It always shocks me when I see a book about the 1950s listed under "historical fiction." That's my childhood they're talking about! That's also the definition: a fictional story occurring at least 50 years before the time of writing.

That made me think about what books were actually written 100 years ago—and how many I'd read.

It turns out 1926 was a monumental year for literature that witnessed the debut of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, Ernest Hemingway’s breakout novel The Sun Also Rises, and Agatha Christie’s mystery tour-de-force The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Here is a (non-all-inclusive) list of key literary works published in 1926. How many have you read?

The Castle by Franz Kafka
Winne-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence
These Old Shades by Georgett Heyer
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-monnayeurs) by Andre Gide
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
On Being Ill by Virginia Wolff
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Treasure of the Lake by H. Rider Haggard
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Mary by Vladimir Nabokov
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov
Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran

Full disclosure, I've only read 8, but I'm adding a couple to this year's TBR list.