Project Fill in the Gaps

100 books in 5 years.  Fill the list with books you either should have read ages ago in your role as totally educated, intelligent, literary person - or, as I also did, to fill in those gaps of favourite authors' bibliographies.

The list was compiled in June 2010, which is why the Discworld series only goes as far as Unseen Academicals.  I gave myself till the end of the fifth calendar year to complete this, with a 25% margin of error, so I have to read at least 75 books from the list by 31/12/2015.  Easy.

Success: 13/100 (at time of writing this post - for further updates see the Fill in the Gaps page).

The list is below the cut:


01. Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (16/6/10) 
02. Eric - Terry Pratchett (18/6/10)
03. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett (20/7/10)
04. The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
05. Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett (9/12/10)
06. Making Money - Terry Pratchett (13/9/10)
07. Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett (31/10/10)
08. Nation - Terry Pratchett
09. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
10. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
11. The Marlows & The Traitor - Antonia Forest
12. The Player's Boy - Antonia Forest
13. The Players & The Rebels - Antonia Forest
14. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
15. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
16. Looking For Alaska - John Green (10/8/10)
17. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
18. The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
19. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
20. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
21. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
22. 1984 - George Orwell
23. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
24. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
25. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (28/9/10)
26. Evelina - Frances Burney
27. Redgauntlet - Walter Scott
28. Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne
29. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
30. Belinda - Maria Edgeworth
31. The Monk - Matthew Lewis
32. Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
33. Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos
34. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
35. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
36. Middlemarch - George Eliot
37. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
38. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
39. War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
41. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
42. Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
43. Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
44. Swallows & Amazons - Arthur Ransome
45. Skellig - David Almond (24/7/10)
46. Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
47. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
48. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
49. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
50. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
51. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
52. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
53. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster (7/10/10)
54. The Longest Journey - E.M. Forster
55. Howards End - E.M. Forster (4/12/10)
56. A Passage to India - EM Forster (6/10/10)
57. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
58. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
59. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Suzanna Clarke
60. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
61. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
62. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
63. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
64. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
65. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
66. North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
67. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
68. Another Country - James Baldwin
69. Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
70. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
71. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
72. The Quincunx - Charles Palliser
73. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
74. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
75. Possession - AS Byatt
76. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
77. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
78. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (28/9/10)
79. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
80. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
81. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
82. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
83. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
84. Atonement - Ian McEwan
85. 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
86. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
87. Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
88. Master & Commander - Patrick O'Brian
89. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
90. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
91. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
92. Troubles - JG Farrell
93. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
94. Master & Margharita - Mikhail Bulgkov
95. Holes - Louis Sachar
96. Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes
97. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
98. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
99. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
100. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad