
Isabelle Osborne
30 before 30 - Reading Goals
Today is my 20th birthday!
As I am moving into a new decade of my life, I decided to create a ‘30 Before 30’ bucket list of 30 things I want to do in the next ten years. I loved creating it, and I’m even more looking forward to ticking them off as I head through the next ten years.
Being the bookworm I am, I also had the idea of setting myself a ‘30 before 30’ reading challenge. Just like my bucket list, this challenge consists of 30 texts I want to read before I turn 30 years old. The texts I have chosen are a mix of ones I've been eager to read for a long time, and ones I've recently come across that I am so excited about and can't wait to get around to reading. Others I consider to be monumental, classic or iconic texts that I absolutely must read as a literary enthusiast. Some I have already in my book cupboard waiting for me to delve into, whilst the majority are waiting patiently on a bookshelf somewhere for me to come along and adopt them into my bookish family.
For added variety, I’ve chosen 15 fiction texts (1-15) and 15 non-fiction texts (16-30). The texts themselves are listed in no particular order…
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
The Colour Purple, Alice Walker
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Sea Prayer, Khaled Hosseini
The History of Bees, Maja Lunde
Amnesty, Aravind Adiga
Sparks Like Stars, Nadia Hashimi
Blonde Roots, Bernadine Evaristo
We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
Kindred, Octavia Butler
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
A Spark Of Light, Jodi Picoult
The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi
The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak
A Promised Land, Barack Obama
Educated, Tara Westover
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier
What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think, Brianna Wiest
All the Young Men, Ruth Coker Burks
Men Who Hate Women, Laura Bates
How Women Can Save The Planet, Anne Karpf
Our Bodies Their Battlefield, Christina Lamb
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World, Malala Yousafzai
Travelling While Black, Nanjala Nyabola
Head, Hand, Heart, David Goodhart
Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
Watch this space and make sure to follow me over on Instagram to keep up to date with my challenge and see whether I read all 30 texts!
