Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Track 1 (Easiest) I am going to start here:
Read a book from each year set starting on the year of your birth.

1952
1. Charlotte's Web
2. The Old Man and the Sea Read Jan. 9, 2020
3. East of Eden
4. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
5. Mere Christianity

1953
1. Fahrenheit 451
2. The Crucible
3. The Silver Chair
4. Nine Stories
5. Second Foundation

1954
1. The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Lord of the Flies
3. The Two Towers
4. The Horse and His Boy
5. I Am Legend and Other Stories

1955
1. Lolita
2. The Return of the King
3. The Magician's Nephew
4. On the Road
5. Harold and the Purple Crayon

1956
1. The Last Battle
2. Howl and Other Poems
3. Old Yeller
4. The Fall
5. M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work

1957
1. Atlas Shrugged
2. The Cat in the Hat
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
4. Doctor Zhivago
5. Little Bear

1958
1. Night
2. Things Fall Apart
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's
4. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
5. The Once and Future King

1959
1. A Separate Peace
2. Starship Troopers
3. The Sirens of Titan
4. The Haunting of Hill House
5. A Canticle for Leibowitz

1960
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Green Eggs and Ham
3. Island of the Blue Dolphins
4. Are You My Mother?
5. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

1961
1. Catch-22
2. James and the Giant Peach
3. Where the Red Fern Grows
4. Stranger in a Strange Land
5. The Phantom Tollbooth

1962
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Man in the High Castle
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes
5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

1963
1. Where the Wild Things Are
2. The Bell Jar
3. Cat's Cradle
4. Amelia Bedelia
5. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

1964
1. The Giving Tree
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. A Moveable Feast
4. The Book of Three
5. Harriet the Spy

1965
1. Dune
2. In Cold Blood
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
4. Stoner
5. The Mouse and the Motorcycle

1966
1. Flowers for Algernon
2. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
4. The Crying of Lot 49
5. Wide Sargasso Sea

1967
1. The Outsiders
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. The Master and Margarita
4. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

1968
1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. A Wizard of Earthsea
4. Corduroy
5. The Last Unicorn

1969
1. Slaughterhouse-Five
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
4. The Godfather
5. The Andromeda Strain

1970
1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
3. The Bluest Eye
4. Ringworld
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox

1971
1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. The Lorax
3. Go Ask Alice
4. The Hiding Place
5. The Exorcist

1972
1. Watership Down
2. Ways of Seeing
3. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
4. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
5. All Creatures Great and Small

1973
1. The Princess Bride
2. Breakfast of Champions
3. Rendezvous with Rama
4. Jaws
5. A Wind in the Door

1974
1. Where the Sidewalk Ends
2. Carrie
3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
4. Helter Skelter
5. The Forever War

1975
1. 'Salem's Lot
2. Tuck Everlasting
3. Shōgun
4. Crocodile on the Sandbank
5. Strega Nona

1976
1. Interview with the Vampire
2. The Selfish Gene
3. Roots: The Saga of an American Family
4. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
5. Children of Dune

1977
1. The Shining
2. Bridge to Terabithia
3. The Silmarillion
4. The Thorn Birds
5. A Scanner Darkly Song of Solomon

1978
1. The Stand
2. The World According to Garp
3. The Westing Game
4. Night Shift
5. Eye of the Needle

1979
1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
3. The Neverending Story
4. The Dead Zone
5. Flowers in the Attic

1980
1. The Bourne Identity
2. The Name of the Rose
3. A People's History of the United States
4. A Confederacy of Dunces
5. The Clan of the Cave Bear The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

1981
1. A Light in the Attic
2. Red Dragon
3. Cujo
4. Midnight's Children
5. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

1982
1. The Color Purple
2. The Gunslinger
3. The BFG
4. The Mists of Avalon
5. The House of the Spirits

1983
1. Pet Sematary
2. The Color of Magic
3. The Witches
4. Christine
5. Alanna: The First Adventure

1984
1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. Neuromancer
4. Thinner
5. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

1985
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Ender's Game
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
4. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
5. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

1986
1. It
2. Hatchet Howl's Moving Castle
3. Howl's Moving Castle Speaker for the Dead
4. Speaker for the Dead Love You Forever
5. Love You Forever The Prince of Tides

1987
1. Watchmen Misery
2. Misery Watchmen
3. Beloved
4. A Brief History of Time Norwegian Wood
5. Norwegian Wood Hatchet

