Update August 5, 2021: Fixed numbering. Consolidated those that I have read. Feeling like I need to get disciplined about reading some of these. And I need five more books.
Update 12/7/2020: A blog update wiped out the numbering. I will renumber them eventually.
12/17/2015: Five years ago tomorrow, I embarked on a reading challenge. The challenge was to pick 100 books to read that I felt would fill in "gaps" in my reading.
I have managed to read 65 of them. Not good, especially since I had read 47 over two years ago. But this year has been a particularly weak reading year for me. After I accepted that, I started thinking about what I wanted to do about this challenge, and I have decided to expand it.
I am extending it for five more years, to December 17, 2020. I am going to add 100 more books,75 over the next few weeks and five in each of those years. This has been a very worthwhile challenge, to this point, for the most part, and I look forward to continuing to fill some gaps.
I am not giving myself a pass on anything that is already on the list, although there are a couple that I suspect will remain gaps.
The new list will be here. For simplicity I am going to group the books that I have read and those that are unread.
1.Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/18/2013)
2.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2/13/2012)
3. Dune by Frank Herbert (3/19/2011)
4. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (9/21/2014)
5. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
6. Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
7. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (1/26/2014)
8. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (3/16/2012)
9. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (3/17/2013)
10. Beach Music by Pat Conroy (3/22/2012)
11. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
12. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (4/2015)
13. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (12/5/2011)
14. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2/21/2012)
15. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (3/2014)
16. The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (1/27/2012)
17. The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (2/5/2013)
18. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (4/29/2011)
19. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (10/30/2014)
20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (11/4/2012)
21. Summerland by Michael Chabon (6/25/2012)
22. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (5/16/2014)
23. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (10/10/2014)
24. The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier (5/19/2011)
25. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (6/28/2012)
26. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (3/24/2014)
27. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller (2/9/2011)
28. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 12/10/2013)
29. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1/18/2014)
30. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (4/12/2011)
31. A Life Worth Living by John Holt (1/15/2014)
32. Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 by Reston (10/9/2014)
33. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (12/13/2012)
34. Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple (3/20/2011)
35. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1/7/2011)
36. Desolation Road by Ian McDonald (7/10/2012)
37. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (9/25/2012)
38. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (4/3/2012)
39. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (5/29/2013)
40. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (4/7/2013)
41. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (4/24/2012)
42. Redwall by Brian Jacques (11/22/2014)
43. The Complete Poetry of John Donne (12/16/2015)
44. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot (4/23/2012)
45. My Antonia by Willa Cather (1/15/2013)
46. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (9/28/2011)
47. East Lynne by Ellen Wood (6/18/2011)
48. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery (1/6/2012)
49. The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
50. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (12/26/2010)
51. Robinson Crusoe (9/9/2013)
52. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (7/18/2011)
53. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (4/30/2015)
54. Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (3/25/2013)
55. Middlemarch by George Eliot (12/13/13)
56. Introducing Father Brown by GK Chesterton (10/6/2011)
57. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (5/2/11)
58.The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
59. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (5/6/2013)
60. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (7/2/2012)
61. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1/20/2013)
62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (10/4/2014)
63. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (3/6/2011)
64. The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes (12/30/2012)
65. The Warden by Anthony Trollope (1/28/2013)
66. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (6/5/2015)
67. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (3/22/2016)
68. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (11/16/2016)
69. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (12/29/2015)
70. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (11/2017)
71. Faust by Goethe (1/6/2016)
72. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (10/6/2018)
73. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (6/2018)
74. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2/8/2016)
75. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (1/12/2015)
76. Typhoon by Joseph Conrad (2/15/2016)
77. Watership Down by Richard Adams (1/18/2016)
78. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (11/20/2016)
79. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (11/16/2016)
80. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (4/21/2018)
81. All Quiet on the Western Front (7/2016)
82. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (6/2018)
83. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (4/22/2016)
84. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (4/2018)
85. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (5/23/2016)
86. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
87. On Writing by Stephen King (3/2018)
88. All-of-a-kind Family by Sydney Taylor (3/29/2016)
89. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (Substituted Musicophilia) 2/2017
90. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (2/2018)
91. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (10/2017)
92. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters(5/21/2016)
93. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman (2/2018)
94. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (10/10/2017)
95. Bonfire of the Vanities by Thomas Wolfe (8/21/2018)
96. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (10/10/2018)
97. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein (6/10/2014)
98. Salt by Mark Kurlansky (3/7/2016)
99. Double Indemnity by James Cain (9/29/2017)
100. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (6/22/2016)
101. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (10/17/2018)
102. Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi (5.28/2016)
103. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (3/9/2017)
104. The Law by Frederic Bastiat (2/14/2016)
105. Ex Libris by Ann Fadiman (5/5/2016)
106. Betsy-Tacy by Maude Hart Lovelace(8/8/2016)
107. Something by Joyce Carol Oates Beasts (8/21/2016)
108. Lost Horizon (10/2017)
109. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
111. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (12/19/2017)
112. A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman (1/26/2018)
113. Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry (7/23/2018)
114. Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan (10/12/2017)
115. The Economics of Freedom by Frederic Bastiat
116. Night by Elie Wiesel by (9/24/2016)
117. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (6/2019)
118. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (10/23/2019)
119. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
120. Steve Jobs by Walter Isacson (5/24/2019)
121. Exodus by Leon Uris (11/26/2019)
122. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (2/24/2019)
123. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie (7/6/2019)
124. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (January 2019)
125.The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett (6/2018)
126. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (4/2019)
127. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (3/17/2019)
128. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk (9/2019)
129. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (6/2019)
130. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (9/2019)
131. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (8/26/20)
132. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (2019)
