Sunday, May 29, 2011

Summer Reading List

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

Notes

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