Happy Wednesday! With only three days left until graduation, my mom and dad have been giving me a ton of chores to do because we're having a family party for my graduation. We'll have about thirty people at our (tiny) house to eat Oklahoma Joe's, which is famous for its barbeque. It's literally the best and I'm so excited. In between scrubbing every inch of the house, I've been able to get through the first five Harry Potter movies :). Anyway, I'm really looking forward to finally having time to read the books I want to read rather than what I have to read for school (Heart of Darkness was nearly the death of me). Most of the books are classics or just a book that caught my interest, which I feel like I should read before going to college. I hope I can read most of them before the end of the summer!
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling (currently reading for the fifth or sixth time -- don't judge.)
2. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (also a reread, it was my favorite mandatory book in high school)
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read this for my AP paper, another favorite)
4. Agatha Christie novels
5. The Cider House Rules - John Irving (because I loved the movie)
6. Ada, or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov
7. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I read it this winter but it made no sense so I'm going to try again)
8. Beloved - Toni Morrisson
9. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
10. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
11. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
12. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
13. Emma - Jane Austen
14. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
15. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
16. Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
17. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
18. Ernest Hemingway novels
19. Charles Dickens novels
20. Atonement - Ian McEwan
I'm sure I'll be adding to the list, but this is a start. I probably won't be able to read more than 20 novels in just 12 weeks, but I'll try to read as many as possible. Let me know if you have any recommendations!
Carpe Diem,
Brooke
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