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 |
