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Post your plans for 20th Century here! (You do not need to post your 20th plan prior to the start of the challenge, nor do you need to adhere to a posted plan).

2000 : The Human Stain, The Feast of the Goat, Bartleby & Co.
1999 : As If I'm Not There
1998 : All Souls Day, The Heretic
1997 : Enduring Love, Jack Maggs, Underworld
1996 : Hallucinating Foucault, A Light Comedy
1995 : The End of the Story, Morvern Caller, The Unconsoled
1994 : How Late It Was, How Late, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
1993 : The Holder of the World, Remembering Babylon, Looking for the Possible Dance
1992 : Arcadia, Asphodel, Indigo
1991 : Mao II, Typical
1990 : Amongst Women, Like Life, The Music of Chance
1989 : Inland, The Great Indian Novel, London Fields
1988 : Wittgenstein’s Mistress, The First Garden, The Swimming-Pool Library
1987 : Cigarettes, World's End, The Pigeon

Subject to change, but here is my plan today:

Chronologician
1980- Answer as a Man by Taylor Caldwell
1981- Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz
1982- Cinnamon Skin by John D. MacDonald
1983- Escape the Night by Richard North Patterson
1984- Lord of the Dance by Andrew M. Greeley
1985- Exit to Eden by Anne Rice writing as Anne Rampling
1986- Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
1987- Beloved by Toni Morrison
1988- Manhatten is My Beat by Jeffery Deaver
1989- The Big Killing by Annette Meyers

These are all books on my home shelves so I will not get stuck waiting on library books as I did with LLL. Also, I have several options for some years, so I am reserving the right to change my mind on the specific book depending on my mood when I get to it. I have included some quick reads and several big books so that I don't get bogged down with all 400-500 page books, which will make me tend to abandon the list.

BUT... I plan to complete this challenge with bells on!

Edited 3-Mar-03
Chronologician (cuz I like order!)

1990 - I for Isobel by Amy Witting
1991 - The Paradise War (The Song of Albion 1) by Stephen R. Lawhead
1992 - The Novel by James A. Michener
1993 - Grand Days by Frank Moorehouse
1994 - The Case of the Damascus Dagger by Kel Richards
1995 - Highways to a War by Christopher J. Koch
1996 - The Book of God by Walter Wanger Jr.
1997 - The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner
1998 - The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver
1999 - Sunrise on the Mediterranean by Suzanne Frank

I'm going to read YA "classics" of the 90s that I have missed out on.

15.1 From 1990 / not YA at BPL

The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint

15.2 From 1991 / Lexile 870

We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier

15.3 From 1992 / Lexile 910

Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde

15.4 From 1993 / Lexile 800

Missing Angel Juan by Francesca Lia Block

15.5 From 1994 / Lexile 840

If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan

15.6 From 1995 / Lexile 980

Ironman by Chris Crutcher

15.7 From 1996 / Lexile 970

Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas

15.8 From 1997 / Lexile 980

Shade's Children by Garth Nix

15.9 From 1998 / Lexile 1050

Heroes by Robert Cormier

15.10 From 1999 / Lexile 1020

Copper Elephant by Adam Rapp

20th Century timeline

1991 Saving Faith by David Baldacci

1992Shallow Graves by Jeffery Deaver

1993 Gone, But Not Forgotten by Phillip Margolin

1994 Shooting at Loons by Margaret Maron

1995 Killing Critics by Carol O'Connell

1996 Up Jumps the Devil by Margaret Maron

1997 Stone Angel by Carol O'Connell

1998 The Simple Truth by David Baldacci

1999 Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

2000 Wild Justice by Phillip Margolin

I'm going to do a mix of trashy romance novels, literary fiction and some chick lit. :)

2000 The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning
1999 Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning
1998 A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
1997 Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
1996 Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon or Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
1995 Watermelon by Marian Keyes
1994 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
1993 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Euginedes
1992 Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan or Along Came a Spider by James Patterson or Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoag
1991 Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

Revised my list already - post #3

I have two possibilities! I know we can't do two but I'll choose between them when all the other tasks are out.

1938 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
1937 Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
1936 South Riding by Winifred Holtby
1935 Vivians by Molly Hughes
1934 The Country Housewife's Book by Lucy Yates / Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1933 Frost in May by Antonia White
1932 The Saltmarsh Murders by Gladys Mitchell
1931 The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon / The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club
1930 High Wages by Dorothy Whipple
1929 The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

1990 A Vow of Silence by Veronica Black
1991 Stormy Petrel by Mary Stewart / Waiting / Wild Swans
1992 Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton / Along Came a Spider / Smilla's Sense of Snow / Never Mind / Was / Memories of Rain
1993 Remembering Babylon by David Malouf / Letters From Menabilly
1994 Aunt Dimity and the Duke by Nancy Atherton
1995 Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
1996 The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks / A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
1997 Funerals for Horses by Catherine Ryan Hyde / Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
1998 The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price / Miss Bugle Saw God in the Cabbages / Atomised / Veronika Decides to Die / Earthquake Weather
1999 Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers

