100 Books Project - 5 year Challenge

 I recently came across the 100 Books Project and thought it looked like a pretty nifty idea. The objective is to make a list of 100 books that you have been meaning to read but just can't seem to get read.  So to motivate and organize your wayward self you make a list of these books and give yourself 5 years to get through them.

While I like this idea, I do have some concerns.  I read roughly 60-70 books a year and am pretty much wholly a whim reader.  So committing to the idea that fully one-third of the of the books I read must come from this list is a little daunting. The first and even second year wouldn't be too bad but the last couple years might backfire. I considered cheating and just doing 50 books but when I looked at my list I felt like 98% really should be on there.  So hopefully the fact that I did try to fill the list primarily with books I truly wish to read will keep me from flaking out.

My list is a little bit of mixed bag of some classic books/authors that I feel like I should read and a whole lot of books that are high on my To-Be-Read list.

MY UPDATED LIST WITH BOOKS READ CAN BE FOUND HERE.

1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
2. The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
3. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
4. Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
5. The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt
6. Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
7. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
8. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
9. The Passage by Justin Cronin
10. Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
11. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
12. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
13. Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
14. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
15. Loving by Henry Green
16. Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
17. Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
18. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
19. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
20. Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
21. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
22. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
23. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
24. Except the Dying by Maureen Jennings
25. Some Kind of Fairytale by Graham Joyce
26. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
27. Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead
28. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
29. Atonement by Ian McEwan
30. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
31. The City & The City by China Mieville
32. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
33. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
34. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
35. Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates
36. 1984 by George Orwell
37. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
38. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
39. Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
40. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
41. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
42. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
43. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
44. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
45. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
46. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
47. Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMaurier
48. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
49. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
50. The Native Star by M.K. Hobson
51. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
52. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
53. Quiet by Susan Cain
54. Shadow and Bone  by Leigh Bardugo
55. Defending Jacob by William Landay
56. Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature by Kathleen Dean Moore
57. In the Garden of Iden (The Company #1) by Kage Baker
58. Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon
59. The Providence Rider by Robert McCammon
60. Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
61. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
62. A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
63. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
64. Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shin
65. Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
66. Sabriel by Garth Nix
67. The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
68. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
69. Crazed by Ha Jin
70. Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
71. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
72. Rabbit Run by John Updike
73. Of Men and Marshes by Paul Errington
74. Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter
75. Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
76. Silas Marner by George Eliot
77. Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
78. Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
79. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
80. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
81. Utopia by Thomas More
82. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
83. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
85. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
86. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
87. Middlemarch by George Eliot
88. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
89. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
90. The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
91. The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
92. Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye
93. The Likeness by Tana French
94. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
95. Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
96. Sheepfarmer’s Daughter by Elizabeth Moon
97. Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self  by Claire Tomalin
98. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
99. Nine Princes of Amber by Richard Zelazny 
100. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

 So do you have 100 books you've been meaning to read??