• Annie Juniper
• Mary Pomeline
• Carolina
• Peaches Annabelle
• Cornelia
• Piper
• Thomasin Lyra ▹ Tansy
• May
• Rosalie
• Agnes
• Willa
• Penelope Sable
• Alice Prairie
• Belinda Honey
• Nettle
• Lark
• Audrey Calico
• Hazel
• Sailor Harriet
• Maple
• Posy

• British Library
• Bodleian Libraries
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Tate Britain
• Natural History Museum
• Penguin Random House

film

• Romeo + Juliet
• Midnight in Paris
• Legally Blonde
• Dead Poet's Society
• The Devil Wears Prada
• The Godfather

book

• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

television

• Pretty Little Liars
• Gilmore Girls
• Ginny & Georgia

• Abigail
• Abilene
• Ada
• Adelaide ▹ Ada, Lady, Leda
• Adelie
• Adeline
• Adriana
• Aelfwynn
• Aella
• Aethelflaed
• Agatha
• Aggie
• Agnes
• Alaska
• Alberta ▹ Birdie
• Albertine
• Alexandra
• Alexandrie
• Alexandrine
• Alice
• Allegra

nearly at the halfway point

• start a Substack or a blog
• find a new job
• draft a novel
• watch five films i've never seen before
• write about names
• lose 1 stone

• Alaska
• Amber
• Anemone
• Atlanta
• Autumn
• Betony
• Birdie
• Bloom
• Bluebell
• Boheme
• Briar
• Bryony
• Calico
• Camellia
• Chamomile
• Clementine
• Daisy
• Doe
• Dusty
• Early
• Echo

• Misha

• 2004: disneyland paris
• 2005: makarska, croatia
• 2016: amsterdam, the netherlands
• 2016: prague, czechia
• 2016: hillerød & naestved, denmark
• 2017: faro, portugal
• 2017: bergamo, montecoronaro & florence, italy
• 2017: nuremberg, germany
• 2018: stockholm, sweden
• 2018: riga, latvia
• 2019: nice, france & monaco
• 2019: mallorca, spain
• 2020: amsterdam, the netherlands
• 2023: vienna, austria
• 2024: new york city, ny, usa

• graduate with a BA in English
• buy my first home
• rescue a pet
• get my masters
• travel to 30 countries
• write a novel
• get my PhD
• run a successful blog
• walk a marathon
• visit the Scottish Highlands
• work in a library or archive
• study at Oxford or Cambridge (short courses count!)
• visit St Paul's Cathedral
• get married
• be an extra in a TV show or film
• visit the Norwegian Fjords
• see the Northern Lights
• become fluent in French
• visit The Everglades
• live abroad
• see an opera at The Met

• Abel
• Abraham
• Abram
• Adam
• Alaric
• Alastair
• Alexander
• Alexandre
• Alexis
• Alfred
• Algernon
• Amadeo
• Amadeus
• Ambrose
• Ames
• Amos
• Anatole
• Antoine
• Archer
• Ari
• Ariel

• Lesley Gore
• Dusty Springfield
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Lady Gaga
• Benny Goodman
• Lana Del Rey
• Françoise Hardy
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Ethel Cain
• Olivia Rodrigo
• MARINA
• Indila
• Édith Piaf
• ABBA
• Cass Elliot
• Amy Winehouse
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Dolly Parton
• Connie Francis
• Pale Waves
• RAYE

• The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck **
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
• For Esmé, with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

• author
• surgeon
• museum curator
• fashion designer
• astronomer
• professor
• editor
• librarian
• coffee shop owner
• antiques dealer
• photographer
• detective
• actress

• Allie
• Annie
• Betsy
• Birdie
• Edie
• Effie
• Emmy
• Ettie
• Evie
• Gracie
• Hattie
• Kitty
• Misty
• Nellie
• Peggy
• Penny
• Romy
• Rosy

~

• Archie