Musing: books - Summer reading
Jun. 12th, 2009 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wilderthanI've been hesitating over setting a target for reading over the summer, since a lot of my books are currently not in the same country as me. But finally I decided that if I set a target like, say, fifty books, that's a nice and round figure and it'd deal with roughly a third of my overall to read list. And given that I have until almost the end of September before I've got class again...
So, fifty books. Tried to go for a mixture of classics and the more modern stuff. And the idea is that I'll have finished every single one of these books, and possibly some more, by the end of the summer. I'll link to the reviews, if I review them, or strike them through if I don't. They're mostly new, but there're a couple of rereads.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Austen, Persuasion.
Jane Austen, Lady Susan.
Janet Aylmer, Darcy's Story.
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory.
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
John Fairfax and John Moat, The Way To Write.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
Alan Garner, The Moon of Gomrath.
Dewey Gram, Gladiator.
John Grisham, The Partner.
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Joanne Harris, The Lollipop Shoes.
Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock.
Guy Gavriel Kay, A Song for Arbonne.
Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium.
Guy Gavriel Kay, Lord of Emperors.
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana.
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book.
Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck.
Stephen Lawhead, Scarlet.
Stephen Lawhead, Tuck.
Stephen Lawhead, Byzantium.
Ursula Le Guin, Sixty Odd.
Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea.
Ursula Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan.
Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shore.
Ursula Le Guin, Tehanu.
Ursula Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea.
Ursula Le Guin, The Other Wind.
Rosie Lugosi, Coming Out At Night.
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend.
Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang.
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight.
Haruki Murakami, After Dark.
George Orwell, Animal Farm.
Terry Pratchett, Nation.
Michael Scott, Magician's Law.
Michael Scott, Demon's Law.
Michael Scott, Death's Law.
Craig Thompson, Blankets.
Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet.
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith.
Tad Williams, The War Of the Flowers.
[50/50]
So, fifty books. Tried to go for a mixture of classics and the more modern stuff. And the idea is that I'll have finished every single one of these books, and possibly some more, by the end of the summer. I'll link to the reviews, if I review them, or strike them through if I don't. They're mostly new, but there're a couple of rereads.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Austen, Persuasion.
Jane Austen, Lady Susan.
Janet Aylmer, Darcy's Story.
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory.
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
John Fairfax and John Moat, The Way To Write.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
Alan Garner, The Moon of Gomrath.
Dewey Gram, Gladiator.
John Grisham, The Partner.
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Joanne Harris, The Lollipop Shoes.
Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock.
Guy Gavriel Kay, A Song for Arbonne.
Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium.
Guy Gavriel Kay, Lord of Emperors.
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana.
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book.
Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck.
Stephen Lawhead, Scarlet.
Stephen Lawhead, Tuck.
Stephen Lawhead, Byzantium.
Ursula Le Guin, Sixty Odd.
Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea.
Ursula Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan.
Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shore.
Ursula Le Guin, Tehanu.
Ursula Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea.
Ursula Le Guin, The Other Wind.
Rosie Lugosi, Coming Out At Night.
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend.
Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang.
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight.
Haruki Murakami, After Dark.
George Orwell, Animal Farm.
Terry Pratchett, Nation.
Michael Scott, Magician's Law.
Michael Scott, Demon's Law.
Michael Scott, Death's Law.
Craig Thompson, Blankets.
Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet.
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith.
Tad Williams, The War Of the Flowers.
[50/50]
