Fill-In-the-Gaps Challenge

I saw this challenge on some blog somewhere a while ago and once I find it I will be sure to link back to it. Basically it challenges you to come up with 100 books that you want/think you should read because they're considered classics or you have heard great things about them but would otherwise probably not make time for them. When compiling my list, I tried to diversify based on nationality and gender. I was not entirely successful (73 US/UK to 27 other countries and 31 F to 69 M) but as I tried to include a lot of "classics" and I don't always like translations, I think that is not too bad. Criteria for inclusion: Whether I already owned it; if it had been recommended to me; Length-if there was an author I wanted to represent, I looked for shortness or a book considered to be more accessible; diversity in author's nationality/gender. The challenge lasts for 5 years which means I only have to read 20 a year and that's not too bad. I started October 13, 2009 so I must finish October 13, 2014. I hope I will still remember this blog then! At the time of this writing I have already read Animal Farm and Age of Iron so reviews will be forthcoming.

Update: I will bold those I've read and link to those I've reviewed.

1. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2. The Black Cauldron
3. Bless Me Ultima
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
5. Go Ask Alice-not very good; I can't believe people thought this was real
6. The Handmaid's Tale
7. The Somnambulist
8. Polk-so interesting
9. Agnes Grey
10. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
11. Wuthering Heights
12. The Good Earth
13. Possession
14. My Antonia
15. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
16. The Awakening
17. Shogun
18. Age of Iron
19. Woman in White
20. Heart of Darkness
21. Red Badge of Courage
22. The Divine Comedy
23. The Second Sex
24. The Book of the City of Ladies
25. Guns, Germs, and Steel
26. Oliver Twist
27. David Copperfield
28. Little Dorrit
29. Bleak House
30. The Brothers Karamazov
31. Sister Carrie
32. Middlemarch
33. Madame Bovary
34. Outlander
35. Stardust
36. Cranford
37. Cold Comfort Farm
38. The Bible
39. The Wind in the Willows
40. The Female Eunuch
41. Under the Greenwood Tree
42. The Scarlet Letter
43. Catch-22
44. For Whom the Bell Tolls
45. The Kite Runner
46. Their Eyes Were Watching God
47. Never Let Me Go
48. The Far Pavilions
49. The Shining
50. A Separate Peace
51. A Wrinkle in Time
52. Sons and Lovers
53. The Golden Notebook
54. The Screwtape Letters
55. Romance of the Three Kingdoms Vol 1 & 2
56. Arabian Nights and Days
57. Daughter of the Forest
58. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
59. Love in the Time of Cholera
60. A Game of Thrones
61. The Thorn Birds
62. Mornings on Horseback
63. The Watchmen
64. Beloved
65. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
66. Animal Farm
67. 1984
68. Doctor Zhivago
69. Nixonland
70. All Quiet on the Western Front
71. Midnight's Children
72. Catcher in the Rye
73. Persepolis
74. Ivanhoe
75. A Suitable Boy
76. Twelfth Night
77. Ceremony
78. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
79. I Capture the Castle
80. The Red Pony
81. Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
82. Treasure Island
83. Dracula
84. The Magnificent Ambersons
85. The Secret History
86. Vanity Fair
87. Anna Karenina
88. War and Peace
89. A Confederacy of Dunces
90. Huckleberry Finn
91. Around the World in 80 Days
92. Slaughterhouse-Five
93. Infinite Jest
94. All the King's Men
95. Brideshead Revisited
96. The Time Machine
97. The Age of Innocence
98. The Once and Future King
99. Howl's Moving Castle
100. The Book Thief