Summer Reading Lists

[yogini108]

I usually dread Summer Reading for school, but I almost always walk away with some sort of growth after reading the books that i HAVE to read.
I was thinking the students here could share their required reading for summer so we can all just share the intellect love! (There''s no 'nerd' smilie )

I'm done with high school but am going to read what the seniors next year have to read :
Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen
Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Women's Rights at Walmart-Liza Featherstone
The Collector-John Fowles
The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
Bless me, Ultima- Anaya

Feel free to throw in opinions or recommendations even if you're not facing a required reading list!

 

[Dylan.]

All Tom Robbins novels I can get my hands on
I've only read "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" and "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates" and im absolutely addicted.

I recommend both those books.

 

[seanutbutter]

I am required to read C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet for 9th grade Honors English.

 

[mcflyandgemmafan]

i'm in college so i don't have any more required reading but some books that i had to read in high school that were good were:

-The Awakening by Kate Chopin
-The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo

 

[jadore21dior]

That's a good idea! As an english major though, i read about 50 novels a year at the very least, so i tend to just read trashy books over the summer >_<
but my favorite high school summer reading books were Jane Eyre, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, and The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.

 

[Over the Sea]

new york triology
laughter in the dark
romeo and juliet
moon palace
invention of solitude
invisible man
beautiful and the damned
lolita