A Century of Books in the Decades Challenge

I've just been going through the decade-lists of books for the Decades Challenge, and after choosing my books, I'm likely going to be reading through an entire century in the next year! (There were so many titles that were old friends -- it was hard not to just pick them and spend a lovely year re-reading. I did allow myself a few old friends along the way, but I'm hoping to make some new friends, too, in the new-to-me books I've chosen. The ones I've read before are marked with a red asterisk in the list below.) Besides this list, I've just bought a copy of Robinson Crusoe, which was first published in 1719, but I may not get to it for a while, now that I have the Decades bit in my teeth.

My list, beginning with a book I just mentioned to Alana earlier today, and which I was already planning a trip to the library for tomorrow --

1870s Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott (1875) *

1880s Washington Square by Henry James (1880)
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (1889) *

1890s Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)

1900s The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (1907)

1910s The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1918)
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley (1919)*

1920s The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne (1922)

1930s The African Queen by C.S. Forester (1935)

1940s All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)

1950s Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)

1960s Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)*

1970s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines (1971)