Summer reading list part 1: the first 25

Shortly before the school year ended, one of my students asked me for a list of books he could read this summer. I asked him how many he thought would be good, and he said, "Oh, I don't know...50?" I embarrassed to admit this list is over a week and a half late (sorry, Nate!), but here is the first half of it at least. Each is linked either to my own review of the book (which has a link to the Boulder Book Store on it) or to a page at the Boulder Book Store. Feel free to add your own recommendations and comments to any of these.


Summer reading list, part 1

1. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. I'm actually going to list all seven of the books, but I'm going to list them in chronological order rather than the order in which they were published. And no, it's not cheating to list the series as the first seven since they are classics. So there. (ha ha!) This link will take you to the complete set of Narnia books by Lewis, which makes more sense than posting seven different links in this case.
2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
3. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
4. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
6. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
7. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
8. Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
10. The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
11. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
12. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
13. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
14. Watership Down by Richard Adams
15. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (my review is forthcoming, but for now I'll post the link to the Boulder Book Store)
16. Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
17. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
18. Peter Pan by Sir James M. Barrie
19. The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
20. The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
21. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
22. Holes by Louis Sachar
23. Dune by Frank Herbert
24. The Giver by Lois Lowry
25. Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner

There you go...the first half of the list! Enough to get you started, I hope!

Reviews to come (by the end of the week??): Storm Front by Jim Butcher, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, and Red, White, and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth. Coming in August: Book Nerds' Big Day Out II: Book Nerds Do Boulder. Stay tuned!