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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.

  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
  10. 10.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov
  11. 11.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan
  12. 12.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  13. 13.
    Tarzan of the Apes (Signet Classics)
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  14. 14.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs
  15. 15.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt
  16. 16.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  17. 17.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  19. 19.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel de Cervantes
  21. 21.
    Lord Jim (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  22. 22.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  23. 23.
    The Red Badge of Courage (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
    by Stephen Crane
  24. 24.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  25. 25.
    ?
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick
  26. 26.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  27. 27.
    Out of Africa
    by Isak Dinesen
  28. 28.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  29. 29.
    ?
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  30. 30.
    Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas
  31. 31.
    ?
    Silas Marner
    by George Eliot
  32. 32.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis
  33. 33.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  34. 34.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  35. 35.
    Tender is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  36. 36.
    Herland
    by Charlotte P. Gilman
  37. 37.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden
  38. 38.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  39. 39.
    The Thin Man
    by Dashiell Hammett
  40. 40.
    The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  41. 41.
    ?
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  42. 42.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  43. 43.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  44. 44.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  45. 45.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James
  46. 46.
  47. 47.
    The Last Temptation of Christ
    by Nikos Kazantzakis
  48. 48.
    ?
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling
  49. 49.
    Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
  50. 50.
    Lady Chatterly's Lover
    by D. H. Lawrence
  51. 51.
    Get Shorty
    by Elmore Leonard
  52. 52.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  53. 53.
    The Call of the Wild (Puffin Classics)
    by Jack London
  54. 54.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  55. 55.
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel
  56. 56.
    ?
    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  57. 57.
    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers
  58. 58.
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan
  59. 59.
    Moby-Dick (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  60. 60.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  61. 61.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  62. 62.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  63. 63.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  64. 64.
    ?
    Dr. Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak
  65. 65.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  66. 66.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo
  67. 67.
    ?
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage Future Classics)
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  68. 68.
  69. 69.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  70. 70.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
  71. 71.
    ?
    Contact
    by Carl Sagan
  72. 72.
    ?
    The Little Prince
    by Antoine De Saint - Exupery
  73. 73.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  74. 74.
    The Reader (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage International)
    by Bernhard Schlink
  75. 75.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott
  76. 76.
    The Jungle : The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair
  78. 78.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Penguin Classics)
    by Gertrude Stein
  79. 79.
    East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
    by John Steinbeck
  81. 81.
    Treasure Island
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  82. 82.
    Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Bram Stoker
  83. 83.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  84. 84.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  86. 86.
    Vanity Fair
    by William Thackeray
  88. 88.
    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau
  89. 89.
    ?
    The Hobbit
    by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
  90. 90.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  91. 91.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  92. 92.
    Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Classics)
    by Jules Verne
  93. 93.
    Candide
    by Voltaire
  94. 94.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  95. 95.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace
  96. 96.
    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
    by Lew Wallace
  97. 97.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells
  98. 98.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
    by Oscar Wilde
  99. 99.
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
    by Tom Wolfe
  100. 100.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
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