Fill In the Gaps Project

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome back JoLene & congrats!

[Cheryl]

I wonder if people would mind putting spoilers on their lists. It is a bit frustrating scrolling past so many peoples' lists of 100 books to find your own post. It would make things easier on everyone, and I can still open up your spoiler to see what books you are reading, if I want to. Thanks for any help! : )

[JoLene]

Cheryl wrote: "I wonder if people would mind putting spoilers on their lists. It is a bit frustrating scrolling past so many peoples' lists of 100 books to find your own post. It would make things easier on every..."

Cheryl, did you know that you can bookmark your own post. If you right click on the date/time stamp and say copy link address, you can then copy that into another window in your browser and then bookmark it or copy into an "< a href=" statement to make a link (if you have a place where you track all of your challenges).

The other thing you can do is to use control-f for most browsers. It will bring up a search box. you can type in your name and it will scroll through all instances.

[Cheryl]

JoLene wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "I wonder if people would mind putting spoilers on their lists. It is a bit frustrating scrolling past so many peoples' lists of 100 books to find your own post. It would make things ..."

Thanks, JoLene! I do the control-f trick now. I will try your other suggestion. I have just decided when I know that I am doing a long list in challenges it is kinder for everyone if they do not have to scroll past all of that info, so I add the spoiler now. On shorter posts and challenges (with like a list of 25 or less), I do not do it. I do have my full post up on the Serious Reader Challenge, but then it does have the Quick Links at the top of the post, so I go directly to my own posts there.

[JoLene]

I would agree, but it’s harder to get other people to change their behavior since they probably aren’t reading posts on the thread.

[Suzanne]

Nothing But Reading Challenges
Fill In the Gaps Project
Duration: 6/21/2019 - 6/20/2024

Progress: 0 out of 100

Time Length: This is a 5 Year reading challenge.

No. of books to read: 100

Details: Pick 100 classics or popular books you have missed over the years. You can get great ideas from established lists and awards, your own tbr list, and the books you own. Commit to reading all 100 of these books by the time 5 years is up. Original challenge - give yourself a 25% margin. Basically, if you finish 75 books on your list you should feel victorious.

Variations (I thought these up, but I'm probably not the first one :)):
- for each year make a goal of how many books you want to knock of the list (if you read 20 books each year you can complete this within the 5-year time frame)
- make your list genre specific (ex. YA, fantasy, sci-fi, etc.)...there's classics and popular books in every genre
- make it more challenging by counting all books in a series as one entry
- if you can't think of 100 right from the start, just leave the last ones blank...then if a year from now you've missed some more really big popular books or find more classics you can add them in

Goodreads Award and Nominees:
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[Sammy]

Oh yay! This is exactly what I need!

Here's my list. mostly books from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die or the Sci-fi Masterworks series, with some popular books mixed in.

I don't know what's worse... The fact that I haven't read these yet, or that I managed to make this list from what I have on my shelves waiting to be read!

Will replace titles with links and add date as I read them.

