100 Years cover

100 Years

by Joshua Prager

An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years traces the passages of life from birth to age one hundred through quotations from the world's greatest writers. Moving year by year, with surprising and illuminating juxtapositions of quotations from figures as diverse as Plato and Virginia Woolf, Leon Tolstoy and John Barth, this wise, beautiful, and moving portrait of the universal patterns of life will delight readers of all ages and backgrounds. Authors include Herman Melville, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, David Foster Wallace, Anne Frank, Fyodor Dostoevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and dozens of others.

Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?