Books

So I'm a big reader. I've always been good at it (I was the first reader in my primary class thank you very much) and for the most part I've always loved it. I say most part because in elementary school I was required to read a certain amount of time each day and my aunt always always always made me do it. I'd always beg her to let me read a few minutes less than required and sometimes she'd give in by letting me go two or three minutes early. That's it. However, when I read I forgot that I was reading and really enjoyed it. I think it was the fact that it was something I was supposed to do so, naturally as a punk kid, I thought that meant I should dislike it.

Now fifteen or whatever years later I still love it. However, being a grown up definitely cuts into my reading time. There was a whole year where I honestly don't think I read a book from front to back and when I realized this I was disgusted with myself. Who was I? I was the girl who read through books in a matter of days not years! Since then I've tried to always be reading a book and depending on my schedule, how interesting the book is, etc I finish them anywhere between a few days to a few weeks. There are so many I want to read and ones that I know I'll find and read/want to read. Let me just say I don't think I will EVER read all of the books that I want to. Here are my lists:

Books I've Read & Recommend:

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (an all time favorite which I'm reading right now)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (makes you question a lot of your assumptions)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseni (I need to reread this one)
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (My first audio book. I actually haven't finished listening to it- I listen while I crochet but I really like it so far)
The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe by CS Lewis (favorite as a kid)
Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling (besides the entertainment it really has a lot of good and deep messages)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (more fitting for a little girl)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (very fitting to America's society)
Word War Z by Max Brooks (zombie love. I haven't finished it but its awesome)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (lovely children's book)

Books I Want/Need to Read:

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (its Ammon's fav and he's a picky reader and English degree holder so it has to be good)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (this is a reread but I read it in elementary school)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (love the movie Capote with Patrick Seymoure Hoffman)
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (from a dog's perspective)
Doctors From Hell by Vivien Spitz (about Nazi doctors)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (if my bfe wrote a song about it its def worth reading)
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (another reread from childhood)
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (childhood reread)
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbett (childhood reread)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


And there are so many more. For example I want to read all of The Classics but there are a bunch of different lists that people claim are The Classics so we'll see... Maybe Barnes & Noble they seem pretty legit.

I'll try and add to the lists as I remember more and post an update when I do.

Love,
Kxoxo