It turns out, besides Latin this summer and possible jobs, I will have a bit more free time this summer. Rather than doing anything different from what I normally do, I will read, somewhat for fun, and somewhat for school. It's good when I can dovetail the two together. This is just a tentative list, so I don't forget.
Fiction
Selections from Chaucer I have not read (a few Canterbury Tales, a few short poems)
Selections from The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
William Langland, Piers Plowman. (Or an equivalent-length medieval poem)
Chaim Potok, The Chosen
Algernon Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse or Poems and Ballads I
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed
Patricia McKillip (fantasy author who spins a good story, quite possibly the best novel writer on this list)
Charles Stross (sci-fi author, writes a lot about games/Lovecraft mythos/British spy stories, among other things)
Vernor Vinge (sci-fi author, writes a lot of stories in a world where everything is mediated by technology)
Nonfiction
Glimp and Warren, The Arts of Calculation: Quantifying Thought in Early Modern Europe
Passmore and Carter, The English Loathly Lady Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs
Karma Lochrie, Heterosyncrasies
Carolyn Dinshaw, Getting Medieval
John Bugge, Virginitas: An Essay in the History of a Medieval Ideal
William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
Something by Eve Sedgwick
Something by Stephen Greenblatt
And that should be quite enough, considering the number of times I'll read something randomly.
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