Decades 2010

Did you participate in the Decades '09 last year? Would you like to again? Or, if you didn't take part in 2009, are you interested in doing so in 2010? We'd love to have you join us!

Decades 2010 Rules:

1. Read a minimum of 10 books in 10 consecutive decades in 2010.
2. Books published in the 2000's do not count .
3. Titles may be cross-posted with any other challenge.
4. You may change your list at any time.
5. Peruse the eligible book lists and reviews from previous years (found on the sidebar). Any book from that decade is eligible; it doesn't have to be on the list to qualify. A good source to find out when books were published is wikipedia. For example if you follow this link , you will see how easy it is to search books by a particular decade. Another resource is fantasticfiction.co.uk .
6. Sign up through Mr. Linky . Please use the url of your specific post for this challenge rather than just your blog url.
7. Come back and post the links to your reviews into Mr. Linky. Look to the right under categories to find the links to the various decades. You don't have to, but you are encouraged to post all the books you've read for that decade if you're participating in Decades 2010 .
8. Have fun reading your Decades 2010 books, and have a great year!

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Congratulations, and I hope you consider participating in Decades 2010!

Did you participate in the By the Decade Challenge last year? Would you like to again? Or, if you didn't take part in 2008, are you interested in doing so in 2009? We'd love to have you join us!

Decades '09 Rules:

1. Read a minimum of 9 books in 9 consecutive decades in '09.
2. Books published in the 2000's do not count .
3. Titles may be cross-posted with any other challenge.
4. You may change your list at any time.
5. Peruse the eligible book lists and reviews from 2008 or 2007. Any book from that decade is eligible; it doesn't have to be on the list to qualify. A good source to find out when books were published is wikipedia. For example if you follow this link , you will see how easy it is to search books by a particular decade. Another resource is fantasticfiction.co.uk .
6. Sign up through Mr. Linky below. Please use the url of your specific post for this challenge rather than just your blog url.
7. Come back and post the links to your reviews into Mr. Linky. Look to the right under categories to find the links to the various decades. You don't have to, but you are encouraged to post all the books you've read for that decade if you're participating in Decades '09 .
8. Have fun reading your Decades '09 books, and have a great year!

Congratulations!

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Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1800's or earlier book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Moll Flanders (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1774: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Wolfgang von Goethe
1759: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
1722: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
1719: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

2008 reviews:

2009-2011 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1810's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Pride & Prejudice (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1811: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
1812: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
1813: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1814: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
1814: Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
1815: Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
1816: The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott
1816: The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott
1816: Emma by Jane Austen
1816: Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott
1817: Rob Roy by Walter Scott
1818: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
1818: The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
1818: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
1818: Persuasion by Jane Austen

2008 reviews:

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2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1820's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: 'The Pirate (Michelle)' in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1820: The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
1820: Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin (excerpt only)
1820: The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott
1821: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey
1822: The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
1822: The Pirate by Walter Scott
1823: Conversations of Eckermann by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1823: The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
1823: Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
1824: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
1825: The Betrothed by by Sir Walter Scott
1825: The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
1826: The Last Man by Mary Shelley
1826: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
1826: Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott
1827: Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
1827: The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
1828: The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott
1828: Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne

2008 reviews:

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2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1830's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Indiana (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1830: The Red and the Black by Stendhal
1831: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
1831: Indiana by George Sand
1831: The Wild-Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac
1832: Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac
1832: Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin
1833: Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin
1833: Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
1835: A Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac
1835: Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
1836: The Captain's Daughter by Aleksandr Pushkin
1836: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
1838: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
1838: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
1839: The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
1839: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

'07 Reviews:
Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Vol. 1 (3M)

2008 reviews:

2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1840's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Dead Souls (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1840: Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray
1840: Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
1840: The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
1841: The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
1841: The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
1842: American Notes by Charles Dickens
1842: The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
1842: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
1843: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
1843: Georges by Alexandre Dumas
1843: Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
1844: The Chimes by Charles Dickens
1844: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
1844: The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
1844: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
1845: The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
1845: Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
1845: Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
1846: The Battle of Life by Charles Dickens
1846: Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
1846: Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1846: The Two Dianas by Alexandre Dumas
1846: Typee by Herman Melville
1847: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
1847: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1847: Omoo by Herman Melville
1847: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
1848: Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
1848: The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1848: The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
1848: The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas
1848: Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
1848: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
1848: Vanity Fair by Thackeray
1849: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
1849: Mardi, and a Voyage Thither by Herman Melville
1849: Redburn by Herman Melville
1849: Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

2007 reviews:
American Notes-Charles Dickens (Bj)
Cricket on the Hearth (3M)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (The Sleepy Reader)
Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens (HeidiJane)
Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (Stephanie)

2008 reviews:

