<p>I have been trying up with a Summer Reading list for some time but I really haven't been making headway I can't think of what I want to read. I want to see what other people are planning on reading and maybe I could steal some ideas.</p>
<p>Well, my summer is basically over. School starts in only a couple weeks but this is my mid-year list if your interested.</p>
<p>A Soldier’s Promise
The Ballad of Mulan
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Dreams of Joy
Girl In Blue
Girl in Translation
The Holy Qur’an / القرآن الكريم
The Lovely Bones
Macbeth
Paradise Lost
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Soldiers of Misfortune: Washington’s Secret Betrayal of American Pow’s in the Soviet Union
Sophocles vol. 1: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone </p>
<p>If you’re really interested in reading over the summer so you won’t get bored a great site to check out would be Goodreads.com. They have loads of recommendations and reviews you can view without signing up.</p>
<p>Thanks and I read Girl in Blue and really enjoyed it a lot and thanks for the website.</p>
<p>preparing for AP Lit!</p>
<ul>
<li>how to read lit like a professor</li>
<li>charles dickens great expectations</li>
<li>SAT textbook stuff -.-</li>
</ul>
<p>yeah, i used to read lots of fantasy type books which I loved but the past year or two i’ve been too busy reading stupid TEXTBOOKS! argh. so lame.</p>
<p>I have to read Great Expectations for AP Lit, as well as Heart of Darkness and Rime of the Ancient Mariner.</p>
<p>I read As I Lay Dying earlier this summer, which isn’t the most interesting book, but Faulkner has a very unique writing style if you want something “new” to analyze. I don’t know if I’ll read anything more than assigned stuff (since I have other classes as well), but if I have time I might read A Tale of Two Cities and Walden.</p>
<p>I dunno I’m just trying to brush up on classics because they can be pretty stimulating. I bookmarked a list of classics so I can just pick some stuff when I need a book.</p>
<p>All required reading:</p>
<p>Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor by Dr. Perri Klass
Burn Unit by Barbara Ravage
The Woman with the Worm in Her Head and Other Stories of Infectious Disease by Dr. Pamela Nagami
Dying Well by Dr. Ira Byock
Tending Lives by Echo Heron
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Fiske’s Guide :)</p>
<p>Required Reading:
Jane Eyre
Fahrenheit 451
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Shedding Grace
^ I only enjoy Fahrenheit 451 and The Art of Racing in the Rain.</p>
<p>I’m also reading The Genius in All of Us by David Shenk for enjoyment at the moment. I plan to read more books by Dan Brown as well.</p>
<p>^Solid list right there IMO.</p>
<p>Overachievers and In Cold Blood.</p>
<p>I’m not a reader at all, but I decided to take initiative and do some leisure reading for the first time ever, so please dont judge my list lol</p>
<p>Of Mice and Men
The Souls of Black Folk
Grapes Of Wrath
The Color Purple
Huckleberry Finn
Walden</p>
<p>So I think I’ve compiled a list probably more will be added on such as I want to finish A Song of Ice and Fire series but here is what I plan on reading a little ambitious I guess but I do love to read:</p>
<p>Smoke and Mirrors- Neil Gaimon
Everything Eventual- Stephen King
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
Animal Farm- George Orwell
Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy + The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
The Princess Bride- William Goldman
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
Madame Tussaud- Michelle Moran
The Paris Wife- Paula McLain
Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer
The Scarlet Plague- Jack London
Middlemarch- George Eliot
Night and Day- Virginia Woolf</p>
<p>Wow quite a lot when I look at it and I still have to finish Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, maybe I should wittle it down.</p>
<p>Animal Farm and The Book Thief are two of my favorites! I hope you enjoy reading them!</p>
<p>Yeah I’ve been meaning to read The Book Thief for awhile but never got around to it so that is one book that I AM going to read.</p>
<p>@FutureVpFinance</p>
<p>Of Mice and Men - great book
Grapes Of Wrath - good book, but the descriptions are a bit long
The Color Purple - I wrote a term paper on it; it’s quite good.
Huckleberry Finn - I hated this book, but you might like it.</p>
<p>@karaokemachine thanks!</p>
<p>If you want a quick read that’s also very interesting, I’ll recommend Anthem by Ayn Rand. Otherwise, what I’ll be reading…</p>
<p>-A Clockwork Orange (read at your own risk if you choose to read it)
-Life of Pi
-The Lord of the Flies
-The ABC Murders
-A Confederacy of Dunces</p>
<p>Here is my school’s summer reading list for me:
-Ecology of a cracker childhood.
-Grapes of Wrath.
-Hagakure-the Way of Samurai.</p>
<p>Well I read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell so far. For ap lit:
The Invisible Man by Ellison
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
How to read literature like a professor
The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
The Things They Carried</p>
<p>@cardman001- What’s wrong with a clockwork orange?</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange is a good book. It was strange, though.</p>