a Literary Bucket List 📋 books I want to read before I die

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hi hi! here is a little tour through some books I'd love to kick off my bucket list before I kick the bucket! let me know which ones you guys would potentially want to buddy read :)

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When covid hit I had a crisis about dying before reading all of Jane Austen’s works so that’s what I did in quarantine 😂

abbiel
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Me- *Has existential crisis*
Me- Reads Oscar Wilde
Me- *Has another existential crisis*
Me- :)

siyahans
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Books mentioned:

War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Inferno by Dante
The master and margarita by Mikhail Bhulikov
The memory police by Yoko Ogawa
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1984 by George Orwell
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The house of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
The bluest eye by Toni Morrison
Collected fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
The books of disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
A game of Thrones by George RR Martin
The poppy war by RF Kuang
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Aeneid by Virgil (translation)
Don Qioxote by Cervantes
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
Macbeth by Shakespeare

anahitabilimoria
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You're singlehandedly saving me from losing my shit while I'm cramming my bachelor's thesis. Usually I avoid book "influencers" because I find the quantity over quality culture so stressful, they make me feel so guilty for my years-long uni-induced reading slump and generally give me anxiety with their drama in the space I perceived as safe for so many years. But your videos are really peaceful and I relate to you a lot. You helped me look forward to the time after my deadlines when I can just go to a bookstore, treat myself with as many books as I want and read whatever I'm in the mood for. Thank you 🖤✨

museyasmin
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The opening was so dramatic yet so relatable

happiness
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so glad I‘m only 17 and hopefully have a lot of time left. So I‘m thinking: If I read 10 books I always wanted to read per year I can read 700 books until I‘m 87 so thats quite a lot. I‘m still a bit stressed haha

marah
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"Dont look at the mess. Look at me the other mess." Please that is relatable and funny 😭🤚🤚

illy_lia
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I guess you could call it a booket list…

strawberrydolls
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okay but i literally had an existential crisis the other month about dying before reading dorian gray, monte cristo, and war and peace lolol

sarahsperusals
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Fun fact in Italy we read La Divina Commedia in the last three years of high school. In the third year we study l' Inferno, in our fourth year il Purgatorio, and in our fifth and final year we study the more complex Paradiso. But honestly one could spend a whole lifetime studying Dante. Good luck <33

vita
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You and Carolyn should definitely create a “Russian Literature” themed book club and read more of Dostoyevsky, Bulgakov, Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov and others. Russian literature has become my favorite and it would be really exciting to read them along with you two🥰🥰

laranucifera
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You should add The Count of Monte Cristo in your list, it’s definitely a perfect must-read-before-you-die kind of book.

megumichan
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"Descent into the circles of hell - which just sounds like so much fun"
-emma
😂😂😂

shubhamtrivedi
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Just read the master and margarita this month! There’s so much symbolism and foreshadowing that I reread it with audible after finishing. 10/10

jonathandanielson
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Books I really want to read but haven't yet because they intimidate me : Bleak House (Charles Dickens), Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Middlemarch (George Eliot), Lolita (Victor Nabokov), and basically everything by Dostojewski.
Authors I really want to get into: Agatha Christie, Thomas Hardy, Daphne du Maurier, Edith Wharton. And I wanna read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Fantasy I want to read: The wheel of time series. But there are SO MANY books in that series. Scary.
I have read The Count of Monte Christo and Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) recently and it was so worth it - even though I was so intimidated by it. I've also read all of Shakespeare's work, so that's something I guess

Ninaofthes
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I highly recommend To The Lighthouse! It’s the kind of book I want to read again and again over the course of my life, because I know I’ll understand it better and love it more each time. Woolf’s prose is poetry in its own right! An utter masterpiece.

terragrahamthefirst
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The shadow of the wind series is one of my favourite series ever! The writing and story crafting is outstanding

phoenix-hibo
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Considering Tolstoy and Dickens were paired together, Dostoevsky and Eliot could be paired together. There both lauded for their psychological developments to the novel and for their philosophical expressions within the novel. However, whereas Dostoevsky’s philosophical ideas are more well known, Eliot’s are often marginalized. For example, it often gets lost that she produced the first translation of Spinoza into English, which carries into her work with her treatment of nature, emotion and free will. She also translated Fuerbach into English, and was part of the Victorian movement for a secular Christianity. They were also both writing at approximately the same time which allows contrasts between agrarian Russia and Industrial England etc.

theprince
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you have such a diverse and stunning taste in books. Constantly inspired by your reading habits

AnaWallaceJohnson
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The Master and Margarita is my FAVORITE book of all time. It’s incredible and you’ll love it

marynrhea