HI! My name is Jessica Lynn. I have many passions; in the following order: nutrition/wellness/fitness, skincare, makeup, and travel. I've always been an avid learner and reader, but with a busy life it's so easy for this to fall by the wayside. However, I've decided that my mental fitness needs to be a priority as well in order to maintain overall wellness. This is why I've created this blog; to track my progress in reading all the classics and not-so-classics. My career ambitions have changed, so I am taking a semester off and I figured that there was no better time for me to read all of the books that I had always wanted to read. I also think this will be a great way to break my smart phone addiction that we all know so well. With no further ado, here is my (current) list of books that I aspire to read, in no particular order:
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
6. The Cather in the Rye by J D Salinger
7. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
8. To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
10. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
11. Call of the Wild by Jack London
12. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
13. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
14. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
15. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
16. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
17, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
18. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
19. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
20. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
21. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
22. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
23. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
24. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
25. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
26. The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas
27. The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum
28. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
29. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
30. Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne
31. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnette
32. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
33. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
34. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
35. The Story of my Life by Helen Keller
36. Roots by Alex Haley
37. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
38. The Prophet by Khalil Bigran
39. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
41. The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer
42. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
There it is! The List! This is obviously not set in stone; it is a living, breathing, changing list. Some I may not read, and there are tons of books that I would love to read that are not on the list. I love non-fiction and I would love to read books by/ about Ghandi, MLK, the First Ladies of the United States, Deepak Chopra, and who knows what else.
xoxo
Jlynn
