Summer 2016 Reading List

Giants Neck Beach, East Lyme, CT

In 2013, I started creating very structured readings lists. I come up with a theme for each quarter, and I assign myself 10 books for each list. I also have two special reading months with a friend -- Murder Mystery Month (in March) and Morbid and Macabre Month (in October); those lists usually feature 4 books or so. 

At any rate, Summer 2016's theme is "The Sea, The Sea."

1) Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea

2) Joseph Conrad, The Shadow Line

3) James Fenimore Cooper, Afloat and Ashore

4) R.M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island

5) Robin Lee Graham, Dove

6) C.S. Forester, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

7) Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

8) Patrick O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral

9) Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, Men Against the Sea

10) Frederick Marryat, Percival Keene