Post your Winter Break Reading List!

<p>I don't think I have anything that I'm required to read for school, but I want to finish The Purgatorio, and start and hopefully finish The Paradiso as well.</p>

<p>I'm reading (for myself)</p>

<p>The Bell Jar
The Communist Manifesto
The World is Flat (Revised and Updated)
Night
Catch-22
And The Fountainhead if I have time.</p>

<p>I'm weird. Oh well :)</p>

<p>those are a lot! how long is your break snoopy?
and I loved the bell jar when I read it.</p>

<p>Theres a Wocket in My Pocket...best book ever :0) haha Dr. Suess...now THATS a classic! hehe anywho im moving over the winter break so no reading for me!!</p>

<p>Hopefully...</p>

<p>1984
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Brave New World
The Brothers Karamazov (this is huge though, so probably not)</p>

<p>lovelykittycat...Thanks for reading my post-sometimes I feel like I'm talking to myself on these forums...</p>

<p>i'm reading The Other Boleyn Girl for myself...I always wanted to read it but was intimidated by the size (I'm more into books I can carry to school, etc haha)...but I just went for it a couple of weeks ago..I'm really looking forward to reading the end and reading the Boleyn Inheritance too</p>

<p>do you know of any other good books ?</p>

<p>My break is approx. 2 weeks and a couple days, but I've already finished 2 books. I have no life. :(</p>

<p>:D</p>

<p>Anon<em>Person</em>1 </p>

<p>lol :P I like long books, sometimes long books are too short. lol </p>

<p>Have you read her other books? The Virgin's Lover is pretty good, & The Queens Fool. Both are not as good as the Boleyn Girl though.</p>

<p>Uh. what other kinds of books are you into? </p>

<p>All of books by Tamora Pierce are great. They are not hard to read either, but the stories are good :) Beware: She has alot of series & its easy to get hooked if you like them. Her Tortall giant series is better than the circle books. </p>

<p>There is another good series: The Named, The Dark, The Key - by Marianne Curley.</p>

<p>Then of course, Harry Potter books are the best :P</p>

<p>Eragon & Eldest by Paolini are great. </p>

<p>His Dark Materials series (The Golden Compass etc) by Pullman are good too. I haven't quite finished the last one yet though. They aren't the best books, but still good. </p>

<p>Also on my bookshelf are some of the Young Royals books, Doomed Queen Anne, Beware Princess Elizabeth, by Carolyn Meyer. I haven't read those in a very very very long time though. </p>

<p>Should I start with my wishlist now? LOL I have about 20 books on Amazon that I want/ will buy... sometime...</p>

<h2>I realize that this list is quite different from the other ones posted here, but, hey, I like them :) I read alot / reread & I read pretty fast too. </h2>

<p>oh and my winter break is from the Dec 15 - Jan 8. Well, thats my new schools break. I just got out of school yesterday from my old school & they go back the 8th too. </p>

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<p>If anyone else wants to post what they read for fun... :) Though its kinda going OT from the winter break list, sorry!</p>

<p>I love breaks. I get to fill the down-times (i.e. waiting for my baking) with reading I couldn't do during the school time. </p>

<p>Wow, I sound like a dork. :)
But it IS a sad thing to have to pick and choose books to which books to check-out from the library because you don't have time to read all of the books you want to. :(</p>

<ul>
<li>The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)</li>
<li>Beowulf (AP lit, yeayuh!)</li>
<li>The Elephan Vanishes and</li>
<li>South of the Border, West of the Sun (both by Haruki Murakami)</li>
<li>Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)</li>
</ul>

<p>Whoot!</p>

<p>-Age of Innocence
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower
-Angela's Ashes</p>

<p>omg and the Fountainhead is soooo good! I read it last week.</p>

<p>I always look forward to witner break cause i can actually read what i want to! lol and i have time for it.</p>

<ul>
<li>Gulliver's Travels</li>
<li>the Book of Matthew</li>
<li>Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar</li>
<li>Brave New World (if i have time)</li>
</ul>

<p>hopefully... :)</p>

<p>Sounds good!!! I have to reserve those from my library (I'm on basically a first name basis with not only the teen librarian-who buys whatever I reserve haha- and the checkout librarians :)).I always love to hear book picks from a fellow reader!</p>

<p>My recent faves:
Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman (if you love Austen, you'll love this book, so great!)
Overachievers (perfect for CC, really well-written)
Kite Runner (absolutely great)
Interstellar Pig (it sounds weird, but this book was so good when I read it)
Georgia Nicolson
Uglies/Pretties/Specials
Rx
Girl in Pearl Earring</p>

<p>Yeah...so I read realistic teen books, science fiction, not really fantasy lovely kitty cat. maybe i'll start though! funnily enough, I also read those young royals...and a lot of ann rinaldi a while ago..</p>

<p>
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The Overachievers

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That was awesome.</p>

<p>Well lets see..</p>

<p>Uncle Tom's Cabin...for AP History
The Great Gatsby..for American Lit
And of course the good old textbooks for AP History & Physics...</p>

<p>But I don't care...I can't wait for break!</p>

<p>The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
Some other book I have... either Salinger, Ellis, or maybe Nietsche
And a Scotch label. Wish it was a rum label... but beggers can't be choosers.</p>

<p>The Count of Monte Cristo for both Honors Literature and my own enjoyment.</p>

<p>Anon<em>Person</em>1,</p>

<p>ann rinaldi.. that sounds familiar...ooh yea, I think I read The Secret of Sarah Revere in 8th grade, and I think I liked it, & I think I also read A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials...& I read quite a few of the Georgia Nicolson books. Everyone was reading them in middle school. Gossip Girls also went around in middle school, have you read those? I read a few of them. They are teen/high school type books if I remember correctly. & Then it went off into another series too. </p>

<p>Well, my sister reads aton of books by Meg Cabot. She writes more than just the princess diary books. I never really looked at those though, not really my thing. They are teen girl books or something. I don't really know, I don't really read what she reads, she doesn't read what I read, we get along that way. LOL </p>

<p>Do you read historical fiction? Well, Boleyn Girl, Ann Rinaldi & Young royals are.. so :P</p>

<p>On my list to read/buy (not fantasy :P):
Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by Alison Weir
Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour by Laurien Gardner
Legacy by Susan Kay
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
Dear Heart, How Like You This by Wendy J. Dunn </p>

<p>I just moved & the library we have isn't that good, but we can get books from the online library in the neighboring areas, and have them shipped, which is kind of cool :)</p>

<p>uh yea, this is probably the most I've posted on CC. I tend to lurk....</p>

<p>My list:
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (looong but I'm about 150 pages in already, shouldn't be too bad)
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (again, already in the middle of it)
- Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks
- Campbell's biology (heck yes I'm going to finish this!!)
- AP prep books for all the things I'm self-studying
- Probably also pre-calc notes for Math II SAT because it was forever ago</p>

<p>Snoopy, DEFINITELY try to get to The Fountainhead, it's amazing :)</p>

<p>yeah...The Fountainhead was my favourite book for the longest time. I still love it, and I'm every bit the socialist.</p>

<p>The Awakening
Oh and beginning of our Cuba text.. </p>

<p>Not much yay :)</p>