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This article might help you with summer reading, but How to Read Literature Like a Professor and How to Read Novels Like a Professor are even better.

The British paper The Telegraph compiled a list of 100 novels they believe everyone should read. How many have you read? What would make your top 10? If you are interested, I've read 16 of these books. Guess I'd better get cracking.

"Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."

Get a book in your e-mail. I read Moby Dick and Emma this way and started A Tale of Two Cities (not done with it yet).

Harvard explains critical reading. Via Jim Burke.

Anglo-Saxon poems translated and read out loud by folks like Seamus Heaney and Billy Collins.

The Book Seer recommends books to you based on the last book (or any book) you read.

Read all of Paradise Lost online. Has explanatory notes to help you understand terms, themes, allusions, and other references.

This Web site gives you a variety of ways to read Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," including e-text, a chapter a day, RSS, zip files of the whole book, and mp3's.

Students who like to complain about the complexities of the English language might enjoy this book about English. The review makes it sound interesting. It's going on my to-read list.

These tongue-in-cheek biographies of authors certainly make for interesting reading for British literature students.

Reading Shakespeare makes you smarter!

A lasting online resource and a companion project for Shakespeare in American Life, a radio documentary produced by Richard Paul and narrated by Sam Waterston, airing on Public Radio International (PRI) stations beginning in April 2007.

Finished a book you really liked? Try YourNextRead to discover a book like it.

Paste compiles a list of some of literature's biggest jerks. You know you love to hate them.

BookLamp.org matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music.

Shakespeare meets Craigslist.

Questions to ask when explicating poetry.

If this is the future of studying a Shakespeare play, sign me up.

Have you ever wanted to write a letter to a fictional character? This site publishes letters from real people to fictional people. Could yours be next?