the [Queen] of wishful thinking.

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• A Child Called “It” - Dave Pelzer
• The Art of War - Sun Tzu
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• The Giver - Lois Lowry (reread from 7th grade)
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• 1984 - George Orwell
• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max
• Deception Point - Dan Brown
• The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown (after rereading Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code)
• The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
• Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

So I have about 6 textbooks to read from any given week this semester and it’ll probably be similar when I take another 6 classes in the spring. and I’m most likely going to read the Harry Potter series for the 12th time at some point in the next year and a half. and I’m going to resume tearing through James Patterson’s Alex Cross series. I may even reread Breaking Dawn before the movie comes out in november. maybe. I think I also have a Palahniuk book or two at home that I’ve never read that I may finally get around to.

But along with all of that lighter reading, I’d really like to make a dent in this list within the next year or so. I’ve always had a mental list of “Books I Want to Read” but in the last few years the only thing I’ve even read off of it was The Catcher in the Rye. I mean, A Child Called “It” has been on the list since I was pretty young… middle school, maybe even elementary school. This year I’m going to read at least the top 5.