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