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Summer Reading List
Ally:
I am making massive summer to do lists so that I don't let my summer run out without doing all of the things I stayed up at night this school year telling myself that I would do. This is Part 1 of my Summer Plan.
I suggest you do the same.
I will edit this post to contain a short review with a rating of how much I enjoyed a book once I've finished - you can do this too but maybe you don't want to? I don't know.
FOR SCHOOL:
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe [required]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [required]
On the Road by Jack Kerouac [on a list] (I started this and lost the book and never finished it)
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry [on a list] (I started this last summer but school came before I could finish)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler [on a list]
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner [on a list]
Last year's required reading was The Life of Pi and Cat's Cradle, both of which were perfect summer books. I only have to read one of the books on the list but I might as well read all of the ones I've been meaning to read.
FOR ALLY:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (I plan to read it, so I might as well list it)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (again) (I love this book)
This list will expand until my summer officially starts on the 21st.
This is your chance to read all of those things you've always told yourself you would! Next school year is going to be hectic so I'm making the most out of my summer. I'm nailing a ton of the classics and a few things that people keep suggesting. I jacked a lot of these from Jenny's list and made her recommend me more.
Inlander:
Well, I don't have a seasonal reading list. However I have a reading project which I'm currently being very slack about. Having been raised in a completely secular household, I thought it was about time that I started trying to get to grips with this whole "religion" thing, to try and understand the world a little better. To that end, I set out to read the major texts in what I deemed to be the most significant global religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. (My brother recently suggested I add Confucianism, which I think is a good idea).
However at the moment I'm pretty much stalled at the starting grid: the Bible is not an easy read. In fact it's an incredibly tedious read. And it's 1800 pages long! So far I've almost made it to the end of Leviticus. (I'm reading the King James version, for historical reasons.)
Johnny C:
I'm going to try and read more books by Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem. I need to read some more Mordecai Richler, re-acquaint myself with Tolstoy, finish reading Steinbeck's works, go through a couple of novels that a friend of mine lent me and go through the new Palhaniuk.
SilentJ:
Ally-
The new HP book sounds promising, I, too am awairing its release eagerly.
Catch-22, or what I read of it, was just a great read. Very entertaining.
However, Pride and Prejudice was one of the worst books I have ever read. It is second worst, only being not-quite-so-bad as Wuthering Heights was. Good Lord that book was terrible.
Storm Rider:
Catch-22 is one of my favorite books of ever. So good.
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