I got this idea from The Book Wheel during a Bloggiesta that they were featured in last year. I’ve been wanting to make one ever since! I have done a lot of these, but before my blogging career is over I want to try all the blogging things and this is the list I came up with. If you make a list be sure to link up with their 50 Bookish Things You Must Do Before You Die.
Done / Not Done
- Get an ARC directly from a publisher from an email request from me
- Get an eARC from Netgalley
- Get an eARC from Edelweiss
- Interview one of my favorite authors by contacting them on my own
- Be on a blog tour for a book that I’m dying to read that hasn’t come out yet
- Read a 1000 page book every year – 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
- Have an author sponsored giveaway
- Have a publisher sponsored giveaway
- Win a giveaway from another blogger
- Get a tweet from an author – Laini Taylor
- Participate in a blog hop – I actually co-hosted one called Feed Your Reader
- Make a vlog – Reading Queue
- Get an amazon associate account
- Have a swag giveaway – Swag Swap Event
- Giveaway a signed book – Reached by Ally Condie
- Have a guest post on my blog – Jenni Elyse for Star Wars Book Month
- Do a guest post for another blog
- Do a mini challenge for Bloggiesta – Digital Decluttering
- Do a mini challenge for Dewey’s Read-a-thon – Opposite Title Puzzle Challenge
- Blog every day for 30 days – I did the first month that I started my blog
- Do a cover reveal
- Host my own reading challenge – Dusty Bookshelf from 2011-2013
- Host my own meme – The Reading Queue
- Think of my own feature – Google Diaries
- Blog about a current event or controversial topic
- Participate in 5 different memes (at least once – not every week!) – Stacking the Shelves, Top Ten Tuesday, Waiting on Wednesday,
- Blog about a book signing – I’ve done a tone of book signing posts!
- Review a movie – My movie reviews
- Compare a movie to a book – Ender’s Game and more
- Blog about a blogger / book event
- Go to BEA or ALA
- Dress up for an event
- Participate in an author or publisher twitter chat
- Do an Instagram bookish challenge for a whole month
- Do a reading challenge and finish it
- Read and review an indie author
- Participate in a read-a-thon
- Host a read-a-thon
- Accept a solicited review request (but only if it’s a book I want to read)
- Do a secret santa
- Review an audiobook
- Write a discussion post
- Write a post combining one of my other hobbies with books
- Write a post about my life that has nothing to do with books
- Do a bookshelf tour
- Swap books with another blogger – It was quite the funny story actually
- Tell someone in real life (besides my family) about my blog
- Do an online blogger event (Like Armchair BEA)
- Comment on at least 50 blogs for a meme
- Participate in a read-a-long or book discussion
- Host a read-a-long
- Write a post with gifs – How To Break Up With a Book
- Meet Peter S. Beagle
- Visit Forks, Washington
- Have my review blurbed by an author or publisher
- Make blog bookmarks and business cards
- Do World Book Night
- Read 100 books in a year
- Be on a book blogger appreciation page in a book – Shadow and Bone. It was so exciting!!!
- Do an ask me anything post
- Live tweet a book
- Do NaNoWriMo
- Read Harry Potter to my kids
- Take my kids to Harry Potter World in Florida when the oldest is 11 and send him a Hogwarts letter and have all of us get robes and wands. Save lots and lots of money to do this.
- Start an in person book club
My name is Jessica. I love to read Young Adult and classic literature. I’ve been a book blogger for six years and I haven’t gotten tired of it yet. I’m a very curious reader. Writing about all the questions and thoughts I had while reading a book is the best hobby ever.
Great bucket list! I really want to get a book from a publisher via an email request too.
This is a great list! I’d really love to do a readathon some time, too. Maybe when my kids are a little older! :) And I’ll throw in a plug for NaNo. It’s such a fun experience. I’m really glad I did it last year and I’m hoping I’ll do it again either this year or next.
This is really great!! I’d like to set up a list like this too. Think I’ll set it up tonight. Great goals too.
Nice one, Jessica!! What a great idea. And you’re already well on your way to completing them! Probably my number one bucket list item from here would be to attend BEA. That would be a dream come true! Maybe one day. Ooh, and it would be fun to see Forks, ha!
Great bucket list! Wow, you’ve done a lot of them already, that’s impressive. Going to BEA, that’s something I really want to do.