Monday, May 25, 2015

Summer Reading Club 2015: The Official Ambitious Reading List

It's the summer reading season, which is when I make  unreasonably long lists of books to read. 

It's like the rest of the year, but with a publicly announced ambition. (And warmer. Usually.)


As a child, I loved the summer reading club — and found myself really disappointed to find no adult version. So, I did what most people do: I formed my own club and invited my friends, family and interested future reading buddies. (Let's be honest: if you see someone with a book, especially a book you yourself have read, are they really strangers?)

Now, the summer has unofficially begun with Memorial Day, a solemn occasion to remember why we have the freedom and opportunity to exercise our rights and privileges as Americans. Please, take a moment to remember the true reason for the day.

Review your bookshelves or nightstand to decide what to put on your summer reading list. Here is mind, in no particular order:

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  1. Good Omens
  2. Divergent 
  3. Insurgent
  4. Allegiant
  5. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
  6. The Light Between Oceans
  7. Stepmonster
  8. Map of the Sky
  9. The Map of Chaos
  10. The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books
  11. The Descent
  12. At the Water's Edge
  13. Everything I Never Told You
  14. The Glass Sentence
  15. Arcadia
  16. Second Life
  17. Bone Season
  18. Bristol House
  19. Carsick
  20. A God in Ruins 
  21. Wolf Hall
  22. Arcadia
  23. Faefever
  24. The Lowland
  25. And the Mountains Echoed
  26. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter 
  27. NOS4A2
  28. The Sixth Extinction
  29. Revival
  30. Bellman and Black
  31. Station Eleven

I have no doubt this list will change, probably as soon as I publish it. However, I am going to let it fly.




Join the Summer Reading Club and put yourself in the running for a new book. Read as much as you wish from May 22 through September 27, and if you read the most book, you will win a book of your own. 

To join the club, just send me an e-mail or leave a message below. Then, at the end of the summer reading period, send me a message or include your reading list in a blog message. If you read the most, congratulations! If not, you still are a winner because you spent your summer reading.

I've already had a few e-mails from eager readers, and I can't wait to read your list!

I make sure summer reading is beneficial to my community. As I have done in years past, I will  donate $5 per book I read to Main Street Child Development Center, and I will buy three new books for the Fairfax County Public Library from its Amazon Wish List
 

Hopefully, reading club members also will find a way to help their communities through their reading, or to help share the love of reading with their communities. It's not a requirement, of course, but it certainly is a worthy effort. It doesn't have to be financial support, either — think of what the community wants and needs. Every reader can determine what is within her or his power to bestow.

Even if you don't join the reading club, I still would love to know: what's on your summer reading list? Tell me!

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