<p>I’m reading music history stuff…I just finished a book on Chopin and now started one on Mozart today. Might read some novels too…idk.</p>
<p>A lot of college admissions books, that’s to be sure.</p>
<p>For certain, though, I’ll be reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and all the French plays/essays my old French teacher gave me from her college days. I’ll probably re-read Paradise Lost. There’s also a few Glen Duncan novels I need to get to.</p>
<p>I’m excited to read, haha. Haven’t done it in awhile. Not really, anyways.</p>
<p>Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Voyeur by Alaine Robbe-Grillet
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</p>
<p>To name a few. I’ve heard they’re all good so Id like to read them. Opinions?</p>
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<p>Brave New World
Return of the Native
Jane Eyre
Mayor of Casterbridge
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Malgudi Days</p>
<p>Plan on reading some Isaac Asimov too. Clearly a genius in the field of science fiction.</p>
<p>Camus and Robbe-Grillet are excellent; get the originals for the full effect. I liked Crime and Punishment as well, but prefer The Brothers Karamazov.</p>
<p>Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace (RIP!)</p>
<p>Whatever my AP Lang teacher assigns us to read over the summer. Otherwise, I will acquire cultural sophistication by watching movies and playing tasteful video games. Especially the kind where grotesque mutilation is the central focus of the plot.</p>
<p>No assigned reading…</p>
<p>What Every Body is Saying by Joseph Navarro (body language book)</p>
<p>The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins</p>
<p>Don’t Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America’s Greatest Conflict but Never Learned by Kenneth Davis</p>
<p>The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch</p>
<p>Please Stop Laughing At Me by Jodee Blanco</p>
<p>Critique of Pure Reason
-Immanuel Kant</p>
<p>Dubliners
-James Joyce</p>
<p>Memory of my melancholy wh*res
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez</p>
<p>The Handmaid’s Tale
-Margaret Atwood</p>
<p>1984
-George Orwell</p>
<p>The Metamorphosis
-Franz Kafka</p>
<p>… some others I cannot remember right now</p>
<p>Don’t read Dubliners, I promise you it’s really really dumb.</p>
<p>and Proclivity, The Stranger is super excellent. Personally I found Madame Bovary really boring–it was the only book I’ve ever had to read for school that I couldn’t finish.</p>
<p>Madame Bovary’s not really as “sexy” as one would imagine.</p>
<p>Oh, and if anyone is reading Lolita this summer … :S.</p>
<p>^Well, it was written in like 1800. I don’t think sex had even been invented back then.</p>
<p>Some of the short stories in dubliners I really liked. Like the last one (The one with gabriel), and also the one with the poor kid with the alcoholic aunt/uncle and the bazar. Why do you think it’s dumb…?</p>
<p>summer break started last week for me and so far i’ve read:</p>
<p>atonement
life of pi
the picture of dorian gray
the sound and the fury (working on it)</p>
<p>to read list: </p>
<p>frankenstein (required)
a portrait of the artist as a young man
angela’s ashes
animal farm
anna karenina
as i lay dying
atlas shrugged
catch-22
east of eden
if nobody speaks of remarkable things
slaughterhouse five
the catcher in the rye
the color purple
the fountainhead
the master and margarita
the poisonwood bible
the testament
the unbearable lightness of being
the varieties of religious experience
underworld
vanity fair</p>
<p>doubt i’ll get through it all but i’m going to try… i have no time for reading during the school year, so summer reading is a treat for me. i love seeing everyone else’s lists!</p>
<p>I don’t have anything for the summer yet. I’m gonna try to finish 3 more Stephen King books before the summer.</p>
<p>I’d like to read LOTR for the first time, just because I’m a fantasy nut and still haven’t read it. The first few chapters are terrifically boring, but I refuse to give up. There’s a whole set of books on my to-read list, along with a general desire to read the classics, because I still haven’t done much of that either.</p>
<p>There’s also my AP Lang assigned reading. The Boy’s Life is the only one we have set in stone since we’re reading it once school starts, and then he gave us options for our main assignment. Still haven’t decided on which ones I’m doing…</p>
<p>I’m planning on reading:
Gone with the Wind
1984
Crime and Punishment
Harry Potter series (again)
The Fountainhead
Pride and Prejudice</p>
<p>Does anyone have any books they recommend that are usually unrecognized?</p>
<p>I doubt I’ll finish my list, but I have</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies (for school)
Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Lord of the Rings Trilogy</p>
<p>Recommendations
-East of Eden-Steinbeck
-A Tale of Two Cities-Dickens
-The Eyre Affair, or Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde - Not classics, but are very humorous, and a little wacky, I really enjoyed them. They’re a great contrast to some of the ‘old and dry’ books.</p>
<p>For fun, I’m re-reading:
Lord of the Rings +The Hobbit
Ender’s Game and it’s series
Dune and it’s series</p>
<p>For knowledge/intellectual curiosity:
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Atlas Shrugged(read before)
The Fountainhead
The Communist Manifesto(read before)</p>
<p>For college prep:
College bio, chem, calculus, and physics textbooks.</p>
<p>Stacks of fantasy and science fiction novels. Yeaaaaaaaahhh?</p>