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What does your summer reading list look like?

What books do you plan or hope to read this summer?

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1. well i'm in college so i've already gotten a head start: the scarlet letter tender is the night dracula this side of paradise the beautiful and the damned on the road east of eden along for the ride re-read: Harry Potter, the 6th (before the movie) and 7th, the Twilight Saga, 1984, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, the great gatsby The Big Sleep Thats all i can think of now because i plan for a book a week (i read alot, obviously)
2. Like this:Twilight,New Moon,The lord of the Rings 1,2,3,Harry Potter 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...e.t.c.
3. The Tales of Genji, hopefully, it's a big book you know. Atlas Shrugged, again, already read it once Dune (the series), it's a lot of books in one series XD Fahrenheit 451, for the third time The Chronicles of Narnia (the whole chronicles, lol) and a lot more, but I don't know what yet....
4. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card Good Omens by by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Among many many others! But, I'm doing the summer semester on top of working so I'll probably only get through a couple.
5. I have exactly one month before school starts so my book list is pretty short! I just started Reading the harry potter series and am in the second book. I just plan the other five books:)
6. 1.whatever my book club decides (we read about two books a month more or less) 2.The Phantom Tollbooth 3.As Simple As Snow, which I started reading over a year ago and didn't finish. 4. Story Time by Edward Bloor. I hope it's good. 5.The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte. I read another of his books. He's a little overbearing in detail, but we'll see how this one goes. 6.The Fleet:Sworn Allies. It's a super cheap sci-fi novel that sounds rediculously stupid. I'm hoping it'll be a laugh. It may just be a headache. 7. Messy Spirituallity by Michael Yaconelli (an attempt to counter all the brain numbing from the last novel) 8. Holes by Louis Sachar. It's one of those books that I should have read ages ago and never did.
7. Well, in a week's time I'll have finished my english lit. degree, so I'll actually have time to read some books!! Haha! (It's so funny, everyone studying literature can't wait till the course is over so they can read!) So, my reading list looks something like this: 1. There's a few writers whose books I've loved, so I want to read their complete works (or at least their major ones): Ian McEwan, Kurt Vonnegut, Salman Rushdie, H. G. Wells, John Wyndham, Thomas Hardy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Philip K. Dick, Don DeLillo, and some Stephen Fry! 2. I fancy teaching english at secondary level, so there's a few "Young Adult" series I think I'll crack into and see what's down with the kids: Harry Potter, Twilight, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings. (And I'll definitely re-read His Dark Materials, which I wrote my dissertation on - it's frickin' immense!) 3. And there are some random one-off novels which have caught my eye over the last four years: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Handmaid's Tale, Flowers for Algernon, The Time-Traveller's Wife, The Catcher in the Rye, Orcs, The Wasp Factory, Revolutionary Road, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Requiem for a Dream (the movie was unbelievable!), The Book Thief, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lost in the Funhouse, Dune, War and Peace, Last and First Men, Fingersmith, The Name of the Rose, The Life of Pi, The Kite Runner, Trainspotting. 4. Oh, and I also fancy trying out some graphic novels, seen as they're being taken (and written?) seriously now... so I'll see what the "best" graphic novels have to offer: Watchmen, V for Vendetta. 5. And there's also a whole lot of non-fiction which I've had my eye on. But I think this list is getting long enough.... So that's it. Hold on a minute... HOLY CRAP! That's a LOT of books! I didn't even realise... Well, thanks for freaking me out! What do YOU plan to read this summer?
8. 1. Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress: The Fashion of Frida Kahlo by Carlos Phillips Olmedo 2. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor 3. The Nine - Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin 4. Letters to My Daughter by Maya Angelon 5. A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines . . . .and many more!