Friday, June 5, 2009

A New Challege

So 6 months ago I said I was going to read 1001 books you should read before you die. I was pretty confident I could read all those books and I started head on in the list. Aside from the 29 books I had previously read on the list, I read 3 on the list. In 6 months. Of course you know I've been reading. I just haven't been reading books on that list.
Then I saw a post on Fleur Fisher about The Fill in the Gaps challenge. It seemed like a better idea than trying to read 1001 books picked by someone else. Especially when I wasn't thrilled about half of them. Perhaps I should have thought about this before I said I would do it huh?
Well I'm admitting that I can't do my original challenge and I'm going to do a total new one. So here are my 100 books that I want to read. For now this will be my tbr list.

Books I Own And Haven't Read
  1. Knit Two-Kate Jacobs
  2. Under the Banner of Heaven-Jon Krakauer
  3. Dust On A Road-Zora Neale Hurston
  4. All Men Are Mortal-Simone de Beauvoir
  5. Stiff-Mary Roach
  6. Wicked-Gregory Maguire
  7. Almost Moon-Alice Sebold
  8. The Host-Stephanie Meyer
  9. Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil-John Berendt
  10. A Million Little Pieces-James Frey
  11. The Crimson Petal and the White-Michael Faber
  12. Snow Falling On Cedars-David Guterson

Books I Probably Should Have Read In High School
  1. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
  2. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  3. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
  5. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  6. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
  7. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
  8. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
  9. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
  10. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  11. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
  12. The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway
  13. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  14. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  15. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  16. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  17. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Books I've Started But Haven't Finish
  1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay- Michael Chabon
  2. The women : a novel -T. Coraghessan Boyle
Books I've Gotten From The Library And Had To Take Back Before I Read Them
  1. North of beautiful - Justina Chen Headley
  2. Lament : the faerie queen's deception-Maggie Stiefvater.
  3. Eternal-Cynthia Leitich Smith
  4. The luxe-Anna Godbersen.
  5. The girl she used to be-David Cristofano.
  6. The rest falls away : the Gardella vampire chronicles-Colleen Gleason
Books That Are Movies Too
  1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer -Patrick Süskind
  2. From Here To Eternity by James Jones
  3. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream-Buzz Bissinger
  4. From Hell-Alan Moore
  5. All the Pretty Horses-Cormac McCarthy
  6. American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
  7. Bodies Are Where You Find Them-Brett Halliday (movie Kiss Kiss Bang bang)
  8. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas- John Boyne
  9. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
  10. Color Purple- Alice Walker
  11. Cider House Rules-John Irving
  12. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  13. Girl, Interrupted-Susanna Kaysen
  14. Cold Mountain-Charles Frazier
  15. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants-Ann Brashares
Books I'm Waiting For From The Library
  1. Little Bee-Chris Cleave
Library Books That Are In My Possession Currently
  1. Thank you for smoking-Christopher Buckley
  2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz
  3. A reliable wife : a novel-Robert Goolrick.
Books I Want To Read For No Good Reason
  1. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  2. Justine – Marquis de Sade
  3. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  4. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
  5. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
  6. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
  7. The Hours-Michael Cunningham
  8. The Omnivore's Dilemma-Michael Pollan
  9. The People's History of The United States-Howard Zinn
  10. The Power of One-Bryce Courtenay
  11. Night-Elie Wiesel
  12. Special topics in calamity physics-Marisha Pessl
  13. Suite française- Irène Némirovsky
  14. The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
  15. The Pilot's Wife-Anita Shreve
  16. The Diary of Anaïs Nin- Anais Nin
  17. The Tropic Of Cancer-Henry Miller
  18. Catch-22-Joseph Heller
  19. The Help-Kathryn Stockett
  20. Water for Elephants -Sara Gruen
  21. Middlemarch-George Eliot
  22. Six Characters in Search of an Author — Luigi Pirandello
  23. Interview with a Vampire-Anne Rice
  24. Diana: Her True Story- Andrew Morton
  25. Paradise- Toni Morrison
  26. It's Always Something- Gilda Radner
  27. Experience- Martin Amis
  28. The Teahouse Fire- Ellis Avery
  29. The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
  30. Mists of Avalon-Marion Zimmer Bradley
  31. The Thirteenth Tale -Diane Setterfield
  32. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel- Lisa See
  33. And Then There Were None -Agatha Christie
  34. The Reader -Bernhard Schlink
  35. When You Are Engulfed In Flames- David Sedaris
  36. Food Matters-Mark Bittman
  37. Dry- Augusten Burroughs
  38. The Beach House- Jane Green
  39. I Was Told There Would Be Cake-Sloane Crosley
  40. The Triumph of Deborah-Eva Etzioni-Halevy
  41. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-Stieg Larsson
  42. A Year In The Merde-Stephen Clarke
  43. Fluke-Christopher Moore
I'll be posting my reviews here as well on the Filling In The Gaps blog.

10 comments:

  1. It's funny but all those you listed in the Should have Read in Highschool the ones I did read I read on my own.

    I didn't pick up 1984 til a summer in college. Boy is it dark though. Probably not really something for moody teenagers anyway.

    Though I'd suggest leaving Wicked on the unread pile. It's frankly a wonder it became popular enough to be turned into a musical.

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  2. I have to agree with Blab on Wicked. I've heard the musical is better.
    From your list my favorite is Water for Elephants. It's on my "must read again" list!

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  3. You have some great books there - The Mists of Avalon and The Thirteenth Tale are particular favourites of mine. And we have some overlap on our lists - Special Topics, Kavalier & Clay, The Book Thief - so I'm looking forward to comparing notes!

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  4. I'm going to add my 2 cents and agree with the others about Wicked. It was wickedly horrible!!!! Don't bother. How long did it take you to make these lists? I love reading them!!! Great ideas there!!

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  5. Yes this one sounds like a better idea :D

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  6. I really recommend Under the Banner of Heaven. I'm still reading it because I have such a short attention span. But it's a good read.

    I loved Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil once I got past the first couple of chapters.

    Night is unbearably depressing because of the subject. In the same vein, you should read Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning." Also about/written by a Holocaust survivor.

    All that aside, you've got quite the book list. I look forward to hearing about your progress!! You're brave. ;)

    (I do love reading though, just so you don't think I'm hatin' on the books.)

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  7. I'm going to have to look into this project - what a great idea! I love how you broke your list down into categories.

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  8. I'm definitly going to make a list of books in my house that I have yet to read. I need to work my way through those! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  9. Hmmm... I'll have to check some of those out!

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  10. I have to agree with the others that Wicked is a slog. The Count of Monte Cristo however is amazing! Such a great adventure story.

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