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Summer Reading Lists
It's that wonderful time of year again. We finally gain back time for reading in the hopes that our TBR piles dwindle down. List the books you hope to read this summer or ones that were assigned from school for school work.
These are ones I hope to finish before I leave for college in September. Most of these are the same as my list from last year because last summer I had one of those reading droughts that made me not able to get into any book I picked up. I only finished like three books. -Marian Zimmer Bradley The Mists of Avalon -Rosalind Miles Quenevere, Queen of the Summer Country The Knight of the Sacred Lake The Child of the Holy Grail -Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind -Juliet Marillier Daughter of the Forest Son of the Shadows Child of the Prophecy -J.R.R. Tolkein The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King -J.K. Rowling The Prisoner of Azakaban(reread) The Goblet of Fire(reread) The Order of the Phoenix -Anne Rice Interview With the Vampire The Vampire Lestat The Queen of the Damned The Tale of the Body Thief Memnoch the Devil The Vampire Armand Blood and Gold The Witching Hour Lasher Taltos -Dan Brown The Da Vince Code -Stephen King The Stand It Salem’s Lot Misery Needful Things The Gunslinger The Drawing of the Three The Waste Lands Wizard and Glass Wolves of the Calla Song of Susannah -Yann Martel Life of Pi -Jeffrey Eugenides Middle Sex -Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty -Charlotte Bronte Villette -Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -Jostein Gaarder Sophie’s World -Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy -Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale -George Orwell 1984 -Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina -Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451(reread) -Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet in Heaven -Ayn Rand The Fountainhead -Lee Smith The Last Girls -Neil Gaiman American Gods -James Reese The Book of Shadows __________________
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The A-List by Zoey Dean
The A-List : Girls on Film by Zoey Dean The Clique by Lisi Harrison The Insiders by J. Minter Summer Boys by Hailey Abbott __________________
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Wow! igloo155 that's a long list of books to read!
 My list would probably be as long; it already tires me to even think of how long it would be.  __________________
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Sharon Shinn:
Jovah's Angel The Alleluia Files Angelica Angel-Seeker The Safe-Keeper's Secret Julia Quinn: To Sir Phillip, With Love When He Was Wicked and probably more of her books Sheri S. Tepper: Shadow's End Tamora Pierce: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man Lioness Rampant Lance Armstrong: Every Second Counts (I'll probably read this during the Tour de France next month) Nicola Griffith: Ammonite Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn Anthologies: Irresistible Forces Charmed Destinies (I've read a few stories from these so far) I'd also like to catch up on my Luna books: In Camelot's Shadow by Sarah Zettel The Wizard's Ward by Deborah Hale Seraphim by Michele Hauf Silver's Edge by Anne Kelleher __________________
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I'll come back with my list later but I do know that I have a very fat pile of biographies at home waiting to be read
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I'll be a jr. in HS next year, and I have to read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck b/c I'll be taking AP English. I also havee to keep a journal with a quote from the book and explain why I chose that quote. I'm having the hardest time starting even though chapter one is only four pages long.
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Yeah, I tried to read The Grapes of Wrath once and found it really difficult to get into. I know my personal list is pretty long and I won't get to it all obviously but I really want to get a lot read because I really don't have time to read for pleasure with my college classes. It's like during the school year I feel guilty to read what I want because there's always something else for school I could be reading.
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For me, I'm reading through the CSI novel series. After that, I'll be getting caught up with the Dark Tower series.
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Wow, igloo155 your list is quite long and full of some hefty books.
 How many of those do you actually think you'll be able to finish this Summer? |
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My guess is around 25. I'm not able to get full time work hours because of all the college kids coming back. If the thread is still posted by the end of the summer which I daubt, I'll let you guys know how I did. I have finished three of them so far so I am on the right track but I keep picking up books that are not on the list.
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I used to have a huge list of books I wanted to read, but I can't find it. Gr...
This summer I want to read - Children of Dune - Frank Herbert Baudolino - Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde The Life of Elizabeth I - Alison Weir The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII - Retha M. Warnicke The Eight - Katherine Neville The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte The Flanders Panel - Arturo Perez-Reverte The Magic Circle - Katherine Neville The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray The Angel of Galilea - Laura Restrepo Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears The Immaculate Deception - Iain Pears The Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris __________________
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igloo -
That has to be the most ambitious summer reading list I've ever seen in my life. My goal is to finish all the books I've "borrowed" from other people: Hamlet The Irish R.M. The Shadow of the Torturer The Urth of the New Sun Victory over Japan Servant of the Bones 9 mystery books by Jonathon Gash I really wish people wouldn't dump books on me all the time. The only one of those I ASKED to borrow was Shadow of the Torturer. All I have toi do is express the slightest interest in something and people start bringing me all their books related to it. I've had Victory Over Japan for at least 5 years now, because I said I liked one of the author's other books. Amazingly, I still know who gave me each of them, and when. __________________
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I'll be lucky to finish the Wit'ch Fire series by James Clemens.
Oh, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for school.__________________
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Summer reading
(What I've chosen from the long list of possibilities)  After the Fall by Arthur Miller (finished) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens As You Like It by Shakespeare The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Broken Glass by Arthur Miller A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Twelth Night by Shakespeare Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayBut we only need to read 3- one play, one Shakespeare, and one novel What I Want Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva Nazimova: A Biography by Gavin Lambert Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel__________________
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