Monday, June 29, 2009

The List

Here's my list of summer reads. By no means is it final.

Finishing from the school year:
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Salem's Lot

Required:
Three Cups of Tea
State of Fear

Purchased at the beginning of summer:
World War Z
Lost in a Good Book
The Road
Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Catch-22
The Hunger Games
The Knife of Never Letting Go

From school book sale:
Flatland
Splinter of the Mind's Eye (Star Wars book)
Myst: The Book of Atrus
Myst: The Book of Ti'ana
Body Bags
Burning Bones
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Hole in the Sky

Anthologies:
Smoke and Mirrors (Neil Gaiman)
Legends (ed. by Silverberg)
Unexpected Magic (Diana Wynne Jones)
New Skies / New Magic

Recently recommended by friends:
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Please Don't Kill the Freshman
The House of the Scorpion

From last Christmas:
Watchers
Strunk & White's Elements of Style
The Tales of Beetle the Bard
The Graveyard Book
Just After Sunset (Stephen King anthology)
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

Comics:
V for Vendetta
The Essential Thor
The Essential Hulk
Showcase Presents Batman

Hope to acquire later:
Mimus
The Keys to the Kingdom series
Wizard's First Rule
Any stories by Borges

Also on my shelf:
The Wheel of Time
The Hobbit
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Interworld

Summer whims:
1984
Hamlet
1776
Summerland (Michael Chabon)
The Picture of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde)
Into the Wild

No way do I finish all these this summer. I'm going to try to get about half of them read, though. My current rate is 3.5 books a day and slipping. (World War Z is taking a while.)

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