A Century of Books Challenge

I signed up for the Century of Books Challenge once.  And wrote what was probably the most eloquent sign-up post ever.  And somehow managed to completely wipe out the post and lose all the careful research I'd done to find a book I wanted to read for every single date in the century.  And....had finally decided I no longer needed the hand-written notes I'd made prior to putting it up on the internet.  (Yes, I'm looking for sympathy here.  Any takers?)  Oh wait!  I just found a preliminary list on my thumb drive! It may not be everything and it may not be the books I ultimately decided on ('cause I know I made some changes)--but it's something. My original commitment was to read at least 50 this year and the remainder in 2015.

So...here we go again.  I'll finalize the list below as I read:


1900 Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau
1901 The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel
1902 India's Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope (3/4/14)
1903 The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
1904 The Stowmarket Mystery by Louis Tracy (online)
1905 The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (9/21/14)
1906 The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont by Robert Barr
1907 The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1908 The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1909 A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter
1910 Murder at theVilla Rose by A. E. W. Mason (7/14/14)
1911 The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings & Brian Hooker
1912 The Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess
1913 The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1/2/14)
1914 A Silent Witness by R. Austin Freeman
1915 Kings, Queens, and Pawns by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1916 Tom Swift & His Big Tunnel by Victor Appleton (online)
1917 Picadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse
1918 The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons by James Francis Thierry (1/26/14)
1919 Tom Thumb by Clifton Johnson
1920 Tut, Tut! Mr.Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train (3/25/14)
1921 One Act Plays by Modern Authors by Helen Louise Cohen, ed
1922 The Red Redmaynes by Eden Philpotts
1923 The Powder of Sympathy by Christopher Morley
1924 Inspector French's Great Case by Freeman Wills Crofts
1925 The Trial by Franz Kafka
1926 The Tattooed Man by Howard Pease (7/17/14)
1927 Seven Footprints to Satan by A. Merritt [pub as serial in 1927/1st book form 1928] (1/22/14)
1928 The Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells
1929 The Clue of the Leather Noose by Donald Bayne Hobart (3/31/14)
1930 Murder by Latitude by Rufus King
1931 Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr
1932 Darkness at Pemberley by T. H. White (1/30/14)
1933 Dorothy Dix& the Double Cousin by Dorothy Wayne (4/26/14)
1934 The PostmanAlways Rings Twice by James M. Cain (4/29/14)
1935 The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout (3/23/14)
1936 The Door Between by Ellery Queen
1937 The Purple Parrot by Clyde B Clason (2/25/14)
1938 Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout (7/12/14)
1939 The Winter Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine (1/23/14)
1940 Made Up toKill by Kelley Roos (2/18/14)
1941 Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer (5/1/14)
1942 Death on the Aisle by Frances & Richard Lockridge (1/24/14)
1943 Bedknob &Broomstick by Mary Norton (5/16/14)
1944 Death at the Medical Board by Josephine Bell (5/16/14)
1945 Dread Journey by Dorothy B Hughes
1946 Where There's Love, There's Hate by Adolfo Bioy Casares & Silvina Ocampo (2/5/14)
1947 The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie (10/11/14)
1948 Gale Warning by Hammond Innes (4/15/14)
1949 The Darker the Night Herbert Brean (3/3/14)
1950 Cat & Mouse by Christianna Brand
1951 Lament for the Bride by Helen Reilly
1952 MereChristianity by C. S. Lewis (7/20/14)
1953 Bones in the Barrow by Josephine Bell
1954 The CoralPrincess Murders by Frances Crane (4/5/14)
1955 Cards of Identity by Nigel Forbes Dennis
1956 Death Walks on Cat Feet by D. B. Olsen
1957 On the Beach by Nevil Shute (7/7/14)
1958 Too Much of Water by Bruce Hamilton (1/27/14)
1959 For Old Crime's Sake by Delano Ames (4/29/14)
1960 Gently With the Painters by Alan Hunter
1961 The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie (6/23/14)
1962 Gambit by Rex Stout (2/8/14)
1963 Triumph by Philip Wylie (1/18/14)
1964 Two Men in Twenty by Maurice Proctor
1965 Ellery Queen's 20th Anniversary Annual by Ellery Queen, ed. (2/22/14)
1966 The Sound of Insects by Mildred Davis OR Salt Is Leaving by J. B. Priestly
1967 Endless Night by Agatha Christie (3/13/14)
1968 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick (1/29/14)
1969 The Day They Kidnapped Queen Victoria by H. K. Fleming (7/2/14)
1970 Death on Allhallowe'en by Leo Bruce (10/11/14)
1971 Alone Against Tomorrow by Harlan Ellison
1972 A Hearse onMay Day by Gladys Mitchell (6/15/14)
1973 The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker (6/19/14
1974 Naked Is the Best Disguise by Samuel Rosenberg (4/8/14)
1975 Shake HandsForever by Ruth Rendell (1/13/14)
1976 Shakespeare'sPlanet by Clifford D. Simak (1/6/14)
1977 Invisible Green by John Sladek (6/2/14)
1978 Other Times, Other Worlds by John D. MacDonald (1/26/14)
1979 Exit Actors, Dying by Margot Arnold (2/4/14)
1980 The Chief Inspector's Daughter by Sheila Radley
1981 Thus, Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell (6/5/14)
1982 Shelf Life by Douglas Clark (2/6/14)
1983 The Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux (1/20/14)
1984 Murder on Mike by H. Paul Jeffers (10/15/14)
1985 A Death for a Dancer by E. X. Giroux (9/28/14)
1986 Bad Man Ballad by Scott Sanders OR Spider Web by Margaret Millar
1987 Plain Sailing by Douglas Clark (6/11/14)
1988 Murder on Mike by H. Paul Jeffers
1989 Red Cent by Robert Campbell (9/10/14)
1990 Devil in aBlue Dress by Walter Mosley (7/31/14)
1991 Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (1/5/14)
1992 The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg
1993 Sir Philip's Folly by Marion Chesney
1994 Murder at the Museum of Natural History by Michael Jahn (4/18/14)
1995 Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (7/22/14)
1996 Bleeding Maize & Blue by Susan Holtzer (9/30/14)
1997 The Xibalba Murders by Lyn Hamilton (1/18/14)
1998 The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw (5/9/14)
1999 The ForgottenWar by William Forstchen (7/9/14)