2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1850's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Cranford (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1850: The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
1850: Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
1850: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1850: White-Jacket by Herman Melville
1851: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
1851: Drama in Mexico by Jules Verne
1851: The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1851: The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
1851: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
1852: Childhood by Leo Tolstoy
1852: The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray
1852: Pierre: or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
1852: The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1852: The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
1852: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1853: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
1853: Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
1853: Villette by Charlotte Bronte
1854: Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy
1854: Fabiola or, the Church of the Catacombs by Nicholas Wiseman
1854: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
1854: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
1855: Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (contained within The Piazza Tales)
1855: Israel Potter by Herman Melville
1855: The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray
1855: Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
1856: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1856: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1856: Rudin by Ivan Turgenev
1856: The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment by George Meredith
1856: Youth by Leo Tolstoy
1857: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
1857: The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
1857: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne
1857: Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
1857: The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
1857: Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes
1857: The Wolf Leader by Alexandre Dumas
1858: Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
1858: Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
1858: Phantastes by George MacDonald
1859: Adam Bede by George Eliot
1859: Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
1859: Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
1859: The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
1859: The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1859: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
1859: The Village of Stepanchikovo by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2007 reviews:
Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope (HeidiJane)
Phantastes by George MacDonald (3M)

2008 reviews:

2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1860's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: First Love (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1860: First Love by Ivan Turgenev (included in Torrents of Spring)
1860: Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
1860: The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1860: The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
1860: On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
1860: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
1861: Consuelo by George Sand
1861: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
1861: The Insulted and Humiliated by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1861: Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
1861: Silas Marner by George Eliot
1862: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
1862: The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1862: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
1862: The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
1862: No Name by Wilkie Collins
1863: Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
1863: Romola by George Eliot
1863: The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
1864: Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
1864: Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
1864: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1864: The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
1864: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
1865: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1865: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
1866: Armadale by Wilkie Collins
1866: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1866: Felix Holt by George Eliot
1866: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1866: A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
1866: Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
1867: The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
1867: The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1867: Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
1868: In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne
1868: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1868: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
1869: An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
1869: He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
1869: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1869: Lorna Doone by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
1869: The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
1869: Old Town Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe
1869: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

2007 reviews:
Silas Marner by George Eliot (Katrina)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (3M)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Booklogged)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (HeidiJane)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (3M)

2008 reviews:

2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1870's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Eight Cousins (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1870: The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
1871: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Saw, Carroll
1871: Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
1871: Middlemarch by George Eliot
1872: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
1872: Erewhon by Samuel Butler
1873: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
1873: The Gilded Age by Mark Twain
1874: Far From the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
1874: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
1875: The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
1875: Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
1875: The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
1876: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
1876: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
1877: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
1878: Daisy Miller by Henry James
1878: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
1878: An Inland Voyage-Robert Louis Stevenson
1879: Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope

2007 reviews:
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott (BookOkie)
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (3M)
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Booklogged)

2008 reviews:

2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1880's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Portrait of a Lady (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1880: Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
1880: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1880: Heidi by Johanna Spyri
1880: Washington Square by Henry James
1881: Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
1881: Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
1881: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
1883: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
1884: Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
1884: Adventures of Huckeberry Finn by Mark Twain
1885: Germinal by Emile Zola
1885: King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
1886: Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
1886: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
1886: Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1886: The Bostonians by Henry James
1887: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
1887: She by H. Rider Haggard
1888: The Aspern Papers by Henry James
1888: Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
1888: The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
1889: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
1889: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

2007 reviews:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Booklogged)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (HeidiJane)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (Raidergirl3)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (3M)
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881) (Kristel)

2008 reviews:

2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1890's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: The Awakening (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1890: Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
1890: Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
1891: Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
1891: Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1894: People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard
1894: Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
1894: Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
1894: Trilby by George du Maurier
1895: Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
1895: Lilith by George MacDonald
1895: Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
1895: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
1896: In His Steps by Charles Sheldon
1896: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
1896: Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain
1897: Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
1897: Dracula by Bram Stoker
1897: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
1897: What Maisie Knew by Henry James
1898: The Martian by George du Maurier
1898: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
1898: War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
1899: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
1899: Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

2007 reviews:

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (Trish)
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (3M)
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Raidergirl3)
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Teabird)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy (HeidiJane)
Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Booklogged)

2008 reviews:

2009 REVIEWS:

Some eligible books are listed first. If you have reviewed an 1900's book, please provide it courtesy of Mr. Linky below after January 1. An example would be: Heart of Darkness (Michelle) in the first field, and then the url in the second field.

1900: Lord Jim by Rudyard Kipling
1900: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
1900: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
1901: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
1901: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
1902: Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
1902: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1902: Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
1902: The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
1902: Wings of the Dove by Henry James
1903: The Ambassadors by Henry James
1903: Call of the Wild by Jack London
1903: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
1903: The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
1904: The Golden Bowl by Henry James
1904: Sea-Wolf by Jack London
1905: House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
1905: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1905: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
1905: Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster
1905: White Fang by Jack London
1906: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
1906: The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
1907: The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit
1907: The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
1907: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
1908: Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
1908: A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
1908: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
1909: Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
1909: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

2007 reviews:
The Enchanted Castle by E Nesbitt (Framed)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Joy)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Trish)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (3M)
The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Literary Feline)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Raidergirl3)
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World, Jules Verne (Melissa)
A Room With a View, E.M. Forster (Kristel)
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (Lizzy)
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser (Melissa)
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (1908) (Shannon)

2008 reviews:

2009 REVIEWS: