gaps list

Project Fill-in-the-Gaps created by Moonrat on her blog Editorial Ass: fill in the gaps in your reading lists of classics and contemporary fiction. Make a list of 100 titles, give yourself 5 years to complete reading the list, and give yourself 25% “accident forgiveness” – consider the task accomplished if you achieve 75 titles in the time span. I found this via some blog or other — and sent it to Stephanie, who loves these sorts of projects and immediately put together her list.
I have some rather heavy lifting on my list (Proust!!!!!!) so I have 65 76 titles, rather than 100.

Reading Deadline: April 10, 2014

* = I own the book
Italic = I’ve started it
strikethrough = I’ve finished it

1. Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale *
2. Ballard: Crash
3. Samuel Butler: Way of All Flesh
4. Celine: Death on the Installment Plan *
5. Cervantes: Don Quixote *
6. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales *
7. Chopin: The Awakening *
8. Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell *
9. Collins: The Moonstone *
10. Connolly: The Book of Lost Things *
11. Conrad: The Secret Agent *
12. Danielewski: House of Leaves *
13. Dreiser: An American Tragedy
14. Don DeLillo: Underworld *
15. Elliot: Middlemarch *
16. Ellison: Juneteenth *
17. Gibson & Sterling: The Difference Engine
18. Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha *
19. Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley *
20. Hilton: Lost Horizon *
21. Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
22. James: The Golden Bowl *
23. James: The Portrait of a Lady *
24. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat
25. Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man *
26. Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn *
27. Lewis: Main Street
28. Maugham: The Razor’s Edge *
29. McCarty: The Road *
30. McEwan: Atonement *
31. Melville: Moby Dick *
32. Moore: Fool
33. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
34. O’Connor: A Good Man is Hard To Find *
35. Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
36. Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 1) Swann’s Way *
37. Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 2) In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower *
38. Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 3) The Guermantes Way *
39. Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 4) Sodom and Gomorrah *
40. Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 5 & 6) The Prisoner & The Fugitive *
41. Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 7) Finding Time Again *
42. Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel *
43. Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea *
44. Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated *
45. Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men *
46. Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma *
47. Sterne: A Sentimental Journey *
48. Stephenson: Cryptonomicon *
49. Gene Stratton Porter: A Girl of the Limber Lost *
50. Donna Tartt: A Secret History *
51. Tolstoy: Anna Karenina *
52. Updike: TBD *
53. Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea *
54. Wallace: Infinite Jest *
55. Wharton: The House of Mirth *
56. Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle *
57. Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road *
58. Zusak: The Book Thief *
59. Bloom: Shakespeare – The Invention of the Human *
60. Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything *
61. Campbell: The Hero of a Thousand Faces *
62. Dawkins: The God Delusion *
63. Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel *
64. Diamond: Collapse *
65. Jacobs: Life and Death of Cities *
66. Jacobs: Economy of Cities *
67. Jacobs: Nature of Economies *
68. Steven Johnson: The Ghost Map *
69. Pinker: The Blank Slate *
70. Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas *
71. Weisman: The World Without Us *
72. Zimbardo: The Lucifer Effect *
73. Burroughs: Queer *
74. Dickinson: Complete Works
75. Plath: The Bell Jar *
76. Whitman: Leaves of Grass *