Summer Reading
I've finally started unpacking seriously. YEs, I got home on May 20. I spent a long time sorting through my books. I've got a sizeable collection -- including a really embarrassing number of books I haven't read.
They will comprise my summer reading list.
Title Author
1 Friendship’s Garland, Arnold Matthew
2 Emma, Jane Austen
3 Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
4 John Keats, W. Jackson Bate
5 Rescuers, Gay Block
6 Abigail Adams, Natalie Bober
7 Stories and Poems, Harold Bloom
8 100 Selected Poems, e.e. cummings
9 Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat
10 David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
11 The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
12 The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
13 Middlemarch, George Eliot
14 Silas Marner, George Eliot
15 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
16 The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
17 I, Claudius, Robert Graves
18 The Queen’s Fool, Philippa Gregory
19 Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
20 Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
21 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
22 The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
23 The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
24 Kim, Rudyard Kipling
25 Championship Writing, Paula LaRocque
26 The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
27 Ancient Rome, Jon Lewis
28 The Early History of Rome, Livy
29 The Sea Wolf, Jack London
30 First Words, Paul Mandelbaum
31 One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcìa Márquez
32 Moby Dick, Herman Melville
33 The Source, James Michener
34 Best American Short Stories, Lorrie Moore
35 Love, Toni Morrison
36 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
37 The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
38 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
39 American Pastoral, Philip Roth
40 The Pearl, John Steinbeck
41 The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Wallace Stevens
42 America, Jon Stewart
43 Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
44 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
45 Trust Me, John Updike
46 Exodus, Leon Uris
47 The Puritan Tradition in America, Alden Vaughan
48 Bagombo Snuff Box, Kurt Vonnegut
49 The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
50 The Children of Henry VIII, Alison Weir
51 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir
52 The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir
53 The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
54 Philadelphia Fire, John Edgar Wideman
55 Marjorie Morningstar, Herman Wouk
I'm posting this for two reasons: first,I want suggestions about what to read first. Second, if anyone would like to borrow a book, I've got them in droves.
They will comprise my summer reading list.
Title Author
1 Friendship’s Garland, Arnold Matthew
2 Emma, Jane Austen
3 Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
4 John Keats, W. Jackson Bate
5 Rescuers, Gay Block
6 Abigail Adams, Natalie Bober
7 Stories and Poems, Harold Bloom
8 100 Selected Poems, e.e. cummings
9 Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat
10 David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
11 The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
12 The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
13 Middlemarch, George Eliot
14 Silas Marner, George Eliot
15 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
16 The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
17 I, Claudius, Robert Graves
18 The Queen’s Fool, Philippa Gregory
19 Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
20 Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
21 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
22 The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
23 The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
24 Kim, Rudyard Kipling
25 Championship Writing, Paula LaRocque
26 The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
27 Ancient Rome, Jon Lewis
28 The Early History of Rome, Livy
29 The Sea Wolf, Jack London
30 First Words, Paul Mandelbaum
31 One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcìa Márquez
32 Moby Dick, Herman Melville
33 The Source, James Michener
34 Best American Short Stories, Lorrie Moore
35 Love, Toni Morrison
36 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
37 The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
38 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
39 American Pastoral, Philip Roth
40 The Pearl, John Steinbeck
41 The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Wallace Stevens
42 America, Jon Stewart
43 Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
44 War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
45 Trust Me, John Updike
46 Exodus, Leon Uris
47 The Puritan Tradition in America, Alden Vaughan
48 Bagombo Snuff Box, Kurt Vonnegut
49 The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
50 The Children of Henry VIII, Alison Weir
51 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir
52 The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir
53 The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
54 Philadelphia Fire, John Edgar Wideman
55 Marjorie Morningstar, Herman Wouk
I'm posting this for two reasons: first,I want suggestions about what to read first. Second, if anyone would like to borrow a book, I've got them in droves.