Booklist Update - "Beachtime Reads"

And another booklist update for me!  With Seabrook Island vacation fast approaching (as in, just a few days from now!) I'm gathering together books to bring with me.  Last year was when I devoured Pillars of the Earth, amongst other fiction and nonfiction works.  Looking forward to some more hungry reading and--finally!--edits for Fynn and co.  I've got 2 chapters in already and plenty of edits to make further on.  

On another note--is it cheating how frequently I change my booklist?  I say no, because reading is a lot like writing, or painting, or even becoming engaged in a television series: what you are interested in changes, and being flexible with those changes really helps to shape your knowledge and imagination.  Of course, that's not to say that books no longer on my booklist won't be attended to--I'll get to them, someday!  But for now, this booklist is almost complete (!!) and is populated by books I found unpacking my parents' new home as well.  All the better to keep it flexible.

1. The Story of English by Robert McCrum
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Ian Bickerton and Carla Klausner
4. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

5. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

6. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

7. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin 

8. A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin 

9. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (when is "Downton Abbey" returning?!)

10. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
11. Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
12. The Narcissism Epidemic by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell
13. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
14. Mapping Human History by Steven Olson
15. Fall of Giants by Ken Follet
16. Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Panic in Level 4 by Richard Preston
18. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
19. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
20. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
21. Watership Down by Richard Adams
22. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
23. The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley
24. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
25. The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
26. Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof
27. The Maze Runner by James Dashner

28. Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo

29. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (The Avengers did wonders for my imagination's happiness)

30. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 

I'm so excited to make a new booklist I can hardly wait :)