Bascially, I went through pages and pages of other people's top however many and made my selection from those. Obviously, I only chose books I haven't read. If you see something that is really important missing, let me know, but I probably read it already.
I plan to start in May sometime, at the end of school. If I start at the beginning of May, I'll have a good four months before college. That's ten books a month. Two and a half books a week. A book almost every three days. So I don't know. If you'll notice, all these books are heavy. Like blue whale heavy.
Okay I just looked up blue whale to make sure that was the right whale reference and those things are freaking huge. Baby ones gain 200 pounds every 24 hours. That's intense.
Anyway. Here's the list.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange
Camus, Albert. The Stranger
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood
Cather, Willa. My Antonia
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment
Eliot, George. Middlemarch
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury
Flaubert, Gustav. Madame Bovary
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms
Hugo, Victor. Les Miserbles
James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady
Joyce, James. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James. Ulysses
Kafka, Franz. The Trial
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind
More, Sir Thomas. Utopia
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita
Orwell, George. 1984
Orwell, George. Animal Farm
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar
Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Grey
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway
RULES:
1) Do not read more than two books at a time. You may only start a new book if you have finished a book.
2) If reading gets too heavy, reader may select a lighter book that is not from the list as long as the book is less than 300 pages and was written in the last decade.
