I came across this reading challenge website, Hotchpot Cafe. In amongst several challenges there is one to read books that were published in the year you were born. I thought it sounded intriguing so I looked up those books which were published in 1949.
So that's let the cat out of the bag! Yes I will be 70 this year so I thought I would challenge myself to read 70 books off the published in 1949 list.
There are 200 books on the Goodreads list for the year so I chose the following 70.
1. 1984 George Orwell
2. The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham
3. The Lottery and Other Stories Shirley Jackson
4. The Hero With a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell
5. Crooked House Agatha Christie
6. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There Aldo Leopold
7. The Weight of Glory C.S. Lewis
8. Arabella Georgette Heyer
9. Selected Poems William Carlos Williams
10. The Third Man Graham Greene
11. The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5) Raymond Chandler
12. Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1) Henry Miller
13. Tales from the Perilous Realm J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Upper Fourth at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #4) Enid Blyton
15. Diaries, 1910-1923 Franz Kafka
16. Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret F. Howard Taylor
17. Paroles Jacques Prévert
18. A Short History of Decay Emil M. Cioran
19. The Black Stallion and Satan (The Black Stallion, #5) Walter Farley
20. To Hell and Back Audie Murphy
21. The Emigrants (The Emigrants, #1) Vilhelm Moberg
22. In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages Hella S. Haasse
23. And Both Were Young Madeleine L'Engle
24. The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History Mircea Eliade
25. The Origins and History of Consciousness Erich Neumann
26. Green-Eyed Monster (The Prada Plan, #3) Ashley Antoinette
27. Brat Farrar Josephine Tey
28. The Fuzzy Duckling Jane Werner Watson
29. King Solomon's Ring Konrad Lorenz
30. Jesus and the Disinherited Howard Thurman
31. The Skin Curzio Malaparte
32. Love and War (The Prada Plan, #4) Ashley Antoinette
33. The Mountain of Adventure (Adventure, #5) Enid Blyton
34. Unto a Good Land (The Emigrants, #2) Vilhelm Moberg
35. The Important Book Margaret Wise Brown
36. The Second Confession (Nero Wolfe, #15) Rex Stout
37. The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It. Marc Bloch
38. Trouble in Triplicate (Nero Wolfe, #14) Rex Stout
39. The Third Man & The Fallen Idol Graham Greene
40. Movie Shoes (Shoes, #6) Noel Streatfeild
41. The Sweet Science A.J. Liebling
42. Eastern Approaches Fitzroy MacLean
43. Men of Maize Miguel Ángel Asturias
44. Funeral Rites Jean Genet
45. Happy Times in Noisy Village Astrid Lindgren
46. Miss Silver Comes to Stay (Miss Silver, #16) Patricia Wentworth
47. A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15) Ngaio Marsh
48. Little Boy Lost Marghanita Laski
49. The Wooden Horse Eric Williams
50. Kinfolk: A Novel of China (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck) Pearl S. Buck
51. Jeeves & Wooster Omnibus: The Mating Season/The Code of the Woosters/Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves #9,7 & 6 P G Wodehouse
52. The Thread That Runs So True Jesse Stuart
53. Vittoria Cottage (Dering Family, #1) D.E. Stevenson
54. My Friend Maigret (Maigret #31) Georges Simenon
55. Tales of Deltora Emily Rodda
56. The Little Mermaid and Other Tales Hans Christian Andersen
57. The Portable Voltaire Voltaire
58. The Rockingdown Mystery (Barney Mysteries, #1) Enid Blyton
59. The Lady's Not for Burning Christopher Fry
60. The God That Failed Richard Crossman (Editor)
61. The Secret Seven Collection Enid Blyton
62. Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949 Robert Frost
63. Poor Man's Orange Ruth Park
64. Killers of the Dream Lillian E. Smith
65. The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology P.G. Wodehouse
66. The Wanderer Mika Waltari
67. Brief Lives John Aubrey
68. Coral and Brass Holland M. Smith
69. Complete Poems Edith Södergran
70. A Writer's Notebook W. Somerset Maugham
71. This I Remember Eleanor Roosevelt
72. The Bells of Nagasaki Takashi Nagai
I actually own the Robert Frost poems so will have to start there. When I eventually find my library ticket I'll see what books I can download and then visit the library. I haven't been there for a while.
Here's hoping I manage to read all of them.
Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice
Great challenge! I'm off to check out MY birth year now. I've read 7 of yours. Somebody borrowed my Robert Frost poems years ago and never returned them. Brat Farrar is my favourite Tey book.
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ReplyDeletewhat an interesting challenge, I love the sound of it but I am so into my current books with more unread waiting that I couldn't take it on. Good luck with finding and reading them all
ReplyDeleteThere are some very good books on your list -- and I know you'll enjoy discovering some of the unknowns, too. Thanks for taking part in the challenge!
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