What books are on your summer reading list?

Answer 1

Oh man...I've got a stack this high *holds hand up 3 feet off the ground*

Here's just a sample of what's on the top:

Getting Stoned with Savages
by J. Maarten Troost

A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by Umberto Eco

The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
by Mario Acevedo

Scoundrel
by Bernard Cornwell

If I could just get out of here for a while, I might just make it through those books by Autumn.

Answer 2

The books I need to read are all in a stack that is probabaly taller than I am. Well no. They're on a shelf, but if I stacked them, I'd be way too intimidated...but then, I am a voracious reader.

Just a random sampling of the books on my list:

Viriconium by M. John Harrison (I read this already, just finished it. It's his entire Viriconium Cycle to date--a number of short novels and shorter stories all taking place during a time known as "the Evening Cultures". They're science fiction stories, fantasy stories, weird stories that all seem to explore the themes of madness and cultural decay.)

Perdido Stree Station
The Scar
Iron Council
King Rat
Looking for Jake (Collected stories)
All of these are by the improbably named China Mivielle; a rather politically active dark fantasy writer, commonly known among readers and his colleagues as "lord of the earrings." You won't find elves and fairies, dragons, and big buff men with swords in these novels. Indeed, they share more in common with science fiction in some ways than they do with fantasy.

They Fly at Ciron by Samuel R. Delany

Prague by Arthur Phillips
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips

I've also gone scrounging at used bookstores and found a few very old science fiction novels that stand as great unrecognized works. These include:

The Dramaturges of Yan by Jonh Brunner
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
Farewell Horizontal by K.W. Jeter

and the list goes on and on, but I'll stop here.

Answer 3

A bigger part is already read, the books that are left, except the lithuanians ones that you all may not know, are Dante, Dostoevskies' Crime and Punishment, Umberto Eco, Jane Austin, Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm and similar stuff. Oh, and Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, already read this book but we analyze it the first in new school year, and it needs a lot of preparation.

Answer 4

My personal reading list is humongous and not contained to summer. I have about 50 books sitting at home waiting to be read. They're pretty much all suspense books, I can't wait to start the next one tonight.

Answer 5

Well for my school. I have to read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, and I have to answer several questions, do an essay, create a collage, and create a reading log out of cornell notes. Well. I'm almost done with the work, but the book is rather interesting and twisted lol.

Answer 6

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and some Judith McNaught books.

Answer 7

Im with Christina Im going with the classic books like Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe and John Steinbeck. If you'd like sugestion, i just asked a question about suggested books last night so you can check it out.

Answer 8

One Hundred Years of Solitude - it won the noble prize, and it's being highly reccomended on this site.

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Niel Giaman are two of my favorite authors, so this should be a good book.

Answer 9

Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins, Me Talk Pretty One by Dave Sedaris, Kite Runner, and Living High and Letting Die by Peter Unger.

Answer 10

Just finished a great one "False Impression" by Jeffrey Archer. I also read two chapters every morning from the number one all-time best seller, the Bible.