It’s probably the closest imagining of what a real apocalypse would be like, with no heroes and no sense of hope. If you’ve already read about how to make a bucket listit is now time to find ideas for your own list. Our personal opinion: we let our editors read the book thoroughly and we asked them: does it appeal to you?

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I have mixed feelings about Hemingway, and even about this book, but I still feel like every person will find something worthwhile in it. Colson Whitehead gives a fictitious account of the real underground railroad, a system that helped many African-Americans escape slavery in the early to mid-19th century. With this method, you can be happy in the knowledge that you’re actively working your way towards checking off those monster tasks. I've just started using the bucket list, for my trip to Utah and it's MIGHTY 5 National Parks and dozens of state parks. Aside from the goals you listed it included stupid ones like "grow a beard" and random things like that.