stephsk8r's "Project Fill-in-the-Gaps"

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Moonrat from Editorial Ass, inspired by her friend Andromeda Romano-Lax, made a list of 100 books she wants to read to fill in some of the gaps in her coverage of "classics and great contemporary fiction." I think it’s a great idea, so I did the same. The time limit is five years, and there is "25% accident forgiveness," which means that if you finish 75% of the titles on the list, you’re considered to have completed the challenge.

Please join me by making your own list. I’d love to see what a "bests of these lists" comparison looks like.

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  2. 2.

  3. 3.
    The House of the Spirits: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende

  4. 4.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

  5. 5.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  6. 6.
    I, Robot (The Isaac Asimov Collection)
    by Isaac Asimov

  7. 7.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  8. 8.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  9. 10.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  10. 11.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan

  11. 12.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  12. 13.
    Tarzan of the Apes (Signet Classics)
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  13. 14.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs

  14. 15.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt

  15. 16.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

  16. 17.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  17. 19.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel de Cervantes

  18. 21.
    Lord Jim (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  19. 22.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  20. 23.

  21. 24.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  22. 25.
    ?
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick

  23. 26.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  24. 27.
    Out of Africa
    by Isak Dinesen

  25. 28.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  26. 29.
    ?
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  27. 30.
    The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas

  28. 31.
    ?
    Silas Marner
    by George Eliot

  29. 32.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

  30. 33.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  31. 34.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  32. 35.
    Tender is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  33. 36.
    Herland
    by Charlotte P. Gilman

  34. 37.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

  35. 38.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  36. 39.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett

  37. 40.
    The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  38. 41.
    ?
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  39. 42.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  40. 43.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  41. 44.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  42. 45.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

  43. 46.

  44. 47.
    The Last Temptation of Christ
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

  45. 48.
    ?
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

  46. 49.
    Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

  47. 50.
    Lady Chatterly's Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence

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Created by stephsk8r on Apr 09, 2009.
 

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