The 1900 to 1950 Readathon discussion

And here's a thread for everyone to discuss their general reading plans!

There will be separate threads for each challenge too for everyone to discuss and give each other recommendations.

Although I just wanted to participate low key I could not resist making a tentative TBR. These are 5 books which would cover the bonus prompt, too: Three Men in the Snow (1930s, Germany), Nils Holgersson (1900s, Sweden), Evil Under the Sun (1940s, Mystery), Pygmalion (play) OR Dubliners (short stories) OR Of Trolls and Men (stories, all 1910s), All Quiet on the Western Front (1920s). Might fully take part now. 😉

Oooooo ... Dubliners, most definitely 😎☘️🤓

Very excited to take part in this readathon, I have so many books from this period on my radar so a TBR is going to take some thought.

I'm reading The Makioka Sisters (1948) with a book club in May so that fits in perfectly.

Also doing the Invisible Cities Project and I have East Goes West by Younghill Kang (1937) lined up for North Korea.

I have Howards End (1910) on my physical TBR so seems a good time to get to that.

Quite fancy Saplings by Noel Streatfeild (1945) or Despised And Rejected by Rose Allatini (1918) for the war prompt.

I'm hoping that Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (1950) just squeaks into the date range - do things published in 1950 count?

I'll have to give 'not a novel' some thought. Maybe The Garnet Bracelet, and Other Stories by Aleksandr Kuprin (1910) or High Albania: A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey by Mary Edith Durham (1909).

Other possibilities I might pick up are:
The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello (1904)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell (1914)
Passing by Nella Larson (1929)
Mr Ma and Son by Lao She (1929)
Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson (1934)
The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr (1934)
The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric (1945)
The Plague by Albert Camus (1947)

I'd love to get to all of these but the usual 'so many books, so little time' applies!

I'm soooo looking forward to this readathon!
This is my TBR that I came up with today. It might change a bit, but I think I'll mostly stick to it.
1. A book from my country: I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina, so I'll be reading a book by an author from my hometown (Mostar): 'Stojan Mutikaša' by Svetozar Ćorović (1907)
2. A book from another country: 'The House Of Mirth' by Edith Wharton (1907)
3. A genre classic: '1984' by George Orwell (1949) or 'The Murder on the Orient Express' by Agatha Christie (1934)
4. A book that isn't a novel: 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' by Dale Carnegie (1936)
5. A book set during or exploring WWI or WWII: 'All Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
6. Bonus challenge: If I read 'Howards End' by E. M. Forster (1910), I'll have all the decades covered.

My list that may or may not change is as follows:

1. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery It's a book from my country and the province I was born in. <3

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (for historical fiction)

4. A 20th Century Anthology: Essays, Stories, And Poems This is from my university days. I will not be reading all of it. :)

5. ?

Just wondering do the challenges have to be different books or can I use a book for more than one challenge? Thanks :)

It will probably go like this:

00's: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
10's: Tonio Kroger and/or Death in Venice also by Mann (novellas)
20's: Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
30's: The big sleep by Raymond Chandler (hardboiled, crime classic)
40's: Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno by Italo Calvino (book from my country, WWII setting)

Wonderful idea for a readathon! My tbr (always subject to change) looks like this:

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1925)
The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot (1922)
A Passage to India, E. M. Forster (1924)
Kangaroo, D. H. Lawrence (1923)
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes (1937)
South Riding, Winifred Holtby (1936)
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (1945)
The Bad Side of Books, Selected Essays, D. H. Lawrence (essays published between 1912 and 1930)

Freya wrote: "Nothing wrong with having one book for multiple prompts, Janice. :)"

Thank you, Freya. :)

Right, think I've made a decision on a core TBR with a few optional extras if I have time:

1900s - The Late Mattia Pascal (not own country - Italy)
1910s - Howards End (from my country - UK)
1920s - Cane (not a novel / USA)
1930s - Double Indemnity (genre classic - crime / USA)
1940s - Saplings (WWII and UK)

Extras:
Despised And Rejected (1910s / WWI / author born Austria, grew up in UK)
Mr Ma and Son (1920s / China)
East Goes West (1930s / North Korea)
The Makioka Sisters (1940s / Japan)

Here's the list I came up with:
The Virginian (my own country) 1902
My Man Jeeves (not a novel - short stories) 1919
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (not my country) 1920
Brave New World (genre classic) 1932
Tales of the South Pacific (World War) 1947

This is my list for the moment, might change my mind in May.

1.book from country you are from: Oeroeg by Hella Haase (1948) The Netherlands
2.Book from different country: A little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett(1908)
3.Genre classic: Enter a Murderer by Ngaio Marsh (1935) mystery novel
4. Not a Novel: Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West (1926) travelbook
5. Exploring WWI or WWII: The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West (1918)

My provisional TBR list is currently on 30 books so I may need to be a bit more selective XD

Katie wrote: "My provisional TBR list is currently on 30 books so I may need to be a bit more selective XD"

Haha, maybe a month off work to get through them...or whittle them down :) Look forward to seeing what you end up with.

I thought I was bad at 18! Managed to choose nine, which is still probably a bit ambitious with a buddy read of Anna Karenina and a couple of books for the Invisible Cities project thrown into the mix!

My TBR:

1900's - The Gift of the Magi (1905)
(short story)

1910's - Growth of the Soil (1917)
(from where I'm from, Norway)

1920's - All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
(set during WWI)

1930's - And Then There Were None (1939)
(genre classic, mystery)

1940's - I Capture the Castle (1948)
(from somewhere I'm not from, England)

And that's a book from each decade! Super excited about this readathon!

My tentative TBR:

Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Anne of The Island - L.M. Montgomery
Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain

im definitetly going to try and finaallly read maurice by e.m forster [ i know it was published past the confines of the readathon but i think it counts bc it was written in 1913!] and i might try to read the penultimate forster book i have to read too which is the longest journey. otherwise im sure what else ill pic up, perhaps rebecca by du maurier or quicksand by nella larsen! :)

Really excited about this readathon! Tentatively, this is what I'm thinking...

1. from where I'm from - The Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery (1926)

2. From another country - The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (1931)

3. Genre Classic - 1984 - George Orwell - (1949)

4. Not a novel - The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov (1904) a play

5. Set during WW1 or WW2 - Barometer Rising - Hugh MacLennan (1941)

Some others on my pile

The Fun of it - Amelia Earhart (1932)
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh (1937)
Dubliners - James Joyce (1914)
The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (1940)
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (1912)
The African Queen - C. S. Forester (1935)
The Happy Return - C. S. Forester (1937)

I think I've narrowed down my wish list for the month. I wanted to use this as a TBR clearout opportunity, so I mostly chose books I already own and this is my overall goal list:

Buddenbrooks (1901) by Mann
Wings (1905) by Kuzmin
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) by Forster
Jenny (1911) by Undset
The 39 Steps (1915) by Buchan
We (1920) by Zamyatin
A Son at the Front (1923) by Wharton
The Talisman Ring (1936) by Heyer
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1945) by Dick/Leslie)
1984 (1949) by Orwell
Plus some short stories by Wharton.

My TBR is long, but only two titles are over 200 pages, so it is doable.

Author from my country: America
O Pioneers! 1913 Willa Sibert Cather
Age of Innocence 1920 Edith Wharton
The Pearl (Novella) 1947 John Steinbeck

Author from another country
Vera 1921 Elizabeth von Arnim (Australian)
Siddhartha 1922 Hermann Hesse (Swiss)
“Metamorphosis” (Short Story) 1915 Franz Kafka (Bohemian)
The Phantom of the Opera 1909 Gaston Leroux (French)

Genre (Mystery/Suspense)
And Then There Were None 1939 Agatha Christie (British)

Not a novel
A Room of One’s Own (Essay) 1929 Virginia Woolf
Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology (Poetry) 1915 Richard Aldington, H.D., John Gould Fletcher, F.S. Flint, D.H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell

Explores WW I or WWII
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander (WW I Memoir) 1935 Georg Von Trapp (Austrian) first English translation 2007 Elizabeth M Campbell (author’s granddaughter)

Bonus: one from each decade:
1900s: The Phantom of the Opera 1909
1910s: O Pioneers! 1913, “Metamorphosis” 1915 & Some Imagist Poets 1915
1920s: Age of Innocence 1920, Vera 1921, Siddhartha 1922 & A Room of One’s Own 1929
1930s: And then There Were None 1939 & To the Last Salute 1935
1940s: The Pearl 1947

I'm really excited to participate in this readathon and I spent quite some time trying to figure out my ideal tbr. My goal was to choose mostly from books that I already own.
So I decided to do the bonus challenge and read one book from each decade, in chronological order.

