Book Bucket List | Introductions

Bucket List:

 noun

 informal,  

A number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime. (Oxford Dictionaries) 

When someone mentions their “bucket list”, I usually think of activities like skydiving, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, and swimming with sharks.  The “bucket list” refers to once in a lifetime activities designed to excite, scare, or challenge the participant. Once complete, you check it off your list with varying degrees of feelings of accomplishment or “Why on Earth did I just do that?!”

In the same vein, a book bucket list contains titles that are “must reads” for various reasons. For example, the list hanging on my desk includes:

• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingslover

• The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

One is a classic that I have been told many times I need to read, the other is an author I have really enjoyed in the past, and one is a book that I loved as a kid so much that I still love reading it today!

So as my own list develops, I will be posting about my favorites in hopes it will help you with your own book bucket list.  This blog will have suggestions of books you should read at least once in your lifetime!  

Also, I always take suggestions! So comment below with your own suggestions, and maybe I’ll feature the book!