Chronology

A chronological listing of books read since 2012:


Seventeenth-Century


1608

Shakespeare, William.  King Lear.


1622

Shakespeare, William.  Othello 



Eighteenth-Century


1769

Brooke, Frances.  The History of Emily Montague.



Nineteenth-Century


1813

Austen, Jane.  Pride and Prejudice.


1817

Austen, Jane.  Persuasion.


1818

Austen, Jane.  Northanger Abbey.


1836

Haliburton, Thomas Chandler.  The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville.
Traill, Catharine Parr.  The Backwoods of Canada.

1852

Moodie, Susanna.  Roughing It in the Bush, or, Forest Life in Canada.


1855

Gaskell, Elizabeth.  North and South. (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)


1863

Alcott, Louisa May.  Pauline's Passion and Punishment.


1866

Alcott, Louisa May.  Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power.


1899

Chopin, Kate.  The Awakening.



Twentieth-Century


1900


1901


1902


1903


1904


1905


1906


1907


1908

Forster, E. M.  A Room With a View.


1909


1910


1911


1912


1913


1914

Hémon, Louis.  Maria Chapdelaine.


1915

Montgomery, L. M.  Anne of the Island.


1916


1917


1918

Cather, Willa.  My Ántonia.
West, Rebecca.  The Return of the Soldier.


1919


1920

Bagnold, Enid.  The Happy Foreigner.
Forster, E. M. Where Angels Fear to Tread.
Montgomery, L. M.  Rilla of Ingleside.
Wharton, Edith.  The Age of Innocence.


1921


1922

Montgomery, L. M.  Anne's House of Dreams.
von Arnim, Elizabeth.  The Enchanted April.


1923


1924


1925

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.  The Great Gatsby.
Loos, Anita.  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Ostenso, Martha.  Wild Geese.


1926

Hemingway, Ernest.  The Sun Also Rises.
Montgomery, L. M.  The Blue Castle.


1927


1928

Day, Frank Parker.  Rockbound.


1929

Nemirovsky, Irene.  David Golder.
Remarque, Erich Maria.  All Quiet on the Western Front.
Woolf, Virginia.  A Room of One's Own.


1930

Harrison, Charles Yale.  Generals Die in Bed.


1931

Buck, Pearl S.  The Good Earth.
Cather, Willa.  Shadows on the Rock.


1932

Keun, Irmgard.  The Artificial Silk Girl.


1933


1934

Keane, Molly.  Devoted Ladies.


1935


1936

Montgomery, L. M.  Anne of Windy Poplars.
Orwell, George.  Keep the Aspidistra Flying.


1937

Child, Philip.  God's Sparrows.


1938

Watson, Winifred.  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.


1939

O'Hagan, Howard.  Tay John.


1940

Ringuet.  Thirty Acres.
Trease, Geoffrey.  Cue for Treason: A Tale of Shakespearian England.


1941


1942


1943


1944


1945

de la Roche, Mazo.  The Building of Jalna.
Orwell, George.  Animal Farm.


1946

Birtles, Dora.  The Overlanders.


1947

Wilson, Ethel.  Hetty Dorval.
Blyton, Enid.  The Valley of Adventure. 


1948

Smith, Dodie.  I Capture the Castle.


1949

Orwell, George.  Nineteen Eighty-Four.


1950

Riley, Louise.  The Mystery Horse.


1951

Riley, Louise.  One Happy Moment.


1952

Hemingway, Ernest.  The Old Man and the Sea.
Reben, Martha.  The Healing Woods.


1953

O'Connor, Flannery.  "A Good Man is Hard to Find."


1954

Wilson, Ethel.  Swamp Angel.


1955

Lindberg, Anne Morrow.  Gift from the Sea.
McCullers, Carson.  "Sojourner"
Trease, Geoffrey.  Word to Caesar.


1956

Mowat, Farley.  Lost in the Barrens.
Wiseman, Adele.  The Sacrifice.


1957


1958

Godden, Rumer.  The Greengage Summer.
Hebert, Anne.  The Silent Rooms.


1959

Blais, Marie-Claire - Mad Shadows.
Richler, Modecai - The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
Watson, Sheila - The Double Hook.


1960

Lee, Harper.  To Kill a Mockingbird.
O'Hagan, Howard.  Tay John.


1961

Olsen, Tillie.  "I Stand Here Ironing."
Spark, Muriel.  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.


1962


1963


1964

Laurence, Margaret.  The Stone Angel.


1965

Bodger, Joan.  How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books.


