Decades 2010

The task is simple. Ten books from ten consecutive decades (2000s excluded). However, as there are quite a few classics that I've yet to get to that I really want to read, I've decided to pick at least one representative from each decade (1810s - 1990s). The bonus is that many of the earlier books are in the public domain and available online. All the better for reading while knitting.

1810s:

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

1820s:

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey

1830s:

Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol

1840s:

Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

1850s:

The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville

1860s:
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne

An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

1870s:

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

1880s:

Flatland by Edwin Abbott

1890s:

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

1900s:

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1910s:
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

1920s:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

1930s:

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

1940s:

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

1950s:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1960s:

Dune by Frank Herbert

1970s:

Grendel by John Gardner

Roots by Alex Haley

The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer

If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino

1980s:
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
1990s:
Undecided. I have quite a few books in my To Be Read pile so I will likely just grab something decade-appropriate from that stack (cough, bookshelf).