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%