<p>What books are you guys reading this summer. </p>
<p>I'm reading:</p>
<p>The odyssey of Homer</p>
<p>The Illiad </p>
<p>Da Vinci Code (started never finished)</p>
<p>Fareinheit 451 (started never finished)</p>
<p>a bed of red flowers and a demon in the freezer</p>
<p>oh and now im hooked on P.Y.T</p>
<p>lol. Are you serious? Well thats what you are. ;)</p>
<p>already read the first two...
im reading
The Trial, Siddhartha (again), American Theocracy and maybe The Plot Against America.</p>
<p>oh and im reading the autobiography of malcolm x</p>
<p>Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community by Loren Lomasky
The Stranger by Albert Camus (10 pages left)
One L by Scott Turrow
Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
The Huey P Newton Reader</p>
<p>Leisure:</p>
<p>Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden</p>
<p>White Oleander by Janet Fitch</p>
<p>The Rainmaker by John Grisham</p>
<p><em>Much more to come</em></p>
<p>School Assignments:</p>
<p>The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas</p>
<p>La Historia Interminable por Michael Ende</p>
<p>i want to read the davinci code and Kite Runner</p>
<p>I'm mainly studying my Greek and Spanish.</p>
<p>I gotta pick up a few Japanese phrases as well for my trip to Japan... ahh.</p>
<p>I'll probably read a few other things.</p>
<p>I'm disappointed in those who have yet to read The Da Vinci Code. Y'all are so un-trendy. Just kiddin'. But read it!</p>
<p>Oh yeah. Language. I've been delving into my Learn-Russian book lately. It's pretty good.</p>
<p>r_v, no longer ghetto?</p>
<p>Anna Karenina
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Kite Runner
Crime and Punishment
The Handmaid's Tale
The Catcher in the Rye (I've never read it!!)
something by Ann Coulter, probably How To Talk to a Liberal (I need to understand that evil *****)</p>
<p>and..The Devil Wears Prada :)</p>
<p>The Cold War: A New History. [John Lewis Gaddis] 352 Pages.</p>
<p>guns, germs, and steel
110 people that are screwing up America
maybe a Playboy here and a GQ there</p>
<p>Yeah Gaddis, well anyway umm:
Rereading One Hundred Years of Solitdude (G.G. marquez)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (G.G. marquez)
Rebecca (du Maurnier, or something like that)
The Plague (Camus)
Kite Runner
Finish Angels and Demons (about 30 chapters left)</p>
<p>yo momma</p>
<p>J. Buchan - The 39 Steps
L. Tolstoy - War and Peace
H. Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
G. Eliot - Middlemarch
J. Austen - Emma</p>
<p> Witness, Whittaker Chambers (best modern writing Ive ever read, gorgeous)
Shakespeare, Mark Van Doren
The Prelude, Wordsworth
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe, Jeffery Hart (just finished)
Art: A New History, Paul Johnson
The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
Biographia Literaria, Coleridge
Dantes Inferno, Robert Hollander (I have a class with Prof. Hollander this fall)
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy, Etienne Gilson (independent study in Medieval Phil. this fall)</p>
<p>i've read a few already (the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by mark haddon, franny and zooey by salinger, the rule of four)</p>
<p>i'm into zadie smith novels-- i've just started on beauty and next i'm going to read white teeth.</p>
<p>then southern lit -- a confederacy of dunces, moving onto some capote, i want to reread to kill a mockingbird since it's about that time, maybe faulkner?</p>
<p>and then i'll see what i have left. i read a lot-- seriously, i'm an english major and barnes & noble frequent shopper.</p>
<p>I read A History of the American People by Johnson. Better than almost any other American history text, really.</p>