133. North and South by Gaskell (3/2020)
134. Churchill by Paul Johnson Subbed Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts (3/2020)
135. Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (9/2020)
136. David Copperfield by Dickens (2/2020)
137. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2019-half)
138. Master and Commander by Patrick O' Brian (12/2020)
139. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2020)
140. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (10/2020)
141. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (2/1/2020)
142. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ( 2/2021)
143. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (5/2020)
144. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (9/2020)
145. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1/2021)
146. Shogun by James Clavell (7/2021)
147. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (9/26/2020)
148. Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (3/2021)
149. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1/2020)
150. The Twenty-One Balloons by Pene duBois (9/7/2020)
151. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (1/2020)
152. The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (7/2020)
153. Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry (6/2020)
154. The Man of Property by John Galsworthy (12/7/2020)
155. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup (2/27/2019)
156. Hillbilly Elegy (4/5/2017)
157. Friday Night Lights (10/2020)
158. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (10/4/2018)
159. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (6/8/2021)
160. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (12/12/2017)
161. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (3/12/20200
162. The Shallows by Nicholas Carr (2/23/2020)
163. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (2/2020)
164. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (5/19/2021)
165. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (8/2020)
166. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre (3/2021)
167. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (2020)
168. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (3/2020)
169. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (3/2020)
170. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
171. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
172. Law and Gospel by CFW Walther
173. The Histories by Herodotus
174. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
175. Trinity by Leon Uris (10/2022)
176. The Stranger by Albert Camus
177. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (12/2022)
178. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
179. Aeneid by Virgil
180. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
181. The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
182. The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
183. Dead Souls by Gogol
184. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
185. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (4/23)
186. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
187. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper (3/2023)
188. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
189. The Coming by Daniel Black
190. The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
191. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
192. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
193. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
194. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
195. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
196. To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman
197.The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
198. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
199. I, Claudius by Robert Grave
200. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer (1/1/2024)
201. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (4/2022)
202. Eleanor of Aquitaine By Alison Weir
203. The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
204. The Kalevala
205. A Dance to the Music of Time: Movement One by Anthony Powell
206. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (5/2022)
208. Riders of the Purple Sage (4/2023)
209. The Epic of Gilgamesh
210. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (4/2022)
211. Les Fleurs de Mal by Baudelaire
212. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
213. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
214. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
215. A book by Beverly Nichols
216. Evelina by Fanny Burney
217. Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
218. Areopagitica by John Milton
219. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (set aside)
220. The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
221. The World According to Garp by John Irving
222. The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (2/2023)
223. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee & Walker Evans
224. The Decameron by Bocaccio
225. Germinal by Emile Zola
226. Zorba the Greek
227. In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (5/2022)
228. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (8/2021)
229. The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Maryat
230. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
231. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (8/2022)
232. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
233. The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
234. The 39 Steps by John Buchan (3/2023)
235. Tartuffe by Moliere
236. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
237. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
238. Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins (2020)
239. Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
240. A Separate Peace by John Knowles (11/2022)
241. Centennial by James Michener
242. In the First Circle by Solzhenitsyn
243. Life of Pi by Yan Martel (5/2022)
244. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
245. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
246. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
247. The Three Musketeers (7/2023)
248. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern
249. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
250. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (4/2022)
251. Silence by Shusaku Endo
252. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
253. Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (10/2022)
254. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
255. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
256. Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin (11/2022)
257. Wind, Sand, & Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (4/2022)
258. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Petersen 5/2023)
259. Old Filth by Jane Gardam ( 3/2022)
260. Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham
261. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
262. The Quartzsite Trip by William Hogan
263. Taking Care by Joy Williams
264. The Cay by Theodore Taylor (3/29/2022)
265. On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
266. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (4/1/2022)
267. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz 6/1/2023)
268. Kon-tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (6/29/2023)
269. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (8/2021)
270. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (3/29/2022)
271. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
272. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
273. Zeituon by Dave Eggers
274. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
275. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
276. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
277. Guardians of Time by Poul Anderson (4/2022)
278. The Red and the Black
279. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy (11/2021)
280. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
281. Passing by Nella Larsen (4/2022)
282. A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
283. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
284. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (6/2023)
285.Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
286. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
287. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
288. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
289. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
290. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (May 2022)
291. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
292. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (4/2023)
293. Nora Webster by Colm Toibin (6/2023)
294. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari (3/2023)
295. The Education of Little Tree
296. Life on The Mississippi by Mark Twain (9/2022)
297. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (11/2022)
298. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (12/2021)
299. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
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