Riley's Book Bucket List by Riley Spering https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p en-us 2019-01-11 16:58:59 UTC 2019-01-15 16:11:25 UTC hello@padlet.com The Great Gatsby rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319763703 Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Summary: F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death.
Year Published: 1925
Pages: 192
I'm interested in this book because I've heard from seniors that it's really good
]]> 2019-01-11 17:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319763703 Slaughterhouse Five rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319766842 Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Summary: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut about the World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years.
Year Published: 1969
Pages: 288
I'm interested in this book because the author of the last book I read said this was one of his favorite books.

]]> 2019-01-11 17:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319766842 The Martian rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319768795 Author: Andy Weir
Summary: The story follows an American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in the year 2035 and must improvise in order to survive.
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 369
I'm interested in this book because I liked the movie a lot and I've heard the book is pretty good too.]]> 2019-01-11 17:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319768795 2001: A Space Odyssey rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319768892 Author: Arthur C. Clark
Summary: An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future. When Dr. Dave Bowman and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.
Year Published: 1968
Pages: 221
I'm interested in this book because I want to watch the movie afterwards.]]> 2019-01-11 17:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319768892 The Perks of being a Wallflower rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319769003 Author: Steven Chbosky
Summary: The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky, which was first published on February 1, 1999, by Pocket Books. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb.
Year Published: 1999
Pages: 224
I'm interested in this book because the author of the last book I read said this was one of his favorite books.]]> 2019-01-11 17:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319769003 The Catcher in the Rye rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319771484 Author: J.D. Salinger
Summary: The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.
Year Published: 1951
Pages: 277
I'm interested in this book because it seems really popular as a classic and it's a coming-of-age story.]]> 2019-01-11 17:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319771484 The Invention of Hugo Cabret rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319774003 Author: Brian Selznick
Summary: Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.
Year Published: 2007
Pages: 526]]> 2019-01-11 17:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319774003 Fahrenheit 451 rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319774926 Author: Ray Bradbury
Summary: The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title: "Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns..." The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.
Year Published: 1953
Pages: 158
I'm interested in this book because I know it's a popular classic and it sounds like a good topic.]]> 2019-01-11 17:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319774926 Unbroken rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319775515 Author: Lauren Hillenbrand
Summary: Unbroken is a biographyof World War II hero Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war in three brutal Japanese prisoner-of-war camps.
Year Published: 2010
Pages: 473
I'm interested in this book because my mom read it and liked it a lot and she recommended it to me.]]> 2019-01-11 17:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319775515 The Shining rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319775765 Author: Stephen King
Summary: The Shining centers on the life of Jack Torrance, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. His family accompanies him on this job, including his young son Danny Torrance, who possesses "the shining", an array of psychic abilities that allow Danny to see the hotel's horrific past. Soon, after a winter storm leaves them snowbound, the supernatural forces inhabiting the hotel influence Jack's sanity, leaving his wife and son in incredible danger.
Year Published: 1977
Pages: 447
I'm interested in this book because the movie is one of the best horror movies of all time.]]> 2019-01-11 17:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319775765 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319797712 Author: Douglas Adams
Summary: Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Everyone has bad mornings.
Year Published: 1979
Pages: 333
I'm interested in this book because I watched the movie and I was totally confused by it and I feel like reading the book will help me understand the movie better.]]> 2019-01-11 18:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319797712 The Dead Zone rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319799376 Author: Stephen King
Summary: It concerns Johnny Smith, who is injured in an accident and remains in a coma for nearly five years. Upon emergence, he exhibits clairvoyance and precognition with limitations, apparently because of a "dead zone," an area of his brain that suffered permanent damage as the result of his accident.
Year Published: 1979
Pages: 428
I'm interested in this book because I like Stephen King and I've heard this book is one of his best.]]> 2019-01-11 18:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319799376 The Green Mile rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319799845 Author: Stephen King
Summary: It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities.
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 512
I'm interested in this book because I loved the movie and I also like Stephen King.]]> 2019-01-11 18:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319799845 11/22/63 rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319799971 Author: Stephen King
Summary: 11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred on November 22, 1963.
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 849
I'm interested in this book because I love Stephen King and I'm interested in this event in history.]]> 2019-01-11 18:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319799971 The Time Machine rilspe20 https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319851977 Author: H.G. Wells
Summary:When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. But they have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity - the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels, if he is ever to return to his own era.
Year Published: 1895
Pages: 144
I'm interested in this book because I liked Jules Verne and he seems like a similar author.]]> 2019-01-11 19:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rilspe20/w6ijamgfib3p/wish/319851977