Summer reading list

"Yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom."  (D&C 88:118)

As some of those who read this are already aware, I am hoping to get quite a bit of reading done this summer.  To help me, I have compiled this list of books that I would like to read or that others have suggested that I read.  It is in no particular order, and I will not be reading them in any particular order.  Also, I don't honestly expect to read all of these books before the end of the summer, but this will give me somewhere to work from.  I will likely have a slight bias towards non-fiction, but I intend to read fiction as well.

This isn't a complete list, and I'll be expanding it as the summer goes on (meaning that I will edit this blog post to reflect expansions).  So, reader, feel free to suggest additional material.

Oh, and I will be writing a review of each book I read.  Check back to see my progress.

Books I have never read

The World is Flat (Friedman)
Journey of the Jihadist (Gerges)
World on Fire (Chua)
Pakistan:  In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (Weaver)
Mountains Beyond Mountains (Kidder)
Out of Poverty (Polak)
Reinventing the Bazaar (McMillan)
Overthrow (Kinzer)
Day of Empire (Chua)
Development in Theory and Practice (Black)
Arab and Jew (Shipler)
Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather)
New Ideas from Dead Economists (Buchholz)
Freakonomics (Leavitt)
Atlas Shrugged (Rand)
Mere Christianity (Lewis)
The Great Divorce (Lewis)
A Grief Observed (Lewis)
The Space Trilogy (Lewis)
The Sickness Unto Death (Kirkegaard)
The Cost of Discipleship (Bouhoeffer)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Hunger Games (Collins)
Kite Runner (Hosseini)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
The Name of the Wind (Rothfuss)
The Wise Man's Fear (Rothfuss)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
The Miracle of Forgiveness (Kimball)
Don Quijote (Cervantes) *in Spanish
Sherlock Holmes (Doyle)
'Till We Have Faces (Lewis)
Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
The Great Brain (Fitzgerald)
The Idiot (Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
The Greatest Salesman in the World (Mandino)

Books I have read before

A Brave New World (Huxley)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
1984 (Orwell)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Tolkien)

Dang.  After looking at this list, I honestly wish I could have time to read every single one of these books.  I'll do my best to get through a lot of them.  This is going to be fun!

Because blank spaces are meant to be filled

It's been over a month since I last posted something here, so I figured I'd just provide some largely irrelevant filler material created by someone else.  I find this to be particularly funny.