The 1900 to 1950 Readathon Announcement

#1900to1950
In which I announce a new readathon . . .

The 1900 to 1950 Readathon is running for the whole month of May, 1st to 31st. The idea is to read novels, from anywhere in the world, published between 1900 and 1950.

Goodreads group:   / the-1900-to-1950-readathon  

--The challenges--

1. Read a book published 1900–1950 from the country you’re from
2. Read a book published 1900–1950 from a different country
3. Read a genre classic, published 1900–1950 (such as classic crime, classic sci-fi, classic fantasy, historical fiction, etc)
4. Read something published 1900–1950 that isn’t a novel (such as non-fiction, plays, poetry, short stories, etc)
5. Read a work of literature published 1900–1950 set during or exploring WWI or WWII
Bonus challenge: Read a book from every decade of the period (1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s)

--Videos Mentioned--

E.M. Forster Author Week: https://tinyurl.com/eyfx5wnj

20th Century British classic recommendations: https://tinyurl.com/rxmjtwkx

--Books & Authors Mentioned--

E.F. Benson: https://tinyurl.com/8jpt6j68

Agatha Christie: https://tinyurl.com/wubsa363

Monica Dickens: https://tinyurl.com/4py3a77v

Daphne Du Maurier: https://tinyurl.com/jn57fxef

E.M. Forster: https://tinyurl.com/fnzuvrbj

Graham Greene: https://tinyurl.com/4aujf8ha

Radclyffe Hall: https://tinyurl.com/5xf4cp53

Patrick Hamilton: https://tinyurl.com/2brxbpuk

D.H. Lawrence: https://tinyurl.com/bvs8a38c

George Orwell: https://tinyurl.com/sn85b5rs

Robert Tressell: https://tinyurl.com/r2mztmuk

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson: https://tinyurl.com/6xf4j2bv

Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh: https://tinyurl.com/r5xeuurp

H.G. Wells: https://tinyurl.com/3hvvyrfk

Young Anne, Dorothy Whipple: https://tinyurl.com/dbmje82x

Virginia Woolf: https://tinyurl.com/4e26nx2s

P.G. Wodehouse: https://tinyurl.com/34fkskvy

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie: https://tinyurl.com/tchpj368

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett: https://tinyurl.com/5dsmebkz

Ernest Hemingway: https://tinyurl.com/2sf8s9aj

F. Scott Fitzgerald: https://tinyurl.com/5yw5nfjd

Edith Wharton: https://tinyurl.com/4py3edfz

The Home-maker, Dorothy Canfield Fisher: https://tinyurl.com/5yxkwu5t

Passing, Nella Larsen: https://tinyurl.com/5cezfac3

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston: https://tinyurl.com/22cxu6p9

All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque: https://tinyurl.com/4m4xytvx

Thomas Mann: https://tinyurl.com/azz3zn65

Katherine Mansfield:   / 45712.katherine_mansfield  

Anne of Green Gables, E.L. Montgomery: https://tinyurl.com/kzuz5pna

James Joyce:   / 5144.james_joyce  

W.B. Yeats:   / 29963.w_b_yeats  

The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux: https://tinyurl.com/rdzz7e5x

Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc:   / 1569298.maurice_leblanc  

The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma, Lima Barreto: https://tinyurl.com/4wft64e7

Natsume Sōseki:   / 16061597.natsume_s_seki  

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki:   / 6263.jun_ichir_tanizaki  

Half of a Lifelong Romance, Eileen Chang: https://tinyurl.com/53epcnhw

Lu Xun:   / 7509399.lu_xun  

Dorothy L. Sayers:   / 8734.dorothy_l_sayers  

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley:   / 5129.brave_new_world  

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien: https://tinyurl.com/2azb8yca

Terence Rattigan:   / 489588.terence_rattigan  

George Bernard Shaw:   / 5217.george_bernard_shaw  

Eugene O’Neill:   / 7680.eugene_o_neill  

Arthur Miller:   / 8120.arthur_miller  

Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves: https://tinyurl.com/yrepuswr

Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell: https://tinyurl.com/a2yvytvx

The Woman Novelist, Diana Gardner: https://tinyurl.com/2pdkrbfs

Poetry, Thomas Hardy:   / 33016.the_complete_poems  

W.H. Auden:   / 233593.w_h_auden  

Wilfred Owen:   / 4242.wilfred_owen  

Seifgred Sasson:   / 146538.siegfried_sassoon  

Edward Thomas:   / 204916.edward_thomas  

T.S. Eliot:   / 18540.t_s_eliot  

Ezra Pound:   / 30055.ezra_pound  

All My Sons, Arthur Miller:   / 179142.all_my_sons  

--General links--

My website: http://www.katielumsden.co.uk
Twitter:   / katiejlumsden  
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Goodreads:   / katie-lumsden  
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