A pattern has emerged over the last couple of years: I begin putting down titles for my summer reading list practically just after New Year’s, and by the time May rolls around I’m champing at the bit to dig into it…and to talk about it! A side-effect of making the list early, of course, is that I occasionally swipe a title off it if I’m really desperate for something to read anytime in the spring. This year I swiped Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope and The Brandons by Angela Thirkell (a double dose of Barsetshire!) and I remain unapologetic. Barchester Towers in particular was exactly what I needed in a dry reading season—and anyway, there are plenty of books left in both authors’ series if I want to read them in the summer!
So without further ado, here’s this year’s list:
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp
Escape the Night by Mignon G. Eberhart
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
Storming by K.M. Weiland
Where There’s a Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Greenwillow by B.J. Chute
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
Conagher by Louis L’Amour
The Great K&A Train Robbery by Paul Leicester Ford
When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
What does your summer reading list look like? I’d love to see it!
image: “Woman in a Boat” by John Singer Sargent
Abby says
Ooh, Moccasin Trail, I love that one. Sounds like a good list. I don't have a particular reading list for this summer, but I am trying to integrate some more non-fiction into my reading. I like to go to the history section of the library and pick out a few books that look interesting. I just finished one called Elephant Company, about James Williams, who worked with elephants in Burma in WWII. It was good!
Annie says
What a fun list. Moccasin Trail is the only book on your list I have read, but Seventeen has always interested me. I'd love to know what you think of it!
Inspired by you I made my summer reading list as well:
http://www.box13shop.com/?p=336
Starting your reading list at the beginning of the year is a good idea. I'm always looking for ways to choose my books more purposefully and that would help I think.
Tarissa says
Hi! I think I've been on your blog before, but not in a long while.
Your booklist definitely caught my eye! Moccasin Trail is one my brother just read this summer and trying to pawn off on me. However, Storming by K.M. Weiland is definitely on my summer list (unless it gets pushed to autumn, of course… and I'm interested in reading Doctor Thorne too. I think we seem to have similar interests. 🙂
I'm reading a few classics this summer. I've already read one by Louisa May Alcott, and I have several ebooks I'm going to try to read.
Well, I'm off to discover more on your blog!