73/100

1. Vilette – Charlotte Bronte
2. Adam Bede – George Elliot 28/12/2021
3. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemmingway 29/12/2020
4. The Minority Report – Philip K Dick
5. The Martian – Andy Weir 24/08/2019
6. The complete works of H.P. Lovecraft – H.P. Lovecraft
7. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood 30/10/2019
8. 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami 20/10/2019
9. Roadside Picnic – Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - 15/08/2019
10. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson 11/12/2020
11. Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell - 22/08/2019
12. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov 24/09/2021
13. Our friends from Frolix 8 – Philip K Dick
14. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 23/08/2019
15. The small assassin – Ray Bradbury
16. Hyperion – Dan Simmons 02/08/2020
17. The Dispossessed – Ursula K LeGuin 06/09/2019
18. The Word for World is Forest – Ursula K LeGuin 10/04/2020
19. H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
20. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie 25/01/2021
21. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 31/08/2019
22. Silas Marner - George Eliot - 21/12/2020
23. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 12/02/2021
24. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters - 19/11/2021
25. Middlesex – Jeffrey Euginides 02/12/2020
26. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 28/08/2021
27. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend 26/02/2020
28. The worm Ouroboros – E.R. Eddison
29. The Letter for the King – Tonke Dragt 01/11/2022
30. The Road – Cormac McCarthy 28/05/2020
31. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson 22/09/2020
32. Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng 13/03/2020
33. The Painted Veil – W Somerset Maugham 11/05/2021
34. A Room with a View – E.M. Forster - 25/09/2019
35. Dubliners – James Joyce - 16/09/2021
36. Persuasion – Jane Austen 16/12/2020
37. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen 06/08/2021
38. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 22/06/2019
39. Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 04/03/2021
40. I, Claudius 03/04/2022
41. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 25/02/2020
42. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens - 18/02/2020
43. Outlander – Diana Galbadon 13/11/2019
44. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 21/11/2019
45. Tales from 1001 nights - Anonymous
46. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad 25/05/2020
47. The Godfather – Mario Puzo - 03/07/2020
48. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene - 19/01/2022
49. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte 13/08/2021
50. Anno Dracula – Kim Newman 22/10/2020
51. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens 19/11/2019
52. Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens 23/05/2021
53. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn 10/11/2019
54. The Martian Race – Gregory Benford
55. Grimms fairy tales – Brothers Grimm
56. Nightfall one – Isaac Asimov
57. A series of unfortunate events (All done, including The End )– Lemony Snicket 22/12/2021
58. Old Goriot – Honore de Balzac
59. Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie 7/4/24
60. Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie 26/02/2022
61. Gibbon’s decline and fall of the Roman empire – Edward Gibbon
62. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
63. The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
64. The Big Four– Agatha Christie - 7 jul 2024
65. Emma – Jane Austen - 07/02/2020
66. Macbeth - Shakespeare
67. As you like it - Shakespeare
68. The Wise Man's Fear – Patrick Rothfuss - 11/07/2019
69. The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle - 01/02/2022
70. Ship of Magic – Robin Hobb
71. Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens 22/10/2019
72. Middlemarch – George Elliot 16/02/2021
73. Wizard's First Rule – Terry Goodkind 21/11/2019
74. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James 16/3/2022
75. The first men in the moon – H.G. Wells
76. The Sword of Shannara – Terry Brooks
77. The wind’s 12 quarters and the compass rose – Ursula K LeGuin
78. Wool – Hugh Howey
79. The Number of the Beast – Robert Heinlein
80. 1st to die – James Patterson
81. Along came a spider – James Patterson
82. Schindler’s ark – Thomas Keneally
83. Fatherland – Robert Harris 10/02/2022
84. Dying of the light – George R.R. Martin
85. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris 10/10/2021
86. Death Comes to Pemberley – P.D. James - 4/8/2019
87. Ubik – Philip K Dick - 20/08/2020
88. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams - 26/06/2019
89. The Moving Toyshop – Edmund Crispin - 11/09/2019
90. The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
91. In the heart of the sea – Nathan Philbrick
92. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
93. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
94. The Inverted World - Christopher Priest
95. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - 3/07/2019
96. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard - 10/7/2019
97. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo - 07/08/2019
98. The Neverending Story - Michael Ende - 19/01/2021
99. The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst - 11/08/2019
100. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope 30/08/2019

[Vicky]

Fill In the Gaps Project

Time Length: This is a 5 Year reading challenge.

No. of books to read: 100

Details: Pick 100 classics or popular books you have missed over the years. You can get great ideas from established lists and awards, your own tbr list, and the books you own. Commit to reading all 100 of these books by the time 5 years is up. Original challenge - give yourself a 25% margin. Basically, if you finish 75 books on your list you should feel victorious.

Variations (I thought these up, but I'm probably not the first one :)):
- for each year make a goal of how many books you want to knock of the list (if you read 20 books each year you can complete this within the 5-year time frame)
- make your list genre specific (ex. YA, fantasy, sci-fi, etc.)...there's classics and popular books in every genre
- make it more challenging by counting all books in a series as one entry
- if you can't think of 100 right from the start, just leave the last ones blank...then if a year from now you've missed some more really big popular books or find more classics you can add them in

61/100 Finished.)

POPULAR/CLASSIC BOOKS I ALREADY OWN/ARE ON MY WISH LIST BUT WHICH I HAVE NEVER READ.


1. Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him: The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throneby Tracy Borman17 hrs and 53 mins
✔1/8/2019★★★★
2.The Sound of Thunder by Taylor Caldwell29 hrs and 35 mins.
✔8/8/2019★★★★★
3.2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke7 hours
✔9/8/2019★★★★★
4.Love's Labour's Lostby William Shakespeare
✔9/8/2019★★★★★
5.Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
✔14/8/2019★★★★
6.A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
✔21/8/2019★★★★
7.The Crossway by Guy Stagg 13 hours and 25 mins.
✔26/8/2019 ★★★★
8.Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens18 hrs and 16 mins.
✔27/8/2019★★★★★
9.Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens12 hrs and 12 mins
✔29/8/2019★★★★★
10.Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens35 hrs and 14 mins
✔24/9/2019★★★★★
11.A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
✔1/10/2019★★★★★
12.One Pair of Hands by Monica Dickens
✔3/10/2019★★★★★
13.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
✔11/10/2019★★★★★
14.Dominion by C.J. Sansom20 hrs and 46 mins
✔15/10/2019★★★★★
15.Howards End by E.M. Forster
✔23/10/2019★★★★★
16.A Pillar of Iron: A Novel of Ancient Romeby Taylor Caldwell
✔(11/11/19)★★★★★
17.Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
✔28/10/2019★★★★★
18.A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
✔11/11/2019★★★★★
19.Fatherland by Robert Harris
✔17/11/2019★★★★★
20Hard Times by Charles Dickens
✔20/11/2019★★★★★
21War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
✔20/12/2019★★★★★
22A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
✔20/12/2019★★★★★
23White Fang by Jack London
✔3/1/2020★★★★★
24Lark Rise by Flora Thompson
✔9/1/2020★★★★★
25All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
✔14/1/20★★★★★
26Practice the Presence of God.: A Contemporary Interpretation of the Words of Nicholas Herman (Brother Lawrence). by Mark Bilton and Brother Lawrence
✔20/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
27The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
✔20/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
28Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
✔26/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
29The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
✔28/1/20 ★ ★ ★ ★
30A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
✔9/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
31First Love by Ivan Turgenev by Ivan Turgenev
✔9/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★
32The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
✔25/2/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
33The Riddle of the Sands
✔6/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★
34The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
✔13/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
35The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
36 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
✔15/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
37The Pearl by John Steinbeck
✔16/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
38Random Harvest by James Hilton
✔22/3/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
39Can You Forgive Her?Anthony Trollope
✔(4/4/19)★★★★★
40The Rendezvous and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
✔(14/4/20)★★★★★
41The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
✔(17/4/20)★★★★★
42Greenmantle by John Buchan
✔(18/4/20)★★★★★
43The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
✔13/5/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
44The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
✔21/5/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
45The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
✔28/5/20 ★ ★ ★ ★
46Pastoral by Nevil Shute
✔31/5/20 ★ ★ ★ ★
47Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
✔12/6/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
48Poems of Thomas Hardy, A New Selection by Thomas Hardychosen by Claire Tomalin
✔30/6/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
49Watership Down by Richard Adams
✔15/7/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
50Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
✔19/7/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
51Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by Thérèse de Lisieux
✔28/7/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
52The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
✔19/8/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
53 How to Pray: A Simple Guide for Normal People by Pete Greig
✔23/8/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
54The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
✔11/9/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
55Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculée Ilibagiza
✔1/10/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
56Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide by Immaculée Ilibagiza
✔2/10/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
57Forgiveness Makes You Free: A Dramatic Story of Healing and Reconciliation from the Heart of Rwanda by Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga
✔7/10/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
58Flowers for AlgernonbyDaniel Keyes
✔10/10/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
59The Far Country by Nevil Shute
✔20/10/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
60The Country of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne Jewett
✔19/11/20 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
61The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
✔20/11/2020★★★★★
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[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Vicky!

