Summer Reading

I'm trying to take only one box of books up to DC with me, and it has been quite a battle to try to pick the books. That's one consequence of buying hundreds of books: too many appealing and readily available choices! I think I'd like to make further inroads into the New Lifetime Reading Plan component of the project (I'm apparently aiming to have the Plan finished before I turn 25), so almost everything in the box right now is listed in that volume. I picked primarily short novels and plays, so that I can finish them in quick bursts rather than having to stretch a long novel over several weeks:

Caesar and Cleopatra - Shaw
Candida - Shaw
Candide - Voltaire
Confessions of a Mask - Mishima
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Dreamtigers - Borges
Endgame - Beckett
English Teacher - Narayan
Frankenstein - Shelley
Hard Times - Dickens
Herzog - Bellow
Iceman Cometh - O'Neill
Krapp's Last Tape - Beckett
Man and Superman - Shaw
Mayor of Casterbridge - Hardy
Mrs. Dalloway - Woolf
Notes From Underground - Dostoevsky
Oresteia - Aeschylus
Pere Goriot - Balzac
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
Ruba'iyat - Khayyam
Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
Sense and Sensibility - Austen
Theban Plays - Sophocles
Treasure Island - Stevenson

I just love making lists of books! Almost as much as reading them, in fact. The way I figure, I'll be working pretty hard all day, but will for the first time in a long time have no responsibilities during the evenings and weekends. It is much easier for me to immerse myself in a fictional world when the citecheck or class reading for next week is not lurking in the back of my head, waiting to be finished. In addition, the townhouse I'm staying in does not have high-speed Internet (the horror!), so I'll have an offline home. Ought to be a good summer for reading.