Summer Reading Program

What is on our summer reading lists? We just finished figuring out the answer to that question, and I thought I would post our lists here:

My list:


The Spy Went Dancing byAline, Countess of Romanones
The Spy Wore Silk by Aline, Countess of Romanones
Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Climbing Parnassus - A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, by Tracy Lee Simmons
Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins, by Percival Davis, Dean H. Kenyon
My Antonia, by Willa Cather
The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis
Chance or the Dance? A Critique of Modern Secularism, by Thomas Howard
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, by Walker Percy
Three by Tey: Miss Pym Disposes, The Franchise Affair, and Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
The Complete Stories, by Flannery O'Connor

And, to finish what I have already begun:
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi
Ideas Have Consequences, by Richard Weaver

My husband's list includes:
The End of Education, by Neil Postman
The Cost of Discipleship , by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind , by Mark Noll
On the Road with Mark Twain in California and Nevada, by George J. Williams, III
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
First Things magazine (see sidebar)
Touchstone magazine (see sidebar)


Children's lists include:
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
The Mystery of the Roman Ransom, by Henry Winterfeld
Enter Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse
The Great and Terrible Quest, by Margaret Lovett
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy
War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, by R.H.Dana
A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, by Ellis Peters
One volume, of his/her choice, of the lesser known works of J.R.R. Tolkien
Marguerite Henry books
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, by Margaret Sidney
Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Richard Atwater
Lad: A Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune
Adventures of Mabel, by Harry T. Peck
Minn of the Mississippi, by Holling C. Holling
Little Women, by L.M. Alcott
The Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, by Diane Stanley
Books by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'aulaire
Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes
The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Do you have any suggestions to add? I would love to hear them. (See sidebar for how to contact me)