[Elaine]

Fill In the Gaps Challenge

Challenge Accepted: March 12, 2020
Challenge (hopefully) Completed: March 11, 2021

100 Books from my DBRL For-Later Shelf

40/100 Completed
Updated through: 7-8-20

1. The Changeling King by Ethan M. Aldridge 3-17-20
2. Vendetta Road by Christine Feehan 4-18-20
3. All Fired Up by Lori Foster 3-18-20
4. Playing House by Ruby Lang 3-26-20
5. Not Another Family Wedding by Jackie Lau 4-1-20
6. Archangel's Prophecy by Nalini Singh 4-2-20
7. Archangel's War by Nalini Singh 4-3-20
8. Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik 4-4-20
9. Under Pressure by Lori Foster 4-5-20
10. Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis 4-5-20
11. Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews 4-7-20
12. What a Dragon Should Know by G.A. Aiken 4-8-20
13. Mine to Save by Diana Gardin 4-18-20
14. Redshirts by John Scalzi 4-21-20
15. Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews 4-24-20
16. Sisters of Summer's End by Lori Foster 5-4-20
17. Angel in a Devil's Arms by Julie Anne Long 5-5-20
18. Leopard's Wrath by Christine Feehan 5-6-20
19. Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop 5-6-20
20. Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop 5-8-20
21. Hard Justice by Lori Foster 5-9-20
22. At Last by Jill Shalvis 5-9-20
23. Withering-By-Sea by Judith Rossell 5-22-20
24. Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews 5-23-20
25. Pivot Anthology 5-29-20
26. Close Contact by Lori Foster 5-30-20
27. Fast Burn by Lori Foster 5-31-20
28. Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop 6-9-20
29. Lake Silence by Anne Bishop 6-10-20
30. Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews 6-11-20
31. Wild Country by Anne Bishop 6-13-20
32. On the Prowl by Patricia Briggs 6-14-20
33. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman 6-23-20
34. Hideaway by Nora Roberts 6-26-20
35. Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews 6-29-20
36. Magic Gifts by Ilona Andrews 6-29-20
37. Shadow Flight by Christine Feehan 6-30-20
38. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden 7-5-20
39. Alpha Night by Nalini Singh 7-8-20
40. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 7-8-20
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[Sixty]

I would like to do this one!
Date started: 3/13/2020

A mix of classic and newer, popular books.

(32/100)

1. Leviathan Wakes (3/17/20)
2. Caliban's War (3/23/20)
3. Abaddon's Gate (4/5/20)
4. Cibola Burn (4/24/20)
5. Nemesis Games (5/3/20)
6. Babylon's Ashes (5/14/20)
7. Persepolis Rising (5/31/20)
8. Tiamat's Wrath (6/12/20)
9. Dragonflight
10. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
11. An Unkindness of Ghosts
12. Suspicious Minds
13. Old Man's War
14. Bird Box (8/17/20)
15. Cloud Atlas
16. The Terror
17. This Alien Shore
18. The Goblin Emperor
19. The Martian (8/13/20)
20. The Blazing World
21. Metropolis (7/27/20)
22. Mizora: A World of Women (6/1/20)
23. Herland (4/26/20)
24. Neuromancer (7/14/20)
25. Count Zero (7/16/20)
26. Mona Lisa Overdrive (7/17/20)
27. A Wizard of Earthsea
28. The Tombs of Atuan
29. The Farthest Shore
30. Tehanu
31. Tales from Earthsea
32. The Other Wind
33. The Once and Future King
34. The Eye of the World
35. The Great Hunt
36. The Dragon Reborn
37. The Shadow Rising
38. The Fires of Heaven
39. Ready Player One
40. The Collector
41. The Ritual (6/15/20)
42. The Terror
43. A Clockwork Orange
44. Rosemary's Baby
45. Foundation
46. Dune
47. The Handmaid's Tale (8/5/20)
48. A Scanner Darkly
49. The Martian Chronicles
50. Lord of the Flies
51. Battle Royale
52. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
53. Catch-22
54. The Catcher in the Rye
55. Slaughterhouse-Five (8/13/20)
56. Fight Club
57. The Picture of Dorian Gray
58. The Road
59. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
60. The Citadel of Fear (5/20/20)
61. The Old Man and the Sea (3/18/20)
62. Kill Creek (6/30/20)
63. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
64. The Elementals (3/30/20)
65. Let the Right One In
66. It
67. American Gods
68. To Kill a Mockingbird
69. The Haunting of Hill House
70. Animal Farm (6/15/20)
71. Fahrenheit 451
72. Red Dragon
73. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (8/12/20)
74. Orange Is the New Black (7/23/20)
75. Redshirts
76. Psycho
77. American Psycho (7/16/20)
78. Jaws (4/16/20)
79. Interview with the Vampire (8/10/20)
80. Conan
81. Ringworld
82. The Ocean at the End of the Lane (7/7/20)
83. East of Eden
84. Dark Matter
85. Blood of Elves
86. The Time of Contempt
87. Baptism of Fire
88. The Tower of the Swallow
89. Lady of the Lake
90. Season of Storms
91. Hyperion
92. The Three-Body Problem
93. Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
94. The Snow Child
95. Naked Lunch
96. The Day of the Triffids
97. Pet Sematary
98. True Grit (5/6/20)
99. Postmortem (8/15/20)
100. Flowers in the Attic

