The Captive Reader

January 2014 – Never (Abandoned)

A reading project, hosted by Simon T, with the aim of reading and reviewing a book published in every year between 1900 and 1999.

Read so far: 34/100

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1914 – Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock

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1923 – Letters from Italy by Karel Čapek

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1927 – Leadon Hill by Richmal Crompton

1928 – Tales from Greenery Street by Denis Mackail

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1932 – Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton

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1937 – Bubbly on Your Budget by Marjorie Hillis

1938 – Swiss Sonata by Gwethalyn Graham

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1940 – Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell

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1942 – Spring Magic by D.E. Stevenson

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1944 – Pastoral by Nevil Shute

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1952 – Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson

1953 – Mike and Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse

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1957 – Drawn From Memory by E.H. Shepard

1958 – The Dreaming Suburb by R.F. Delderfield

1959 – Still Glides the Stream by D.E. Stevenson

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1961 – Drawn From Life by E.H. Shepard

1962 – Switzerland for Beginners by George Mikes

1963 – False Colours by Georgette Heyer

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1968 – The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg

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1971 – A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam

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1973 – The Summer After the Funeral by Jane Gardam

1974 – The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L’Engle

1975 – Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven

1976 – Gran-Nannie by Noel Streatfeild

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1978 – God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam

1979 – On the Other Side by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg

1980 – The Sidmouth Letters by Jane Gardam

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1983 – Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff

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1985 – Love Lessons by Joan Wyndham

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1994 – Oleander, Jacaranda by Penelope Lively

1995 – The Virago Book of Women Gardeners edited by Deborah Kellaway

1996 – Faith Fox by Jane Gardam

1997 – The Seasons of Rome by Paul Hofmann

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1999 – The Ladies’ Man by Elinor Lipman