2018 20th Century Reading Challenge

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I have several reading challenges throughout the year and this is my list for the 20th Century. I read a book from each decade in an attempt to diversify my reading and to gain knowledge of changing standards, morals, and values over time. For a book to make the list and complete the challenge each book chosen must be by a different author. I also try to read across diverse cultures.

I have decided to focus on Nobel Prize winners this year. Reviews will follow and at the end of the year I will list my 'lodestones.'



Nobel winners:
1. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann; German author
2.  The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore; Bengali author
3.  And Quiet Flows the Don Russian author
4.  World Light Icelandic author
5.  Go Down, Moses American author
6.  The Fall French author
7.  The Spire English author
8. The Eye of the Storm Australian author
9. July's People South African author
10. The Land of Green Plums Romanian author

 Others:

 1. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 1952 English author
2. The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham 1925 English author
3. The Virginian by Owen Wister. 1902 American author.

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