Shelly Bryant

Since I will be making this my new blogging home, I will be using it as my main site for keeping up with my Fill in the Gaps List.  If you are not familiar with the idea of the Fill in the Gaps list, it’s a list of 100 books that a reader will read over a 5-year period (it began a few years ago and is supposed to end in 2012).  The books on the list should be those that fill in gaps between one’s regular reading responsibilities for work or school.  I’ve been keeping up with the list for a few years now, and think I will be on track to complete it by 2015.  I thought it wise to move the list over here to be able to keep track of it better, since my old site will fall by the wayside before long.

So, here’s my list.  I will move items up as they are either in progress or completed.  Those still to be read are on the lower part of the list.  Those on the Completed list are numbered according to the order I finished reading them.

My Fill in the Gaps Watch

Completed

1. Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
2. Woman to Woman and other poems (Agnes Lam)
3. The 8th Habit (Stephen Covey)
4. Mortician’s Tea (G. O. Clark)
5. Poemcrazy (Susan Wooldridge)
6. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
7. Velocity (Dean Koontz)
8. The World is Flat (Thomas L. Friedman)
9. A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
10. Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving
11. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
12. Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
13. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
14. Ancient Skies – oino sakai
15. House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones
16. Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster – Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty
17. Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls – Yuri Rasovsky
18. Relativity:  The Special and General Theory – Albert Einstein
19. Catch Me if You Can – Frank Abagnale, Jr.
20. Streamers – David Rabe
21. Marco Polo Sings a Solo – John Guare
22. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult – Joseph Bedier
23. Le Morte D’Arthur – Thomas Malory
24. Bush at War – Bob Woodward
25. The Consolation of Philosophy – Boethius
26. Wings – Arthur Kopit
27. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
28. Holy Ghosts – Romulus Linney
29. The Waters of Babylon – John Arden
30. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
31. Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You – C. Durang
32. Looking Backward – Edward Bellamy
33. A History of the Middle Ages – Crane Brinton, John Christopher, Robert Wolff
34. Atlantis – Greg Donegan
35. A Descent into the Maelstrom – Edgar Allan Poe
36. The Thorn of Lion City – Lucy Lum
37. The Lake of Dead Languages – Carol Goodman
38. Six Characters in Search of an Author – Luigi Pirandello
39. The Castle – Franz Kafka
40. Daughter of the River – Hong Ying
41. Tomorrow When the World Began – John Marsden
42. The Dragons of Eden – Carl Sagan
43. Paul – Walter Wangerin, Jr.
44. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
45. Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
46. Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope
47. The Stolen White Elephant – Mark Twain
48. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
49. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
50. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
51. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
52. The Truth About Jesus – M. M. Mangasarian
53. Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley
54. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
55. The Twelve Caesars – Seutonius
56. Nanjing 1937 – Ye Zhaoyan
57. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
58. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
59. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
60. The Mark of the Christian – Francis Shaeffer
61. The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
62. The Commentaries – Julius Caesar
63. The Plague — Albert Camus
64. Startling Moon – Liu Hong

In Progress

• The Dining Room – A. R. Gurney
• Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

The Rest

• The Kite Runner – Khalad Hosseini
• The Sayings of Jesus – Anna Wierzbicka
• A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
• Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
• A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
• Candide – Voltaire
• Ben Hur – Lew Wallace
• Toilers of the Sea – Victor Hugo
• Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel
• Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
• Paradise – Toni Morrison
• Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
• The Decameron – Boccaccio
• Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• The Human Comedy – William Saroyan
• The Beautiful and the Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Scenes of a Clerical Life – George Eliot
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• Ragged Dick – Horatio Alger, Jr.
• The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Bedknob and Broomsticks – Mary Norton
• Deltora Quest – Emily Rodda
• When the Gods are Silent – Jane Lindskold
• The Pickwick Paper – Charles Dickens
• Brazil – Annette Haddad, ed.
• The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Painting Churches – Tina Howe
• The Orthodox Way – Father Kallistos Ware
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – August Wilson
• The $30,000 Bequest – Mark Twain
• An Ideal Husband – Oscar Wilde
• Zhao the Orphan – Ji Junxiang