Welcome to the Bucket List Book Adventure

Welcome to the Bucket List Book Adventure! Here is the list of all the books I want to read (yes, there are almost 550 of them!). This literary bucket list began after I read Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend. One of the core lessons in that book is to take responsibility for your own growth, to actively make up for what you feel you have lost or missed out on. For me, one of those “losses” was never earning a Great Works degree — the kind of education that dives deep into the foundational texts that have shaped human thought, faith, and imagination. So I decided to build my own version. I began with the Great Books Curriculum from St. John’s Colleg e , a program renowned for its deep exploration of Western philosophy, literature, science, and theology. But once I began, I realized I didn’t want to stop there. I wanted to include the Great Eastern Works to gain insight into the wisdom of...