<p>I know this is crazy, and mad boring, but here's the list of books I hope to read this summer. These aren't the only books I plan to read, but these are the ones for sure:</p>
<p>War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
Middlemarch
The Definitive Tao
Art History for Dummies</p>
<p>Anybody think I can do it? Anybody think this is too heavy?</p>
<p>Unless this is for school, just read books that are entertaining. It is a waste of time to force yourself to read books that you find boring and uninteresting.</p>
<p>^ l0l, I agree with Venkat.</p>
<p>I don't think I see anywhere on a college app where you put the books you've read.</p>
<p>I disagree - for me at least, I purposely choose books that are outside my comfort zone (classical mysteries, historical non-fiction/fiction ) just because A. I may find a new topic that I like and B. it'll improve my vocabulary, and just expose me to new writing styles, thoughts/ideas, etc etc. </p>
<p>My tentative reading list is as follows:
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Les Miserables
Republic (by Plato)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Sense and Sensibility
David Copperfield (unabridged)
1 or 2 books on Holy Roman Empire if I can fit it in </p>
<p>that's it at the moment. I'm hoping to fit this in between working in the lab and working out.</p>
<p>My friends hated Crime and Punishment</p>
<p>My friends loved Crime and Punishment.</p>
<p>Reading is a new hobby for me, so I'm just going for the classics:</p>
<ol>
<li>To Kill A Mocking Bird...yeah yeah yeah I'm 17 and still haven't read it. </li>
<li>Jane Eyre</li>
<li>1984</li>
<li>Catch 22</li>
</ol>
<p>and then the stuff I'm really stoked for...
5. The Kite Runner
6. Harry Potter 7 wooooooooohoooooooo</p>
<p>Definitely read Crime and Punishment. As for Middlemarch... it's pretty much a whole lot of nothing.</p>
<p>im going to read atlas shrugged.</p>
<p>I'm not reading these books for school. I want to read them in part so I can say I've read them, but I am legitimately interested. If I find some new subject that grabs my interest while reading these books, good.</p>
<p>read A Million Little Pieces. Though it's filled with controversy, it is DEFINETLY touching.</p>
<p>2words. Kite Runner.</p>
<p>I loved crime and punishment.
I couldn't get through the brothers karamazov though. maybe I'll try going back to that this summer.
I loved war and peace too.</p>
<p>I've already read A Million Little Pieces. And My Friend Leonard for that matter.</p>
<p>"Reading is a new hobby for me, so I'm just going for the classics:</p>
<ol>
<li>To Kill A Mocking Bird...yeah yeah yeah I'm 17 and still haven't read it. </li>
<li>Jane Eyre</li>
<li>1984</li>
<li>Catch 22</li>
</ol>
<p>and then the stuff I'm really stoked for...
5. The Kite Runner
6. Harry Potter 7 wooooooooohoooooooo"</p>
<p>other than jane eyre, that list is pretty nice. im planning on reading a clockwork orange and hp7. thats all thats on my list :) </p>
<p>ps JULY 21 2007 HECK YAAAAAA</p>
<p>Oh, and I may try tackling the full version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" - like, the 1400 page one. By far my favorite novel.</p>
<p>I read about 50 books last summer or something, ha ha. A book a day or so. </p>
<p>I'm kinda running out of books to read. :) I think I'm going to read alot of poetry. Whitman, Gary Snyder (anyone else like him?), Pound, etc. And the rest of Kerouac, all the gritty obscure books.</p>
<p>You guys are saddening though, saying there's no point in reading challenging books!</p>
<p>lol i'm guessing you didn't have a summer job.</p>
<p>"You guys are saddening though, saying there's no point in reading challenging books!"
I could see what they meant, though. There's a difference between challenging yourself and struggling to get through a book that you hate simply so that you can say, "I read War and Peace!" (not the OP is the latter type of person... I was just arguing a point =D)</p>
<p>My List:
-The Sound and the Fury (I adore this book, but it's such a challenge)
-A Clockwork Orange
-1984 again (haven't read that one in awhile)
-Emma
-The Poisonwood Bible
-Three Dramas of American Individualism (bought it at a used book sale... I enjoy reading dramas... but, hopefully, they're not stinkers =P)
-Any other books that I find at book stores!</p>
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<p>That was...an odd book.</p>
<p>My list (in no particular order):</p>
<p>1) No Exit -- Jean-Paul Sartre
2) Night of January 16 -- Ayn Rand
3) Medea -- Euripides
4) The Soul of Man under Socialism -- Oscar Wilde
5) The Anti-Christ -- Friedrich Nietzsche
6) Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Zora Neale Hurston
7) Lancelot -- Walker Percy
8) Sophie's Choice -- William Styron</p>
<p>I'll probably get some more read -- but I'll be in China for 2 months, so any addition to the list would probably be Chinese. =]</p>
<p>well i'll put my summer reading list from last year since everyone seems to be sharing theirs...I'm not sure how my list will be this summer because of all the required reading and work i'll have to do so ugh. but...</p>
<p>LAST YEAR:
The Giver (like my 23rd time no joke)
Slaughterhouse Five
1984
The Perks of Being A Wallflower
The Color Purple
Harry Potter 6 (at the time, it was my 4th time lol)
The Celestine Prophesy (loveddddd itttttt!)
The Sound And The Fury (didn't fully get through it...Leo your right, its pretty difficult)</p>
<p>Looks like I'm gonna have to start putting some thought into what I'll be reading this summer and I like the recs people are giving here. This is great!</p>