1966

Laurence, Margaret.  A Jest of God.
Mowat, Farley.  The Curse of the Viking Grave.


1967

Craven, Margaret.  I Heard the Owl Call My Name.


1968

Carrier, Roch.  La Guerre, Yes Sir!


1969

Atwood, Margaret.  The Edible Woman.
Laurence, Margaret.  The Fire-Dwellers.



1970

Davies, Robertson.  Fifth Business.
Hanff, Helene.  84 Charing Cross Road.


1971

Taylor, Elizabeth.  Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont.


1972

Atwood, Margaret.  Surfacing.


1973

Beresford-Howe, Constance.  The Book of Eve.


1974

Laurence, Margaret.  The Diviners.


1975

Bainbridge, Beryl.  The Bottle Factory Outing.


1976

Engel, Marian.  Bear.
Uris, Leon.  Trinity.


1977

Findley, Timothy.  The Wars.
Roy, Gabrielle.  Children of My Heart.


1978


1979

Murphy, Dervla.  Wheels Within Wheels.


1980

Taylor, Ina.  The Edwardian Lady: The Story of Edith Holden.


1981

Keane, Molly.  Good Behaviour.


1982

Hopkins, Monica.  Letters from a Lady Rancher.
Townsend, Sue.  The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4.
Tyler, Anne.  Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.


1983


1984

Hunter, Bernice Thurman.  A Place for Margaret.
Weldon, Fay.  Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen.


1985

Atwood, Margaret.  The Handmaid's Tale.
Tyler, Anne.  The Accidental Tourist.


1986

Hunter, Bernice Thurman.  Margaret in the Middle.


1987


1988

Dangarembga, Tsitsi.  Nervous Conditions.
Hunter, Bernice Thurman.  Margaret On Her Way.
Lively, Penelope. City of the Mind.


1989

Mayle, Peter. A Year in Provence.
Read, Miss. Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre.


1990

MacDonald, Ann-Marie.  Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).
O'Brien, Tim.  The Things They Carried.
Pratt, François.  L'armée rose d'Awa.


1991

Halvorson, Marilyn. To Everything a Season: A Year in Alberta Ranch Country.


1992

Ondaatje, Michael.  The English Patient.
Plourde, Josée.  Les Amours d'Hubert.
Tóibín, Colm.  The Heather Blazing.


1993

Edson, Margaret.  W;t, A Play.
Eugenides, Jeffrey.  The Virgin Suicides.
King, Thomas.  One Good Story, That One.
Lowry, Lois.  The Giver.
Trease, Geoffrey.  Fire on the Wind.
Waugh, Sylvia.  The Mennyms.


1994


1995

Atwood, Margaret.  Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature.
Suzuki, David and Keibo Oiwa.  The Japan We Never Knew: A Journey of Discovery.
Wilson, David A.  Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle.


1996

O'Faolain, Nuala.  Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman.
Toews, Miriam.  Summer of My Amazing Luck.


1997

de Botton, Alain.  How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs.  The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls.
Rowling, J. K.  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.


1998

Barrett, Andrea.  The Voyage of the Narwhal.
Coady, Lynn.  Strange Heaven.
Ozeki, Ruth L.  My Year of Meats.
Quindlen, Anna.  How Reading Changed My Life.
Rowling, J. K.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.


1999

Beaton, M. C.  Highland Christmas.
Morrissey, Donna.  Kit's Law.
Rowling, J. K.  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Stewart, Melanie.  Génération Filles: Au-delà des limites.



Twenty-First-Century



2000

Barbery, Muriel.  Gourmet Rhapsody.
Pettit, Mary.  Mary Janeway, The Legacy of a Home Child.
Rahimi, Atiq.  Earth and Ashes.
Rowling, J. K.  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.


2001

Brashares, Ann.  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
McEwan, Ian.  Atonement.
Seiffert, Rachel.  The Dark Room.


2002

Coady, Lynn.  Saints of Big Harbour.
Humphreys, Helen.  The Lost Garden.
Laney, Marti Olsen.  The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World.
Lawson, Mary.  Crow Lake.


2003

Atwood, Margaret.  Oryx and Crake.
Brashares, Ann.  The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. 
Foster, Thomas C.  How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines.


2004

Niven, Jennifer.  Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic.
Shreve, Anita.  Light on Snow.
Simonds, Merilyn.  The Holding.
Smith, Alexander McCall.  The Sunday Philosophy Club.


