Bucketlist of Books
I feel terrible that I don’t read that often. I think that’s why I love every single book I read, because I can’t really compare it to anything.
- The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger
These are the ONLY books I can honestly remember reading in the past like five years. I think that’s why these are my favourites. I’ve read Perks and Catcher multiple times, but not THG since i just got it for Christmas, but I’m starting to read it again because I think I missed out important details from bawling my eyes out.
In my English Honours class (how did i even get in this class) in high school, I managed NOT to read the required readings. I never finished Life Of Pi, or Never Let Me Go for my novel studies. I sparknoted everything. I don’t even think I read Lord Of The Flies, and we had a quiz for every chapter on that book every week. I do remember reading a lot of chapter books when I was younger, but the plot was always about an English/British teenager discussing her life in high school like uh, Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging (that movie sucked btw).
OH I remember completing Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck last year, but I solely chose to read that book because it was the name of a band. Everybody thought I chose it because it was the shortest book available. That may or may not have been an additional variable.. no it honestly wasn’t. OH, I read All Quiet On The Western Front too! That book wasn’t as bad as everyone said it was.
Before you guys shun me from my lack of readings, in my defence, I did read more than the average kid back in grade school, so it evens out that I don’t read now. I used to do those summer reading lists in elementary. Reading was so competitive back then. I had a thing for book series
- Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
- The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes by Anne Mazer
- Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling
- Shel Silverstein Poetry Books (BEST STUFF EVER)
- Goosebumps by R.L Stine (Choose your own adventure. Legit)
- Madison Finn Series by Laura Dower
If you didn’t read any of those series then you clearly had no childhood.
I don’t want to slowly become an illiterate (if that’s even possible, probably not). So I’m gonna start reading regularly now. I noticed that the novels I finish are ones that I choose myself. I think I read them because I’m not forced to. It’s like when someone tells you to do something, you’re not gonna do it. You were probably gonna do it prior to them telling you, but since they demand you to do it now, you don’t want to. Contrasting characteric I guess. UGH, CURSE MY REBELLING PERSONALITY. I have composed a list of books that I must read before I die.
- Going Bovine by Libba Bray
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Infidel by Ayaan Hiri Ali
- Looking For Alaska by John Green
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
- A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (I actually bought this book last year, read half of it.. then I got an iPod touch, the most fun iPod in the world!)
- Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
- The Millennium Trilogy by Steig Larsson
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- The Outsider by Albert Camus
- The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot
- On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Any suggestions guys? Feel free to leave a title! :)
