Read a book from every year of your life challenge
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Mar 2023
12:47pm, 5 Mar 2023
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EvilPixie
Think I’ve found a great worm hole for work !
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Mar 2023
5:39pm, 8 Mar 2023
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EvilPixie
Thought I would be clever and look up books on Amazon but they don’t give proper info so going to have to Google each I seem to have loads in the 2010+ Can’t recall much from my youth! |
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Mar 2023
3:23pm, 9 Mar 2023
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EvilPixie
so many gaps in my early years as I can't recall what I was reading well I read the Lord Peter Whimsey books - but they were written 40 years before me! And War and Peace etc will be too early too!! I might have to investigate the library or it could be expensive |
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Mar 2023
4:28pm, 9 Mar 2023
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EvilPixie
so I have 20 years as yet unaccounted for I have loads from this century! I've joined the library to fix this plus my hopefully sooner than later not working will help! Love this challenge |
Mar 2023
4:37pm, 9 Mar 2023
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DazTheSlug
Goodreads has lists of books by decades, this link is for the 1990s, but contains links to the others: goodreads.com |
Mar 2023
4:51pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
I have loads of books that I gave to charity shops, plus lots of others littered about, I may incorporate those into my list, maybe not as I think most are recent, which is well covered anyway. My gaps are the 60s and 70s, which I still need to have a good think about....
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Mar 2023
5:17pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Serendippily
Heres mine: some I really liked and some were good enough to count 1969 Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5 1970 - J G Farrell: The Troubles 1971 - Elizabeth Taylor: Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont 1972 - David McCullough: The Great Bridge 1973 - William Goldman: The Princess Bride 1974 - John Le Carré: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 1975 - Edward Abbey: The Monkey Wrench Gang 1976 - Alex Haley: Roots 1977 - Joan Didion: A Book of Common Prayer 1978 - Iris Murdoch: The sea, The sea 1979 - VS Naipaul: A Bend in the River |
Mar 2023
5:20pm, 9 Mar 2023
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HellsBells
My 60’s and 70’s list - just like Dipps, some I found excellent and some were a bit of a let down 1965 - David Lodge - The British Museum Is Falling Down 1966 - Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea 1967- K M Peyton - Flambards 1968 - Barry Hines - A Kestrel For A Knave 1969 - John Fowler - The French Lieutenant’s Woman 1970 - Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road 1971 - E M Forster - Maurice 1972 - Ira Lewin - The Stepford Wives 1973 - William Goldman - The Princess Bride 1974 - P G Wodehouse - Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen 1975 - James Clavell - Shogun 1976 - Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder 1977 - Margaret Atwood - Dancing Girls And Other Stories 1978 - Armistead Maupin - Tales Of The City 1979 - Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel |
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Mar 2023
5:35pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Serendippily
How did you find the Maupin HellsBells?
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Mar 2023
6:05pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Little Nemo
I got as far as 1967-1979 and then kind of lost interest a bit. Have done some random years after this but maybe now's a good time to pick this up again. If anyone's interested here is my list of books I've finished: 1967: Flann O’Brien - The Third Policeman 1968: Dick Francis - Forfeit 1969: George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman 1970: Susan Hill - I’m The King Of The Castle 1971: Frederick Forsyth - Day of the Jackal 1972: Richard Adams - Watership Down 1973: Graham Greene - The Honorary Consul 1974: John Le Carre - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 1975: Tom Sharpe - Blott On The Landscape 1976: Roger Zelazny & Philip K Dick - Deus Irae 1977: Philip K Dick - A Scanner Darkly 1978: Larry Niven - The Magic Goes Away 1979: V S Naipaul - A Bend In The River 1998: Without Prejudice - Nicola Williams 2003: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus 2004: Alan Hollinghurst - The Line Of Beauty 2005: Karen Jay Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club 2006: Will Self - The Book Of Dave 2007: Moshin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist I've been using these Wiki pages to get my choices: en.wikipedia.org |
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