Summer reading...for fun?

Senior Julia Bell reviews nine good books for Merionite readers looking to expand their horizons and appear scholarly.

Watchmen by Alan Moore: it’s a graphic novel, so you mostly just look at pictures. Sick illustrations and there’s a scene on Mars 10/10, which I would recommend.

Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin: The first book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series. Rise above the juvenile show-watchers and suffer through 10+ Ned Stark chapters.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë: honestly just to able to tell people that you’ve read it.

Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov: it’s a classic (winky face). Hauntingly beautiful! Are we all Humbert Humbert?

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris: I laughed so hard that I choked while eating peppers.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote: technically a novella, so you can read it in under two hours. The Holly Golightly of the book is much better than the one in the movie, who is kind of annoying.

Going Solo by Roald Dahl: yeah, he also wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This is his memoir of flying fighter planes in WWII, and you might cry at the end.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed: a woman who was a heroin addict becomes a solo hiker. Popcorn read.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: this one is for all the kids who didn’t get enough of dystopian books after reading 1984.

Run by Ann Patchett: just kidding, why the heck would anyone ever want to read this book?

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