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The Decades 2009 Wrap Up: 12/30/09

The Decades Challenge is by far my favorite reading challenge. I don't know if there will be one for 2010 but I hope so.

For whatever reason my trickiest decade this year was the 1920s. It strikes me as odd because I normally read a ton of books from that era. This year though I kept missing either finding a book from the 1910s or from the 1930s.

The book that finally let me declare myself a winner was Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis. I loved his books when I was a teen but it's been about fifteen years since I last read anything by him.

The oldest book I read (actually re-read) was Don Quixote de la Mancha and I had fun posting my progress as I made my way through the book.

As you can imagine, my list is top heavy, with most of the books coming from the 1990s.

1990s

• The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
• The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman
• The Cat Barked? by Lydia Monks
• Catamount by Marc Laidlaw
• The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
• A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr. Punch by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
• Culture Shock! California by Mark Cramer
• Dolphins at Daybreak (Magic Tree House #9) by Mary Pope Osborne
• Dragons, Dragons by Eric Carle
• Duck in a Truck by Jez Alborough
• Earth Odyssey by Mark Hertsgaard
• Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto
• Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Fat Tuesday by Sandra Brown
• Feng Shui in Your Garden by Roni Jay
• Festival of Deaths by Jane Haddam
• The Frequency of Souls by Mary Kay Zuravleff
• Fruits Basket Volume 1 by Katsuki Takaya
• Ghost Town at Sundown (Magic Tree House #10) by Mary Pope Osborne
• Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Anne Mirand and Ed Emberley
• Grimm's Grimmest by Tracy Arah Dockray (with the Brothers Grimm)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe by Suzanne M. Coil
• Harriet's Hare by Dick King-Smith
• I Choose You by Tracey West
• I Spy Christmas by Jean Marzollo
• I Spy Fantasy by Jean Marzollo
• I Spy School Days by Jean Marzollo
• If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond
• Jimmy Buffet: The Man from Margaritaville Revealed by Steve Eng
• The Last Valentine by James Michael Pratt
• The Lighthouse, the Cat and the Sea by Leigh W. Rutledge
• The Letter by Richard Paul Evans
• Lions at Lunchtime (Magic Tree House #11) by Mary Pope Osborne
• Mama Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming
• Mojo Hand by Greg Kihn
• Myths, Magic and Legends of Sand Art by Suzanne Lord
• Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
• Nana Volume 2 by Ai Yazawa
• The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady
• Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
• Paddington Bear and the Busy Bee Carnival by Michael Bond
• Polar Bears Past Bedtime (Magic Tree House #12) by Mary Pope Osborne
• Read Me edited by Gaby Morgan
• Right to Remain Silent by Penny Warner
• School Days by B. G. Hennessy
• The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
• The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards
• Sorcerers of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg
• Timepiece by Richard Paul Evans
• The Vicar of Nibbleswicke by Roald Dahl
• A Walk in the Rainforest by Kristin Joy Pratt
• What the Hell is a Groom and What's He Supposed to Do? by John Mitchell
• The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris
• Whoo-oo Is It? by Megan McDonald
• The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint
• Wolf Song Visions by Scott and Linda Read

1980s

• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
• Black Rainbow by Barbara Michaels
• The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
• Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones by Terrance Dicks
• Harriet's Recital by Nancy Carlton
• Harriet and the Roller Coaster by Nancy Carlton
• Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
• Horrible Harry and the Green Slime by Suzy Kline
• A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
• Look at Me by Anita Brookner
• Me, Myself and I by Jane Louise Curry
• The Navajo (True Books) by Alice Osinski
• No Elephants Allowed by Deborah Robinson
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• A Rebel in Time by Harry Harrison
• Rising Waters by Patricia Ferrara
• Tom and Pippo Read a Story by Helen Oxenbury
• Violent Cases by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

1970s

• Beyond Another Door by Sonia Levitin
• Doctor Who and the Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks
• Doctor Who and the War Games by Malcolm Hulke
• Free to Be... You and Me by Marlo Thomas
• Frog Goes to Dinner by Mercer Mayer
• Frog on His Own by Mercer Mayer
• The Great American Marble Book by Fred Ferretti
• The Guardian by Jeffrey Konvitz
• Kampung Boy by Lat (Mohammad Nor Khalid)
• Mars: The Red Planet by Isaac Asimov
• A Matter of Feeling by Janine Boissard
• Poor Poor Ophelia by Carolyn Weston
• Retrograde Summer by John Varley
• Sarah Whitcher's Story by Elizabeth Yates
• Shadow on the Stones by Moyra Caldecott
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Sooner or Later or Never Never by Gary Jennings
• The Tall Stones by Moyra Caldecott
• The Temple of the Sun by Moyra Caldecott
• The Witches of Worm by Zipha Keatley Snyder

1960s

• Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
• The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars by Jean Merrill
• The Gift of the Deer by Helen Hoover
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
• Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
• Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye
• There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer
• Tiger Burning Bright by Theodora DuBois
• Venice by Adrian Stokes and John Piper
• Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner

1950s

• Destination Moon by Georges Remi Hergé
• The Eighth Day of the Week by Marek Hlasko
• Explorers on the Moon by Georges Remi Hergé
• Grey Seas Under by Farley Mowat
• Harold's Fairy Tale by Crockett Johnson
• Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
• If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss
• Immortality Inc. by Robert Sheckley
• Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGreggor
• On Beyond Zebra by Dr. Seuss
• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
• Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

1940s

• Land of Black Gold by Georges Remi Hergé
• The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
• 100 Years of California Cooking by Martha Lee
• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène Du Bois

1930s

• The Black Island by Georges Remi Hergé
• The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew #3) by Carolyn Keene
• Father Malachy's Miracle by Bruce Marshall
• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
• Precious Jeopardy: A Christmas Story by Lloyd C. Douglas
• King Ottokar's Scepre by Georges Remi Hergé
• Wee Gillis by Leaf Munro

1920s

• Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

1910s

• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne

1900s

• Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them by Rolfe Cobleigh
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
• The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright

1890s

• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

1880s

• Baby Dance by Ann Taylor and Marjorie van Heerden

1870s

• The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak by Dinah Muloc Craik
• South-Sea Idyls Charles Warren Stoddard
• Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

1850s

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1610s

• Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
  

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Comment #1: Wednesday, December, 30, 2009 at 20:00:43

Teddy

Congrats, you did an awesome job!

Comment #2: Friday, January 8, 2010 at 18:41:14

Pussreboots

Thank you!