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Welcome Elaine & Sixty!

[Renee]

Challenge Accepted: 10/1/2020
Challenge (Hopefully) Completed: 09/30/2025

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[Katarina]

This sounds fun!
I will be going through the 100 Essential Female Writers list from Abe Books.

Challenge Dates: October 20th, 2020 - October 20th 2025

1-20
1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ✓
2. Margaret Atwood ✓
3. Octavia Butler ✓
4. Toni Morrison ✓
5. Sylvia Plath ✓
6. J.K. Rowling ✓
7. Donna Tartt ✓
8. Yaa Gyasi ✓ - 3/9/2021

21-40

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61-80

81-100

[Patty]

Fill in the Gaps Challenge
Start Date: 01/01/2025
Completed: 1/100

1. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
2. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Persuasion by Jane Austen
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
10. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
11. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
12. The Iliad by Homer
13. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
14. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
15. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
16. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
17. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
18. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
19. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
20. Island by Aldous Huxley
21. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
22. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
23. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
24. Beowolf by Unknown
25. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
26. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
27. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
28. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
29. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
30. Dune by Frank Herbert
31. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
32. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
33. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
34. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
35. Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table by Thomas Malory
36. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
37. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
38. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
39. Atonement by Ian McEwan
40. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
41. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
42. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
43. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
44. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
45. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
46. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
47. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
48. The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
49. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
50. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
51. Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
52. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
53. The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
54. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
55. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
56. The Vampire Chronicles: Interview with a Vampire, Vampire Lestat and the Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
57. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
58. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
59. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
60. The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
61. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
62. The Martian by Andy Weir
63. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
64. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
65. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
66. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
67. The Stand by Stephen King
68. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
69. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
70. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
71. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
72. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
73. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
74. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
75. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
76. The Green Mile by Stephen King
77. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
78. The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by William Paul Young
79. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
80. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
⁠⁠⁠⁠✓81. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 4/26/2025
82. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
83. Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
84. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
85. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
86. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
87. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
88. Legend by Marie Lu
89. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
90. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
91. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
92. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
93. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
94. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
95. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
96. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
97. Neuromancer by William Gibson
98. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
99. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
100. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

[Helen]

This is perfect: I want to read 104 books from my TBR List in 2025!

