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Summer 2016 Reading List

Unsure of what to read this summer?

Kimberly Kowalski
May 31, 2016
Misericordia University
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Summer 2016 Reading List
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Summer is the perfect time to relax and get lost in a book. However, it can be difficult to know which book to read next. A murder mystery? A sappy romance? A breathtaking adventure? A timeless classic? There are millions of possibilities of what one could read and there is something for everyone. Whether it is sitting by the pool or in the air conditioning, here is a list of a few books to dive into this summer!

1. "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

2. "Emma" by Jane Austen

3. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

4. "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson

5. "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

6. "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

7. "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare

8. "Watchmen" by Alan Moore

9. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo

10. "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren

11. The "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling

12. "Five Little Pigs" by Agatha Christie

13." Me Before You" by Jojo Moyes

14. "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis

15. "The Road' by Cormac McCarthy

16. "The Buried Giant" by Kazuo Ishigub

17. "On The Road" by Jack Jerouac

18. "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

19. "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace

20. "The Importance of Being Ernest" by Oscar Wilde

21. "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino

22. "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb

23. "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova

24. "Tales of the Jazz Age" by F. Scott Fitgerald

25. "Into Thin Air" by John Krakauer

26. "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

27. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

28. "Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk

29. "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" by Mitch Albom

30. "Lair of Dreams" by Libba Bray

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