Summer Reading List

May 18, 2009 at 8:15 PM
10 comments

This will be the 3rd summer that I've made a Summer Reading List of books to read. It's not an all-inclusive list, I always leave myself room to choose other books as well. This summer I'm leaving myself a lot of room to choose. I want to read a lot of books this summer, so I don't want to limit myself by feeling like I have to stick to a list.

So I only chose four books for my list this year. They are classics, and they are books I've been meaning to read for quite a while.

I have from the start of Memorial Day weekend (Friday May 22) to the end of Labor Day (Monday September 7) to complete the goal. Here are the books:

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour and Introduction by J. D. Salinger
The Annotated Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

Summer Reading List

1 comment

I'm very happy with this list, and excited for these and all the other books waiting for me and the warm summer months to read them in. :)

What's on your summer reading list?

10 comments

Tags:

Comments

[this is good]

Mine is more fun and less intellectual: http://khager.vox.com/library/post/summer-reading-list.html

(I hope to read some more of my 30 by 30 project, too.)

Great list! :)

I'm in the mood to read a lot of light, easy, wonderful books this summer, so this small list is an attempt to read at least a few things that are brain food instead of brain candy. The rest will probably all be much lighter. :D

I'm excited to read all of them. :) I'm hoping to maybe get East of Eden and a couple of good books in there, too, not just fun ones.

I had been planning on making Stephen King's The Stand my big summer book, but I got caught up in all the swine flu hype a few weeks back and accidentally started the book early (it's about a killer strain of influenza). Now I don't have anything planned. I might try Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford, but probably not. It's over a thousand pages and I don't think I'll be up for a book of that size anytime soon.

There are several large books that I've been meaning to read for a long time (the main one being Anna Karenina) but I couldn't bring myself to put them on the list. I don't think I'd get through it this summer.

Oh great list! I've never even heard of that JD Salinger one. I don't have a list yet. Might not make one. But I do want to read Love in the Time of Cholera. And finish Anna Karenina.

Interesting list! I have never heard of this J.D.Salinger book! Looking forward to reading your post on it. Annotated 'Lolita' is an interesting selection. My friend tells me that the prose style changes according to the mood of the story. Looking forward to reading your post about it. By an interesting coincidence I also have a Nabokov book in my reading list - 'Speak, Memory' his memoir / autobiography :-)

How fun - I've heard great things about Speak, Memory. I hope you enjoy it! I'd like to read it too someday, it's so interesting to read autobiographies/memoirs of famous authors!

• Bluebeard, by K. Vonnegut
• The Collector, by J. Fowles
• Lolita, by V. Nabokov
• Ham on Rye, by C. Bukowski
• Tales of Adam, by D. Quinn
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying, by G. Orwell
• Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, By P. K. Dick
• Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World, by H. Murakami

Great list!

Thanks for sharing it! :)

Summer Reading List

Comments

Post a comment

About Me

Emily's Sites:

Neighborhood

Tags

Archives