Lazy days...
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Sara's Annual Overly Optimistic Summer Reading List!
LIES!
- The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling (I know I'm going to read it anyway, so I might as well get to cross something off a list)
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut*
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer*
- The Known World - Edward P. Jones*
- Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre (this one has been on my shelf FOREVER, I have to actually read it some day, it might as well be in the next few months)
TRUTH!
- Madness and Civilization - Michel Foucault
- The Art of Living - Epictetus (trans. Sharon Lebell)
- GRE Test Prep (ooh, can't wait!)
- Generation Kill - Evan Wright
- The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
- The Mantle of the Prophet - Roy Mottahedeh*
- Race Matters - Cornel West
- Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art - Michael Martone (Jen got this for me for graduation, along with a "How To Draw Magicians, Dragons, and Other Mystical Creatures" book, ancient Egyptian tattoos, and a King Tut Sticker Book... oh yeah, and a bunch of monster fingers and a really bizarre bat girl figurine)
- The Qu'ran - God
- Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
- Great Jobs for Anthropology Majors! (I keep finding this one in my room, I don't know what my mom is trying to say. It's usually on top of the classifieds though...)
MY Old Favorites (I'll probably end up reading these, even though I've already read them thirty thousand times...)
- A Wrinkle in Time
- The Giver (I haven't read this since... when do we read this? 4th? 5th? but I cannot stop thinking about it!! I'm definitely going to give this one a shot)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (I wrote a term paper on this as a senior in high school, but I don't think I even finished it... the same goes for The Jungle, I should probably get to that one again as well)
- My Side of the Mountain (I love this book... I might act it out though, so if I turn up missing, just check out the wherever the hell this book takes place... Vermont? the Catskills?
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg
- Where the Wild things are
- Alexander’s Absolutely Horrible Terrible, No good Day
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar
I also hope to read some Phillip K. Dick. I've had the strongest urge to pick up some Mark Twain as well, so I hope to read some of his stuff (beyond Tom and Huck, please).
While the list I have is probably far too long and not at all realistic, I welcome any suggestions and modifications you might have. (I especially would enjoy some of the nice and easy young adult fiction I enjoy so much... I'm looking at you Ms. Henderson!)
[EDIT: The list keeps getting longer and longer as the night progresses... so much for trying to keep it manageable!]
* Should have read at some point during my education, which means I've probably read about a third of it so I'll have to start over again anyway.