Summer Reading List

Okay, my school works me to death during the year, but doesn't provide a summer reading list. Weird. Anyway, I'm making my own and I wanted some suggestions for books. Some of these I'm rereading, others I've just been meaning to get to, and here's what I've got so far:

Animal Farm, George Orwell
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Rose in Bloom, Louisa May Alcott
Twelve Caesars, Suetonius
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Catcher In the Rye, J.D. Salinger

:loves Salinger and Plath:

My summer reading list consists of:

Z. A. A. Prust
J. Lacan
J. L. Borges
G. C. Spivak
J. Derrida

This isn't my summer reading list but a list I made up to last me through a school term. (There's more but the real list is 30 books long and mostly fantasy)


A Rumor of Dragons by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Night is for Hunting by John Marsden
Burning for Revenge by John Marsden
Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden
Ghost Byte by John Larkin
The Alchemist's Key by Traci Harding
For love to conquer all by Libby Hathorn
The Party's Over by Caroline B Cooney
April Fools Day by Bryce Courtney
Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtney
The Gift by Alison Croggon

Also, for anyone *needing* a summer reading list, I strongly urge all of you to run out and buy anything by Michael Moorcock.

Heck, I'm just reading whatever's in reach. I haven't really had time to read anything that wasn't somehow connected to school.. *glances over longingly at The Golem's Eye*

I bought about 10 books a few months ago while at a book fair with Mesh. I've read.. one of the books. I've started on a few others. But I don't have time to read and write and do homework and do band and manage forums, etc. Grr.

So let's see.. mine would consist of:

The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud (an excellent author, in my opinion)
The Wings of a Falcon by Cynthia Voigt (re-read it, anyway)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (coming out in.. June, is it?)
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
Re-read A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
See if I can find a copy of Jane Eyre to re-read
Redeeming Love (don't know the author)
The Poisonwood Bible (by Barbara Kingsolver, I think.. not sure. It's a school-assigned book)

plus the 10 previously mentioned. As long as I can fit that in with Silver Lake Band Camp and a possible summer job, I think I'll be fine..

What is Redeeming Love about?

We don't have reading lists, never have. I don't have anything to read anyway, my small collection of 38 novels, is not enough, but I can't find any decent books, at least none that I like.

Meh, I'll just go to the library and find whatever looks good. Oh, and my birthday will hopefully allow me to improve my book pile.

My library provides some pretty good reading lists. For the most part, though, I'm sticking to the easy stuff this summer. You're basic YA novels, a lot of media tie-in novels like Smallville. (started watching the show recently and am loving it) And lets not forget my manga. I'm going back to school in September, and there will be enough difficult and challenging reading then.

my b-day didn't improve my book pile to my liking...

*twitch* arieda, Jane Eyre? I did NOT like that book...I've heard AMimal Farm is good, Cathcer in the Rye we read senior year..

Anyhoo, anything by Stroud, just because he's funny (well, what I've read of his is)
HP:HBP
flight of the raven (wait, it should come in from the library soon! yay!)
Wanderings: Chiam Potok's History of the Jews
A psychology book or two, if I can find a decent one...

And of course, anything posted here

I read Catcher in the Rye. It was good, but I would never read it over the summer. I don't read smart people books over the summer if I can help it.

My birthday's coming up, and I've already read Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix because it came in the mail yesterday. So did Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood. But that's not as high on my list of books I HAVE to read RIGHT NOW.

Soul Stealer: The Alchemist's Son Vol. 2 is coming just after my birthday in June, as well as another book (City of Flowers by Mary Hoffman) *silently curses the fact that it came out later in the US than it did in Britain, otherwise I would have it already.)

Also the four books still here from Christmas are: The Amulet of Samarkand, Elsewhere, A Northern Light, and The Purple Emporer, sequel to The Faerie Wars.

Obviously that's nowhere near enough to get me through the summer. I will obviously go to the library and bookstore a lot and get what piques my interest. I don't read classics unless it's for school. It's mainly fantasy.

I love "The Catcher in the Rye", "Jane Eyre" and "The Bell Jar." Three of my favourite books.
This WINTER (Australia, people) I'm trying for:
"The Year Of Living Dangerously" - C.J.Koch
"The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea" - Randolph Stow
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - Mark Twain
"Les Miserables" - Victor Hugo.

uniaeca wrote:This isn't my summer reading list but a list I made up to last me through a school term. (There's more but the real list is 30 books long and mostly fantasy)


A Rumor of Dragons by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
The Night is for Hunting by John Marsden
Burning for Revenge by John Marsden
Other Side of Dawn by John Marsden
Ghost Byte by John Larkin
The Alchemist's Key by Traci Harding
For love to conquer all by Libby Hathorn
The Party's Over by Caroline B Cooney
April Fools Day by Bryce Courtney
Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtney
The Gift by Alison Croggon

Yes! You have got read the ENTIRE John Marsden series. It's seven books in total. I'm telling you, I read the whole thing and it's awesome. But you have to read them in order otherwise it won't make sense, so you have to read Tomorrow When The War Began first.

I agree with Niteowl. I ditch the classics for the summer. So this is what I've got on my list:

Names Will Never Hurt Me by Jaime Adoff
Can't Get There from Here by Todd Strasser
Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn
You Don't Know Me by David Klass
White Oleandor by Janet Fitch
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Uncommon Faith by Trudy Krisher
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
When She Was Good by Norma Fox Mazer
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Cut by Patricia Mccormick
Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Pieces by Stephen Chbosky
Candy by Luke Davies
The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey
Innocents by Cathy Coote
Almost Lost by Beatrice Sparks
It Happened to Nancy by Beatrice Sparks
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Pop Princess by Rachel Cohn
Confessions of a Backup Dancer by Tucker Shaw

I've read the whole Tomorrow Series, and the after book. They're pretty good, my school has all of them. No library where I live so when I get back this Tuesday I think a visit to the library is in order. That's was how I got my thirty book list, but that was for one of last years terms. The school counsellor said I had to read a book every day or something like that. Let's just say my teachers didn't agree.

Anyway another good author is Terry Goodkind. His series are (I think) 5 or 7 books and they're over 700 pages each.