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Oh--and my own reading list!

So here's what else I might be reading this summer. Bolded are the ones I've already finished, whether recently or simply in the past few years. This particular list was compiled by myself and three friends, when we were on a van ride back from a college honors-program outing. Therefore it's dubbed the "reading list for honors nerds." :-D Seriously, we were going to read some of them over the summer and discuss them. There's a whole Facebook group for this, so we have access to the list and can toss ideas back and forth about adding books.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Othello - William Shakespeare
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Michael Miller, Jr.
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Timeline - Michael Crichton
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Series of Unfortunate Events - "Lemony Snicket"
Phantastes - George MacDonald
The Pursuit of God - A.W. Tozer
This Present Darkness - Frank Peretti
Piercing the Darkness - Frank Peretti
The Oath - Frank Peretti
Three - Ted Dekker
House - Ted Dekker & Frank Peretti
The O'Malley Series - Dee Henderson
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Finding Alice - Melody Carlson
The Wizard of Oz - L.Frank Baum
Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
1984 - George Orwell
Napoleon of Notting Hill - G.K. Chesterton

Comments

Anonymous said…
I hereby officially file and objection to some of the afor mentioned books; stating that they are not worth the trouble of reading and that they should, as such, be removed from said list.
Elly May said…
But: The Count of Monte Cristo: One of my favorite books. Also recommended: The Black Tulip, by the same author.

:-D
readersis said…
Haha, m, I'm sure you would have objections to some of them. I probably won't get to a few of them myself (ever). :-D

EM: Ah, I've seen a couple movie versions of it, and I liked them, so I'm rather looking forward to Count of Monte Cristo. Not sure if I'll read that this summer or later, though.

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