Thursday, July 23, 2026

40 books before 40

 Since I turn 40 in less than a year I decided to make a list of 40 books I want to read before I turn 40.


  1. Shortbread in the Highlands by Robin Jones Gunn

  2. A Date with Death by Kelly Creagh 

  3. Rebel Season by Katie Bailey 

  4. The Saint and the Spy by Laura Frantz 

  5. Our Strange Duet by Erin Criag 

  6. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 

  7. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman 

  8. Jewel of the Nile by Tessa Afshar 

  9. Daughter of Rome by Tessa Afshar 

  10. Revelle Lyssa Mia Smith 

  11. Kilted Lovers by Megan Clawson 

  12. Samantha: The Next Chapter by Fiona Davis 

  13. Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe by Gail Crowther 

  14. Rise of the Pittsburgh Penguins 2009-2018 by Rick Buker 

  15. Sidney Crosby: The Rookie Year by Sidney Crosby 

  16. Gino the Fighting Spirit of Gino Odjick 

  17. The Cruelest miles by Gay Salisbury 

  18. God, Family, Country by Craig Morgan 

  19. Why are All my boyfriends fictional? By Jessica Kate 

  20. The Gales of November by John U Bacon 

  21. Ghosts of Sicily by Mark Harmon 

  22. Catching sight by Deni Elliott

  23. By the Fire we carry by Rebecca Nagle 

  24. Carrying War by Tanya Allatt Bellehumeur 

  25.  Grandma Joy and  Me by Brad  Ryan 

  26. Rebel Following Jesus when the world walks the other way by Anne Wilson 

  27. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore 

  28. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham 

  29. Jane Austen’s Bookshelf by Recca Romney 

  30. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 

  31. Marilyn Monroe in her own words by Roger Taylor 

  32. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 

  33. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 

  34. From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming 

  35. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich maria Remarque 

  36. Common Sense, The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 

  37. The Old Man and the sea by Ernst Hemingway 

  38. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

  39. Travel’s with Charley by John Steibeck 

  40. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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