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Sticky post: Filling In the Gaps.
This weekend momebie alerted me to this project that a bunch of fellow editors and whatnot were planning on called Filling in the Gaps. A list of a 100 books that you never read but felt that maybe you should, books that you maybe wouldn't read if left to your own devices. I thought this sounded pretty interesting, but my list isn't so much books I SHOULD read as books I really want to read but never got around to for various reasons. Also I'm not giving myself a time limit (for now, at least), partially because I feel I can read 100 books in WAY less than 5 years. But we'll see.

This is my list. The top 20 or so are books I own but haven't read yet or books I've read about half of and then never finished for various reasons -- could be the library knocking down my door, could be I lost interest and/or focus, could be I put it down and forgot I was reading it. Some are a bunch of books by the same author and I am set to read at least one (aside from the Thursday Next books and the L.A. Quartet of which I intend to read all).

At some point I will probably add more books to this list, especially instead of the ones I've never finished. God Is Not Great and Wicked in particular are some I have about half a dozen at most chapters left of, so they feel kind of like a cop out.

1. God Is Great*
2. Vanity Fair*
3. Wicked*
4. Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins*
5. Emma*
6. Mansfield Park*
7. A Little Princess*
8. The Little Lord Fauntleroy*
9. Northanger Abbey*
10. Haunted*
11. The Devil Wears Prada*
12. On the Road*
13. The Hitchhiker’s Guide series (reread, it’s been years)*
14. Daniel Deronda*
15. Catch-22*
16. Heart of Darkness*
17. American Psycho
18. A Clockwork Orange
19. White Teeth (reread)
20. Huset Hilton*
21. Language Myths*
22. Ideas and Identities: British and American Culture 1500-1945*
23. American Civilization: An Introduction*
24. Little Women (reread)*
25. Animal Farm – Orwell
26. Four And Twenty Blackbirds – Cherie Priest
27. Ulysses – James Joyce
28. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
29. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
30. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister – Gregory Maguire
31. Mirror, Mirror – Gregory Maguire
32. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
33. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
34. Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
35. Alice Through the Looking Glass*
36. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
37. Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk
38. Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)*
39. Wuthering Heights
40. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
41. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
42. A Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
43. Negotiating with the Dead – Margaret Atwood
44. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
45. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
46. Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde
47. The Well of Lost Plots – Jasper Fforde
48. Something Rotten – Jasper Fforde
49. Storm Front – Jim Butcher
50. The Sun Also Rises/The Old Man and the Sea/For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
51. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
52. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
53. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
54. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
55. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
56. The Catcher in the Rye
57. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
58. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
59. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
60. Orlando – Virginia Woolf
61. Mrs. Dalloway
62. To the Lighthouse – Woolf
63. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
64. Röda Rummet – August Strindberg
65. Ett Öga Rött – Jonas Hassen Khemiri
66. POPism – Andy Warhol
67. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol – Andy Warhol
68. Middlemarch*
69. The Warden – Anthony Trollope
70. Can you forgive her? – Anthony Trollope
71. Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
72. Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevsky*
73. War and Peace – Tolstoy
74. The Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
75. Paradise Lost
76. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
77. The Trial – Kafka
78. The Metamorphosis – Kafka
79. The Dirt – Mötley Crüe
80. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
81. The Big Nowhere – James Ellroy
82. L.A. Confidential – James Ellroy
83. White Jazz – James Ellroy
84. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
85. Neuromancer – William Gibson
86. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
87. House of Leaves
88. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
89. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
90. Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
91. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
92. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
93. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
94. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
95. The Rebel – Albert Camus
96. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
97. Dune
98. Stranger in a strange land – Heinlein
99. En Komikers Uppväxt – Gardell
100. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – Lawrence*
101. The Count of Monte Christo
102. The Maltese Falcon
103. Wide Sargasso Sea
104. Doktor Glas – Hjalmar Söderberg*
105. Singoalla – Viktor Rydberg
106. Kvartetten som sprängdes – Birger Sjöberg*
107. Pennskaftet – Elin Wägner
108. Gösta Berlings Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
109. The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
110. The End of Faith – Sam Harris
111. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
112. Maffian (The Honoured Society) - Norman Lewis*
113. The Canterbury Tales*
114. The Wind in the Willows*
115. The Phantom of the Opera*