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

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

Wow! igloo155 that's a long list of books to read! :lol:
My list would probably be as long; it already tires me to even think of how long it would be. ;)

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

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 :)

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.

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.

For me, I'm reading through the CSI novel series. After that, I'll be getting caught up with the Dark Tower series.

Wow, igloo155 your list is quite long and full of some hefty books. :eek: How many of those do you actually think you'll be able to finish this Summer?

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.

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

igloo -
:lol: 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.

I'll be lucky to finish the Wit'ch Fire series by James Clemens. :) Oh, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for school.

Summer reading
(What I've chosen from the long list of possibilities)
:star: After the Fall by Arthur Miller (finished)
:star: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
:star: As You Like It by Shakespeare
:star: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
:star: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
:star: Broken Glass by Arthur Miller
:star: A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
:star: Twelth Night by Shakespeare
:star: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
:star: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
But we only need to read 3- one play, one Shakespeare, and one novel

What I Want
:star: Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva
:star: Nazimova: A Biography by Gavin Lambert
:star: Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
:star: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
:star: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
:star: Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

I've read both of these. Fantastic. Especially Wurtzel's.