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any suggestions for a summer reading list for a senior?

I'm going to be a senior next school year, what are some suggested books to read? Like ones you have to read, had to read, or think are good books. I'm gonna be bored this summer. Thanks great so far, keep them coming!

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1. My sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult Peeps by Scott Westerfeld Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
2. Have you ever read 'The Secret Life of Bees' by Sue Monk Kidd? It's awesome!
3. The Stand (long version) by Stephen King. I was a senior when I read that one, good summer book!
4. If you want astuff you're eventually going to need to read anyway (and just should, if you're going to be a well-read individual) try: To Kill A Mockingbird 1984 (or Animal Farm, but I like 1984 better) Huckleberry Finn the Tao Te Ching the Bhagavad Gita The Art of War
5. the lovely bones a time travelers wife the great gatsby alas babylon catcher in the rye a long way down the importance of being earnest the portrait of dorian grey sense and sensibility a room with a view lipstick jihad the unbearable lightness of being love and other demons ficciones u.s.! a brief history of the dead lies my teacher told me pedagogy of the oppressed Candide all of those are GREAT places to start.
6. Girl's guide to hunting and fishing Anything by Ian McEwan, i.e. AMsterdam Atonement or Enduring love The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
7. these are the books I had to read in high school that I enjoyed: to kill a mockingbird the great gatsby the scarlet letter the picture of dorian gray macbeth I also recommend: Pride and Prejudice The Phantom of the Opera Twilight The Catcher in the Rye
8. You'll probably at some point if you haven't already need to read The Scarlet Letter, whether in high school or in college. Here are the books I read in the last years of high school that were required: The Great Gatsby Madame Bovary The Scarlet Letter 100 Years of Solitude Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Long Days Journey into Night No Exit Assorted poems by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Sylvia Plath The Beginning and the End Medea The Stranger and I think that is it...