<p>The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Harry Potter 6 (of course) by JK Rowling
Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintainence by Robert Pirsig
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Glengarry Glen Ross (not really a book, I know, but it's in paperback no less ;)) by David Mamet</p>
<p>Harry Potter 6 by JK Rowling
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Five People You Meet In Heaven and Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley</p>
<p>...Lots of reading this summer</p>
<p>I read Harry Potter 6 and right now I'm reading the Da Vinci Code .. not much time for reading anymore unfortunately</p>
<p>Harry Potter and Angels and Demons. Those of you who really enjoyed the Da Vinci Code should all read Angels and Demons too! It's totally awesome.</p>
<p>So far I've read... </p>
<p>Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince<br>
Jane Eyre
A Clockwork Orange
Little Women
Siddhartha
Moby Dick
Vanity Fair
1984
The Prince
The Good Earth
Frankenstein</p>
<p>I luv 1984! I read it in the beginning of 8th grade. This summer I read Stargirl, The House of the Scorpion, & The Gospel According to Larry</p>
<p>I haven't had much time for reading this summer either, but I forgot to add that I'll be buying and reading Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis as soon as I get back in the US (2 weeks!).</p>
<p>I've had I ton on summer homework to do so not much time for pleasure reading. I finnished my assigned summer reading:
Amazing Grace
Gifted Hands
On Writing Well
In to Thin Air</p>
<p>all for AP Lang. they were suprizingly easy compared to the honors english reading. I had a bunch of essays for AP World History and AP Art History that kept me busy.</p>
<p>My Self Prescribed intro to Ayn Rand:
Anthem (warm up)
The Fountianhead
Atlas Shrugged</p>
<p>Other:
The Stand
Blink
Walden
Thus Spake Zarathustra
The Crusades (old random history book picked up for $0.25 at local library)</p>
<p>Slaughterhouse 5
The American Revolution
The Scarlet Letter</p>
<p>Summer reading assignments for history and english.</p>
<p>Required Reading:
Profiles in Courage
Decision in Philadelphia</p>
<p>Not-Required Reading:
1984
Paladin of Souls
Autumn Bridge
Harry Potter</p>
<p>And some other books I can't remember...</p>
<p>Little Women has been my favorite book since I was 10...classic.</p>
<p>And Stargirl changed my life.</p>
<p>Required Reading:
Jane Eyre
Black Ice
To Kill A Mockingbird</p>
<p>Nonrequired:
Harry Potter 6
The Da Vinci Code ( SO GOOD)
A Little Princess l----------l
The Secret Garden l-------(I love classics for little girls...they're just wonderful to me...call me a freak)</p>
<p>Probably more that I can't remember...it's too hot to think right now.</p>
<p>Required:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (too pretentious)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (too much use of incomprehensible dialect)
Emma (loved it!)</p>
<p>Non-required:
Harry Potter 6 (duh)
Atlas Shrugged (I was absolutely loving it, even though I hated the ideas she was presenting, until John Galt's endless radio speech)
The Tao of Pooh (a tradition)
Pride and Prejudice (didn't love it as much as Emma, but liked its unconventional structure and themes better)
And some more stuff I don't remember right now.</p>
<p>Required:
Othello
Jane Eyre
Silas Marner
In Our Defense by Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman
Cajas de Carton by Francisco Jimenez (for Spanish)</p>
<p>Non-required:
Harry Potter 5 and 6
Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin Barber
Exodus by Leon Uris
Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy...again
Survival of the Prettiest by Nancy Etcoff</p>
<p>That's about it, I think...</p>
<p>Required for school:
-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
-The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken
-Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
-Visa for Avalon by Bryher</p>
<p>Others:
-The Crystal Shard by R.A Salvatore
-Streams of Silver by R.A Salvatore
-Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
-(two astronomy books)</p>
<p>Right now I'm reading a book called "Lost Christianities" which talks about the other Christian religious groups that existed (for example, since the god of the Old and New Testament seemed so different, one group believed there were Two gods, the God of the Jews and the Stranger God). It's really interesting, if you're curious about that sort of stuff.</p>
<p>The Fiske Guide to Colleges by Robert Fiske
Admissions Confidential by Rachel Toor</p>
<p>Oliver Twist by Dickens
A collection of modern philosophy
Middlesex
Piano Tuner
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Lord of the Flies and Billy Budd (stupid summer assignment)</p>
<p>Required reading:</p>
<ul>
<li>a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce</li>
<li>the Tempest by Shakespeare</li>
<li>a Passage to India by E.M. Forster</li>
<li>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad</li>
<li>Mythology by Edith Hamilton</li>
<li>Krik! Krak? by Edwidge Danticat</li>
<li>Shakespeare Alive! by Joseph Papp</li>
</ul>
<p>For non-required reading, I'm going through some of Shakespeare's plays and re-reading a few old favorites.</p>
<p>I feel like such a non intellectual, I have not read any non required books....</p>