My Century of Books

I was inspired by Lory of Entering the Enchanted Castle (who was inspired by other bloggers, notably Simon of Stuck in a Book) to I see whether I could select one book I’d read for each year of the twentieth century. Lory's goal was "to choose books that had some notable impact on me, leaving a distinct impression on my mind," and I've set that as my goal as well. The books in bold print are the same as Lory's for that year.

1900 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
1901 – Kim by Rudyard Kipling
1902 – The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
1903 – The Story of My Life – Helen Keller
1904 – The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
1905 – The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
1906 – White Fang - Jack London
1907 – Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief - Maurice Leblanc
1908 – Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
1909 – The Girl of the Limberlost – Gene Stratton-Porter
1910 – The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
1911 – Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
1912 – Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
1913 – The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
1914 – Dubliners - James Joyce
1915 – The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
1916 – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
1917 -  Parnassas on Wheels - Christopher Morley
1918 – The Elements of Style - William Struck
1919 – Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
1920 – The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
1921 – Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
1922 – The Enchanted April – Elizabeth von Arnim
1923 – The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
1924 – A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
1925 – The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
1926 – Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
1927 – Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
1928 – Millions of Cats – Wanda Gág
1929 – All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
1930 – Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
1931 – The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
1932 – Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
1934 – I, Claudius -Robert Graves
1935 – Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
1936 – Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild
1937 – The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
1938 – The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
1940 – Caps for Sale - Esphyr Slobodkina
1941 – Make Way for Ducklings – Robert McCloskey
1942 – The Little House– Virginia Lee Burton
1943 – The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1944 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
1945 – Animal Farm - George Orwell
1946 – The World is Not Enough – Zoé Oldenbourg
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
1948 – The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
1949 – Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
1950 – Henry Huggins - Beverly Cleary
1951 – The Sea Around Us - Rachel Carson
1952 – Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
1953 – Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
1954 – Half Magic - Edward Eager
1955 – A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
1956 – A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote
1957 – How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
1958 – Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
1959 – Mrs. Bridge – Evan S. Connell
1960 – Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
1961 – The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
1962 – A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle
1963 – The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
1964 – A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
1965 – The Source - James A. Michener
1966 – Chancy and the Grand Rascal - Sid Fleischman

1967 – The Mouse and His Child – Russell Hoban
1968 – A Kiss for Little Bear - Else Holmelund Minarik
1969 – Rotten Island – William Steig
1970 – Frog and Toad are Friends - Arnold Lobel
1971 – The Hiding Place - Corrie ten Boom
1972 – Watership Down – Richard Adams
1973 – Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1974 – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
1975 – Wife - Bharati Mukherjee
1976 – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
1977 – The Box Garden - Carol Shields
1978 – The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
1979 – If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
1980 – A Month in the Country - J. L. Carr
1981 – Happenstance - Carol Shields
1982 – Blue Highways - William Least Heat-Moon
1983 – The Color of Magic – Terry Pratchett
1984 – The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
1985 – Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
1986 – Maus, Vol. I – Art Spiegelman
1987 – The Case of the One-Eyed Killer Stud Horse - John R. Erickson
1988 – Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver

1989 – The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
1990 – Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
1991 – The Gold Bug Variations - Richard Powers
1992 – The Secret History – Donna Tartt
1993 – The Giver - Lois Lowry
1994 – Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
1995 – A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
1996 – Wilma Unlimited – Kathleen Krull
1997 – A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
1998 – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
1999 – Civility – Stephen L. Carter
2000 – Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate DiCamillo

Books from Lory's list that I have not read that I might want to read:

1901 - My Brilliant Career – Miles Franklin 

1906 – The Story of the Amulet – E. Nesbit

1910 – Old Mother West Wind– Thornton Burgess

1912 – The Montessori Method – Maria Montessori
1913 – Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier
1914 – Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
1915 – Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1917 - Prufrock and Other Poems – T.S. Eliot

1919 – Christopher and Columbus – Elizabeth von Arnim

1921 – Scaramouche – Rafael Sabatini

1924 – The Home-Maker – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

1926 – Lud-in-the-Mist – Hope Mirlees

1930 – Miss Mole – E.H. Young

1933 – Modern Man in Search of a Soul – C.G. Jung

1935 – Gaudy Night – Dorothy Sayers

1940 – The Bird in the Tree – Elizabeth Goudge

1948 – The Plague and I – Betty MacDonald
1949 – The Lady’s Not for Burning – Christopher Fry

1953 – Troy Chimneys – Margaret Kennedy

1955 – An Episode of Sparrows – Rumer Godden
1956 – Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
1957 – Moominland Midwinter – Tove Jansson
1958 – The King Must Die – Mary Renault

1963 – False Colours – Georgette Heyer

1965 – Up the Down Staircase – Bel Kaufman
1966 – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard

1968 – The Silver Crown – Robert C. O’Brien

1970 – Smoke from Cromwell’s Time – Joan Aiken

1974 – The Perilous Gard – Elizabeth Marie Pope
1975 – World of Wonders – Robertson Davies

1977 – Charmed Life – Diana Wynne Jones
1978 – Beauty – Robin McKinley
1979 – The Madwoman in the Attic – Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
1980 – A Ring of Endless Light – Madeleine L’Engle
1981 – Masquerade – Kit Williams

1984 – Archer’s Goon – Diana Wynne Jones

1991 – Tam Lin – Pamela Dean

What would be on your list? And what do you think of mine?