Summer Reading List
Lizzy Walker: The Watchers Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft, Fountain Society by Wes Craven, and How to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Grahame-Smith--What can I say, I need to cleanse my literary palate with some good horror and a survival guide over the summer!
Crystal Young: Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer - This
series consists of three books so far, Twilight, New Moon, and
Eclipse. The fourth book in the series, Breaking Dawn, will be
released on August 2, 2008. As a side note the first movie based on the series
is slated to come out December 12, 2008 according to the IMDB website.
Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini. The two books that are out
right now are titled Eragon and Eldest. The third book,
Brisingr, is going to be released September 20, 2008. The first movie based
on the series is already out but it does not follow the book very well. I am not
sure if they are going to release a movie based on the second book but if so it
looks like it won't be until 2011.
Another series that I like is called the Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. All
three books in that series are out right now (the last just came out about three
months ago or so). The books are A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel
Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing.
Lacey Ellison:
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Dorian Gray
Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter Series
Washington Irving "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Edgar Allen Poe
Patrick Suskind Perfume
Lewis Carroll Alice and the Looking Glass
John Milton's Paradise Lost
Gaston Leroux Phantom of the Opera
Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles
Natasha Gilmore:
Light reading: The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler and
Sophie's Garden by Jostein Gaarder.
Quick and dirty beachy reads: Short stories by D. H. Lawrence (particularly
"Sun"), Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
You Haven't Read It Yet (tsk tsk tsk), and Summer is the Perfect Time: 100
Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, A Room with a View, E. M.
Forster
Old-school version: Ovid, Metamorphoses
Non-fiction: Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy, A Mind of Its Own,
Cordelia Fine
Poetry: NERUDA! Particularly Isla Negra
Jenny Respress:
No Touch Monkey by Ayun Halliday, Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde, The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester, Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, Anna Karennina, Tristram Shandy, Don Quixote, Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Josh Hale:
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Murakami. Anything by Murakami really.
Polly Peterson:
Louis Lamour's Walking Drum, Last of the Breed, and The Haunted Mesa
Samantha Brooks:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Cry of the Dove by Fadia Faqir
Owen Soren:
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, House of Leaves by Mark D. Danielewski