2005

Atwood, Margaret.  The Penelopiad.
Birdsall, Jeanne.  The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy.
Brashares, Ann.  Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood.
Didion, Joan.  The Year of Magical Thinking.
Kanehara, Hitomi.  Snakes and Earrings.
Lesser, Elizabeth.  Broken Open.
MacDonald, Laura M.  Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion, 1917.
Sage, Angie.  Septimus Heap Book One: Magyk.
Shields, Carol.  Jane Austen: A Life.


2006

Gruen, Sara.  Water for Elephants.
Lawson, Mary.  The Other Side of the Bridge.
Munro, Alice.  The View from Castle Rock.
O'Neill, Heather.  Lullabies for Little Criminals.
Prose, Francine.  Reading Like a Writer:  A Guide for Those Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. 
Williamson, Kate T.  A Year in Japan.


2007

Abdou, Angie.  The Bone Cage.
Anderson-Dargatz, Gail.  Turtle Valley.
Brashares, Ann.  Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood.
Enright, Anne.  The Gathering.
Flinn, Alex.  Beastly.
Friskney, Janet B.  New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978.
Kay, Guy Gavriel.  Ysabel.
Rosca, Madeleine.  Hollow Fields, Volume 1.


2008

Balliett, Blue.  The Calder Game.
Barfoot, Joan.  Exit Lines.
Brittain, Vera.  Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After.
Collins, Suzanne.  The Hunger Games.
Gray, Charlotte.  Nellie McClung.
Green, John.  Paper Towns.
Honore, Carl.  Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting.
Humphreys, Helen.  Coventry.
Rosca, Madeleine.  Hollow Fields, Volume 2.
Schoemperlen, Diane.  At a Loss For Words.


2009

Collins, Suzanne.  Catching Fire.
Hill, Susan.  Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home.
Lemire, Jeff.  Essex County.
Moore, Lisa.  February.
Pullinger, Kate.  The Mistress of Nothing.
Rankin, Ian.  Dark Entries: A John Constantine Novel.
Rosca, Madeleine.  Hollow Fields, Volume 3.
Stockett, Kathryn.  The Help.
Toibin, Colm.  Brooklyn.



2010

Collins, Suzanne.  Mockingjay.
Hoelting, Kurt.  The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life.
Parks, Tim.  Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing.
Shankar, Wendy.  Are You My Guru?: How Meditation, Medicine & Madonna Saved My Life. 
Souter, Gillian.  Slow Journeys: The Pleasures of Travelling by Foot.


2011

Birdsall, Jeanne.  The Penderwicks at Point Mouette. (read twice)
Bradley, Alan.  A Red Herring Without Mustard.
Bradley, Alan.  I am Half-Sick of Shadows.
Coady, Lynn.  The Antagonist. 
Danis, Stefan.  Gobi Runner: Taking a Personal and Professional Challenge to the Desert.
Desrochers, Suzanne.  Bride of New France.
Edugyan, Esi.  Half-Blood Blues.
Falvey, Patricia.  The Linen Queen.
Marion, Isaac.  Warm Bodies.
Moran, Caitlin.  How To Be a Woman.
Ozma, Alice.  The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared.
Roth, Veronica.  Divergent.
Sankovitch, Nina.  Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading.
Simonds, Merilyn.  A New Leaf: Growing With My Garden.


2012

Cain, Susan.  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.
Devaney, Julie. My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney.
Ghomeshi, Jian.  1982.
Kingsolver, Barbara.  Flight Behavior.
Moorjani, Anita.  Dying to Be Me.
Moyes, Jojo.  Me Before You.
Richler, Nancy.  The Imposter Bride.
Roth, Veronica.  Insurgent.
Rowling, J.K.  The Casual Vacancy.
Semple, Maria.  Where'd You Go, Bernadette.
Silver, Julie.  You Can Heal Yourself: A Guide to Physical and Emotional Recovery After Injury or Illness.
Strayed, Cheryl.  Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.


2013

Baker, Jo.  Longbourn.
Brosh, Allie.  Hyperbole and a Half.
Coady, Lynn.  Hellgoing.
Gladwell, Malcolm.  David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.
Gouch, Gabrielle.  Once, Only the Swallows Were Free: A Memoir.
Graham, Lauren.  Someday, Someday, Maybe.
Shreve, Anita.  Stella Bain.


2014

Hawkins, Paula.  The Girl on the Train.
McDermid, Val.  Northanger Abbey.


2015

Kinsella, Sophie.  Finding Audrey.
Lee, Harper.  Go Set a Watchman.