2000: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference or The Blind Assassin
1999: Daughter of Fortune or A Walk to Remember
1998: About a Boy
1997: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
1996: We Were the Mulvaneys
1995: The Reader or Microserfs or Notes from a Small Island
1994: Barrel Fever or Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
1993: The Boggart or Guilty Pleasures or Girl, Interrupted
1992: The Children of Men or The Princes in the Tower
1991: Outlander or The Kitchen God's Wife or Wartime Lies



I just spent the past hour compiling this list, but as I glanced over everyone's lists while scrolling to get to the "comment" box, I saw Karen GHHS's list and might just copy her outright because that looks like a fantastically FUN list!!

I finally have a decade, yea! I'm trying to do this using only my library's ebook collection, so I'm more restricted than I'd like. Several authors are listed more than twice so I can see all my options.

Chronologician

1991 The Firm
1992 Along Came a Spider
1993 Guilty Pleasures
1994 It Had to Be You
1995 Blindness
1996 The Runaway Jury, Anyone But You, Bloody Bones
1997 Naked, A Walk in the Woods, The Killing Dance
1998 I'm a Stranger Here Myself, The Professor and the Madman
1999 Beyond the Highland Mist
2000 Kitchen Confidential, Me Talk Pretty One Day

I have not participate in a Reading with Style challenge in quite awhile, but thought that I would give it a go. This one sounds like fun.

Here is my Chronologican list as it stands. I may tweak it.

1964: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Lexile 810)
1965: Roseanna
1966: Flowers for Algernon (Leixile 910)
1967: I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Lexile 1080)
1968: The Santaroga Barrier
1969: The Edible Woman
1970: 84, Charing Cross Road , The Bluest Eye
1971: Nemesis
1972: Watership Down
1973: Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

I deleted this post from another strand when I realized this strand was the correct one. Guess I got carried away with the excitement of it all!

1981 The Comfort of Strangers: Ian McEwan
1982 Light a Penny Candle: Maeve Binchy
1983 Alice in Bed: Cathleen Schine
1984 A World Made of Fire: Mark Childress
1985 The Accidental Tourist: Anne Tyler
1986 Handling Sin: Michael Malone
1987 Moon Tiger: Penelope Lively
1988 The Anna Papers: Ellen Gilchrist
Fair and Tender Ladies: Lee Smith
1989 While My Pretty One Sleeps: Mary Higgins Clark
1990 The Gate of Angels: Penelope Fitzgerald


These are all from my TBR shelves! I'm so ready for this sub-challenge...I've never had my plan this early! YIPPEE!

1989 Jasmine
1990 Looking for a Ship
1991 Regeneration
1992 Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
1993 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
1994 Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White
1995 Flesh and Blood
1996 The Beach
1997 Birds of Prey
1998 The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927

Well I know where I'm going to start so I can at least list one book. I still don't know if I'll go backwards in time from the first one or go forward.

1989 Joshua and the Children
1990 May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India
1991 How to Make an American Quilt

I'm new here. I enjoy setting a mini-challenge up for myself every now and then. I've checked out this site in the past and it looks like fun so.... Maybe by posting and keeping track of progress, etc., I might actually finish one.

I'll try for the Chronologician.

1949 The Sheltering Sky
1950 Requiem for a Nun
1951 Foundation
1952 Mrs. McGinty's Dead
1953 The Long Goodbye
1954 The Lake
1955 No Man Is an Island
1956 Wildfire at Midnight
1957 The Sandcastle
1958 The Voyeur or Nature, Man and Woman

Nick wrote: "I'm new here. I enjoy setting a mini-challenge up for myself every now and then. I've checked out this site in the past and it looks like fun so.... Maybe by posting and keeping track of progress, ..."

Nice list! I think Krapp's Last Tape doesn't meet the minimum page requirements - the most popular edition is 48 pages, but maybe Elizabeth can confirm that on world cat and update if needed.

Liz is correct that the most popular edition is less than the required minimum. (And welcome, Nick!)

Don (The Book Guy) wrote: "I messed up on my original list. Edited post 5 to show new book. Please confirm that it will work."

You're on the right track now, Don!

I will definitely (maybe) be completing the task this time around!
I was going for Hugo winners from 1951 onwards, however it turns out that there are a few misses where no Hugo winners were published that year. I've tried to fill those spots with good sci-fi, am anxious to see if I chose wisely...
Here is my plan:

1951: Foundation by Isaac Asimov

1952: The Space Merchants by Frederick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth

1953: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1954: They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton & Frank Riley

1955: The Inheritors by William Golding

1956: Double Star by Robert Heinlein

1957: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

1958: The Big Time by Fritz Leiber

1959: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

1960: Deathworld 1 Harry Harrison