Becky is hosting the Centuries Reading Challenge for 2010.

Centuries Reading Challenge
Host: Becky of Becky’s Book Reviews
Length: All of 2010 (finish at your own pace)
Required Books: 3 to 6

Your challenge is to read three (to six) books from at least three different centuries. The challenge is to read books written in different centuries, not just to read books set during different centuries. (If you choose to read more than three books, then you can double up on centuries. You can read as many as you like.)

The centuries do not need to be consecutive like the decades challenge.

Books can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories, essays, plays, etc. Books do not have to be a required length. (Though I ask that poetry and short stories be within a larger collection. For example, a book of short stories as opposed to one solitary short story.)

I promised myself I would only participate in one challenge at a time this year, apart from my regular challenges I take every year. However, this one is a year-long challenge that fits very well into what I have planned for my reading anyway, so I thought I’d go ahead and give myself some much-needed encouragement to get those books read.

I’ve decided to read six books from six different centuries:

1. The Iliad of Homer. (8th c.)
2. The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes by Chrétien de Troyes. (12th c.)
3. Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory (15th c.)
4. The Cavalier Poets: An Anthology by Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace. (17th c.)
5. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (19th c.)
6. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. (21st c.)