1988
1. The Alchemist
2. Matilda
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Wall and Piece A Brief History of Time
5. Batman: The Killing Joke Wall and Piece

1989
1. A Time to Kill The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
2. The Pillars of the Earth
3. The Joy Luck Club
4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change A Time to Kill
5. Number the Stars

1990
1. Jurassic Park
2. Good Omens
3. The Eye of the World
4. Oh, The Places You'll Go!
5. V for Vendetta

1991
1. Outlander
2. The Firm
3. American Psycho
4. Redeeming Love Preludes & Nocturnes
5. Sophie's World

1992
1. The Secret History
2. The Pelican Brief
3. She's Come Undone
4. Dragonfly in Amber
5. Snow Crash

1993
1. The Giver
2. Along Came a Spider
3. The Client
4. The Virgin Suicides
5. Girl, Interrupted Voyager

1994
1. One for the Money
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
4. Wizard's First Rule
5. Snow Falling on Cedars The Alienist

1995
1. The Golden Compass
2. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
3. A Child Called "It"
4. Kiss the Girls
5. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

1996
1. A Game of Thrones
2. The Notebook
3. Bridget Jones's Diary
4. Into the Wild
5. Fight Club

1997
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. Memoirs of a Geisha
3. Tuesdays with Morrie
4. The Red Tent
5. Ella Enchanted Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

1998
1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2. Holes
3. A Clash of Kings
4. The Poisonwood Bible
5. Digital Fortress

1999
1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2. The Perks of Being A Wallflower
3. A Walk to Remember
4. Speak
5. The Bad Beginning Girl with a Pearl Earring

2000
1. Angels & Demons Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Angels & Demons
3. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
4. Me Talk Pretty One Day
5. Confessions of a Shopaholic A Storm of Swords

2001
1. Life of Pi
2. The Secret Life of Bees
3. American Gods
4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
5. Dead Until Dark The Shadow of the Wind

2002
1. The Lovely Bones
2. Eragon
3. Middlesex
4. Coraline
5. Deception Point Kafka on the Shore

2003
1. The Kite Runner
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
3. The Time Traveler's Wife
4. The Da Vinci Code
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2004
1. My Sister's Keeper
2. Something Borrowed
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
4. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim P.S. I Love You
5. Cloud Atlas

2005
1. Twilight
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. The Book Thief
5. The Lightning Thief

2006
1. Eat, Pray, Love
2. Water for Elephants
3. New Moon
4. The Girl Who Played with Fire
5. The Road

2007
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. City of Bones
3. Eclipse
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
5. Thirteen Reasons Why

2008
1. The Hunger Games
2. Breaking Dawn
3. The Host
4. Paper Towns
5. City of Ashes

2009
1. Catching Fire
2. The Help
3. The Maze Runner
4. If I Stay
5. City of Glass

2010
1. Mockingjay
2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
3. Room
4. Clockwork Angel
5. Matched The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2011
1. Divergent
2. Fifty Shades of Grey
3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
4. Steve Jobs
5. Bossypants Ready Player One

2012
1. The Fault in Our Stars
2. Gone Girl
3. Insurgent
4. Me Before You
5. Cinder Eleanor & Park

2013
1. Eleanor & Park The Goldfinch
2. Allegiant
3. Fangirl
4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
5. The Cuckoo's Calling (NEW)

2014
1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. Big Little Lies
3. We Were Liars
4. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
5. Yes Please

2015
1. The Girl on the Train
2. Red Queen
3. The Nightingale
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses
5. Everything, Everything Six of Crows

2016
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
2. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
3. When Breath Becomes Air
4. The Woman in Cabin 10 Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
5. Truly Madly Guilty The Woman in Cabin 10

2017
1. The Hate U Give
2. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
3. Before We Were Yours
4. Into the Water
5. Turtles All the Way Down

2018
1. Educated
2. Where the Crawdads Sing
3. Becoming
4. Circe
5. Normal People

2019 (May change)
1. The Silent Patient
2. Daisy Jones & The Six
3. The Testaments
4. Such a Fun Age
5. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
6. The Dutch House

2020 (Will probably change)
1. The Vanishing Half
2. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
3. American Dirt
4. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
5. Untamed
6. The Midnight Library

2021
2022

I will work on these as well.

