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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Those still looking (struggling?) to put together their decade nominations may be interested in downloading a preview of this Anthology:
Authors of the Early to mid-20th Century
by Britannica Educational Publishing
The Britannica Guide to Authors
The table of contents lists many authors as the title suggests, and may serve as a memory prompt of authors/books you've read (or new/reminder source of authors to read - both apply to me  )
My library has the ebook so your library may also.
If you want the preview then I know that it's available at Kobo, but didn't show up in Amazon for me.
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I'm also quite excited about this exercise, because it's made me shift from the mind set of just reading mystery type books to literature books again. And with the Kobo Refer program still active I've been able to indulge my fancies! |
I started by making a list of books and authors that immediately came to mind as being particularly enjoyable or memorable. Then I looked up their dates.
I have been a total mystery addict (especially the "Golden Age" sort -- thrilled that so many are ebooks now) since I found Nancy Drew at age ten or thereabouts, so I wasn't surprised that a great percentage of my list was mysteries.
It was a bit shocking though that after I sorted by date, I found that almost every non-mystery book I had listed was published between the late fifties and mid eighties and read by me between the mid sixties and mid eighties, when I was aged about twenty to forty. I can remember reading NYT book reviews, sharing books with friends, and having long late-night discussions of books we'd been reading.
Apparently when I turned forty I reverted to reading mysteries almost exclusively and tuned out the rest of the literary world forever.
