Summer Reading

While sitting in class today, I decided to start a list of books I want to read this summer.  My summer will be short this year.  I stayed for spring term and I have to be back on campus August 18th for work.  However, I am determined to make it through as many of these books as possible.  In keeping with the theme of this blog, if I find the book to be significantly above average and worthy of the term "favorite", I will feature a little synopsis on this blog and explain why I liked it.  Some of these books are for pure enjoyment, while others are of a more serious note.  Here goes - if you have any suggestions, please add to my list.

• Night - Elie Wiesel
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
• Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
• Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella
• Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Middlemarch - George Eliot
• The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
• The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

Last on my list is to finally finish Henry James' Daisy Miller.  Even though it is a short story, I have started and restarted it too many times to count.  This summer, I will read the entire work straight through so I do not have a chance to forget what I read only to restart it a while later.  Also, now that I am looking over these books, I have decided I am in the right major.  So many of these books deal with American topics.  I am excited to really delve into my program this fall - hopefully I still like it in the midst of a busy semester!