Roisins Reading | Did I Read Everything Before I Turned 30? | 30 Before 30 Reading Challenge Check In @RoisinsReading | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Hello! So I set myself two challenges to read A LOT of books before my birthday. Did I read everything before I turned 30? Let's find out. I gave myself the challenge to read 30 classics before I turn 30, and 30 books of my TBR to read before my birthday as well. And in this video I check in on my reading challenges now I'm 30 and see how well I managed to succeed.
Videos Mentioned
Best Historical Fiction: youtu.be/tCNbwq7g2hM
Books From Southern Africa: youtu.be/Jc5fKMucugE
Women in Translation: youtu.be/-51O-o40BBg
Books From Central Asia: youtu.be/5rIdnayVIFk
Magical Realism: youtu.be/LiYo3PBkX3M
Books From Spanish Speaking South America: youtu.be/wKPJQSXIC-o
Reading The Song of Achilles: youtu.be/VFpACatv0d4
Classics Reading Vlog: youtu.be/Ppsv71nZtcc
Books from Northern Europe: youtu.be/ZfrS4y_7rDI
Koreadathon: youtu.be/M9J9-mb_hwo
Irish Readathon: youtu.be/VGkP7DvInzw
Reading Dr Zhivago: youtu.be/-0jo94Jlfjg
Reading My Mum's Favourite Books: youtu.be/Zz8PHJ1GGNA
Sad Girl Summer Reading Vlog: youtu.be/9nM9iubU4pA
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - 30 Books on my TBR before 30
17:12 - 30 Classics before 30
25:21 - Am I any good at reading challenges?
Books Mentioned
Middlemarch by George Elliot Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Black and British by David Olusoga
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Ghost in the Throat by Doireann ni Ghriofa
Maximum City by Seketu Mehta
Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
Eat, Sweat, Play by Anna Kessel
Dracula by Bram Stoker
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Troubles With Us By Alix O'Neill
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Profit Over People by Noam Chomsky
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Good Immigrant ed. by Nikesh Shukla
Feral by George Monbiot
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Aeneid by Virgil trans. by Shadhi Bartsch
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Waverley by Walter Scott
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
Jamila by Chingiz Aitmatov
Crow by Ted Hughes
Out of Africa by Isaak Dinneson
East Goes West by Younghill Kang
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Bonjour Tristesse by François Sagan
Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkein
Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy
Selected Poetry by Thomas Hardy
10 Days that Shook the World by John Reed
Hello! So I set myself two challenges to read A LOT of books before my birthday. Did I read everything before I turned 30? Let's find out. I gave myself the challenge to read 30 classics before I turn 30, and 30 books of my TBR to read before my birthday as well. And in this video I check in on my reading challenges now I'm 30 and see how well I managed to succeed.
Videos Mentioned
Best Historical Fiction: youtu.be/tCNbwq7g2hM
Books From Southern Africa: youtu.be/Jc5fKMucugE
Women in Translation: youtu.be/-51O-o40BBg
Books From Central Asia: youtu.be/5rIdnayVIFk
Magical Realism: youtu.be/LiYo3PBkX3M
Books From Spanish Speaking South America: youtu.be/wKPJQSXIC-o
Reading The Song of Achilles: youtu.be/VFpACatv0d4
Classics Reading Vlog: youtu.be/Ppsv71nZtcc
Books from Northern Europe: youtu.be/ZfrS4y_7rDI
Koreadathon: youtu.be/M9J9-mb_hwo
Irish Readathon: youtu.be/VGkP7DvInzw
Reading Dr Zhivago: youtu.be/-0jo94Jlfjg
Reading My Mum's Favourite Books: youtu.be/Zz8PHJ1GGNA
Sad Girl Summer Reading Vlog: youtu.be/9nM9iubU4pA
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - 30 Books on my TBR before 30
17:12 - 30 Classics before 30
25:21 - Am I any good at reading challenges?
Books Mentioned
Middlemarch by George Elliot Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Black and British by David Olusoga
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Ghost in the Throat by Doireann ni Ghriofa
Maximum City by Seketu Mehta
Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
Eat, Sweat, Play by Anna Kessel
Dracula by Bram Stoker
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Troubles With Us By Alix O'Neill
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Profit Over People by Noam Chomsky
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Good Immigrant ed. by Nikesh Shukla
Feral by George Monbiot
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Aeneid by Virgil trans. by Shadhi Bartsch
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Waverley by Walter Scott
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
Jamila by Chingiz Aitmatov
Crow by Ted Hughes
Out of Africa by Isaak Dinneson
East Goes West by Younghill Kang
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Bonjour Tristesse by François Sagan
Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkein
Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy
Selected Poetry by Thomas Hardy
10 Days that Shook the World by John Reed
