make a Reading list

January: Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose
February: Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin
March: Replay, Ken Grimwood
April: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
May: The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud
June: The Good Guy, Dean Koontz
July: The Great Escape, Paul Brickhill
August: To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
September: Three Cups of Tea, Mortenson / Relin
October: The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
November: Centennial, James Michener
December: Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

I’ve done that yesterday. I’m planning to finish “Gone” by Michael Grant, and after that I want to read The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall. I compiled a reading list of books I’d like to read after I’ve read TVD.

I now have the Freshman Great Books list (St John’s) and a couple of Top 100 lists (Times and Guardian I think). These came from the 43 lists site although there’s also useful information on Wikipedia.

I will probably start by cherry picking from the Great Books and working through it chronologically and will lighten the mood from time to time with something taken from the Top 100 lists. There are an awful lot of books to read and the Great Books course is (I think) 4 years’ study.

Realistically, I am unlikely to cover everything but I will make a start and keep coming back to these lists, taking the next most interesting work each time.

For this summer:
-Eats, shoots, and leaves, Lynne Truss #FINISHED#
-The F-word, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
-Achilles, Homer
-Men and cartoons, Jonathan Lethem
-Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
-The Complete Stories, Franz Kafka
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be reading.