Summer Reading Recap

Well, at the beginning of the summer I made a list of books I’d like to read over the summer.

As with most of my books to be read during a certain time period lists, I strayed well off the list most of the summer. I think next time I make a list (and perhaps I’ll make a Fall Reading List soon) I will keep it much shorter. I’ve realized that making a longer list leaves no room for impulse reads, which are inevitable for me.

The official dates of my summer reading list were from May 25 (start of Memorial day weekend) to September 3 (end of Labor day weekend).

Here’s how I did, completed books are crossed off:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (started, but have not finished yet)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut (finished on September 7)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Issacson
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

42% finished.

Here are the other books I read this summer that were not on my list:
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Uncommon Arrangements by Katie Roiphe

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By Emily

Book-hoarding INFJ who likes to leave the Shire and go on adventures.

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