<p>The books I have to read are
Huck Finn
Catch 22
The Once and Future King</p>
<p>History:
-First chapter of textbook
-1984</p>
<p>English:
-All Quiet on the Western Front</p>
<p>That’s all! I’m so happy…</p>
<p>AP English Lit:
Oedipus Rex <– I flipped through the first few pages… does not look fun.
Mythology</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights and some short stories for AP Eng Lit</p>
<p>BrightRed: I’ve read Oedipus Rex…I thought the same thing before I read it, but the book was actually quite good. The topic of the book is very controversial which is probably why I liked it.</p>
<p>No official summer reading. Unofficially:
Start reading 3 awful books (“of your choice”) that I have to write three awful long papers about first semester.</p>
<p>And to the person who has to pick one out of five (i know this was a while back, but i figured it wouldnt hurt to comment)–
NEVER LET ME GO is really really good. I enjoyed it a lot. On the other hand, I hated the Dog in the Nightime. If you like stream of conciousness stuff its kinda like that.</p>
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<p>I wrote my Dartmouth essay on The Namesake. It was such a great book, and right now I’m reading Interpretor of Maladies (which is Lahiri’s first book). She’s an awesome writer.</p>
<p>The book was better than the movie though (the movie has Kal Penn of Harold and Kumar fame. He’s actually good in the movie though, I was surprised.)</p>
<p>My college requires all freshmen to read “They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan”</p>
<p>Typically I resent being made to read books (even though I absolutely love books in general). However, this book seems really good so I have no qualms about it</p>
<p>Agreed on Lahiri. I’ve read Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake.</p>
<p>I have to read Pride and Prejudice</p>
<p>We have to read Atonement and Crime and Punishment for AP English language along with doing some sort of poetry assignment.</p>
<p>"History:
-First chapter of textbook
-1984</p>
<p>English:
-All Quiet on the Western Front</p>
<p>That’s all! I’m so happy…"</p>
<p>I wish that was mine. Both those books are very good!</p>
<p>Profiles in Courage
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (by freddy d, of course)
a bunch of Gabriel Garcia Marquez short stories (in spanish, which will be death)
The Great Gatsby
The Scarlett Letter</p>
<p>^
Profiles in Courage is the book written by JFK, right? I’ve heard that’s a really good book.</p>
<p>I have to read:</p>
<p>Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research By Roger Hock</p>
<p>Life of Pi, by Yann Martel</p>
<p>Into the Wild - by Jon Krakauer </p>
<p>I read the life of Pi a long time ago, and the other two sound interesting.</p>
<p>Brave New World—Aldous Huxley
In Cold Blood—Truman Capote</p>
<p>How are these? Long and boring, short and boring, or interesting?</p>
<p>The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hooseini</p>
<p>All School Summer Reading</p>
<p>The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>A.P. English</p>
<p>The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy</p>
<p>How To Read Literature Like a Professor - Thomas C. Foster</p>
<p>Mythology - Greek Titans and Olympians, Hercules, Jason and Medea, Icarus and Daedalus, Prometheus, and The Trojan War stories.</p>
<p>The Bible - Genesis, Exodus, stories of Job, Jonah, Jezebel, Lot’s wife, Sodom and Gomorrah, Martha and Mary. Book of Matthew ch. 21-28</p>
<p>And I have to take notes on all of that. A.P. English is going to suck.</p>
<p>We have to read either McCain’s memoir or Obama’s memoir…shoot me now…</p>
<p>Plus whatever AP reading comes up before school ends…</p>
<p>At my school we only have summer reading in the form of summer assignments for AP classes. It’s not usually too bad, but I just found out I have to read The Hot Zone for AP Bio! I’m like germ phobic, so words cannot desrcribe how much I do not want to read that book. When I first heard about it, back in like 5th grade, I said to myself, “I’m going to do myself a favor and promise never to read that book in my life.” And now I have to. I am so not happy. And this is the first year he’s even given a summer assingment. I’m going to try and talk to him about it, and see if there is any way I can read a different book.</p>
<p>Other than that I just have to read:</p>
<p>Canterbury Tales -AP English Lit.
Hardball - AP Gov.</p>