Summer Reading, Installment 1

Every summer I read. Heck, I do it year-round! I'm going to share a bit of my conquests with you and perhaps in snooping you'll find some reading ideas for yourself.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

if you enjoy dandies, hedonism, and fiction of the Gothic persuasion

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

if you enjoy Paris, Paris, Paris

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

if you enjoy learning about what you're putting into your body and don't mind the fact that you will almost inevitably become a vegetarian and/or vegan once you've made it halfway through

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

if you enjoy the word "cunt" (seriously, if you don't, don't even bother trying to read this book), discussions of fecal matter, and stream of consciousness

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

if you enjoy beautifully-crafted sentences, character study, and aren't bothered by a lack of action

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

if you enjoy family trees, epic stories, and

(I re-read this one after a 3 year interval. It's one of my favorite books on the planet, and I cannot recommend it enough.)

and now I am moving on to Paris to the Moon, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and Black Spring. Always open to reading recs.