Which of these books first published in 1963 have you read?
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
75(6.2%)
The Bell Jar by "Victoria Lucas" (Sylvia Plath)
35(2.9%)
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
52(4.3%)
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
26(2.1%)
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing by Edward Gorey
31(2.6%)
Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss
36(3.0%)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
51(4.2%)
The Collector by John Fowles
21(1.7%)
V. by Thomas Pynchon
17(1.4%)
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
19(1.6%)
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
29(2.4%)
Hopscotch (Rayuela) by Julio Cortázar
1(0.1%)
Planet of the Apes (La Planète des Singes) by Pierre Boulle
23(1.9%)
Stormy, Misty's Foal by Marguerite Henry
18(1.5%)
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
13(1.1%)
Quatrains / Ruba'iyat (رباعيات صلاح جاهين) by Salah Jahin
2(0.2%)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
5(0.4%)
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
24(2.0%)
Around the World in 200 Days ( حول العالم في 200 يوم) by Anis Mansour
0(0.0%)
The Clown ( Ansichten eines Clowns) by Heinrich Theodor Böll
6(0.5%)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
40(3.3%)
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
43(3.6%)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea ( 午後の曳航) by Yukio Mishima
7(0.6%)
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
29(2.4%)
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era by Sterling North
4(0.3%)
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
1(0.1%)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
5(0.4%)
I Am David by Anne Holm
28(2.3%)
The Grifters by Jim Thompson
7(0.6%)
Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein
41(3.4%)
Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back by Shel Silverstein
2(0.2%)
The Graduate by Charles Webb
7(0.6%)
Men in the Sun (رجال في الشمس by Ghassan Kanafani
0(0.0%)
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
26(2.1%)
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
4(0.3%)
Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
7(0.6%)
The Castafiore Emerald by Hergé
35(2.9%)
Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean
29(2.4%)
Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander
11(0.9%)
A Mind To Murder by P.D. James
14(1.2%)
The Moon by Night by Madeleine L'Engle
18(1.5%)
Five Are Together Again by Enid Blyton
31(2.6%)
Marcovaldo (Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città) by Italo Calvino
3(0.2%)
The Words (Les Mots) by Jean-Paul Sartre
2(0.2%)
Caravans by James A. Michener
4(0.3%)
Asterix and the Goths (Astérix et les Goths) by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
51(4.2%)
Marat/Sade (Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade) by Peter Weiss
9(0.7%)
The Concubine by Norah Lofts
3(0.2%)
False Colours by Georgette Heyer
22(1.8%)
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
8(0.7%)
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
2(0.2%)
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever
25(2.1%)
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
49(4.0%)
The Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
3(0.2%)
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
10(0.8%)
The Game-Players of Titan by Philip K. Dick
27(2.2%)
Bride of Pendorric by "Victoria Holt" (Eleanor Hibbert)
8(0.7%)
The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen
2(0.2%)
The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
5(0.4%)
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
15(1.2%)
The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis
23(1.9%)
The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West
8(0.7%)
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
24(2.0%)
Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
34(2.8%)
And which of these books first published in 1913 have you read?
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
45(17.2%)
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
36(13.7%)
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann) by Marcel Proust
14(5.3%)
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
12(4.6%)
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
22(8.4%)
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
7(2.7%)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
35(13.4%)
Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate) by Alain-Fournier
9(3.4%)
Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
5(1.9%)
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
20(7.6%)
Petersburg ( Петербург) by Andrei Bely
0(0.0%)
The Golden Road by L.M. Montgomery
19(7.3%)
The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
5(1.9%)
Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter
6(2.3%)
Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire
1(0.4%)
The Star Rover by Jack London
9(3.4%)
When William Came by "Saki" (H.H. Monro)
17(6.5%)
Have you read any of these books first published in 1863?
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
24(25.0%)
The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
54(56.2%)
The Cossacks (Казаки) by Leo Tolstoy
2(2.1%)
Romola by George Eliot
8(8.3%)
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
8(8.3%)
And the same for 1813?
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
84(96.6%)
Peter Schlemihl (Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte) by Adalbert von Chamisso
3(3.4%)
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason by Arthur Schopenhauer
0(0.0%)
I'd be very interested to hear recommendations in comments. (I'll start with my own.)