Nonfiction: 52 out of 52 FINISHED

1) The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time Yascha Mounk 1-4-25 (#6543)
2) The Art of Intelligence Henry A. Crumpton 1-5-25 (#6660)
3) Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals Elizabeth A. Murray 1-5-25 (#6376)
4) Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning Liz Cheney 1-21-25 (#6045)
5) Cripping Intersex Celeste E. Orr 1-31-25 (#589)
6) Veterinarians in Our Community Michelle Ames 1-31-25 (#3273)
7) Valentine's Day Julie Murray 2-4-25 (#3499)
8) Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside Katrina Firlik 2-4-25 (#78)
9) The Superior Person's Book of Words Peter Bowler 2-5-25 (#323)
10) Animal ER: Extraordinary Stories of Hope and Healing from one of the world's leading veterinary hospitals Vicki Constantine Croke 2-11-25 (#3267)
11) Moses the Kitten James Herriot 2-11-25 (#84)
12) James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot 2-11-25 (#2268)
13) What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors Kevin M. Takakuwa 2-18-25 (#74)
14) Me of Little Faith Lewis Black 2-22-25 (#62)
15) Ask Marilyn: The Best of "Ask Marilyn" Letters Published in Parade Magazine from 1986 to 1992 and Many More Never Before Published Marilyn vos Savant 2-22-25 (#5809)
16) Veterinarians Cecilia Minden
2-27-25 (#3233)
17) Depraved English Peter Novobatzky 2-27-25 (#264)
18) A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It Leigh McGowan 2-27-25 (#6657)
19) Boo ABC: A to Z with the World's Cutest Dog J.H. Lee 3-6-25 (#5816)
20) Distinguished Dogs Marie-Therese Miller 3-8-25 (#4730)
21) No Dogs in Heaven? Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian Robert T. Sharp 3-12-25 (#64)
22) Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo John A. Torres 3-12-25 (#132)
23) Helping Dogs Marie-Therese Miller 3-12-25 (#4731)
24) Linnea in Monet's Garden Christina Björk 3-12-25 (#73)
25) Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids Julie Salamon 3-14-25 (#71)
26) Another Good Dog Cara Sue Achterberg 3-14-25 (#3992)
27) One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway Åsne Seierstad 3-18-25 (#5143)
28) The Goat with Many Coats: a True Story of a Little Goat Who Found a New Home Leanne Lauricella 3-18-25 (#5095)
29) Polly and Her Duck Costume: the True Story of a Little Blind Rescue Goat Leanne Lauricella 3-18-25 (#5097)
30) The Cat Who Came Back for Christmas- How a Cat Brought a Family the Gift of Love Julia Romp 3-21-25 (#3)
31) Peace, Love, Goats of Anarchy: How My Little Goats Taught Me Huge Lessons about Life Leanne Lauricella 4-6-25 (#6849)
32) Piney the Goat Nanny: a True Story of a Little Pig With a Big Heart Leanne Lauricella 4-6-25 (#5096)
33) Angel and Her Wonderful Wheels: a True Story of a Little Goat Who Walked With Wheels Leanne Lauricella 4-6-25 (#5094)
34) Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race Mark Twain 4-8-25 (#83)
35) The Cube: Keep the Secret Annie Gottlieb 4-16-25 (#30)
36) Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself Yasunari Kawabata 4-20-25 (#2884)
37) The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language John McWhorter 4-21-25 (#406)
38) Review of My CatTanner Ringerud 4-25-25 (#27)
39) The Cat Who Went to Paris Peter Gethers 5-2-25 (#1)
40) The Agency: a history of the CIA Hugh Wilford 5-5-25 (#6605)
41) To Sir, With Love E.R. Braithwaite 5-12-25 (#870)
42) The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their AssBill Maher 5-16-24 (#70)
43) Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat Caroline Burau 5-17-25 (#807)
44) Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them Gina Kolata 5-19-25 (#1)
45) Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain 5-23-25 (#60)
46) Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations Raymond A. Winbush 5-27-25 (Article on "No, don't pay" by John McWhorter.) (#396)
47) Rescue Cats: Portraits and Stories Traer Scott 5-29-25 (#6773)
48) Cats Caroline Arnold 6-3-25 (TBR #69)
49) Zombies Hate Stuff Greg Stones 6-3-25 (#929)
50) Caribou Cari Meister
6-5-25 (#6654)
51) The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories Jonathan A. Edlow 6-7-25 (#415)
52) The Medical Science of House, M.D.: The Facts Behind the Addictive Medical Drama Andrew Holtz 6-11-25 (#399)

[Helen]

