I'm planning to read like a monster this summer. The idea is one book a week, netting me 16 books before I have to jump back into things. Some of them will be school books, but most of them will be things I've been collecting, as well as some new things coming out. This list isn't in any particular order.

~~Let the Great World Spin~~ by Colum McCann
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (First 1/2)
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (Second 1/2)
~~Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor~~ by Brad Gooch
~~The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade~~ by Thomas Lynch
~~You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto~~ by Jaron Lanier
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
~~Voodoo Heart~~ by Scott Snyder
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
~~Count Zero~~ by William Gibson
~~Dream of Perpetual Motion~~ by Dexter Palmer
~~Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned~~ by Wells Tower
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
~~The Writing Life~~ by Annie Dillard
A World Beneath by Aaron Gwyn

I'd also do Brady Udall's The Lonely Polygamist, but it is 700 pages. I'm buying it today, but I'll be reading it this fall, I think. I'm really excited about this book.

So, it seems I've started a movement. My friend Rae English has started her own list and a challenge to others. So, I'm issuing the same challenge to you all: what kind of reading can you squeeze out of the summer at the rate of one book a week?