Holiday time! Yay! Anyway, as a
book club, we set summer reading challenges. And to encourage me to do it, I’m
posting it up here. And if any of you guys want to join me and the
Noisiest Book Club in the World in our attempts to broaden our horizons, then
please do.
THE NOISIEST BOOK CLUB IN THE
WORLD’S READING LIST SUMMER 2012
CHALLENGE A- Read 2 books from the
first three, OR Birdsong
CHALLENGE B- Read and enjoy at least one book on list B, any subsection.
CHALLENGE B- Read and enjoy at least one book on list B, any subsection.
List A.
Hollow Pike -James Dawson
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes
Hollow Pike -James Dawson
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes
LIST B-Books
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
About a Boy-Nick Hornby
We- Yevgeny Zamatin
We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Schriver
Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
My Best Friend’s Girl-Dorothy Kamson
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Unseen Academicals-Terry Prachett
The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
About a Boy-Nick Hornby
We- Yevgeny Zamatin
We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Schriver
Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
My Best Friend’s Girl-Dorothy Kamson
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Unseen Academicals-Terry Prachett
The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
Brave New World-Aldous Huxley
LIST B-Set texts
An Inspector Calls- J.B. Priestly
Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
An Inspector Calls- J.B. Priestly
Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
LIST B- Something by these authors
Agatha Christie
John Green
Agatha Christie
John Green
This is a rather wide ranging list
full of books I’ve been meaning to read sometime soon. I’ve read Hollow Pike,
The Bell Jar, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Picture of Dorian Gray
and loved them to varying degrees, and the majority of the other books are on
my TBR.
This challenge is a great thing to
remind me to read these things. I’m reading Fahrenheit 451 also as part of the
VlogBrothers’ Readalong challenge, and I really want to read We, Clockwork
Orange, Life of Pi, Brave New World and something by John Green soon. I also desperately need to read the set
texts-something tells me they’ll be a bit more interesting if I’m not studying
them to death!
Also in terms of summer reading, I
have a fair amount of review copies and books that have accumulated randomly. These
six weeks of summer will be full of NaNo-ing (thanks to you guys for holding
CampNaNoWriMo in August-much less stressful than trying to write around school
in November!), torturing my violin, and reading.
Over to you guys now! Anything on
here that you think’s amazing, or that you really want to read?
And final little plug, if you want
a little publicity in October in exchange for writing a post or answering some
questions on spooky books, fill out THIS form! Thank you!
