Last day of the school year for me is Thursday, June 9th. The weekend will consist of cleaning, packing, and moving back home for the summer. A summer for which I have almost no plans whatsoever. For the first time in years, I will not be taking summer classes nor will I be working. I am ecstatic, for this of course means that I will have all the time in the world (well, three months of it at least) to spend reading. So here, without further ado, I write down my summer reading list:
American Gods — Neil Gaiman
Atonement — Ian McEwan
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress — Dai Sijie
The Blind Assassin — Margaret Atwood
A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime — Mark Haddon
Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather
Dracula — Bram Stoker
Empire Falls — Richard Russo
Far From the Maddening Crowd — Thomas Hardy
Freedom — Jonathan Franzen
Game of Thrones — George R. R. Martin
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
The Finkler Question — Howard Jacobson
The Imperfectionists — Tom Rachman
Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell — Susanna Clarke
Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides
Mrs. Dalloway — Virginia Woolf
The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
Neverwhere — Neil Gaiman
On the Road — Jack Keroua
Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood
Persuasion — Jane Austen
The Road — Cormac McCarthy
Tinkers — Paul Harding
A Visit From the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan
White Teeth — Zadie Smith
The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga
Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
