BOOKS I WANT TO READ BEFORE I DIE | A Book Bucket List... with a lot of big books...

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Books Mentioned:

1. Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
Adult, Classic

2. Cujo
by Stephen King
Adult, Horror, Cult Classic, a very HANDSOME BOBANDSOM BOY!!!

3. All Major plays written by William Shakespeare

4. The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexander Dumas
Classic, Adult, Revenge

5. The Lord of the Rings
by JRR Tolkien
Adult Classic, Fantasy, Series, Pop culture icon

6. House of Leaves
by Mark z. Danielewski
Adult, Horror, Cult Classic

7. A Game of THrones
by George R R Martin
Adult, Epic High Fantasy, Series, Pop Culture, Cult Classic, TV Series Adaptation

8. Mistborn Series
by Brandon Sanderson
Adult, Epic Fantasy, Series

9. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Adult, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism

10. Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Classic, Epic Poem, Heaven and Hell

11. The Iliad and the Odyssey
by Homer
Greek Mythology, Epic Poem, Battle of Troy, Inspired Madeline Miller to write Song of Achilles and Circe

12. Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
Classic, Gothic, Mystery, Netflix movie adaptation

13. Frankenstien
by Mary Shelly
Classic, Science fiction, Gothic Lit, she's an icon, she's a legend...

14. Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery, Detective Case, Pop Culture Icon

15. Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Classic... again lol, Gothic Lit, Taylor Swift Inspiration... we Stan.

16. Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Classic creepy Vampire King, Edward Cullen's daddy ❤️

17. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Classic, Gothic Lit, a cautionary tale about the effects of drinking... no not really.

18. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Adult, Japanese Magical Realism, Literary Fiction

19. Anything by F Scott Fitzgerald
Classic, 1920s, Great Gatsby

20. Anna Karenina and War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Classic, Russian Literature, Movie and series adaptations

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[lindaknight]

You are my favorite Book Vlogger! I just turned 65 and have loved to read all my life! You are fun, informative and entertaining! Keep reading and sharing! Love you, girl!

[shaeleesatterthwaite]

The Count of Monte Cristo is my all time favorite book!! Must read 🤩

[bonniedoeswhat]

“I want to see how George R. R. Martian wants to end his series.” 😂😂😂 Me too! Me too! And everyone else too. He hasn’t finished it! And he’s a slow slow writer.

[MirandaW]

If you like books about houses with their own personalities I would HIGHLY recommend you read The Shining by Stephen King, very different to the movie 🙌🏼 it was one of my first King books and I looove it

[SorgieWrites]

💀I am currently making a list of 60 books I want to read when I turn 60 in January! Thank you for helping me add to that list!

[shabby]

Another good “beginner” Stephen King book is Misery. I listened to it on audio and it was really quick and engaging!

[samanthaaiello]

If you read LOTR or The Hobbit, I highly recommend annotating it. I read it in Junior High and had to annotate as part of the report. It very much made me love the books more. It helps you consume the content in a different context, and I truly believe my love for those books comes from the happiness I experience when I remember my notes.

I mean, annotating anything can help, but for some reason, I highly recommend it for these ones.

[freshparchment]

Bleak House is incredible! If you're feeling intimidated, try watching the 2005 miniseries first. It will sort out plotlines and characters so you can really enjoy Dickens' prose when you read it. Plus, it's a classic because every time you consume this story you will notice new and different things.

[melb]

Omg I love this list! 💕 I would also love to see a “books I think other people should read before they die” version (your all time ride or die books all in one list.)

I often get overwhelmed with all the books I want to read but then I think how lucky am I to have read authors like Michelle Harrison, Ashley Herring Blake, Seanan McGuire and Anna-Marie Mclemore.

[DavidGowers]

My recommendations for entry-point Stephen King would be Misery or Christine (if you want to experience 'classic' King) or The Talisman + Black House and/or Eyes of The Dragon if you want to experience Fantasy King without going all-in on The Dark Tower. Alternatively, you could go for 'less likely' King works like The Green Mile or Rita Hayworth & Shawshank Redemption

The Iliad & Odyssey are amazing books! I read them in my early 20s and loved them, so I kinda want to revisit them now that I'm in my 40s and see if I still love them as much. Odyssey JUST edges out The Iliad for my favourite, but that might be due in part to the movie with Armand Assante as Odysseus.

As for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, I haven't read the physical book, but I recently(ish) had my first encounter with it in it's audiobook form, narrated by Dan Stevens and it was a reveLATION! The way he narrates it just brought so much emotion to it that I instantly fell in love with it. Similarly with Gatsby, I've never read the physical book but I listened to the audiobook narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal and he really put me in the feel of the time period so I was immediately smitten.


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[leezirkle]

I'd love to see another video like this. I'm in the middle of Anna Karenina and my brother just finished War and Peace and loved it.

[readingbystarlight]

I definitely recommend War and Peace! I made it a goal to read one summer, the first 200 pages are a slog but once you get to the actual war parts it really picks up and you just get completely lost in it. I only got about half way through because I just couldn't keep it up when I went back to school (definitely not a book to be read as a few pages here and there), but it's one that I've always wanted to pick up again.

Also the BBC mini-series is INCREDIBLE and most of the reason I was able to get through the initial slog because I knew where it was going. 100% recommend if you can get access to it!

[MegaSmashtastic]

I’ve read every single book on this list! I’m ready to kick the bucket happily 😂 my faves of all time on this list are Rebecca and Wind Up Bird Chronicles 💖

[nerdtastic]

The Count of Monte Cristo is also on my bucket list, but I can never commit to starting the 52hr audiobook. 😆
I'd also love to read LOTR and all of the works by Jane Austen and Shakespeare eventually.
I also had a big crush on Kovu from The Lion King 2 as a kid. 😍 lol. I'm a big fan of that voice actor, Jason Marsden, who also voices Haku in the English dub of Spirited Away and Binx in Hocus Pocus.

[jaimehernandez]

Crime and Punishment was the first book I read that gave me the feeling that literature could change a person's life. 💙

[emilyashwell]

All of Stephen King's older books are amazing, but I seriously reccomend 11.22.63, I read it last year and it blew my mind

[MissAddieMae]

I love your honestly when it comes to how many classics you haven’t finished! Classics feel so intimidating for me

[Northern.Aquila]

Yess!! I would love to see you vlog reading LOTR! I'm currently reading it and would love to see your experience reading it 😊 Your videos bring me so much joy😁

[cuppy]

I want to read all of Kurt Vonnegut's works. I've read most of them (like 4-5 novels), but I keep putting off reading the rest, because I know when I'm done reading them... that's it. No more Vonnegut to read.
Also, I definitely get very existential wherever I look at my TBR list on goodreads... I know I'll never live long enough to read them all. :(

[prideandpaperback]

Ahhhh! Frankenstein is one of my favorites!! 😍 So good.