In three days I will take my last final and then I will have finished my freshman year of college!! Woo hoo! So in preparation for a long, hot summer spent largely indoors with air-conditioning, I am compiling a summer reading list. So far, here's what I have:
1. John Adams by David Mccullough
2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
4. The Iron Heel by Jack London
5. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (When it comes out)
6. Enna Burning by Shannon Hale
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. Dune by Frank Herbert
10. Plato's Republic by Plato
11. Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
13. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
14. Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester
15. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L'Engle
16. Beowulf as translated by Burton Raffel
17. El Leon, la Bruja, y el Ropero by C.S. Lewis
18. Common Sense and other writings by Thomas Paine
19. Rifles for Waite by Harold Keith
20. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
21. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
22. Don Quijote De La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
23. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
24. Standing for Something by Gordon B. Hinkley
25. Tally's Corner by Elliot Liebow
A lot of these are books that I tried to read when I was younger and had no idea what the heck they were talking about, so I guess I'll give them another shot and see what happens :) Any suggestions?
Get an account on goodreads.com. It's very excellent for finding books that are good. You can use facebook for it too, I think.
ReplyDeleteHave you read The Power of One? I could give you all kinds of suggestions, but I don't know what you've read before. But your list is already pretty hefty. :) I think somebody needs a Kindle.
Yep :) I'm trying to make up for not reading at all during the school year, and nope, I haven't read The Power of One, is it good?
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