Summer Reading List

[Dodger Thirteen]

What books are on your summer reading list?

Currently, I'm just trying to get through all the books on my shelves that I haven't yet read. They are:

"Literature"
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
The Dubliners - James Joyce
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
"A Scandal in Bohemia" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"A Case of Identity" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Red-Headed League" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Boscombe Valley Mystery" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Five Orange Pips" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Man with the Twisted Lip" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Blue Carbuncle" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Speckled Band" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Engineer's Thumb" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Noble Bachelor" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Beryl Coronet" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Copper Beeches" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


YA Novels
Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer
The Light - D.J. MacHale
Radiant Shadows - Melissa Marr
Bloodhound - Tamora Pierce
The Luxe -Anna Godbersen
Soulless - Gail Carriger
Changeless - Gail Carriger
Blameless - Gail Carriger
Sisters Red - Jackson Pearce
The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley
The Last Little Blue Envelope - Maureen Johnson
Game of Thrones - George R. Martin
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield


Comics
Walking Dead vol. 1
Walking Dead vol. 2
Walking Dead vol. 3
Walking Dead vol. 4
Walking Dead vol. 5
Arkham Asylum
Green Arrow: Quiver
Buffy vol. 6
Buffy vol. 7
The Secret History vol. 1
The Secret History vol. 2

[rayyychul]

Right now, the pile beside my bed includes:

Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer (and of course I'll have to reread the entire series beforehand!)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

I also want to read Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy, but I'm waiting for it to come out in trade paperback!

[tastyink]

I'm trying to read all the books on my shelf that I haven't gotten to yet AND the books I got from Borders when they went out of business.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Hobbit-(reading now)
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Food, Inc by Karl Weber (after I watch the movie)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Atonement by Ian McEwan

And some more books that I can't list because they're not by my bed. If only the summer was longer

[Garth]

I'm trying to read The Satanic Verses, which is taking a lot longer than I thought simply because of the style of the prose. And on the side I'm reading Dubliners and some Japanese novels that take more time to be translated than to be read.

[flute88]

This is everything I currently have out from the library, plus the books that I bought but haven't read yet (it's... going to be long):

1. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
2. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII - John W. Dower (in progress)
3. Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire - David Mura
4. The Final Martyrs - Shusaku Endo
5. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
6. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
7. The Old Capital - Yasunari Kawabata
8. The Palace of Laughter - Jon Berkeley
9. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
10. Paper Towns - John Green
11. Shinsengumi: the Shogun's Last Samurai Corps - Romulus Hillsborough
12. Silk and Insight - Mishima Yukio
13. South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
14. Yokai Attack!: the Japanese Monster Survival Guide - Hiroko Yoda
15. The Boy Next Door - Meg Cabot
16. The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
17. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
18. The Princess Bride - William Goldman
19. The Reapers Are the Angels - Alden Bell
20. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
21. Don't Breathe A Word - Jennifer McMahon
22. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories - Susanna Clarke
23. The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
24. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
25. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
26. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
27. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
28. American Gods - Neil Gaiman (in progress)
29. Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
30. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
31. Women of the Silk - Gail Tsukiyama
32. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
33. Animal Farm - George Orwell
34. Accelerando - Charles Stross
35. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
36. The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
37. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
38. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

I'll just... edit this as I go along, I guess.

[Gina]

I've been thinking about what to put on my summer reading list for a while now, and I finally have it narrowed down.

1. Night and Day- Virginia Woolf
2. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
3. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
4. Nikki Heat series- "Richard Castle"
5. My grandmother's old psychology book since I'm taking AP Psych next year and I want to get ahead.

[Mary Sandals]

I'm currently trying to finish up Jane Eyre, which is (thus far) surprisingly good. I'd also like to finish Requiem for a Dream and start Dead Poet's Society

[Silva]

Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy (in progress)
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky (in progress)
The Hunger Games trilogy
To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger Completed~!
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
On The Road- Jack Kerouac
The Color Purple- Alice Walker
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
Watership Down- Richard Adams
Dubliners- James Joyce
Ulysses- James Joyce
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath Completed~!
The Inferno- Dante Alighieri
Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift
A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- Ken Kesey (in progress)
A Passage to India- E.M. Forster
All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque

I felt I was rather remiss on my classics, despite all that we have studied in school.

@ Dodger Thirteen- I loved East of Eden and Slaughterhouse Five!

@ Flute88- The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my top favorite books. I could go on for days about it.

[flute88]

May 30, 2011 20:30:22 GMT -5 Silva said:

@ Flute88- The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my top favorite books. I could go on for days about it.

I got about halfway through it a few years back and then forgot about it, so I'm determined to finish it this time! I remember liking what I read.

[Silva]

-resists urge to babble on about it- I think you'll enjoy the rest of it, too. Have fun!

[Dodger Thirteen]

I just finished watching the film version of Dorian Gray with Ben Barnes. It was...interesting? I liked it more than I expected to, but as a film version...well, it's a film version.

[Lady Macbeth]

I'm also aiming to get through some untouched items on my bookshelf this summer.

1. The Secret Life of Josephine - Carolly Erickson
2. The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
3. The Porcelain Dove - Delia Sherman
4. The Skystone - Jack Whyte
5. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
6. Pawn of Prophecy - David Eddings
7. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
8. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

[Mary Sandals]

May 30, 2011 21:05:17 GMT -5 Dodger Thirteen said:

I just finished watching the film version of Dorian Gray with Ben Barnes. It was...interesting? I liked it more than I expected to, but as a film version...well, it's a film version.

I had to quit when (move spoilers!) Basil (how to say this with class) got a little friendly with the nether regions of the title character...*facepalm* I'm too much of a loyalist to the book to really appreciate the movie.

[alyoshka]

along with my summer school books, Torah, and the Talmud

[Dodger Thirteen]

May 31, 2011 0:30:38 GMT -5 Mary Sandals said:

May 30, 2011 21:05:17 GMT -5 Dodger Thirteen said:

I just finished watching the film version of Dorian Gray with Ben Barnes. It was...interesting? I liked it more than I expected to, but as a film version...well, it's a film version.

I had to quit when (move spoilers!) Basil (how to say this with class) got a little friendly with the nether regions of the title character...*facepalm* I'm too much of a loyalist to the book to really appreciate the movie.

I know what you mean. I got to that scene and I was whiskey-tango-foxtrotting all over the place.