Project Fill-in-the gaps

I stole this idea from Aerin who stole it from Moonrat who stole it from Andromeda. According to Moonrat, Andromeda wanted to collect a list of 100 books to read to fill in the gaps she has when it comes to classics and contemporary fiction. She gave herself 5 years to read all 100 books. She also gave herself a 25% forgiveness rate so 75% completion rate is victorious.

We’re all giving ourselves the same rules Andromeda gave herself. So I should be completed with my list by March 29, 2014.

The criteria for the list:

• snobby classics I’ve always wished I could tell people I’ve read, but would never read otherwise because I can’t imagine enjoying them (these will probably end up making up the 25)
• Books that I’ve bought and owned for a long time, but haven’t read because they’re reeeeally long and I’m easily daunted by length at time of reading–choosing
• Some books I’ve been curious about and keep forgetting to buy/read
• The gaps filled in with some award-winning books

A

• Agee, James - A Death in the Family (’58 Pulitzer Prize)
• Allende, Isabel - The House of Spirits
• Anderson, Laurie Halse - Speak
• Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility

B

• Beagle, Peter S. - A Fine and Private Place
• Beagle, Peter S. - We never talk about my brother
• Beowulf
• Boyle, T.C. - The Tortilla Curtain
• Bragg, Rick - All over but the shoutin’
• Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre

C

• Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus (’84 James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
• Carter, Angela - The Bloody Chamber
• Chandler, Raymond - The Big Sleep
• Chaon, Dan - You remind me of me
• Cheever, John - The Stories of John Cheever
• Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
• Chekhov, Anton - 40 Stories
• Cisneros, Sandra - Caramelo
• Cleaver, Eldridge - Soul on Ice
• Colwin, Laurie - Home Cooking
• Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness

D

• Dante - The Inferno
• Datlow, Ellen - Black Swan, White Raven
• Didion, Joan - The White Album
• Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (’75 Pulitzer)
• Dog, Mary Crow - Lakota Woman
• Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1

E

• Eliot, George - Middlemarch
• Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man (’53 National Book Award)
• Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine (’84 National Book Critics Circle Award)
• Erdrich, Louise - Tales of Burning Love
• Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides

F

• Faulker, William
• Fisher, M F K -
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
• Friedan, Betty - The Feminine Mystique
• Funke, Cornelia - Inkheart

G

• Gaines, Ernest - A Lesson Before Dying (’93 NBCCA)
• Green, John - Looking for Alaska (2006 Printz)
• Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair

H

• Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
• Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
• Harjo, Joy - She had Some Horses
• Heat-Moon, William Least - Blue Highways
• Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea (’53 Pulitzer)
• Hempel, Amy - Collected Stories
• Hoffman, Alice - The Ice Queen
• Hoffman, Nina Kiriki - A Fistful of Sky
• Homer - The Odyssey (this time finish it)
• Horn, Dara - The World to Come
• Houston, Pam - Cowboys are my weakness

I

• Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
  

J

• Jelloun, Tahar Ben - This Blinding Absence of Light (2004 Impac Dublin)
• Jones, Edward - The Known World (’04 Pulitzer in Fiction)

K

• Karr, Mary - Sinners Welcome
• Kennedy, William J.- Ironweed (’84 Pulitzer in Fiction)
• King, Laurie R. - The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
• Kingston Maxine Hong - Woman Warrior (’76 NBCCA)
• Kushner, Tony - Angels in America (’93 Pulitzer in Drama)

L

• Lesser, Elizabeth - The Seeker’s Guide
• Li, Yiyun - The Vagrants
• Li, Yiyun - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (’05 Pen/Hemingway)

M

• Mansfield, Katherine - The Collected Stories
• Mattiessen - Shadow Country (’08 National Book Award)
• McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridan
• McCarthy, Mary - The Group
• Medley, Laura - Castle Waiting *completed 4/9/09
• Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Selected Poems (Pulitzer)
• Momaday, N. Scott - House Made of Dawn (’69 Pulitzer)
• Morrison, Toni - Beloved (’87 Pulitzer)
• Munro, Alice - The View from Castle Rock
• Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood

N

O

• Obama, Barack - Dreams from my father
• O’Brien, Tim - The things they carried
• O’Connor, Flannery - Collected Stories
• Oliver, Mary - Red Bird

P

• Paley, Grace- Collected Stories
• Pattou, Edith - East *completed 3/30/09
• Parks, Suzan-Lori - Topdog/Underdog (’02 Pulitzer in Drama) *completed 4/19/09
  
• Porter, Katherine Anne - Collected Stories (’66 Pulitzer)
  
• Pollock, Donald Ray - Knockemstiff
• Potok, Chaim - The Chosen
• Proulx, Annie

Q

R

• Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping (’81 Pen/Hemingway)
  
• Russo, Richard - Empire Falls (’02 Pulitzer)
  
• Rylant, Cynthia - Missing May (’93 Newbery Medal)
  

S

• Said, Edward W. -Orientalism
• Sexton, Anne
• Shakespeare, William - Othello
• Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
• Smith, Zadie
• Spiegelman, Art - The Complete Maus (’92 Pulitzer & ‘92 Eisner)
• Stein, Steve - The Angel of Forgetfulness
• Suskind, Patrick - Perfume: The story of a murderer

T

• Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club
• Taylor, Peter - A Summons To Memphis (’87 Pulitzer)
• Teasdale, Sara - Love Poems (1918 Pulitzer for Poetry)
• Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace

U

V

W

• Walker, Alice - The Color Purple (’83 Pulitzer)
• Wallace, David Foster - Consider the Lobster
• Wells, H. G. - War of the Worlds
• Wells, H.G. - The Invisible Man
• Welty, Eudora - 13 stories
• Welty - The Optimist’s Daughter (’72 Pulitzer Prize)
• White, T.H. - The Sword in the Stone
• Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself
• Williams, Tennesse - A Streetcar Named Desire (’48 Pulitzer in Drama)
• Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One’s Own
• Wright, Richard - Native Son

X

• X, Malcolm - Autobiography of Malcolm X

Y

• Yezierska, Anzia - Bread Givers
• Yolen, Jane - Briar Rose
• Yolen, Jane - Favorite Folktales from Around the World

Z

• Zafron, Carlos Ruiz - The Shadow of the Wind

Is there a book you think I left off? Leave a comment!