I've read at least one book for each year from 1900 to date, and am now working on the 19th century. Here is are my lists, with links to those books I've reviewed/discussed/noted (though most of these were read prior to this blog).
Generally, the book listed is only the first one I read from that year once I started keeping track, and it does not necessarily represent my favorite published that year. In fact, some of these I didn't even like.
Nineteenth Century:
still in progress
1811 - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (link)
1813 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (link)
1815 - Emma by Jane Austen
1817 - Persuasion by Jane Austen
1847 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1848 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
1849 - Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
1851 - Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
1854 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
1855 - The Warden by Anthony Trollope (link)
1857 - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (link)
1858 - Phantastes by George MacDonald (link)
1859 - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
1860 - Three Times Dead by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (link)
1862 - Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (link)
1864 - The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope (link)
1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1866 - Behind a Mask by (Louisa May Alcott writing as) A. M. Barnard (link)
1867 - The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (link)
1868 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
1869 - Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope (link)
1870 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
1871 - Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
1872 - Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (link)
1873 - The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope (link)
1874 - Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
1875 - The Uninhabited House by Mrs. J.H. Riddell
1876 - The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins (link)
1877 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (link)
1878 - The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katherine Green
1879 - Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope (link)
1880 - Washington Square by Henry James
1881 - The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
1883 - XYZ: A Detective Story by Anna Katherine Green
1885- King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard (link)
1886 - A Golden Argosy by Fred M. White (link)
1887 - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (link)
1888 - Maiwa's Revenge by H. Rider Haggard
1889 - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
1890 - The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (link)
1892 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (link)
1893 - The Love Affairs of an Old Maid by Lillian Bell
1894 - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Dolyle (link)
1895 - The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward
1897 - A Girl in Springtime by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
1898 - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (link)
1899 - Agatha Webb by Anna Katherine Green
Twentieth Century:
began November 2011, completed March 2017
1900 - About Peggy Saville by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
1901 - More About Peggy by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
1902 - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (link)
1903 - The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
1904 - The Celebrity at Home by Violet Hunt
1905 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (link)
1906 - The Chief Legatee by Anna Katherine Green
1907 - Glory and the Other Girl by Annie Hamilton Donnell
1908 - Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (link)
1909 - Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery (link)
1910 - The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. Dell
1911 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnette
1912 - The Excellence of the Rosary by Father M.J. Frings
1913 - The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1914 - The After-House by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1915 - The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
1916 - Bars of Iron by Ethel M. Dell
1917 - Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
1918 - The Zeppelin's Passenger by E. Phillips Oppenheim (link)
1919 - A Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse
1920 - Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale (link)
1921 - Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
1922 - The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams
1923 - Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
1924 - Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
1925 - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (link)
1926 - Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
1927 - Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers (link)
1928 - Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
1929 - The Patient in Room 18 by Mignon Eberhart
1930 - The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
1931 - From This Dark Stairway by Mignon Eberhart
1932 - Have His Carcass by Dorothy L. Sayers
1933 - Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer (link)
1934 - Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
1935 - Enter the Murderer by Ngaio Marsh
1936 - Young Men in Spats by P.G. Wodehouse
1937 - Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
1938 - The Black Headed Pins by Constance and Gwenyth Little
1939 - Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
1940 - The Norths Meet Murder by Frances and Richard Lockhart (link)
1941 - N or M? by Agatha Christie (link)
1942 - The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (link)
1943 - The Mouse in the Mountains by Norbert Davis
1944 - Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin
1945 - Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich
1946 - Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
1947 - The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
1948 - The Secret of the Mansion by Julie Campbell
1949 - Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (link)
1950 - A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (link)
1951 - Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
1952 - They Do it with Mirrors by Agatha Christie (link)
1953 - A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie
1954 - The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
1955 - Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
1956 - The Mystery in Arizona by Julie Campbell
1957 - 4:20 from Paddington by Agatha Christie (link)
1958 - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (link)
1959 - Dead Men Don't Ski by Patricia Moyes (link)
1960 - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
1961 - The Sunken Sailor by Patricia Moyes (link)
1962 - The Mirror Crack'd by Agatha Christie
1963 - The Collector by John Fowles
1964 - A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie (link)
1965 - At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
1966 - Norwood by Charles Portis
1967 - It Ends in Revelations by Dodie Smith
1968 - By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
1969 - The Stately Home Murder by Catherine Aird
1970 - The Girl in Blue by P.G. Wodehouse
1971 - Nemesis by Agatha Christie
1972 - Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers
1973 - Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
1974 - The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters (link)
1975 - Curtain by Agatha Christie
1976 - Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
1977 - A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
1978 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
1979 - Some Die Eloquent by Catherine Aird
1980 - Innocent Blood by P.D. James (link)
1981 - Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
1982 - A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
1983 - The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (link)
1984 - The Root of All Evil by E.X. Ferrars
1985 - Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton
1986 - The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
1987 - Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
1988 - The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
1989 - Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
1990 - Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
1991 - Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
1992 - Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton
1993 - Every Crooked Nanny by Mary Kay Andrews
1994 - Last Act in Palmyra by Lindsey Davis
1995 - Cain His Brother by Anne Perry
1996 - A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King (link)
1997 - A Certain Justice by P.D. James (link)
1998 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1999 - O, Jerusalem by Laurie R. King (link)
Twenty-first Century
2000 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
2001 - The Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
2002 - The Devil in the White City by Eric Larsen
2003 - Snobbery with Violence by Marion Chesney
2004 - A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry
2005 - Flush by Carl Hiaasen
2006 - Dzur by Steven Brust (link)
2007 - Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899 by Dominic Green (link)
2008 - The Silver Linings Playback by Matthew Quick
2009 - Skeleton Hill by Peter Lovesey (link)
2010 - The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray by Walter Mosley
2011 - Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff
2012 - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (link)
2013 - The Book of Secrets by Elizabeth Joy Arnold
2014 - Chasing the Rose by Andrea di Robilant (link)
2015 - The Explorer's Guild by Jon Baird (link)
2016 - The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
2017 - The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (link)
2018 - Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee (link)
2019 - Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee (link)
2020 - Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater (link)
2021 - A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman (link)
2022 - The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves (link)
2023 - Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling by P.J. Fitzsimmons (link)
2024 - Mystery and Malice Aboard the RMS Ballast by P.J. Fitzsimmons (link)
2025 - Ties of Legacy by Melanie Cellier (link)
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