Summer Book List - UPDATE!

My recently embarked-upon summer book list is well under way, but I fear it may be feeding an addiction.

I love getting new books. I absolutely adore getting cracking open a new book and starting in on it. I can't stress this enough. I am addicted to books. Always have been.

I got two of the same book at Christmas this last year, and it was a pretty expensive one, so I've managed to get three books out of the store credit I got for returning the one. The first was Atlas Shrugged (with which I am almost finished) and today I used the last of the money and picked up the two pictured below. Ayn Rand's egoist philosophy in Atlas really intrigues me. I don't think I agree with it entirely, but I've found it fascinating enough to pick up her nonfiction book, The Virtue of Selfishness, which elaborates further on her self-proclaimed "Objectivist" philosophy.

Also, I've discovered after the fact that I'm kind of an existentialist, and one of the biggest and most accessible existentialist writers was Jean-Paul Sartre. This book has selections from Existentialism and Sartre's masterwork, Being and Nothingness. Maybe this will be the first step in a long chain of purchases.

So, one (big) book from the book list almost done, one purchased, and one added.