This list ended up being far longer that I thought it would be but the way I see it is if I lay everything on the table now, I can see everything I want to finish.
Read more Books Written by Women
There has always been an imbalance in my reading as I always seem to read more men then women. Next year I hope to somewhat remedy that.
Virginia Woolf
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Mary Wollstonecraft
George Eliot
Heloise
Jane Austen
Margaret Atwood
Andre Norton
Elizabeth Gaskell
Doris Lessing
Dorothy Parker
Alice Munro
Toni Morrison
Ursula LeGuin
Carol Shields
Read More Canadian Authors
As a proud Canuck I want to be able to say I've read the greats from my own country. Therefore I will be doing my best to plough through the plethora of great talent as part of my own CanCon education.
Margaret Laurence
Michael Ondaatje
Pierre Berton
Robertson Davies
Carol Shields
Alice Munro
Margaret Atwood
Douglas Coupland
Mordecai Richler
Stephen Leacock
Farley Mowat
Joy Kogawa
Saul Bellow
Guy Gavriel Kay
WO Mitchell
Robert Service
Malcolm Lowry
William Gibson
Read more of the big names in Sci-fi and Fantasy
I have huge gaps when it comes to the best known and very well respected giants of the sci fi and fantasy genres. Unexcuseable I know but hopefully in the coming year I can remedy that.
Isaac Asmiov
Roger Zelazny
Andre Norton
Robert Heinlein
Ray Bradbury
Arthur C Clarke
Jules Verne
HG Wells
Douglas Adams
Larry Niven
Philip Jose Farmer
Frederick Pohl
Philip K Dick
RA Salvatore
David Eddings
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Neil Gaiman
Raymond Feist
Terry Pratchett
Read more poems, plays and short stories
This is something I've worked on a little bit this year but I'd like to expand on it in the new year.
Shakespeare
Alice Munro
Edmund Spenser
Aeschylus
Ovid
Virgil
John Milton
Arthur Miller
Sophocles
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
Ernest Hemingway
Anton Chekov
Ray Bradbury
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Raymond Carver
Jack London
Work on my "I Have Never Read" list
To save myself from future embarrassment I want to work on this list.
Anne Bronte
Anthony Trollope
Anton Chekov
Aristotle
Arthur Miller
Cicero
D.H. Lawrence
Dante Alighieri
Emily Bronte
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Feodor Dostoyevsky
Freidrich Nietzsche
George Eliot
H.P. Lovecraft
Henry James
Herman Melville
Jack London
James Joyce
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Milton
John Steinbeck
John Updike
Joseph Conrad
Kurt Vonnegut
Leo Tolstoy
Michael de Montaigne
Plutarch
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seneca
Sir Walter Scott
Somerset Maugham
Thomas Hardy
Victor Hugo
Virginia Woolf
William Faulkner
William M Thackery
Work on my France 2017 Project
You can read all about this project here.
Post Reviews on Books I've Finished
This is a list I've slowly been whittling down. Hopefully this year I can finish off a few more to make room for all the new books I'm going to read.
Brother and Sister
Dragonflight
The Droughtlanders
Franny & Zooey
In Gallant Company
Lord Edgeware Dies
The Moonstone
A Separate Peace
The Seven Dials
Up at the Villa
A Writer's House in Wales
Blitz
Hatchet
Complete Books from Old Challenges
Les Miserables
Henry V
Much Ado About Nothing
Antony and Cleopatra
Richard III
As You Like It
King Lear
Cymbeline
Twelfth Night
Othello
Pericles
The Woman in White
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Rebecca
The Republic
Julius Caesar
Call of the Wild
The Valley of Fear
Gone with the Wind
Catch-22
The Simarillion
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Fiery Cross
Walt Disney
The Fionavar Tapestry
Emma
Jane Austen Ruined My Life
Bridget Jones' Diary
Post Reviews on Movies I've Finished
Hoo boy am I behind on this list! I like to think of it as a goal to be reached rather than one that's been left lying around for too long.
Gigi
Patton
The Hobbit
The Sting
27 Dresses
The 39 Steps (1935)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The African Queen (1951)
All About Eve (1950)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
American Graffiti (1973)
An American in Paris
Anastasia (1956)
Annie Hall (1977)
The Apartment (1960)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Big (1988)
Bikini Beach
Blade Runner (1982)
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House
The Blind Side (2009)
The Blue Dahlia
Born Yesterday (1950)
Boys Town (1938)
Breakfast at Tiffanys (1961)
The Breakfast Club
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Broadway Melody (1929)
Bullitt (!968)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Casablanca (1943)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Dead End
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Destry Rides Again
Double Indemnity (1944)
Duck Soup (1933)
East of Eden (1955)
Easy Living (1937)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
A Fish Called Wanda
Forbidden Planet
The French Connection (1971)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Gaslight (1944)
Gattaca
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Godfather (1972)
Going My Way (1944)
Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Grand Hotel (1932)
The Hangover (2009)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Heaven Can Wait
The Heiress (1949)
Hellboy 2
His Girl Friday (1940)
Holiday (1938)
Hondo 91953)
Howl's Moving Castle
The Hunt for Red October
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
In the Heat of the Night
Invictus
Iron-Jawed Angels
It Happened One Night (1934)
Jamaica Inn
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1942)
Jumper
The Kid
The King and I (1956)
King's Row
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Made for Each Other
Made of Honor
The Major and the Minor (1942)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Miracle Woman (1931)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
The Most Dangerous Game
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1935)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Mad Godfrey (1935)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Never Back Down
North by Northwest (1959)
Now, Voyager
Oliver! (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969)
On the Town (1949)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Ox-Bow Incident
Penelope
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Pollyanna (1960)
Ponyo
Pretty Woman (1990)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Psycho (1960)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca( 1940)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Sabotage
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935)
The Searchers (1956)
Serenity
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shanghai Express (1932)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
Some Lie it Hot (1959)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Soylent Green
Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
Spiderwick Chronicles
Spirited Away
Splash (1984)
Stagecoach (1939)
Stage Door (1937)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Star Trek
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Sullivan's Travels (1942)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Superman
Suspicion (1941)
Terminator: Salvation
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
They Shoot Horses Don't They? (1969)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Top Hat (1935)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Vacation from Marriage
West Side Story (1961)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Witness (1985)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Women (1939)
Young Bess
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young and Innocent
4 comments:
A few recommendations, FWIW...
For Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, I can recomment their collaboration, "Good Omens".
For Robert Heinlein, I would recommend "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
For Isaac Asimov, I can certainly recommend the Elijah Bailey novels, or the Foundation series.
For Zelazny, I would recommend the entire Chronicles of Amber. Each book is short.
In the Canadian category, years ago I read "The Little Country" by Charles de Lint...I remember enjoying it greatly.
Robert Sawyer's a Canadian author as well, are you familiar with him?
Thanks for the recommendations! I will add them to the list.
I love your enthusiasm! I'll be watching for your thoughts during 2013. From a fellow Canuck :)
Thanks! The way I see it I've got a large list to choose from and there's not doubt I'll at least get some of this accomplished by the end of 2013. I am very excited to get going!
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