Project Fill In The Gaps
I started this challenge in April 2010 and have until April 2015 to read 75 percent of these books.
1. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
2. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
4. The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
5. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
6. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O’Toole
7. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
10. The Color Purple by Alice Walker Not reviewed yet
11. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Reviewed Here
12. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
13. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Reviewed Here
14. Shogun by James Clavell
15. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
16. The Satanic Verses by Salmon Rushdie
17. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
18. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Reviewed here
19. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway Reviewed Here
20. Sabriel by Garth Nix Reviewed Here
21. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
22. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
23. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
24. The Master Butcher’s Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
25. Roots by Alex Haley
26. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
27. Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice
Reviewed Here
Reviewed Here
28. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
29. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly Reviewed Here
30. Monster by Walter Dean Myers Reviewed Here
31. Zorro by Isabel Allende
32. Peony in Love by Lisa See
33. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
34. Katherine by Anya Seton
35. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Reviewed Here
36. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
37. Fledling by Octavia Butler
38. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
39. Native Son by Richard Wright
40. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
41. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
42. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Reviewed Here
43. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Freidan
44. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
45. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
46. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
47. Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
48. Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
49. The Silmarillion by J.R. Tolkien
50. My Darling, My Hamburger by Paul Zindel Reviewed Here
51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Dune by Frank Herbert
53. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
54. I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak Reviewed Here
55. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Reviewed Here
56. The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins Reviewed here.
57. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
58. Liar by Justine Larbaleister
59. Under The Dome by Stephen King
60. Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
61. Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
62. The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
63. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Review Here.
64. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart Reviewed Here
65. The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
66. Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
67. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
68. Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Review Here.
69. The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
70. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
71. Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
72. John Adams by David McCullough
73. The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
74. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
75. Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead
76. Kushiel’s Dart by Jacquline Carey
77. Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
78. Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce Reviewed Here
79. A Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin Not Reviewed Yet
80. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
81. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
82. The Bone Setter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
83. Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
84. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
85. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
86. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
87. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
88. Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy
89. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Reviewed here.
90. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
91. Love by Toni Morrison
92. Hoot by Carl Hiassen
93. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Reviewed Here
94. The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
95. Crocodile On The Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Reviewed here
96. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
97. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
98. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston DNF
99. Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
100. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Reviewed here.
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This is a good idea! I did something similar, only without a timeframe… I need to update mine though. ‘Tis a leetle outdated since I haven’t been updating my blog even the past couple months.
Not to mention that I got a Nook for Xmas and already have 93 ebooks on it. O_o
Anyway, good luck on the progress!
Lots of great classics on this list. Good luck!
Ahhhhh this list is filled with so many books I haven’t read but want tooooo. I can’t even make TBD lists because they overwhelm and depress me :p
This is a good idea and I think I’ll do something similar with the books I already own that I haven’t read yet.
Oh my god. Ok. This is pretty much a list of why I feel like some people don’t take me seriously as a reader. I’m checking it right now for my own gaps…*checks list against abysmal success rate of finishing classics and books with large-scale literary import*…I’ve only read 18 of these books. Gulp. Must get crackin’! Also, may I suggest Game of Thrones, if you like fantasy? I’m a NERD about those books because they’re AMAZING. Long, but fantastic. I’ve read all of them and they’re so emotionally draining in the BEST WAY EVAR. Good job so far though!
Good books and good wine – I love both and have questions as I’m starting to read this blog. What was the inspiration for this list? And are you keeping track of glasses (or bottles) vs. books completed? Perhaps a new dimension to the list….
Okay, for fun here are some books to start a read-over list: The Awakening by Kate Chopin, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, another F. Scott Fitzgerald (any suggestions?), and The Brothers Karamazov.
Your list is amazing – good luck!
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