Fiction: 52 out of 52 FINISHED

1) The Mystery of Mrs. Christie Marie Benedict 1-2-25 (#5383)
2) Miss Piggy's Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Kermitage Collection Michael Frith 1-21-25 (#2653)
3) How Santa Got His Job Stephen Krensky 1-21-25 (#1579)
4) The Summons John Grisham 1-21-25 (#1208)
5) The Far Side® Gallery 5 Gary Larson 1-22-25 (#66)
6) The Runaway Jury John Grisham 1-24-25 (#6227)
7) Limoncello Yellow Traci Andrighetti 1-25-25 (#6625)
8) Cat by B. Kliban B. Kliban 2-7-25 (#421)
9) Reflex Dick Francis 2-7-25 (#6526)
10) The Rabbit Factor Antti Tuomainen 2-8-25 (#6730)
11) The Litigators John Grisham 2-13-25 (#6203)
12) The Coroner's Lunch Colin Cotterill 2-18-25 (#834)
13) Babar and His Children Jean de Brunhoff 2-27-25 (#78)
14) OLIVIA Becomes a Vet Alex Harvey 2-27-25 (#3107)
15) Absolutely Lucy Ilene Cooper
2-27-25 (#4232)
16) Killing Floor Lee Child 2-27-25 (#2329)
17) Lucy on the Loose Ilene Cooper 3-3-25 (#4235)
18) A Home for Dakota Jan Zita Grover 3-6-25 (#4599)
19) Little Lucy Ilene Cooper 3-12-25 (#4233)
20) Look at Lucy! Ilene Cooper 3-12-25 (#4204)
21) Cats Know Best Colin Eisler 3-20-25 (#116)
22) Duck on a Bike David Shannon 3-20-25 (#4010)
23) The Year of Miss Agnes Kirkpatrick Hill 3-20-25 (#6783)
24) The Golden Rule Ilene Cooper 3-20-25 (#4231)
25) Foul Play Janet Evanovich 4-12-25 (#6479)
26) Lubna and Pebble Wendy Meddour 4-16-25 (#2795)
27) Plum Island Nelson DeMille 4-19-25 (#4354)
28) Stuck in Neutral Terry Trueman 4-25-25 (#215)
29) Wombat Wins Jackie French 5-18-25 (#5771)
30) Froggy Plays Soccer Jonathan London 5-18-25 (#97)
31) The Man Who Didn't Like Animals Deborah Underwood 5-22-25 (#6735)
32) January Joker Ron Roy 5-22-25 (#1139)
33) Maureen by Rachel Joyce 5-22-25 (#6978)
34) The Captain and the Glory Dave Eggers 5-23-25 (#239)
35) Practical Demonkeeping Christopher Moore 5-24-25 (#956)
36) Sock Monkeys Have Issues Greg Stones 5-26-25 (#985)
37) February Friend Ron Roy 5-26-25 (#1140)
38) Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay 5-27-25 (#953)
39) A Faraway Smell of Lemon Rachel Joyce 5-28-25 (#233)
40) Run Blake Crouch 5-30-25 (#296)
41) The Heather Blazing Colm Tóibín 6-1-25 (#313)
42) Wombat Goes to School Jackie French 6-2-25 (#1888)
43) Quit Calling Me a Monster! Jory John 6-3-25 (#307)
44) Be Quiet! Ryan T. Higgins 6-5-25 (#43)
45) Dog Days of School Kelly DiPucchio 6-5-25 (#306)
46) Sally and the Purple Socks Lisze Bechtold 6-9-25 (#305)
47) When the Wind Blows James Patterson 6-13-25 (#1029)
48) Snowbound Blake Crouch 6-17-25 (#278)
49) Fully Loaded Thrillers: The Complete and Collected Stories of Blake Crouch Blake Crouch 6-20-25 (#300)
50) Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer Robert Swartwood 6-20-25 (#153)
51) Ten Birds Cybèle Young 6-22-25 (#300)
52) By the Great Horn Spoon! Sid Fleischman 6-23-25 (# 3832)

[Saar The Book owl]

Fill in the Gaps Challenge
Start Date: 01/01/2025
Completed: 0/100

[Helen]

2025 Part 2:

TBR books, 2/week for the rest of the year...

Aug 25-Sept 2
1) Best Dog Stories Lesley O'Mara 8-25-25 (#923)
2) The Dogs of Riga Henning Mankell 8-27-25 (#7325)
Sept 3-9
1) Missing You Meg Cabot 8-27-25 (#7470)
2) Killer's Art Mari Jungstedt 8-29-25 (#7267)
Sept 10-16
1) The Big Book of Adventure Stories: The Most Daring, Dangerous, and Death-Defying Collection of Adventure Tales EverCaptured in One Mammoth Volume Otto Penzler 8-31-25 (#6403)
2) How to Be Popular Meg Cabot 9-5-25 (#7456)
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