Despite all the required reading materials that come with the academic year, the end of the school year always leaves me craving one thing: personal, or “dessert” reading. Below I have posted my reading list from last summer and my updated list for books I hope to read this summer.
Summer 2022
- We Were Liars
- The Sea is Salt and So Am I
- The People We Meet on Vacation
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- American Dirt
- The Fountains of Silence
- All the Bright Places
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Every Last Word
- The Party
- Book Lovers
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- The Girl On the Train
- They Both Die at the End
- Cannery Row
- Pet Sematary
- The Glass Castle
Summer 2023
- Finish Sense and Sensibility
- Wuthering Heights
- The Invisible Man
- Educated
- Becoming
- Song of Achilles
- Born A Crime
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Slow Fire Burning
- Bless Me, Ultima
- Pride and Prejudice
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Dracula
- The Bluest Eye
For the rest I hope to visit used book stores and find spontaneous reads to supplement this list with.