forces me to read beyond my comfort zone.

Decade Challenge
(Original publication date)

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:

1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989:
1990-1999:

2000-2009:
2010-2019:
2020-2023:

Decade Challenge
(Original publication date)

1790-1799: The Italian 1796
1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859: Tom Brown's Schooldays 1857
1860-1869:
1870-1879: The Princess and the Goblin 1872
1880-1889:
1890-1899:

1900-1909: The Old Wives' Tale 1908
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989:
1990-1999: The God of Small Things 1997

2000-2009:
2010-2019: Heirs of the Body 2013
2020-2023:

I’ll start with this one for 2023 and see how it goes. :)

I haven't done this for a while so I'll give it a go again.

The Decade Challenge
Original Publication Date

1780-1789: Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1786)
1790-1799: The Italian by Ann Radcliffe (1796)

1800-1809: Heinrich von Ofterdingen by Novalis (1802)
1810-1819: Das Fräulein von Scuderi by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1819)
1820-1829: Meister Floh: Ein Märchen in sieben Abenteuern zweier Freunde by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1822)
1830-1839: The Purcell Papers by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1839)
1840-1849: Der Doppelgänger by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)
1850-1859: Olive by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1850)
1860-1869: Brother Jacob by George Eliot (1860)
1870-1879: Les Indes noires by Jules Verne (1877)
1880-1889: Das Bild Des Kaisers by Wilhelm Hauff(1889)
1890-1899: The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus (1895)

1900-1909: Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (1900)
1910-1919: Victory An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad (1915)
1920-1929: The Rim of the Prairie by Bess Streeter Aldrich (1925)
1930 - 1939: The Whisperer in Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft (1930)
1940 - 1949: Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham (1945)
1950-1959: Il barone rampante by Italo Calvino (1957)
1960-1969: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962)
1970-1979: Die Ursache: Eine Andeutung by Thomas Bernhard (1975)
1980-1989: The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss (1989)
1990-1999: Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley (1990)


2000-2009: Baudolino by Umberto Eco (2000)
2010-2019: Poirot and Me by David Suchet (2013)
2020-2023: Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith by E.B. White

This looks like a good challenge. I'm in:

The Decade Challenge
Original publication

1880-1889: - Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
1890-1899:

1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989:
1990-1999:

2000-2009:
2010-2019: - Foster by Claire Keegan
2020-2023: - The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis

Sounds Like Fun:

Decade Challenge
(Original publication date)

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:

1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989:
1990-1999:

2000-2009:
2010-2019:
2020-2023: Slightly Wicked by Alyssa Clarke, 2022

2023 - Laure

🕯️✨Decade Challenge✨🕯️
(Original publication date)

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:

1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989:
1990-1999:

🕯️2000-2009: Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre - First Published: August 2008
🕯️2010-2019 Crownbreaker by Sebastien de Castell - First Published: October 2019
2020-2023:

Gonna give this a try.

8/7 B.C.: Ilias by Homer ✓
3 B.C: Sokratische Gespräche aus Xenofons denkwürdigen Nachrichten von Sokrates by Xenophon ✓

1800-1809:
1810-1819: Verstand und Gefühl by Jane Austen (1811) ✓
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849: Die drei Musketiere by Alexandre Dumas (1844) ✓
1850-1859: Madame Bovary. by Gustave Flaubert (1856) ✓
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889: The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde (1889) ✓
1890-1899: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1895) ✓

1900-1909: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde (1908) ✓
1910-1919: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (1911) ✓
1920-1929: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) ✓
1930-1939: Narziß und Goldmund by Hermann Hesse (1930) ✓
1940-1949: Die elementaren Strukturen der Verwandtschaft by Claude Lévi-Strauss (1947) ✓
1950-1959: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) ✓
1960-1969: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) ✓
1970-1979: Carrie by Stephen King (1974) ✓
1980-1989: Das wandelnde Schloss by Diana Wynne Jones (1986) ✓
1990-1999: When A Man Loves Man 1 - A Hunt For The Passion by Nitta Youka (1997 according to imprint) ✓

2000-2009: Neun Leben by Kojima Lalako (2008) ✓
2010-2019: Vor dem Fest by Saša Stanišić (2014) ✓
2020-2023: Die Überlebenden by Alex Schulman (2020) ✓

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Super idea!
23/23

1800-1809:The Watsons and SanditonbyJane Austen
✔2/8/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
1810-1819:IvanhoebyWalter Scott
✔17/8/23★ ★ ★★
1820-1829:The RavenbyEdgar Allan Poe
✔5/6/22 ★ ★ ★ ★
1830-1839: The Lady of LyonsbyEdward Bulwer-Lytton
✔13/9/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
1840-1849:Agnes GreybyAnne Brontë
✔17/4/23 ★ ★ ★★ ★
1850-1859:The Scarlett LetterbyNathaniel Hawthorne
✔17/4/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
1860-1869:East LynnebyMrs. Henry Wood
✔17/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1870-1879:Desperate RemediesbyThomas Hardy
✔13/6/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1880-1889:The Mayor of CasterbridgebyThomas Hardy
✔8/2/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1890-1899:Isabella, or The Pot of BasilbyJohn Keats
✔8/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1900-1909:The End of the TetherbyJoseph Conrad
✔8/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1910-1919: Blackfeet Indian StoriesbyGeorge Bird Grinnell
✔18/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
1920-1929: We by Charles A. Lindbergh(1927)
✔12/7/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1930-1939:Miss Pettigrew Lives for a DaybyWinifred Watson
✔23/4/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
1940-1949:Brideshead RevisitedbyEvelyn Waugh
✔8/1/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1950-1959:Of All Possible WorldsbyWilliam Tenn
✔7/6/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
1960-1969:Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisationbyIan Fleming
✔14/1/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1970-1979:The MirrorbyMarlys Millhiser
✔12/9/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1980-1989:Number the StarsbyLois Lowry
✔18/4/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
1990-1999:The ClientbyJohn Grisham
✔30/4/23 ★ ★ ★ ★
2000-2009:Under OrdersbyDick Francis
✔18/5/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2010-2019:My Dearest Dietrich: A Novel of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Lost LovebyAmanda Barratt
✔12/1/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2020-2023:GenevabyRichard Armitage
✔22/1/23 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

COMPLETED ON 13/9/23

Looks like Vicky and Rosemarie are knocking this challenge out of the park!!

The last few are the hardest!

So true!

Decade Challenge
(Original publication date)

1800-1809:
1810-1819:
1820-1829:
1830-1839:
1840-1849:
1850-1859:
1860-1869:
1870-1879:
1880-1889:
1890-1899:

1900-1909:
1910-1919:
1920-1929:
1930-1939:
1940-1949:
1950-1959:
1960-1969:
1970-1979:
1980-1989: 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale June-3-2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
1990-1999: 1994 The Beekeeper's Apprentice August-6-2023 ⭐⭐⭐

2000-2009: 2009 Sworn to Silence July-28-2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2010-2019: 2019 Red, White & Royal Blue July-9-2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2020-2023: 2020 The House in the Cerulean Sea July-1-2023 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Renee wrote: "Looks like Vicky and Rosemarie are knocking this challenge out of the park!!"
Absolutely,Renee-this is my favourite challenge so far this year!!!

I finished the challenge!

Rosemarie wrote: "I finished the challenge!"

Well done Rosemarie. an achievement always to successfully finish.

Thank you, Penelope!

Rosemarie wrote: "I finished the challenge!"

Congratulations!

Thanks, Brenda!