30 Books You Should Read Before 30

Before I get into it, I'm going to let you in on a little secret.

I'm in a slump. My "new things" are coming to a slow crawl. I feel like most of the things I've got left involve cooking or baking. While I knew my financial resources would be limited this year, this certainly wasn't what I had in mind!

Now that's out there, does anyone have any suggestions of things I could do that sound fun and interesting for the remaining five months this year? The cheaper, the better!

What I've got on my list:

• go to a shooting range
• donate blood (so scared, I always pass out even when I get my cholesterol tested)
• buy something from a vintage shop
• read Anne Frank's diary
• make something crafty?
• vlog (I don't actually have a camera... so that may be difficult ha)
• try a hookah lounge

Like I said, it's my mid-year slump! Any non-cooking ideas would be much, much appreciated :)

Now on to the 30 before 30 list! (Maybe making some headway on this could be one of my goals?) I've got 4 years to go... think I can tackle it?

1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
7. The Rights of Man by Tom Paine
8. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
10. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
11. The Wisdom of the Desert by Thomas Merton
12. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
13. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
14. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
15. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
17. Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
19. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
21. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
23. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
24. The Republic by Plato
25. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
26. Getting Things Done by David Allen
27. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
28. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
30. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Bolded are the books which I have read in my 26 years of life... what a short list! If you want the full, gory details about the books I've read, check out my Goodreads profile!

(Need more? How about 100 books you should have read by college: I've made a major dent in this list! Thank my English and French literature degrees for that one.)