2016: LIST OF CENTENNIALS

This message will serve as our master list of centennials for 2016. The group page will have just a shortened version. If you want any author, work or event added to the list, just post a message below and I will add it.

Literary Centennials for 2016

   

Authors born in 1916

Jessica Anderson
Giorgio Bassani
Camilo José Cela
Roald Dahl
Penelope Fitzgerald
Natalia Ginzburg
James Herriot
Shirley Jackson
Walker Percy
Harold Robbins
Mary Stewart

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Authors born in 1816

Charlotte Brontë

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Authors born in 1716

Thomas Gray

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Notable literary works from 1916

Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
Petersburg by Andrei Bely (first book publication)
Greenmantle by John Buchan
Beyond Thirty (aka The Lost Continent) by Edgar Rice Burroughs (serialized)
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (first book publication)
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (serialized)
Life and Gabriella by Ellen Glasgow
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Green Face by Gustav Meyrink
Just David by Eleanor H. Porter
The Devil Doctor (aka The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu) by Sax Rohmer
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells
When a Man's a Man by Harold Bell Wright

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Notable literary works from 1816

Adolphe by Benjamin Constant
The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott
The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott
Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

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Notable literary works from 1516

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Publisher's Weekly US Fiction bestsellers 1916 (copied from another group - Bestsellers Over the Years)

1. Seventeen; A Tale of Youth and Summer and the Baxter Family, especially William, Booth Tarkington

2. When a Man's a Man, Harold Bell Wright

3. Just David, Eleanor H. Porter

4. Mr. Britling Sees It Through, H. G. Wells

5. Life and Gabriella, Ellen Glasgow

6. The Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster

7. Bars of Iron, Ethel M. Dell

8. Nan of Music Mountain, Frank H. Spearman

9. Dear Enemy, Jean Webster

10. The Heart of Rachael, Kathleen Norris

help! I am still reading books published in 1914

Camilo José Cela was born in 1916.

Bumping this up as 2016 approaches.

I'm also adding an author to the 1916 list:

Jessie Kesson

Some references have her as born in 1915, but she wasn't on that list, so I'll put her here.

>3 baswood: I sympathize completely.

There are many other authors born in 1916, as there are many other books, published in 1916.

According to LT "Common Knowledge" the catalogue of LibraryThing has at least 479 books (with some doubles) listed as published in 1916.

On Lists, I have created a list, named: First published in 1916.

In this list, I have made a selection of 50 books (out of 479), which were published in 1916. I have onlt added books that I think are still often read, such as by authors whose other books I regularly see reviewed by members on Club Read.

If you want to dig deeper, you can take a plunge in the Common Knowledge data yourself.

The same could be done for books published in 1816, etc.

First published in 1916:

http://www.librarything.nl/list/10674/all/First-published-in-1916

>7 edwinbcn: That will be my spur to finish Petersburg. Thanks for the list. It's an interesting mix of currents of interest on the part of the authors.

I've arrived here via Trollope and have joined up for 2016.

The following writers were born in 1916. None of them are literary giants. I've read many Beckwiths (light and amusing, semi-biographical), a few Ellins, and an occasional Davis.

Lillian Beckwith who wrote The Hills is Lonely, the first in a series about the Scottish Highlands.
Stanley Ellin, American crime novelist who wrote The Eighth Circle
Morris West, Australian writer of best sellers, including The Shoes of the Fisherman
Dorothy Salisbury Davis. American writer of crime novels
Gordon Merrick wrote fiction featuring gay men. His best known book was The Lord Won't Mind

Do we have a dedicated thread for Walker Percy yet or have I overlooked it? I read an interesting article today, marking his birthday, which says that Peter Handke translated The moviegoer, so I'm trying to make time for it in June.

>10 MissWatson: There doesn't appear to be one. Perhaps you could create one. He was certainly an interesting writer and man of his time.

>12 MissWatson: I may get around to it later in June. I would like to get my hands on a book first, to get an idea of him as an author. My local library doesn't have any of them, and my bookmooching site