Project Fill in the Gaps
Alright y’all, mostly I’m not a challenge person. Mainly because once I am assigned a book or feel pressure to read it…all desire to do so flies out the window.
But, I’ve decided to make an exception for Project Fill in the Gaps. Basically, you make a list of 100 of the books that have thus far fallen through the cracks. Popular fiction, classics…the guidelines as far as that goes are fairly loose. But – once you make your list, you have 5 years to read them.
Thanks to April of Good Books & Good Wine and Ashley of Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing for inspiring me to start and then (gradually…eventually….finally) complete my Project Fill in the Gaps list.
1. Middlemarch by George Eliot
2. The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
3. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (which, I’d like to add, is possibly the biggest book I’ve ever owned)
4. To Dance With Kings by Rosalind Laker
5. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
6. Roots by Alex Haley
7. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
8. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
10. Nation by Terry Pratchett
11. Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith (my review)
12. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
13. The Unabridged Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
14. Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt (my review)
15. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
16. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
17. Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson
18. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
19. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
20. Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart (my review)
21. Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
22. Boy’s Life by Robert McCammon
23. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
24. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
25. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
26. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
27. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
28. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
29. The Sound and the Fury by Willian Faulkner
30. Paper Towns by John Green
31. The Shining by Stephen King (my review)
32. The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
33. 1984 by George Orwell
34. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
35. Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
36. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
37. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
38. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
39. Duma Key by Stephen King
40. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
41. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
42. Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta
43.The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
44. Olivia and Jai by Rebecca Ryman
45. The Swan Kingdom by Zoe Marriott
46. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
47. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Gay
48. The Giver by Lois Lowry
49. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
50. Exodus by Julie Bertagna
51. A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
52. Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
53. Lord of the Fading Lands by C.L. Wilson
54. Gone By Michael Grant
55. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
56. Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
57. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
58. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
59. The Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon
60. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
61. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
62. Restoration by Rose Tremain
63. Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
64. A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. Wrede
65. Terrier by Tamora Pierce
66. The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
67. Black Ships by Jo Graham
68. Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
69. Wolf Tower by Tanith Lee
70. Eva Underground by Dandi Mackall (my review)
71. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
72. Blackbringer by Laini Taylor
73. Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
74. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
75. Unwind by Neal Shusterman
76. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
77. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
78. The Sight by David Clement-Davies
79. East by Edith Pattou
80. A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
81. Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
82. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
83. I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
84. The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
85. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
86. Through Wolf’s Eyes by Jane Lindskold
87. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
88. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
89. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
90. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
93. Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
94. Matilda by Roald Dahl
95. The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
96. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (my review)
97. Daughter of the Game by Tracy Grant
98. Timeline by Michael Crichton
99. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
100. Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
A Suitable Boy must be more than a thousand pages long. I own it. I’ve looked at it once or twice and put it down. I figure I could just look at some of my relatives (or my life) to find something similar. Haha.
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