100 Books

Hello all! I've decided to create a Blogger site for one main reason: keep myself motivated to stick with the Fill in the Gaps Project. Not sure what that is? Check out the link to their blog; you'll find it on the left hand side.

I've created a list of 100 books that I want to read. These are stories that I've always said I wanted to get to, but never have. Life has a bad habit of jumping in the way. But now, I have posted my list on the FitGP Blog, and I'm posting them here. I hope to keep everyone up to date on my progress with this list, as well as let you know what I think of the book. And if you know me, you know that I'll be brutally honest. Nice, but honest.

Having said that, let me add this: I am giving myself 5 to 8 years (yes, years) to finish this list. Some books I'm sure I could read in a week. Others will take at least a month. I'm also trying to figure in real life situations, including holidays, traveling, and illness, to give myself plenty of time to enjoy the books I'm reading. And if it takes more than 8 years, I'm okay with that.

Now, without further ado, here is my list of 100 books I'd like to read (in no particular order):

1. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
2. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
3. The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
4. Lady Susan - Jane Austen
5. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
6. Persuasion - Jane Austen
7. Northanger Abby - Jane Austen
8. The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
9. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
10. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
12. A Death in the Family - James Agee
13. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
14. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
15. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
17. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
18. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
19. These Thirteen - William Faulkner
20. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
21. Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
22. The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
23. Loving - Henry Green
24. Monsieur Monde Vanishes - Georges Simenon
25. The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
26. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
27. The Woman In Black: A Ghost Story - Susan Hill
28. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
29. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
30. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
31. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
32. The Professor - Charlotte Bronte
33. Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
34. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
35. An Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
36. The Inheritance - Louisa May Alcott
37. Louisa May Alcott Collected Thrillers - Louisa May Alcott
38. Cashel Byron’s Profession - George Bernard Shaw
39. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
40. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
41. The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
42. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
43. The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie
44. Letters From the Earth - Mark Twain
45. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
46. The Seance - John Harwood
47. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
48. The Portrait of Mr. W.H. - Oscar Wilde
49. The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
50. The Time Machine - H.G. Welles
51. Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H.G. Welles
52. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
53. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
54. Special Topics in Calamity Psychics - Marisha Pessel
55. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
56. Lady Chatterly’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence
57. Under the Net - Irish Murdoch
58. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
59. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
60. Middlemarch - George Eliot
61. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
62. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
63. Katherine - Anya Seton
64. Kane and Able - Jeffrey Archer
65. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
66. Dubliners - James Joyce
67. The Secret History - Donna Tart
68. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
69. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
70. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
71. London Fields - Martin Amis
72. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
73. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
74. The Virgin in the Garden - A.S. Byatt
75. Still Life - A.S. Byatt
76. Babel Tower - A.S. Byatt
77. The Whistling Woman - A.S. Byatt
78. Lorna Doone - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
79. A Town Like Alice (“The Legacy” U.S. Title) - Nevil Shute
80. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
81. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
82. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
83. Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks
84. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
85. The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
86. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
87. Of Human Bondage - William Somerset Maugham
88. The Touchstone - Edith Wharton
89. Summer - Edith Wharton
90. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
91. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
92. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
93. The American - Henry James
94. Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart
95. A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
96. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster
97. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
98. A Girl of Limberlost - Gene Stratton-Porter
99. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
100. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott