100 movies/50 books

Two items on my 101 in 1001 list is to watch 25 "new to me" movies from the AFI 100 Years, 100 movies (10th edition) list and to read 15 additional books from the 50 banned book list. I thought I would list them here so you could see my progress. 



* = movies I had seen previous to the 101 in 1001 challenge
bold = movies watched in my first 101 in 1001 challenge
bold = movies watching during this 101 in 1001 challenge

As of January 16, 2015 I have seen 44 movies on this list.

1. Citizen Kane, 1941*
2. The Godfather, 1972*
3. Casablanca, 1942*
4. Raging Bull, 1980
5. Singin' In the Rain, 1952*
6. Gone With the Wind, 1939*
7. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962*
8. Schindler's List, 1993*
9. Vertigo, 1958*
10. The Wizard of Oz, 1939*
11. City Lights, 1931
12. The Searchers, 1956
13. Star Wars, 1977*
14. Psycho, 1960*
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968*
16. Sunset Blvd., 1950*
17. The Graduate, 1967*
18. The General, 1927
19. On the Waterfront, 1954
20. It's A Wonderful Life,  1946*
21. Chinatown, 1974
22. Some Like it Hot, 1959
23. The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
24. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982*
25. To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962*
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939*
27. High Noon, 1952*
28. All About Eve, 1950
29. Double Indemnity, 1944*
30. Apocalypse Now, 1979
31. The Maltese Falcon, 1941
32. The Godfather Part II, 1974
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937*
35. Annie Hall, 1977
36. The Bridge On The River Kwai, 1957
37. The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946
38. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, 1948
39. Dr. Stranglove, 1964
40. The Sound of Music, 1965*
41. King Kong, 1933
42. Bonnie And Clyde, 1967
43. Midnight Cowboy, 1969
44. The Philadelphia Story, 1940*
45. Shane, 1953
46.  It Happened One Night, 1934*
47. A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
48. Rear Window, 1954*
49. Intolerance, 1916
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001*
51. West Side Story, 1961
52. Taxi Driver, 1976
53. The Deer Hunter, 1978
54. M*A*S*H, 1970
55. North by Northwest, 1959*
56. Jaws, 1975*
57. Rocky, 1976
58. The Gold Rush, 1925
59. Nashville, 1975
60. Duck Soup, 1933
61. Sullivan's Travels, 1941
62. American Graffiti, 1973
63. Cabaret, 1972*
64. Network, 1976
65. The African Queen, 1951
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981*
67. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woof?, 1966
68. Unforgiven, 1992
69. Tootsie, 1982*
70. A Clockwork Orange, 1971*
71. Saving Private Ryan, 1998*
72. The Shawshank Redemption, 1994*
73. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, 1969
74. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991*
75. In the Heat of the Night, 1967
76. Forrest Gump, 1994*
77. All the President's Men, 1976*
78. Modern Times, 1936
79. The Wild Bunch, 1969
80. The Apartment, 1960
81. Spartacus, 1960
82. Sunrise, 1927
83. Titanic, 1997*
84. Easy Rider, 1969
85. A Night at the Opera, 1935
86. Platoon, 1986
87. 12 Angry Men, 1957
88. Bringing Up Baby, 1938
89. The Sixth Sense, 1999*
90. Swing Time, 1936
91. Sophie's Choice, 1982
92. Goodfellas, 1990
93. The French Connection, 1971
94. Pulp Fiction, 1994*
95. The Last Picture Show, 1971
96. Do The Right Thing, 1989
97. Blade Runner, 1982
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942*
99. Toy Story, 1995*
100. Ben-Hur, 1959



* = books I've read previous to the 101 in 1001 challenge
bold = books read during the 101 in 1001 challenge

As of January 16, 2015 I have read 14 books on this list.
  1. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.*
  3. Forever by Judy Blume.*
  4. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.
  5. Lord of the Flies by William Golding.*
  6. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling.
  7. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.
  8. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.
  9. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.
  10. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. *
  11. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.
  12. The Giver by Lois Lowery
  13. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
  14. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
  15. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
  16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe.
  17. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
  18. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
  19. 1984 by George Orwell. *
  20. Animal Farm by George Orwell. *
  21. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift.
  22. Candide by Voltaire. *
  23. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence.
  24. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
  25. Fanny Hill by John Cleland.
  26. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
  27. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. *
  28. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
  29. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
  30. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. *
  31. The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
  32. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
  33. Rabbit, Run by John Updike.
  34. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. *
  35. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
  36. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. *
  37. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. *
  38. The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
  39. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. *
  40. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
  41. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
  42.  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. *
  43. Native Son by Richard Wright.
  44. Beloved by Toni Morrison.
  45. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
  46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey.
  47. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
  48. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
  49. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
  50. East of Eden by John Steinbeck.