The Captive Reader

January 2018 – ???

A reading project, hosted by Simon T, with the aim of reading and reviewing a book published in every year of the Twentieth Century.  I completed my first century in 2012

Completed: 55/100

1900 –

1901 – Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

1902 –

1903 – Brewster’s Millions by George Barr McCutcheon

1904 –

1905 – Lovers in London by A.A. Milne

1906 –

1907 –

1908 – Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

1909 – Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

1910 – Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock

1911 – Miss Billy by Eleanor H. Porter

1912 –

1913 –

1914 –

1915 – Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

1916 –

1917 – Wurzel-Flummery by A.A. Milne

1918 – The Boy Comes Home by A.A. Milne

1919 –

1920 – The Truth About Blayds by A.A. Milne

1921 – The Great Broxopp by A.A. Milne

1922 –

1923 – A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

1924 –

1925 – The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

1926 –

1927 – Meet Mr Mulliner by P.G. Wodehouse

1928 – The Ivory Door by A.A. Milne

1929 –

1930 – Mackerel Sky by Helen Ashton

1931 –

1932 –

1933 – The Flowering Thorn by Margery Sharp

1934 – Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville

1935 – Four Gardens by Margery Sharp

1936 –

1937 – Rosabelle Shaw by D.E. Stevenson

1938 –

1939 – Green Money by D.E. Stevenson

1940 – Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck

1941 –

1942 –

1943 –

1944 – Yeoman’s Hospital by Helen Ashton

1945 –

1946 – To Bed with Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

1947 –

1948 – Pirouette by Susan Scarlett

1949 – How to Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw

1950 – County Chronicle by Angela Thirkell

1951 –

1952 –

1953 – Über Alles by George Mikes

1954 –

1955 –

1956 –

1957 – When I Was a Little Boy by Erich Kästner

1958 –

1959 –

1960 – Pistols for Two by Georgette Heyer

1961 – Every Frenchman Has One by Olivia de Havilland

1962 – Something Wholesale by Eric Newby

1963 –

1964 –

1965 –

1966 – Brief Flower by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

1967 –

1968 –

1969 – Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

1970 –

1971 – Any Souvenirs? by George Mikes

1972 – A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle

1973 –

1974 – How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel

1975 –

1976 –

1977 –

1978 – The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Volume One, 1955-1956 edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

1979 – The Doctor’s Sweetheart and Other Stories by L.M. Montgomery

1980 – Judgement Day by Penelope Lively

1981 – The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

1982 – The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill

1983 – A Beggar in Purple by Rupert Hart-Davis

1984 – Salt-Water Moon by David French

1985 – The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich

1986 – The Pebbled Shore by Elizabeth Longford

1987 – Heidi’s Alp by Christina Hardyment

1988 –

1989 – Poems of Arab Andalusia translated by Cola Franzen

1990 – Zinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich

1991 –

1992 –

1993 –

1994 – The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner edited by Claire Harman

1995 – Talks with T.G. Masaryk by Karel Čapek

1996 – The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte Mosley

1997 –

1998 – Home from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean

1999 – A Positively Final Appearance by Alec Guinness