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RYO: Your Bucket List
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kwaidan66
Posted 2014-02-13 8:05 PM (#6462)
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Location: Denver, CO (USA)		Read 9 books in the coming eleven months. Choose books that you consider to be part of your personal list of titles or authors that you've always meant to read but have never gotten around to.
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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-03-06 7:44 AM (#6679 - in reply to #6462)
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I’ve been looking at the Bucket List Challenge for a while, but since I am also participating in the 35 and my main goal is to reduce my TBR list, I was wondering how to distinguish Bucket selections rather than just selecting 9 books I've already read from my 35 list and placing them on my Bucket List. Therefore, I have come up with a set of criteria to help me choose. I've decided that a Bucket List book must fit two or more of these criteria:

(1) I must have owned the book for several years (or owned it previously and gave it away because I never read it).

(2) The book must be on WWE as a book that’s listed, been nominated or won an award.

(3) I’ve started the book before but never finished it.

(4) The book must have some crossover appeal.

Using these criteria, this is the list I’ve compiled:

1. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

2. Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

3. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

4. Lois Lowery, The Giver

5. Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

6. Patrick Suskind, Perfume

7. Richard Adams, Watership Down

8. Cormac McCarthy, The Road

9. H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

I think it would be interesting to hear how others have chosen your books for you Bucket List Challenge.

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daxxh
Posted 2014-03-06 11:18 AM (#6681 - in reply to #6679)
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Location: Great Lakes, USA		My criteria for books for the Bucket List Challenge was that they should be books I have owned for at least 5 years. I have more than 9 that fit that requirement, so the ones I have initially chosen may change before the end of the year.

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HRO
Posted 2014-03-06 1:26 PM (#6682 - in reply to #6462)
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Location: Neither here...nor there		I'm basically using this challenge as an overflow category - books that I planned to read this year but that don't quite fit into other challenges (or maybe they do fit but don't give me as much crossover as another title does). I'm also trying to do publication dates prior to 2000 but that's not set in stone. Right now all the books but one fit the pub date requirement.
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Rhondak101
Posted 2014-03-06 5:28 PM (#6683 - in reply to #6462)
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Location: SC, USA		@daxxh I think that most of my books I've had over five years as well (except the ones I've checked out of the library because I gave them away).
@HRO, I like your strategy of overflow as well.
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