The Book Bucket List
So, I’ve done my favorite list and least favorite list… therefore, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that I have a book bucket list. The tricky part about this is that I am always reading something, so fitting books in is hard. Sometimes it is a journal article about higher education, sometimes a mystery, sometimes a great literary work or the latest bestseller. I read romance novels, memoirs and non-fiction historical accounts. In general I am not a huge fan of westerns or sci-fi… but other than that, I read a lot of different genres. So there is always something new being added to my Amazon wishlist. The list below is full of books I know I want to cross off the list in my my life, in no particular and not counting the next books in series I am reading:
- All The Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren*
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Ragtime bu E.L. Doctorow*
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Emma by Jane Austen*
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen*
- The Three Muskeeters by Alexandre Dumas*
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- Tune In: The Beatles, All These Years by Mark Lewisohn
- When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
- Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can’t Live Without by Julie Klam
- The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History*
- The Jurassic Park Series by Michael Crichton
- Maine by Courtney Sullivan
- The North-South Series by John Jakes
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- South of Broad by Pat Conroy *
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
- That Summer by Lauren Willig
- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
- The Autobiography of Malcom X
- Any non-fiction book that Jen Lancaster writes!
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin*
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt*
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
So what books do you think I HAVE to add? What books are on your book bucket list?
*Indicates that I own the actual book, I just haven’t read it yet!
convertedsoutherner 
Finished Jurassic Park today and I’d highly recommend it. It’s a bit more different from the movie than you’d think.
Oh. That just makes me want to read it sooner….and then re-watch the movie!
Great list. I’ve read a handful, and all of them I definitely agree you have to eventually get to.
I would add the following (if you haven’t already read them)
-The Princess Bride
-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
-Anna Karenina
-Jane Eyre
and
-Ender’s Game
Erin @ Raised Reading
Oh, I will be definitely be adding these! I didn’t think about the Princess Bride! I have read Anna Karenina and wasn’t a fan, but didn’t dislike it enough to put it on the least likes list. It was just so depressing to me!
Yeah, it wasn’t a chipper kind of book. But I like how dream like it was.
We’ll I’ve read the saga of the hunger games and personally, I only liked the first two, the last one disappointed me a lot.
You know, so many of my friends have said the same thing! I’m prepared to not have high expectations!