If you are looking for an ambitious reading list to fill your summer, here are 23+ works. Credit to China Rich Girlfriend for the highlighted books... you can find all the CRA recommended reads here: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/crazy-rich-girlfriend-kevin-kwan-excerpt or with the search "China Rich Girlfriend reading list".
(Crossing my fingers I'll finish it. I pledge to finish at least half the books on this list.)
Dune by Frank Herbert
Midnight Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
Little Manila is in the Heart by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
Snobs by Julian Fellowes
People Like Us by Dominick Dunne
The Power of Style by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins (this is out of print)
Pride and Avarice by Nicholas Coleridge
D.V. by Diana Vreeland
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur by Gayatri Devi
Jane Austen—complete works beginning with Pride and Prejudice
Edith Wharton—The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Anthony Trollope—all the books in the Palliser series, beginning with Can You Forgive Her?
In Search of Lost Time- Proust
The Heavens- Sandra Newman
“Calligrammes”- Apollinaire
“Les Fluers de Mal”- Charles Baudelaire
Le Pere Goriot- Honore de Balzac
The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
America is not the heart- Elaine Castillo
Hollywood Costume: Glamour! Glitter! Romance!- Diana Vreeland
Social Creature- Tara Isabella Burton
Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
For Spanish learners:
(Crossing my toes I read these in Spanish:)
La Vida Imaginaria- Mara Torres
La Casa de los Espiritus- Isabel Allende
Como Para Agua Chocolate- Laura Esquivel
Any more suggestions?
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