Two Hectobooks: Looking Back, Part 8

Despite the extremely challenging nature of these last twenty books (mostly the ones on The List, you'll see), I'm very pleased to be posting this less than one year after the previous Retrospective post. I'm trying not to get too excited and tempt the universe to throw any roadblocks in the way of the last 20% of this project, but please keep your fingers crossed for my sake!

Top 100 So Far

So here we are, 1.6 hectobooks down, 0.4 to go. I've read at least 40 books every year for the past several, meaning that if I really put my mind to it, I could finish this up within the next year. We'll see if that happens.

Because there were two trilogies in this set, I actually read fourteen books instead of ten. Because I ended up getting a bit bored/exhausted with both trilogies, and because there were a few duds in the mix, let's be honest, I only really liked half of the books, giving 50% 3/3 ratings. This is still mostly positive but it's not as high as I'd like it to be at this point on The List.

As you may have guessed, every single one of these fourteen books was written by a man. They were, again, concentrated in the first half of the 20th century, with only one being published after 1950, just like the previous round. The average publication year was 1928. Maybe next time the Modern Library Board should consider having some younger people on it.

Here is the usual ugly tabulation of these results: