Well now that the semester’s over and I’m all graduated from college and stuff (FINALLY!) it’s that time of year when I shut myself up in my room and shove my face into a book. So the reading list for the summer has been compiled. I only found 20 books on my shelf that I was desperately curious about reading; i think that that’s a rather low number to read in a 4 month period, considering that my friends read that amount in much less time. But there’s always more I can add to the list if I finish early (VERY wishful thinking).

Anyway, the list is as follows (in no particular order):

Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher-Stowe

The Wonder Boys, by Michael Chabon

This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Other Stories, by James Weldon Johnson

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, by Neil Gaiman

Tales of Ordinary Madness, by Charles Bukowski

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Jesus’ Son, by Dennis Johnson

East of Eden, by John Steinbeck

Other Kinds, by Dylan Nice

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Crapalachia, by Scott McClanahan

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison

A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines

Cathedral, by Raymond Carver

Reasons to Live, by Amy Hempel

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith

Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift

So, what do you think? Is this a good start? I’m going to begin right after I finish reading Enders Game … Which one do you think I should start first?