Now, I am not going to carve these into stones. I give myself permission to adjust over the years. I've already been eyeing the list: too much Dickens? Not enough Dumas? What about Austen?
And what book should be my first? I'm leaning toward Dracula, but that's because I wanted to watch the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula as a reward. I enjoyed watching that movie at apheresis (almost as much as I enjoyed the irony).
What do you think? Have I chosen books you love? Did I miss one of your favorites? Let me know!
What do you think? Have I chosen books you love? Did I miss one of your favorites? Let me know!
Chris' Fill in the Gaps Book List
Things Fall Apart | Chinua | Achebe | |
Foundation | Isaac | Asimov | |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane | Austen | |
Sense and Sensibility | Jane | Austen | |
Sundays With Vlad | Paul | Bibeau | |
The | Lost Symbol | Dan | Brown |
The | Good Earth | Pearl S. | Buck |
A | Little Princess | Frances Hodgson | Burnett |
The | Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson | Burnett |
Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann | Burns | |
The | Land that Time Forgot | Edgar Rice | Burroughs |
Tobacco Road | Erskine | Caldwell | |
The | Plague | Albert | Camus |
Ender's Game | Orson Scott | Card | |
Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa | Cather | |
O Pioneers | Willa | Cather | |
The | Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael | Chabon |
The | Big Sleep | Raymond | Chandler |
The | Stories of John Cheever | John | Cheever |
Girl with the Pearl Earring | Tracy | Chevalier | |
The | Woman in White | Wilkie | Collins |
Moll Flanders | Daniel | DeFoe | |
The | Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot | Diaz |
A | Tale of Two Cities | Charles | Dickens |
David Copperfield | Charles | Dickens | |
Little Dorrit | Charles | Dickens | |
Oliver Twist | Charles | Dickens | |
Great Expectations | Charles | Dickens | |
The | Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre | Dumas |
The | Man in the Iron Mask | Alexandre | Dumas |
The | Last Cavalier | Alexandre | Dumas |
A | Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | Dave | Eggers |
Middlemarch | George | Eliot | |
Madame Bovary | Gustave | Flaubert | |
Where Angels Fear to Tread | E.M. | Forster | |
The | Corrections | Jonathan | Franzen |
The | Quiet American | Graham | Greene |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips | James | Hilton | |
Lost Horizon | James | Hilton | |
Les | Miserables | Victor | Hugo |
Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale | Hurston | |
The | Lost Weekend | Charles R. | Jackson |
The | Haunting of Hill House | Shirley | Jackson |
The | Portrait of a Lady | Henry | James |
Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K | Jerome | |
Up the Down Staircase | Bel | Kaufman | |
On the Road | Jack | Kerouac | |
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies | Jean | Kerr | |
The | Poisonwood Bible | Barbara | Kingsolver |
The | Jungle Books | Rudyard | Kipling |
The | Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard | Kipling |
A | Separate Peace | John | Knowles |
Little Drummer Girl | John | LeCarre | |
The | Golden Notebook | Doris | Lessing |
Sliver | Ira | Levin | |
Elmer Gantry | Sinclair | Lewis | |
The | Monk | Matthew Gregory | Lewis |
The | Call of the Wild | Jack | London |
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | H.P. | Lovecraft | |
One Hundred Years of Solidude | Gabriel Garcia | Marquez | |
Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia | Marquez | |
The | Road | Cormac | McCarthy |
The | Member of the Wedding | Carson | McCullers |
Atonement | Ian | McEwan | |
Lonesome Dove | Larry | McMurty | |
Moby-Dick | Herman | Melville | |
Peyton Place | Grace | Metalious | |
The | Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Nicholas | Meyer |
Beloved | Toni | Morrison | |
Lolita | Vladimir | Nabokov | |
Suite Francaise | Irene | Nemirovsky | |
A | Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy | O'Toole |
Doctor Zhivago | Boris | Pasternak | |
Bel Canto | Ann | Patchett | |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. | Pirsig | |
Atlas Shrugged | Ayn | Rand | |
The | Fountainhead | Ayn | Rand |
All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria | Remarque | |
Home | Marylynne | Robinson | |
The | Human Stain | Philip | Roth |
The | God of Small Things | Arundathi | Roy |
Midnight’s Children | Salman | Rushdie | |
Sarum | Edward | Rutherford | |
Frankenstein | Mary | Shelley | |
Enemies, A Love Story | Isaac Bashevis | Singer | |
Angle of Repose | Wallace | Steigner | |
Dracula | Bram | Stoker | |
The | Valley of the Dolls | Jacqueline | Suzanne |
The | Magnificent Ambersons | Booth | Tarkington |
The | Man who Fell to Earth | Walter | Tevis |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. | Thompson | |
Anna Karenina | Leo | Tolstoy | |
War and Peace | Leo | Tolstoy | |
All the King's Men | Robert Penn | Warren | |
Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn | Waugh | |
Night | Elie | Weisel | |
Journey to the Center of the Earth | H.G. | Wells | |
Trainspotting | Irvine | Welsh | |
The | Age of Innocence | Edith | Wharton |
The | Inimitable Jeeves | P.G. | Wodehouse |
1001 Nights / Arabian Nights |
2 comments:
Yes, I would start with Dracula. It is a fun bit of gothic literature. That way, you knock one off but enjoy it without seeming like you've u8ndertaken a chore. From your list, I've pikced out a few that are really funny so you can do those when you need to cleanse your brain from the serious stuff.
The Land that Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Dracula Bram Stoker
Journey to the Center of the Earth H.G. Wells
1001 Nights / Arabian Nights
These ones below were good as well, but they weren't "fun". In fact, some of themn will seriously depress if I remember correctly. Good luck!
On the Road Jack Kerouac
A Separate Peace John Knowles
The Call of the Wild Jack London
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
Beloved Toni Morrison
Yeah, a few seem a little more daunting than others, like Moby-Dick vs. Jeeves....
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