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Lists | 100 Books Bucket List

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I don’t know about you, but I have seen a lot of ‘100 Books You Must Read in Your Lifetime!’ articles. All of them seem different, some focus on more modern books and others on classics. In November 2018 I happened to come across a poster on amazon while shopping for my friends and families and I really liked that it had some classics and more modern books on the list as well. It was called, Gift Republic 100 Books Bucket List Poster (not an affiliate link). So of course, I ended up buying it for myself. 

While this is not the best picture in the world of the poster, you can see that I have read 20 21 of the books already on this list, I missed The Time Machine on my first look through. Overall, reading 21 books is not a horrible start if you ask me. I thought it would be fun to share my progress on this poster throughout the year and see how much progress I make on this bookish bucket list.

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  • American Gods
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Siddhartha 
  • Sophie’s World
  • A Brief History of Time
  • The Great Gatsby
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird
  • Matilda
  • The Complete Art of War
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Long Walk to Freedom
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Shoe
  • Noughts & Crosses
  • In Cold Blood
  • Frankenstein
  • The Secret History 
  • Wuthering Heights 
  • 1984
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Norwegian Wood
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • The Color Purple
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
  • Lolita 
  • Great Expectations
  • Harry Potter Series
  • His Dark Materials Trilogy
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • The Road
  • Ulysses
  • Bad Science
  • I Capture the Castle
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Les Misérables
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • Wind in the Willows
  • Wild Swans
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe
  • Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy
  • Crime and Punishment
  • The Poisonwood Bible
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Gulliver’s Travels
  • Anna Karenina 
  • Freakonomics
  • A Game of Thrones
  • The Help
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • American Psycho
  • Notes From Small Island
  • Macbeth
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • A History of Venice
  • The Selfish Gene
  • The Handmaid’s Tale
  • A Wild Sheep Chase
  • Schindler’s Ark
  • London Fields
  • The House of the Baskerville
  • My Man Jeeves
  • The English Patient
  • The Mill on the Floss
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Commitments
  • Gladys Aylward,: The Little Women
  • Midnight’s Children
  • Tess of the D’urbervilles
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • Hamlet
  • Goodnight Mister Tom
  • Dissolution
  • The Time Machine
  • Winnie the Pooh 
  • Animal Farm
  • The Diary of a Young Girl
  • The Enchanted Wood
  • Dracula
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Bridget Jones’s Diary
  • The Kite Runner
  • Pride and Prejudice 
  • To the Lighthouse
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Misery 
  • The Chronicles of Narnia
  • Watership Down
  • The Odyssey
  • War and Peace
  • Bird Song
  • Tell No One
  • Moby-Dick
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Middlemarch
  • Jane Eyre 

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What book is on your bucket list?

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17 thoughts on “Lists | 100 Books Bucket List”

  2. I’ve wanted to get a poster like this myself! I wonder how you scratch off the spaces like The Chronicles of Narnia? Maybe a sixth of the pace for each book completed. Hmm…

    I did just pick up a copy of The Odyssey which has long been on my Bucket List. It’s a new translation by Emily Wilson that I’ve heard fabulous things about, plus the accompanying audio is read by Claire Danes, so fun times all around!

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      1. Oh, well that would be cool too! But I meant like lists with more updated titles on them. I feel like a lot of these lists are all older/classics…which are classics for a reason and I’m down for them getting read. But the are some phenomenal new books exploring similar topics, and generally from more diverse perspectives, that I would love a similar list of. If that makes sense.

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      2. True, I have seen some that are more modern. There are a ton and a lot of bookish sites have their own version. One day our modern books will become classics and be on these posters.

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