Inspired by the conversation I'm having with jenniepie about Atlas Shrugged (one of her suggestions in last year's Summer Reading thread).

What do you plan on reading this spring/summer?

Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk
The Age of Turbulence - Alan Greenspan
This is Your Brain on Music - Daniel J. Levtin (finally have to finish this!)
Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns is amazing. I devoured on a plane ride home from England. You will love.

I haven't read a non-school book in a while and am hoping to change over the summer but haven't put too much thought into it. Open to lots of suggestions though!

edit: Only 3 books I currently have on my shelf that I haven't got to yet are Blindness and Seeing by Jose Saramago, so will probably tackle them first, followed by Douglas Coupland's The Gum Thief.

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Synopsis of each book plz

Finished Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell.
Most famous for the Sharpe series, the Sword Song is book 4 of series about England during King Alfred's era which is hardly covered in historical fiction.
Decent plot, lots of action and overall enjoyable read. (The entire series pretty much is fun)

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

I have 22 books on my "to-read" list on Goodreads atm, but there's no way I'll get through them all this summer.

5 I'd like to read though are:

Beasts of No Nation - Iweala Uzodinma
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth - James Lovelock
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Ray Kurzweil
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
Solaris - Kurt Kelm Stanislaw Lem

Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
(unfortunately can not read russian and must read mediocre translations)

A collection of short stories and plays by Oscar Wilde

Père Goriot - Honoré de Balzac (original version FTW)

Runaway - Alice Munro

I'm also going to attempt Bram Stoker's Dracula again (got scared shitless last time and couldn't sleep... there is something SO F*CKING CREEPY about that book and the way the author transposes the plot and characters into your head)

Does anyone else on this forum love Jane Austen???

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

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I think Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the best romances ever. I love that book.

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Originally posted by Ania_xox Does anyone else on this forum love Jane Austen???

Sense and Sensibility is in my top 5 favourite novels ever.

As far as Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest is still one of the funniest pieces of literature out there.

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Haha shit, forgot about that one...read it in high school, and yes it's hilarious!

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Originally posted by jennypie I think Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the best romances ever. I love that book.

So I have f*cking heard! So key to the understanding of the Victorian period of English Lit - I got through Shelley's Frankenstein just fine... and I kinda like the creepy feeling of reading alone in bed with these insane characters coming alive in your head... but when I was reading Dracula, at one point I actually started trembling. LOL
I stopped right around the part where the narrator (Jonathon?) hears the women's voices cackling or shrieking or something

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

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Originally posted by Irishaddict Sense and Sensibility is in my top 5 favourite novels ever. As far as Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest is still one of the funniest pieces of literature out there.

Really??? Have you read/enjoyed Pride and Prejudice? My fave book of all time. Sense and Sensibility comes third after Persuasion for me. I loved Hugh Grant in the movie though.

and OMG The Importance of Being Earnest is genius. The film adaptation isn't half bad either - Rupert Everett!!! <3

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Originally posted by Slylee oh well, different strokes different vaginas

Some dance to remember ~ Some dance to forget

P&P doesn't touch S&S for me. I fucking hated Elizabeth lol.

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I like books about military stuff with experimental weapons, like really awesome jets.

Therefore, I like every single book by Dale Brown.

And here you all are talking about classic literature. Thread ruined.