Both those already read and those "never read before."

• The Deathly Hallows
• Ella Enchanted
• Chalice
• Once Upon a Marigold
• The Blue Sword
• The Magician's Nephew
• Artemis Fowl
• The Arctic Incident
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• The Eternity Code
• The Horse and His Boy
• Prince Caspian
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Silver Chair
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

• Go skydiving
• Travel the world
• Be well-read
• Write a decent poem
• Be fluent in another language
• Go on a mission trip
• Have a vegetable garden
• See the aurora borealis
• Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
• Ride a dolphin
• Go zorbing
• Have a drink at the Green Dragon
• Have a butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks
• Read Virgil's Aeneid in Latin
• Read Homer in Ancient Greek
• Learn Russian
• Live in New Zealand for a year
• Hike the Inca Trail
• HIke the King's Trail in Sweden
• Hike the West Highland Way in Scotland

• Never laugh at live dragons.
• Beauty won't make the kettle boil.
• Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be looking for it all day.
• Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
• Don't put off to tomorrow what you could do today.
• Short cuts make long delays.
• There are fish in the sea better than have ever been caught.
• There's nothing so bad that it couldn't be worse.
• The friend that has to be bought is not worth buying.
• It's not a delay to stop and sharpen the scythe.
• Earth has no sorrows that Heaven cannot heal.
• Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

• Lived in another country (Italy)
• Walked the Camino de Santiago
• Climbed a mountain (Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Greece; the Pyrenees, Spain)
• Witnessed an important moment in history (The election of Pope Francis)
• Had a drink at the Eagle and Child Pub, Oxford, England
• Was in four different countries in one day
• Had tea at the table on which J.K. Rowling wrote the first four Harry Potter books
• Rode a camel
• Sailed the Mediterranean
• Visited the Cliffs of Insanity
• Hiked the mountain above Assisi- barefoot
• Converted to Catholicism
• Got lost in both Venice and Florence
• Raced on the original Olympic track, in O...

• Self Defense
• Shooting
• Finding edible plants
• Basic first aid
• Making a fire
• Using a map and compass
• Horseback Riding
• Able to pick a lock
• Uses of herbs
• Constellations (and their back stories)
• Navigating in the woods
• Moonwalking
• Hotwiring a car
• How to fix simple problems with cars
• Unlock a locked car
• Travel Hacking
• Investing in the stock market
• Finding drinkable water
• Effectively use a knife
• Learn how to code

My besties

• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
• The Prydain Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander
• The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
• Joan of Arc, Mark Twain

My other favorites, in no particular order

• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Mattimeo, Brian Jacques
• The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
• The Gammage Cup, Carol Kendall
• Beauty, Robin McKinley
• The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley
• The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald
• Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
• The Ballad of the White Horse, G.K. Chesterton
• The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

• A Ballade of Suicide, G.K. Chesterton
• The Skeleton, G.K. Chesterton
• Roads Go Ever On, J.R.R. Tolkien
• As Winds That Blow Against A Star, Joyce Kilmer
• Journey's End, J.R.R. Tolkien
• A Halt, Robert Hugh Benson
• The Ass, C.S. Lewis
• The Quitter, Robert W. Service
• Ithaca, Constantine P. Cavafy
• Mythopoeia, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Invictus, William Ernest Henley
• Love After Love, Derek Walcott
• A Psalm of Life, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Sleep in and stay under the covers when you wake up, get very comfortable and warm
• If you want to get out of bed, pick something cozy to wear
• Drink very cold water or hot tea
• Read a book you love dearly
• Sleep some more
• Go outside, even if it's just your backyard, and relax
• Look at tiny beautiful things, like flowers and ants
• Listen to music that makes you want to dance and dance your heart out

• Sam Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings
• Lucy Pevensie, The Chronicles of Narnia
• Madge Arwell, "Doctor Who"
• Bilbo, The Hobbit
• Eilonwy, The Prydain Chronicles
• The Cheeryble Brothers, Nicholas Nickleby
• Rose, The Shadow of the Bear
• The Cabby, The Magician's Nephew
• Uncle Iroh, "Avatar: The Last Airbender"
• Muggles, The Gammage Cup
• Gregory Syme, The Man Who Was Thursday
• Alyoshenka, The Brothers Karamazov
• Cedric, Little Lord Fauntelroy
• Mabel, "Gravity Falls"
• Taran, The Prydain Chronicles
• Harry James Potter, Harry Potter
• Madame Manec, All the Light We Cannot See