Summer Reading Extravaganza Day One

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Since I'm not actually going to be going to the beach this summer, but will be going to work I'm going to talk about a few of the things I plan to take along for my daily bus rides to work this summer!

David Sedaris's, When You Are Englufed In Flames looks to be a promising one. I've enjoyed what I have read of his previously. It will definitely wake me up with a good laugh in the morning. Plus I got to meet him about a week ago!

Leah Haye's all scratchboard graphic novel, Funeral of the Heart promises to be a creepy and quirky read.


Audrey, Wait! By Robin Benway is one of the most talked about new young adult books from this spring. And it has a pretty fantastic cover. It's the story of a girl who's ex-boyfriend writes a hit song about her and she can't get away from the limelight. I think? I haven't read it!

What can't you wait to read this summer?

Read in 2008: A Beginning

Ice Haven
Tales of Woodsman Pete
Mother, Come Home
Robot Dreams
Ghost World
Best American Comics 2007
20th Century Eightball
Caricature
The Acme Novelty Library #18
The Fart Party
When You Were Small
Gossip of Starlings
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Mome 9
The Polysyllabic Spree
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
Bloom
Secrets of the Hollywood Girls Club
20 Times A Lady

Twilight

Read in 2007

Good In Bed
Big Stone Gap
Mortified
Summer Blonde
Best American Comics 2006
Stolen Sharpie Revolution
The Guy Not Taken
PS I Love You
Forever In Blue-The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Wrongboy's History of the Earth
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Plain Janes
Gifted
Prep
American Born Chinese
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
Blankets
Goodbye, Chunky Rice
Veil of Roses
An Abundance of Katherines
Invincible Summer: an anthology
The Constant Rider Omnibus
Make Something: an anthology of portland zinesters
Atonement
Don't Go Where I Can't Follow
Drawn and Quarterly Showcase Three
Missouri Boy
Let Us Be Perfectly Clear
Never Ending Summer

Read In 2006

Holiday On Ice
Ice Haven
The Time Traveler's Wife
Black Hole
My Sister's Keeper
The Cheese Monkeys
44 Scotland Street
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
Persepolis
Scrapbook
Bitter Is The New Black
Persepolis 2
Paul Has A Summer Job
Breakfast With Tiffany
Goodnight Nobody
Running With Scissors
Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn
Charmed Thirds
Little Earthquakes
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Love, Rosie

Read in 2005

In Her Shoes
Kissing in Manhattan
The Da Vinci Code
The Grim Grotto
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
Understanding Comics
The Prince
Cat's Cradle
American Girls About Town
Girls In Pants-The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
The Tipping Point
Sloppy Firsts
Second Helpings
Bergdorf Blondes
The Pleasure of My Company
The Know It All
Lucia, Lucia
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Nickel and Dimed
Thumbsucker
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Blink
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
The Idiot Girl's Action Adventure Clube
The Namesake
In The Company of Cheerful Ladies
Meno

Read in 2004

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
The Summons
Firestarter
The Lovely Bones
Prey
Rage of Angels
Brunelleschi's Dome
Shopgirl
The Devil Wears Prada
Fishbowl
Tears of the Giraffe
The Nanny Diaries
Morality for Beautiful Girls
A House Called Awful End: The Eddie Dickens Trilogy
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
The Slippery Slope
The Catcher in the Rye
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Read In 2003

The Logic of Failure
The Beast In the Jungle
The Birth of Tragedy
Confessions
Candide
Crime and Punishment
A Room of One's Own
The Trial
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Schreuderspitze
The Lady With the Pet Dog
A Small Good Thing
Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Catch Me If You Can
The Bad Beginning
The Reptile Room
The Wide Window
The Miserable Mill
The Austere Academy
The Ersatz Elevator
The Vile Village
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Walden Two
A Woman's Book of Life
The Perks of Being A Wallflower