I took so many books with me to college, but unfortunately I was unable to read them. Over the school year my reading list got longer and longer. Now that it's Summer, I finally have time to read as much as I want. Unsure of what you want to read? Well, here is a list of some of the books that I have read this past year and are going to read this Summer.

1. "W;t" by Margaret Edson

The only play on this list, "W;t" is a one-act play that is based off of Edson's work in a hospital. It follows the final days of Dr. Vivian Bearing who is dying of Ovarian Cancer.

2. "The Opposite of Loneliness" by Marina Keegan

Probably one of the best books I have ever read. This collection of essays and stories was published by Keegan's family shortly after her death.

3. "Plain Truth" by Jodi Picoult

Anything by Jodi Picot is good. This novel follows the murder of a child that shakes up an Amish community.

4. "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Okay, so this one is technically a children's adventure novel. However, my English teacher put it on a list of books for me to read. So it obviously can't be that bad.

5. "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner

This southern gothic novel is about how a family, the Burdens, copes with the death of their mother and travels across the south to bury her.

6. "A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man" by James Joyce

This is James Joyce's first novel. It is a coming of age novel that tells the story of Stephen Dedalus as he rebels against the Catholic church and Irish tradition.

7. "Sula" by Toni Morrison

"Sula" traces the friendship of Nel Wright and Sula Peace who live in Medallion, Ohio. This novel is a tale of friendship and the trials that it faces.

8. "This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel is about love that is tainted by greed and social status.

9. "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler" by Italo Calvino

This novel is about a reader trying to read novel by the same name. Each chapter is split into 2 parts.

10. "Bee Season" by Myla Goldberg

This novel follows a young girl who tries to impress her family by winning spelling bees and must face the reactions of her family members.

11. "At Swim-Two-Birds" by Flann O'Brien

This book was written under a pseudonym for Brian O'Nolan. It is about an unnamed Irish student who is studying literature and believes that books cannot have only one beginning and one ending.

12. "Everything Is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer

The novel switches between two stories: the first which takes place in a Jewish shtetl and the second which takes place in the Ukraine. Both stories are autobiographical for Foer.

Some of these books I have read, but others I have not. Either way, I hope this list helps with your Summer reading!