1917
1. Anne's House of Dreams
2. His Last Bow: 8 Stories
3. Summer
4. Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
5. Growth of the Soil

1918
1. My Ántonia
2. The Elements of Style
3. The Magnificent Ambersons
4. The Land That Time Forgot
5.The Madman

1919
1. Demian
2. My Man Jeeves
3. Rainbow Valley
4. Winesburg, Ohio
5. The Moon and Sixpence

1920
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The Age of Innocence
3. This Side of Paradise
4. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
5. Women in Love

1921
1. Mrs. Dalloway
2. We
3. Rilla of Ingleside
4. The Forsyte Saga
5. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

1922
1. Siddhartha
2. The Velveteen Rabbit
3. Ulysses
4. The Beautiful and Damned
5. The Waste Land and Other Poems

1923
1. The Prophet
2. Whose Body?
3. Emily of New Moon
4. Bambi
5. The Murder on the Links

1924
1. The Man in the Brown Suit
2. A Passage to India
3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
4. The Most Dangerous Game
5. The Magic Mountain

1925
1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Trial
3. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
4. An American Tragedy
5. Mein Kampf

1926
1. The Sun Also Rises
2. Winnie-the-Pooh
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
4. The Richest Man in Babylon
5. The Castle

1927
1. To the Lighthouse
2. Steppenwolf
3. Death Comes for the Archbishop
4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
5. The Big Four

1928
1. Lady Chatterley's Lover
2. Orlando
3. The House at Pooh Corner
4. The Call of Cthulhu
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train

1929
1. All Quiet on the Western Front
2. A Farewell to Arms
3. The Sound and the Fury
4. A Room of One's Own
5. Letters to a Young Poet

1930
1. As I Lay Dying
2. Murder at the Vicarage
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. The Little Engine That Could
5. The Secret of the Old Clock

1931
1. The Good Earth
2. The Joy of Cooking
3. The Story of Babar
4. The Waves
5. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

1932
1. Brave New World
2. Little House in the Big Woods
3. Light in August
4. Cold Comfort Farm
5. Journey to the End of the Night

1933
1. Down and Out in Paris and London
2. The Red Pony
3. Farmer Boy
4. The Story About Ping
5. Lord Edgware Dies

1934
1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Tender Is the Night
3. Mary Poppins
4. Tropic of Cancer
5. I, Claudius

1935
1. Little House on the Prairie
2. Tortilla Flat
3. Caddie Woodlawn
4. Jamaica Inn
5. Death in the Clouds

1936
1. Gone with the Wind
2. How to Win Friends and Influence People
3. The Story of Ferdinand
4. The A.B.C. Murders
5. Anne of Windy Poplars

1937
1. The Hobbit
2. Of Mice and Men
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God read Aug 02, 2021
4. Think and Grow Rich
5. Death on the Nile

1938
1. Rebecca
2. Anthem
3. Nausea
4. Out of the Silent Planet
5. Mr. Popper's Penguins

1939
1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. And Then There Were None
3. Madeline
4. The Big Sleep
5. By the Shores of Silver Lake

1940
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
3. Native Son
4. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
5. The Problem of Pain

1941
1. Curious George
2. Little Town on the Prairie
3. Make Way for Ducklings
4. The Black Stallion
5. Chess Story

1942
1. The Stranger
2. The Screwtape Letters
3. The Boxcar Children
4. The Poky Little Puppy
5. The Runaway Bunny

1943
1. The Little Prince
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3. The Fountainhead
4. These Happy Golden Years
5. Johnny Tremain

1944
1. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
2. Ficciones
3. The Razor's Edge
4. The Hundred Dresses
5. No Exit

1945
1. Animal Farm
2. Pippi Longstocking
3. The Great Divorce
4. The Glass Menagerie
5. Cannery Row

1946
1. Man's Search for Meaning
2. The Pianist
3. All the King's Men
4. Hiroshima
5. Autobiography of a Yogi

1947
1. The Diary of a Young Girl
2. Goodnight Moon
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
4. The Pearl
5. The Plague

1948
1. I Capture the Castle
2. Blueberries for Sal
3. Cry, the Beloved Country
4. The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
5. The Lottery

1949
1. 1984
2. Death of a Salesman
3. The Intelligent Investor
4. The Second Sex
5. Crooked House

1950
1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2. I, Robot
3. The Story of Art
4. The Martian Chronicles
5. A Town Like Alice

1951
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Foundation
3. Prince Caspian
4. The Day of the Triffids
5. The Illustrated Man