It's summer, so it's reading time! I've been reading a lot this year - 38 books so far!! - so I'm hoping and planning to keep it up this summer, and hopefully read even more this summer. I have a huge stack of unread books on my shelves at home and even bigger to-read shelf on goodreads. Of course I won't read all of these books, but I like having a big list of books to choose from. My very ambitious reading list for this summer:
FICTION
featuring an extensive list of historical and literary/contemporary fiction, fantasy, and new young adult books
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
Brooklyn & Nora Webster by Colm Toíbín
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
The Rest of Us Just Live Here & Release by Patrick Ness
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
NON-FICTION
I read a lot of non-fiction this spring and I want to focus on fiction this summer, but I still have many memoirs and non-fiction about politics, history, and entertainment that I'd like to pick up. a handful of books I'm interested in for the summer:
All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco
In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson
Just Kids & M Train by Patti Smith
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
CLASSICS
always trying to get through some classics I've always wanted to read. for this summer, I'd like to read a few of these:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
To the Lighthouse & A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Othello by William Shakespeare
PLAYS
I didn't read any plays this spring, and I have a long list of ones I'd like to read. the plays currently on my shelf in nyc (plus a playwright whose plays I need to track down copies of):
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof & Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Flick by Annie Baker
Various plays by Martin McDonagh
POETRY
I'm trying to get into poetry that I don't read in classes, so collections that have come highly recommended for me:
Crush & War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
Letters from Medea by Salma Deera
Hold Your Own by Kate Temple
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire