FINN-tastic!

TBR

This list is compiled because I came across Moonrat’s Project Fill-In-The-Gaps wherein she has opted to challenge herself by compiling a list of 100 novels that she wants to have read in her life to fill in some of her reading gaps of classics and great contemporary fiction.  Like the friend who inspired her, Moonrat has given herself 5 years to complete reading the list, and will consider the project a victorious success if she manages to read 75% of the novels on her list at the end of that period.

If you decide to jump in on the action, feel free to use the rules they made up, or do what I did: modify it.

My list was compiled according to the following criteria:

• snobby classics that I should-have-read-since-I-was-an-English-major-but-didn’t-because-it-wasn’t-assigned-or-I-opted-to-just-not-finish-it
• books I’ve owned for a long while but still haven’t read simply because I prefer to read quick, easy, fun reads instead of headache-inducing classics filled with language/terms/themes I fail to understand/pick-up-on/misinterpret entirely
• recommendations from my friend/writing buddy Alison
• a bunch from the banned book list, because I find it fascinating that books were banned at all

There’s a ton of male authors, which I don’t usually read, so this will be a new/exciting/bizarre project for me to take on.  I will mark my progress here, separate from my usual yearly book list which is ever-present on my sidebar.  I intend to read at least 75% of this list before the end of January, 2015.  If you have any books you think I absolute must totally read or a fate worse than death ought to befall me, then leave me a comment and tell me what it is.  Perhaps I can substitute your suggestion in place of some of the repeated authors.  Also, feel free to give me your thoughts on these books.

Without further ado, here is my (excruciatingly daunting) list, organized by author’s first name: