A Century of Books (1925 - 2024): Another Project

This is another project (I won't call it challenge, to not adding pressure to the otherwise fun and exciting activity) I undertake starting this year, which is inspired by Simon @ Stuck in a Book. The idea is to read 100 books published during the last hundred years - one title for each year. I don't set any timeframe for myself, but I guess I'd able to finish this in two years. Part of the fun is to browse and find new books I have never heard of before, or books that I have wanted to read in the past but have been forgotten. The other is, of course, reading an interesting assortment of those books! :)

Here is my initial list in Google Sheet, with links to the ones I have read and reviewed. It's still incomplete, and I will keep adding (or changing) books along the way. Just reading one book for each year, how difficult will it be, right?

A Century of Books
1925	Under the Tonto Rim (Zane Grey)
1926	The Blue Castle (L.M. Montgomery)
1927	The Wintringham Mystery (Anthony Berkeley)
1928	The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye (Brian Flynn)
1929	Missing or Murdered (Robin Forsythe)
1930	Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase (Carolyn Keene)
1931	Danger Calling (Patricia Wentworth)
1932	Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
1933	High Rising (Angela Thirkell)
1934	Miss Buncle's Book (D.E. Stevenson)
1935	The Cornish Coast Murder (John Bude)
1936	The Wheel Spins (Ethel Lina White)
1937	How Do You Live? (Genzaburo Yoshino)
1938	Artists in Crime (Ngaio Marsh)
1939	The Black Spectacles (John Dickson Carr)
1940	Ten Way Street (Susan Scarlett)
1941	Babbacombe's (Susan Scarlett)
1942	The Moving Finger (Agatha Christie)
1943	The Five Find-Outers: The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage (Enid Blyton)
1944	Death Comes as the End (Agatha Christie)
1945	The Pursuit of Love (Nancy Mitford)
1946	Fire in the Thatch (E.C.R. Lorac)
1947	Kate Hardy (D.E. Stevenson)
1948	The Black Lake (Hella Haasse)
1949	Crooked House (Agatha Christie)
1950	Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (Barbara Comyns)
1951	The Swiss Summer (Stella Gibbons)
1952	Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)
1953	Seven Years in Tibet (Heinrich Harrer)
1954	Because of Sam (Molly Clavering)
1955	Fresh from the Country (Miss Read)
1956	Near Neighbors (Molly Clavering)
1957	A Winter Away (Elizabeth Fair)
1958	The Greengage Summer (Rumer Godden)
1959	My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George)
1960	Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O'Dell)
1961	Travels with Charley: In Search of America (John Steinbeck)
1962	The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Joan Aiken)
1963	Never Cry Wolf (Farley Mowat)
1964	Up the Down Staircase (Bel Kaufman)
1965	Airs Above the Ground (Mary Stewart)
1966	The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Dorothy Gilman)
1967	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)
1968	Picture Miss Seaton (Heron Carvic)
1969	Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian)
1970	Thursday's Child (Noel Streatfeild)
1971	When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Judith Kerr)
1972	The Summer Book (Tove Jansson)
1973	The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
1974	Mister God, This is Anna (Flyn)
1975	Crocodile on the Sandbank (Elizabeth Peters)
1976	Letters from Father Christmas (J.R.R. Tolkien)
1977	Quartet in Autumn (Barbara Pym)
1978	The Bookshop (Penelope Fitzgerald)
1979	Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald)
1980	Rhine Journey (Ann Schlee)
1981	The Hotel New Hampshire (John Irving)
1982	War Horse (Michael Morpurgo)
1983	Dear Mr. Henshaw (Beverly Cleary)
1984	Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns)
1985	The Ruby in the Smoke (Philip Pullman)
1986	Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)
1987	The Shell Seekers (Rosamund Pilcher)
1988	A Far Cry from Kensington (Muriel Spark)
1989	Blitzcat (Robert Westall)
1990	Animal Dreams (Barbara Kingsolver)
1991	Toujours Provence (Peter Mayle)
1992	The Thief of Always (Clive Barker)
1993	The Club Dumas (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
1994	At Home in Mitford (Jan Karon)
1995	The Persian Pickle Club (Sandra Dallas)
1996	Under the Tuscan Sun (Frances Mayes)
1997	Pretend You Don't See Her (Mary Higgins Clark)
1998	The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
1999	Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)
2000	Scarlet Feather (Maeve Binchy)
2001	Five Quarters of the Orange (Joanne Harris)
2002	The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (Jan-Philipp Sendker)
2003	The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yōko Ogawa)
2004	Ten Big Ones (Janet Evanovich)
2005	The Tale of Holly How (Susan Wittig Albert)
2006	The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
2007	Book of a Thousand Days (Shannon Hale)
2008	Remember Me? (Sophie Kinsella)
2009	The Easy Life in Kamusari (Shion Miura)
2010	Days at Morisaki Bookshop (Satoshi Yagisawa)
2011	The Martian (Andy Weir)
2012	Cigarette Girl (Ratih Kumala)
2013	The Murder at Sissingham Hall (Clara Benson)
2014	Murder Most Unladylike (Robin Stevens)
2015	Jade Dragon Mountain (Elsa Hart)
2016	The Whistler (John Grisham)
2017	The Cat Who Saved Books (Sosuke Natsukawa)
2018	A Picture of Murder (T.E. Kinsey)
2019	The Secret Guests (John Banville)
2020	Snow (John Banville)
2021	The Man Who Died Twice (Richard Osman)
2022	The Golden Mole (Katherine Rundell)
2023	What You Are Looking For Is in the Library (Michiko Aoyama)
2024	Eleven Huskies (Philipp Schott)

Do you find your favorite books in the list? Or books you're exciting to read? Or do you want to recommend books I'd love to read for certain years? Please tell me on the comment section. I would love to hear some suggestions!