<p>Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)
Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited)
Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie)
Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)Old Man and Sea, Farewell to Arms
Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D’Urbervilles)
E.M. Forster (A Passage to India)
John Fowles (The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Magus)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The House of the Seven Gables)
D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)
Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)
Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire)</p>
<p>Death of a Salesman is great. Just wrote a term paper on it, in fact. Miller is a genius. I too wanna read The Sun Also Rises this summer. Read Old Man and the Sea and some of Hemingway’s short fiction this year in English and really liked some of it. Otherwise, I feel as if my choices have more of a contemporary bent them some of you guys. Dunno why, but some great choices all around.</p>
<p>For summer project
Anethm
Fahrenheit 451
Grapes of Wrath</p>
<p>Hrmm, I want to read a mix of classic and newer books. Some of them that I’ve already checked out from the library: </p>
<p>Water for Elephants
Into the Wild
The Grapes of Wrath
Things Fall Apart
Infinite Jest</p>
<p>chiefta, that’s cool! All my friends think I’m crazy for wanting for read Infinite Jest, but I can’t wait! I’ve read some of his short stories, and they’re fantastic!</p>
<p>In addition:
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter</p>
<p>Required:
Lord of the Rings “trilogy” (yes, the whole thing. Woohoo!) - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
How to Read a Poem - Burton Raffel (Really? That’s almost rude.)</p>
<p>Desired outside reading:
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis
The Abolition of Man - (Who do you think? :P)
Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton
Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse - (I forget the author. Book from the '80s though.)
Confessions - St. Augustine
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien</p>
<p>…yeah. I’m definitely not going to finish. I’m thinking I might not even get to my outside reading. :P</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger</p>
<p>Lord of the Rings (fellowship, two towers, and return)
Hot,Flat and Crowded- THomas Friedman
The Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth- Alexandra Robbins
Moby Dick
City of FAllen Angels
Clockwork prince</p>
<p>I want to read:
The Beautiful and Damned
To Kill A Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights
Screwtape Letters</p>
<p>Screwtape Letters is really fascinating, TKAM is not really that good, Wuthering Heights is like shoot-me-now.</p>
<p>For AP Lit:
The Kite Runner</p>
<p>For my Advanced Anatomy class:
Treatment Kind and Fair by Perri Klass
Burn Unit by Barbara Ravage
The woman with a Worm in Her Head by Pamela Nagami
Dying Well by Ira Byock
Tending Lives by Echo Heron</p>
<p>…and then write essays on them. Oh boy.</p>
<p>Oh, I’ve got a whole pile of books I’m trying to work through. I’m currently in the middle of “The Stuff of Thought” by Steven Pinker. Some of the others I’m excited to read include:</p>
<p>Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
La Peste by Albert Camus
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood</p>
<p>I can’t wait to start reading again 
I’ve only had time for assigned reading this year</p>
<p>The Next 100 Years by George Friedman
State, Conflict and Democracy in Africa by Richard Joseph
Understanding International Conflicts by Joseph Nye
The Second World by Parag Khanna</p>
<p>Then a couple of assigned books for AP English and Spanish Lit…</p>
<p>Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling</p>
<p>Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life</p>
<p>(maybe, but probably not).</p>
<p>kitchen by banana yoshimoto</p>
<p>no one read atlas shrugged or anything by ayn rand- it’s extreme elitist garbage that extols the rich and basically says that the poor are all worthless moochers. It is written in such a bland style and should really just be burned. **** ayn rand</p>
<p>As many works as I can of J.R.R. Tolkien (mainly, LOTR), David Foster Wallace (mainly, Infinite Jest–all of it), and Albert Camus (mainly, The Stranger). Plus Steinbeck’s East of Eden. A few others, too, but it’ll literally take me all summer to get through even what I’ve just listed now.</p>
<p>reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeadinggggggg</p>
<p>hm.</p>
<p>For school:</p>
<p>Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Beowulf
Grendel, John Gardner
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston</p>
<p>In my spare time, provided that I have any, I’ll try to read some (though hopefully all) of the following:</p>
<p>War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch, George Eliot
*Les Mis</p>
<p>Lolita by Vladimir Nobokov
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
And just a general variety of short stories/non-fiction books.</p>