How does an English major cope with, I mean, celebrate the culmination of her undergraduate career? By making a rather ambitious summer reading list, of course!
- Finish The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Finish Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens
- The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
- À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- "The Painter of Modern Life" by Charles Baudelaire
- To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Women and Writing by Virginia Woolf
- "Solid Objects" by Virginia Woolf
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Last Man by Mary Shelley
- An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
- The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
- Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- Reread (or start rereading) The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Updated August 224 2012
Nice!
ReplyDeleteNow, that's a great reading list! I'm teaching To The Lighthouse from October.
ReplyDeleteI want to read Lord of the Rings triology for my "100 Greatest Books" challenge, but I have no enthusiasm! Let me know when you start re-reading so I can join in? :) I fear there is no motivation other than reading it because someone else is!
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