Books/ Summer Reading

[catgod]

Already started this a couple weeks ago but forget to post in this thread but
I'mma read all my fav books/books I should've read from my youth over the summer since I'm going off to college

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I dystopia's

the list
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Feed - Matthew Tobin Anderson
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (McCarthy is a genius)
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
A Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (a book about cats)
Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (has anyone read part 2?)
Curtain - Agatha Christie (I've been holding off this one, it's Poirot's last case ;__;)
Lord of The Rings Series - J.R.R. Tolkien

and of course
Harry Potter Series - J. K. Rowling

Also, I have a goodreads that I badly need to update https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/18482757-nikki

[ZephyrStar]

I have to applaud this list, there are some great things on here.

Here's some random good stuff off the top of my head

+ Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (this is probably my favorite book ever)
+ Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+ Poems of Robert Frost
+ Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

[Copycat_Revolver]

+ Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (this is probably my favorite book ever)

Amen.

Since I am still unable to play video games or edit, my primary time wasters, I've been spending pretty much all of my free time these past few months writing and reading. Here's a few of my favorites that haven't already been mentioned (In no particular order):

You Poor Monster - Michael Kun
The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon - Tom Spanbauer
Now Is The Hour - Tom Spanbauer (I love this man)
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Kiss Me, Judas - Will Christopher Baer (and the other two Phineas Poe books)
Dermaphoria - Craig Clevenger
Anything Amy Hempel has ever written
Clown Girl - Monica Drake

Currently reading Generation A by Douglas Coupland.

[Dr. Derpface, J.D.]

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Storming Intrepid - Payne Harrison

[MycathatesyouAMV]

Captain Underpants

[Jadecavy]

A Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

But that's not Oryx and Crake

[Hagaren Viper]

Gonna try and finish off the last couple of books in the Redwall series. I haven't finished a book in quite a bit, it's kinda nice.

Doomwyte, The Sable Quean, and The Rogue Crew - Brian Jacques

[CodeZTM]

Last month I read World War Z and it was a really interesting combination of stories. Not at all what I was expecting, and it was a great read.

[Taite]

Except for McCarthy and Catcher in the Rye, I need to read all those books too. I'll just write these down :p Catcher in the Rye I just read this year though, and it's absolutely, 100%, my favorite book. As for me, I just bought the first book in A Song of Ice and Fire and will start it tonight. My sister's been reading it for years and after all this hype from the series, I just have to read it.
Something perhaps to add to your list: Ordinary People by Judith Guest.

[catgod]

I have to applaud this list, there are some great things on here.

Here's some random good stuff off the top of my head

+ Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (this is probably my favorite book ever)
+ Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+ Poems of Robert Frost
+ Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Thanks Chris ^__^
I've been meaning to read Catch 22 and Crime & Punishment they always slip outta my mind. But I haven't read poetry since like Shel Silverstein came out with something lol I do like Frost though so might give it a go!

Now Is The Hour - Tom Spanbauer (I love this man)
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Clown Girl - Monica Drake

Added!

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

Always wanted to read something from Hawking, added!

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Mhmm oooooh yeaahhh this book made me fall in love with dystopias I re-read it every summer, didn't even think to put it on the list because it's already a given~~

Captain Underpants

lol haven't read a CP since "Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People" in '06, really would like to get the rest and finish 'em

Last month I read World War Z and it was a really interesting combination of stories. Not at all what I was expecting, and it was a great read.

I've started reading it couple years back and I don't know why I never finished it thanks, Code!

Something perhaps to add to your list: Ordinary People by Judith Guest.

Haha yes I love characters with the name Calvin