1900s: The story of my life by Helen Keller
1910s: The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
1920s: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1930s: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
1940s: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (written in 1948-49, published in the 1950s)

My TBR:
1. My country: Heinrich Mann, Professor Unrat (The Blue Angel), 1905
2. Different country: Pär Lagerkvist, Gäst hos verkligheten (Guest of Reality), 1925
3. Genre classic: Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1921
4. Not a novel: Wolfgang Borchert, Draußen vor der Tür (The Man Outside), 1947 -play
5. WWI or WWII: Selma Lagerlöf, Bannlyst (The Outcast), 1918
Bonus challenge - still missing a book from the 1930s: Jan Fridegård, En natt i juli, 1933

For my TBR, I searched my shelves for a selection of books published between 1900 and 1950 that I have not yet read. There are in fact a couple that I have read, but it was so long ago (think 20 years or so) that it will be close to reading it for the first time. I will not get to all of these in May; this is more of a list to pick from than a plan.
1. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Conan Doyle, 1902)
2. Anna of the Five Towns (Bennett, 1902)
3. Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster, 1905)
4. A Girl of the Limberlost (Porter, 1909)
5. In a German Pension (Mansfield, 1911)
6. Daddy Long Legs (Webster, 1912)
7. The Metamorphosis (Kafka, 1915)
8. Main Street (Lewis, 1920)
9. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather, 1927)
10. Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons, 1932)
11. The Flying Classroom (Kaestner, 1933)
12. Murder in Mesopotamia (Christie, 1936)
13. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Watson, 1938)
14. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith, 1943)

So, I scoured my shelves and outside of Agatha Christie books (I seem to have a lot of those), I have...

The Best of John Wyndham 1932-1949
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell (1933)
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse (1927)
Orlando - Virginia Woolf (1928)
The Horror in the Museum - HP Lovecraft (collected short stories from 1918-1936) - Tbh, I've lost all interest in this and if it doesn't get tried in May I'm getting rid.

I think that's all I have...

So here is my set TBR:
1900s & not a novel "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo" by John Henry Patterson
1910s & American "Adventure" by Jack London
1920s, Canadian, & war novel "Rilla of Ingleside" by L. M. Montgomery
1920s & English "Women in Love" by D. H. Lawrence
1920s & American "Plum Bun" by Jesse Redmon Fauset
1930s, British, & genre fiction "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley
1940s, American, & genre fiction "Shadow Castle" Marian Cockrell
1950, American, & genre fiction "Strangers on a Train" by Patricia Highsmith
This seems more than enough for the month but there is so much I would like to include. This is such a rich and interesting period for literature. Everything from serious literary works to pure pulp. We'll see if I think of anything else.

Katie, I'm so impressed with your selections from around the world. Mine are mostly English, with a few from my country (USA). I have made 19 selections, and hope to read at least 10 of them:
1900 The Touchstone, Edith Wharton (USA)
1907 Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther, Elizabeth von Arnim (Australia/England/Germany)
1908 A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (England)
1911 Jenny, Sigrid Undset (Norway)
1915 The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather (USA)
1919 Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson (USA)
1922 Loyalties, John Galsworthy (England) -- play
1924 The Crowded Street, Winifred Holtby (England)
1925 William, E. H. Young (England)
1927 The Hotel, Elizabeth Bowen (England)
1930 High Wages, Dorothy Whipple (England)
1930 Private Lives, Noel Coward (England) -- classic play
1932 Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (England) -- classic sci-fi/dystopian
1935 Death in the Air, Agatha Christie (England) -- classic mystery
1940 Letter From England, Mollie Panter-Downes (England) essays/articles; WWII
1940 The English Air, D. E. Stevenson (Scotland); WW II
1945 The Little Company, Eleanor Dark (Australia); WW II
1949 Cindie, Jean Devany (NZ)
1950 The World My Wilderness, Rose Macaulay (England) WW II
I am really looking forward to this challenge!

A great selection there. I particularly loved William, she's one of my favourite writers and I wish it was easier to find her books.
I have The World My Wilderness so I might try to get to this one too. I quite fancy a reread of A Room with a View or possibly Howards End, I think there is a good version of this on Librivox, so I should be able to fit it in that way.

Tania wrote: "A great selection there. I particularly loved William, she's one of my favourite writers and I wish it was easier to find her books.
I have The World My Wilderness so I..."
I'm so glad you loved William! I was very fortunate last year to be gifted 7 of E. H. Young's books (Virago editions); I'm only missing The Vicar's Daughter. So far I've read The Misses Mallett, which I did enjoy. My grandfather was born in Bristol in 1903, so her books mean a lot to me to get a feel for the place and era.

