A Berkeleian Summer -- Round 2!

HEY, readers! Happy summer! Here, as last year, is a list of projected summer reads. Remember, this list is subject to change at any time, and I don't anticipate finishing all of them (though I'll try to come close). Should you have any further suggestions, please comment!

SHOULD PROBABLY READ FOR COLLEGE

The Elements of Style (Strunk & White)

JUST PURCHASED

1984 (George Orwell)

Labyrinth (Jorge Luis Borges)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

Little Brother (Cory Doctorow)

It's Kind of a Funny Story (Ned Vizzini)

52, Volume One (Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid, & Keith Giffen)

ON MY SHELF

The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Dragonhaven (Robbin McKinley)

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

Taken (Edward Bloor)

Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)

The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells)

Interworld (Neil Gaiman & Michael Reeves)

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanna Clarke)(

The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)

The Pirates! (Gideon Defoe)

The Rule of Four (Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason)

Richard III (William Shakespeare)

FROM LOCAL BOOK SALE

Writers of the Western World

The New York Times, Page One

OTHER BOOKS

Henry VI, Part 1 (William Shakespeare)

The Chronicles of Narnia (C. S. Lewis)

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)

The Dark Tower series (Stephen King)

East (Edith Pattou)

House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Austen with Seth Grahame-Smith)

Young Avengers, Vol. 2 (Allan Heinburg & Jimmy Cheung)

AND

The Complete Marvel Civil War (Various; over 100 issues)