This is an interesting challenge and goes hand in hand with the Countdown Challenge. Now all my decades will be complete this year.
The goal is to read 9 books in 9 consecutive decades, not including books from 2000 and higher. Read more here.
- 1800s and Earlier – Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus (620-560 BC)
- 1810s – Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1818)
- 1820s –
- 1830s –
- 1840s –
- 1850s – Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
- 1860s –
- 1870s –
- 1880s –
- 1890s – Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)
- 1900s – Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1908)
- 1910s – The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1910)
- 1920s – Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)
- 1930s – If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland (1938)
- 1940s – Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (1942)
- 1950s – The Chronicles of Narnia: Magician’s Nephew (1955)
- 1960s – James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (1961)
- 1970s – Maus by Art Spiegelman (1973)
- 1980s – The Witches by Roald Dahl (1983)
- 1990s – Trunk Music by Michael Connelly (1997)