Friday, April 3, 2009

Amanda's Fill-in-the-Gaps List

Note: One year after starting this challenge, I've read 49 books from the list, skipped 6 more, and now I'm tired. I'm not good at longterm goals. While I will likely read most of the books on this list in the future - they are all books I want to read - I don't want to be pressured into doing it within a certain time frame. I am dropping this challenge.

Books read:
49 of 100
Skipped: 6

The list:
  1. Achebe – Things Fall Apart
  2. Adichie – Half a Yellow Sun
  3. Alexie – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
  4. Allende – Ines of my Soul
  5. Alsenas – Gay America
  6. Asher – Thirteen Reasons Why
  7. Austen – Mansfield Park
  8. Austen – Northanger Abbey
  9. Barbery – The Elegance of the Hedgehog
  10. Bechdel – Fun Home
  11. Black – Tithe
  12. Blake – Songs of Innocence and Experience
  13. Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
  14. Bronte, A. – Agnes Grey
  15. Bronte, C. – Villette (abandoned)
  16. Burnett – The Secret Garden
  17. Caletti – Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
  18. Caletti – Wild Roses
  19. Carroll – Alice in Wonderland
  20. Castellucci – Beige
  21. Cather – Death Comes for the Archbishop
  22. Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  23. Chesterton – The Man Who Was Thursday
  24. Christie – TBD
  25. Cohn & Levithan – Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
  26. Colette – Claudine at School
  27. Collins – The Moonstone
  28. Collins – Woman in White
  29. Cormier – The Chocolate War
  30. Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  31. Dickens – Bleak House
  32. Dickens – Great Expectations
  33. Doctorow – Little Brother (abandoned)
  34. Dostoevsky – Notes from Underground
  35. Dumas – The Black Tulip
  36. du Maurier – Rebecca
  37. Ellison – Invisible Man
  38. Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate
  39. Eugenides – Middlesex
  40. Fforde – Shades of Grey
  41. Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
  42. Fitzgerald – This Side of Paradise
  43. Forster – A Passage to India
  44. Gaiman – Anansi Boys
  45. Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
  46. Gaiman – Stardust
  47. Gaskell – TBD
  48. Gogol – Dead Souls
  49. Greenberg – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
  50. Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  51. Hanff – 84, Charing Cross Road
  52. Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
  53. Hornby – About a Boy
  54. Hurston – Jonah’s Gourd Vine
  55. Ibsen – A Doll’s House
  56. Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
  57. Johnson – Girl At Sea
  58. Johnson – Suite Scarlett
  59. Kafka – The Trial
  60. Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  61. Lahiri – The Namesake
  62. Lewis – Babbitt
  63. Mann – Death in Venice
  64. Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera (abandoned)
  65. Martel – Life of Pi (abandoned)
  66. Maugham – Liza of Lambeth
  67. McEwan – Atonement
  68. Murakami – Kafka on the Shore
  69. Nabokov – The Gift
  70. Nabokov – Ada, or Ardor
  71. Nemirovsky – Suite Française
  72. Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country
  73. Pratchett – The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
  74. Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho (abandoned)
  75. Sand – TBD
  76. Saramago – TBD
  77. Shelley – The Last Man (abandoned)
  78. Snyder – The Witches of Worm
  79. Sofer – The Septembers of Shiraz
  80. Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  81. Spiegelman – Maus
  82. Steinbeck – East of Eden
  83. Suri – The Death of Vishnu
  84. Tammet – Born on a Blue Day
  85. Tolstoy – The Death if Ivan Ilyich
  86. Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces
  87. Turgenev – Fathers and Sons
  88. Wallace – Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
  89. Waters – Fingersmith
  90. Westerfeld – The Last Days
  91. Westerfeld – PEEPS
  92. Westerfeld – So Yesterday
  93. Wharton – Summer
  94. Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
  95. Wodehouse – The Code of Woosters
  96. Woolf – Freshwater
  97. Woolf – A Room of One’s Own
  98. Wright – Native Son
  99. Zola – Germinal
  100. Zusak – The Book Thief
Stats:

Male/Female: ~65/35%
Modern/Classics: ~50/50%
Fiction/Nonfiction: ~95/5%
Adult/YA-and-younger: ~75/25%
Translations & World Lit: ~35%

7 comments:

Emily Cross said...

Brilliant to see you amanda! Thankfully the blog seems to be working. hope the layout is ok! Great list btw

Amanda said...

Thanks Emily and thanks so much for doing this. Do you want us to put our book reviews here too? I have a book review group blog that I'm part of (5-Squared, not the Book Book), but don't mind crossposting for my list if that's what you're aiming for.

Emily Cross said...

Yeah that would be great amanda! and make sure to link to your other website too! I might stick it up on the nav bar.

Amanda said...

Wonderful! Okay I know I'm such a dork to be so excited by spreading around book reviews, but I am!! :D

Emily Cross said...

aw your not a dork, or at least your not the only one if you are. i love book reviews!

J.C. Montgomery said...

Wow, I can't believe I haven't seen many of these. This is one list I will be going over to see what I can add to my TBR wish list.

Good thing I started a spreadsheet. LOL

Amanda said...

J.C. - I admit that some of them are very modern and not exactly classics, but fun YA titles that I want to read. I used to ignore modern books altogether because I don't like a lot of modern adult fiction/literature, so I'm trying to make more effort to read modern work. I know that's completely opposite of what most people are doing, but I've read tons and tons of classics over the last decade, so my reading gaps are mostly modern. Having said that, mine's still about 50/50...