Ooh lovely. I hope you enjoy them all. I loved The Misses Mallett; I thought Celia was particularly good, and of course Chatterton Square. I've not yet read The Vicar's Daughter but my library has a copy.

Clifton now is very different to the descriptions of Radstowe (of course) but it does still have that feeling of being a bit like a village within the city and I do love it. E.H. Young has her own blue plaque at the house she used to live at, though I haven't found it yet.

Libby wrote: "For my TBR, I searched my shelves for a selection of books published between 1900 and 1950 that I have not yet read. There are in fact a couple that I have read, but it was so long ago (think 20 ye..."

What wonderful books you have chosen. I have a few of those on my TBR list. :) I love A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. <3

Kathy wrote: "Katie, I'm so impressed with your selections from around the world. Mine are mostly English, with a few from my country (USA). I have made 20 selections, and hope to read at least 10 of them:
1900 ..."

I am planning on reading A Room with a View this year. It will be my first E.M.Forster book. :)

Kathy wrote: "Tania wrote: "A great selection there. I particularly loved William, she's one of my favourite writers and I wish it was easier to find her books.
I have [book:The World My Wildernes..."

I have just put The Misses Mallett on my TBR list. :)

It is in the public domain so if you usr it, there is a free version on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8131

My plan for the May challenge, all of which will be new reads for me

1900s A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1905 (US, where I live)
1910s Pygmalion & Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw, 1913 (play, not a novel)
1920s The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 1920 (UK, not where I live). I finished The House of Mirth several days ago
1930s The African Queen by C.S. Forester, 1935 (WWI)
1940s Triplanetary by E.E. "Doc" Smith, 1948 (genre)

Ooops. Edith Wharton is American. So, I'm going to replace Age of Innocence with Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 1925. I think I'll still try to read the original book as well.

Michael wrote: "My plan for the May challenge, all of which will be new reads for me

1900s A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1905 (US, where I live)
1910s [book:Pygmalion & Other Plays..."

I haven't read any of those books either. I would like to read A Little Princess and The Age of Innocence at some point. :)

Irina wrote: "I'm really excited to participate in this readathon and I spent quite some time trying to figure out my ideal tbr. My goal was to choose mostly from books that I already own.
So I decided to do the..."

I'm jealous that you are reading Rebecca. I read it for the first time last month for a book club at work and I envy anyone embarking on it for the first time. Loved it.

I made a Goodreads Bookshelf on my profile with well over 100 books that fit for this fantastic Readathon. I would love to connect with anyone else participating in the readathon as friends here if you’d like! I’m a big fan of Katie’s YT channel and the books she recommends are often ones I will buy. I have several physical books to read for the 1900 to 1950’s. I have discovered many others in my library through the Overdrive app and will listen to some audio books via the Libby app. Both apps are free. So far I ordered one book that Katie suggested “First World War Poems.” There are so many more I’d like to buy especially for authors that don’t have audio books. I will continue reading books from 1900to 1950’s for a long time!

My TBR is coinciding with other reading goals and other readalongs that I'm participating with in May. Killing several birds with one stone!

For my yearly classics goal: 1984 by George Orwell- published 1949

For the Space Trilogy readalong with A Musical Bookworm: That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis – published 1945

For my Agatha Christie 2021 Challenge: The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie – published 1928

For my yearly series goal: Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation (Aunt Jane's Nieces #7) by Edith Van Dyne- published in 1912

Space Trilogy readalong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kJ7R...
Agatha Christie Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I991...
Yearly goals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S79bI...

Hi everyone : )
I think this is a wonderful theme & i've so many physical tbrs to choose from yay! But being realistic for me- this is how it's looking:

1905 Where Angels Fear To Tread (E M Forster)
1913 Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain Fournier / F. Davison translation)
1924 The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
1936 The Makioka Sisters ( J.Tanizaki)
1945 Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)

Tentative additions if possible are
The House Of MIrth (1905 Wharton)
The Enchanted April (1922 Von Armin)
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920 Fitzgerald)

My main priority (the one im most excited about) is TMMountain, 716 pages but very small print in my edition.. so ill get to that early on! Happy reading everyone look fwd to catching up! : ))

Yesterday I was looking for a copy of The Half-Crown House by Helen Ashton, which was discussed by Simon and Rachel in the latest 'Tea or Books?' Podcast. I didn't find a copy, but I found Yeoman's Hospital by her, and this one fits the time-frame so I'm going to try and fit this in as well.

Tania wrote: "Yesterday I was looking for a copy of The Half-Crown House by Helen Ashton, which was discussed by Simon and Rachel in the latest 'Tea or Books?' Podcast. I didn't f..."

New author to me, and looks right up my street--thank you!

You're welcome. Persephone Books publish one by her, Bricks and Mortar, I'm not sure if any others are in print now. Hopefully you can get reasonably priced second hand copies.

I usually don't like making TBRs cz I end up reading a completely different set of books. But I'll read at least the core TBR this time:

1900' - Three sisters and/or The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov (it's plays and from the country I'm from). I have a question here: is it better to read them in English or is it suffice to read in Russian? Because I have an actual book in Russian and I don't usually rate books I've read in Russian here on Goodreads.
1910' - B.Shaw's Pygmalion and/or some other plays
1920' - J.Galsworthy's In Chancery which I've already started and absolutely loving it so far
1930' - A.Christie's Murder on the Orient Express or Death on the Nile
1940' - E.Chang's Half a Lifelong Romance. It was on my radar but I decided to prioratize it cz Katie was going to read it.

I may read also E.M. Forster, Hesse (he's really highly appreciated here in Russia), T. Mann, Maugham, Muzil, Proust, Deledda, Yasunari, Steinbeck, Warton, V.Woolf, Zweig, Remarque, Fitzgerald, Tagore, Hurston. Goodbye, Berlin by Isherwood is written somewhere in this timeframe, it seems. Or, indeed, something else, completely different : ) !

Happy reading!

Hello! This is my TBR, I’m not sure if I’ll manage to read everything though

From my country (Mexico): Ensayo de un crimen, Rodolfo Usigli, 1940s.
Santa, Federico Gamboa, 1900s.

From a different country: Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1930s.
The Pearl, John Steinbeck, 1940s (Novella)

Genre: And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie, 1930s
The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster, 1900s (Short Story)

Not a novel: Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, Thomas Hardy, 1910s (Poetry)
Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca, 1930s (Play)

WWI or WWII: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1920s

1. The Great Gatsby (1925)

2. To The Lighthouse (1927)

3. Brave New World (1932)

4. Hemingway Short Stories (1950's)

5. The Diary Of a Young Girl (1947)

G-day from Australia. Always love getting a tbr together - my selection...

1. Read a book published 1900–1950 from Australia - The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson (1910) - set in a Girls School in Australia.
2. Read a book published 1900–1950 from UK - Frost in May by Antonia White (1933) - set in a Girls School in Britain.
3. Read a genre classic, published 1900–1950 Historical Fiction - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) set in 1870s
4. Read something published 1900–1950 that isn’t a novel - NF Memoir (1908) - Confessions of a Beachcomber by E.J. Banfield (Natural history memoir of Tropical Dunk Island, Queensland, Aus)
5. Read a work of literature published 1900–1950 set during or exploring WWI - NF Memoir of WW1 Aus Light Horse - (1932) The Desert Column by Ion L. Idriess

I've had all of these on my shelf for a while, it sounds like a great opportunity to read them :D

Hello. I'm Gelli and these are my list for the 1900 to 1950 readathon this month of May.

1. Read a book published 1900-1950 from the country you're from (Philippines)
Banaag at Sikat by Lope K. Santos (1906)

2. Read a book published 1900-1950 from a different country
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

3. Read a genre classic, published 1900-1950 (such as classic crime, classic sci-fi, classic fantasy, historical fiction, etc)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
1984 by George Orwell (1949)

4. Read something published 1900-1950 that isn't a novel (such as non-fiction, plays, poetry, short stories, etc)
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)

5. Read a work of literature published 1900-1950 set during or exploring WWI or WWII
The Diary Of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)

hi, as I said at the intro thread, I've never tried a readathon before, so I'm going to avoid being too ambitious. I just will try to read at least one or two of these books, that I already own and some, for too long. Those are
-Where the angels fear to tread (1905) by E. M. Forster
-The Custom of the Country (1915) by Edith Wharton
-The Heart is a lonely hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers

This is a bit off subject of the Readathon and hope it’s okay. I started listening to audiobooks of Agatha Christie. And I’m watching many of her excellent movies for free on youtube. My favorite are the ones with Hercule Poirot. I’ve noticed that often characters are shown reading a book. I’m trying to see what the books are and see if they are indeed real books. Many are and I’m starting to add them to my Goodreads list. I will go back and rewatch some movies to look more carefully for them. I’m not sure if they are mentioned in the actual Agatha Christie books though. Anyways I would imagine that some were written during the time period or just prior to when Agatha Christie wrote her stories. Anyways, it’s a clever way to find more books to read. Books within books!