Which are the top 5 books on your TBR list?

Here are the top ones off my pile:

P.S, I Love You by Cecelia Adern
Love, Suburban Style by Wendy Markham
Shopaholic Abroad by Sophie Kinsella
Princess Izzy and the E Street Shuffle by Beverly Barlett
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child

Spirituality for Dummies
The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl by Shauna Reid
The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America by W. Charisse Goodman
Lucinda, Darkly by Sunny
Year of the Lucy by Anne McCaffrey

I never plan more than two books ahead, and even those aren't set in stone. It's part of my of my revolt against living a life that's too predetermined, I guess. LOL

Two of the books on my list are because they are due back at the library soon.

They also aren't set in stone. If I'm not in the mood, I change it. Like last night when I read Ethan of Athos by Bujold instead.

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam Barbara W. Tuchman
The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky
East of Eden John Steinbeck
101 Things you Didn't Know about Disney World by Kevin Yee
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

Yup, catching up on Steinbeck.

Although these are "the pile", they could be interrupted at
any moment, that's just what happens.
For example, picked up Richard Dawkins The Ancestor's Tale at the used book store last night, cheap. Mmmm,
evolutionary biology . . . it calls to me . . . :D

Hmm... I don't have my TBR pile organised like that, but 5 titles that come to mind on it are:

Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
Tigana by GGK
The Doomsday Machine by Catherine Webb
Impossible Things by Connie Willis
Doomsday Book also by Connie Willis

#5 - I have that Dawkins book, along with The Selfish Gene, but have yet to dive into them...

Things are always changing for me although I do have a vauge sort of plan. I have too many to choose from and then library books coming in and off-setting the books in my tbr pile. Loosely, this is what I have in mind for my next 5 books from my tbr pile(s), in approximate order:

1. Brethren: Raised by Wolves by W.A. Hoffman - I started this one but put it aside for some library books that came in.
2. In A Wild Wood by Sasha Lord - The book most recently picked for me on the Go Review That Book! group.
3. Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz - This is one I've had in my tbr pile for ages and happens to be on all three of my challenge lists.
4. What I Meant by Marie Lamba - I received an LT friend request from her the other day and it is another one that has been in my tbr pile for a really long time.
5. Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward - Just because I haven't read it yet and her new book is coming out this month.

I try and plan ahead because then I feel like I can fulfill a goal. Yeah, right. Like I will ever get all the books I want to read, read. I go by ARC's, library, Books sent by LTers, borrowed and then my own. The next up are:

Glister from a LTer.
Deadly Charm an ER book
Gray Apocalypse A member giveaway book
The Last Bridge An ER book
Breaking Dawn borrowed

I'm just getting started with a history of Bethesda, Maryland, by an old friend, so I'll count that as the first one. Then I've got:

Whip Hand by Dick Francis for my library book club
Lavinia by UKL
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Something by Paul Park, about whom I've been hearing various raves lately.

Of course, like many others, the likelihood that these will be the next five books i read is pretty slim.

OMG!!

This was the first ever topic I started on LT! And it got so many responses in a day! Thank you so much fellow Green Dragoners for joining in!!

Loads of love,
Kim.

It's a fun topic to talk about, and the day's not over yet either! ^-~

Let's see... Like everyone else, my TBR list is not set in stone, but five titles I want to read relatively fast are:

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (which may or may not count since I've started it already)
A Beginner's Guide to Aromatherapy (courtesy of Random.org picking my books)
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Mélusine by Sarah Monette
The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines, who I believe is a GD member as well. It keeps finding its way into my bag when I go on read-worthy trips.

I have two obligatory books to finish (not unhappily): Larry's Kidney for Early Reviewers and Earth Abides for my book group

Then, two more Early Reviewers books to read: Estate Planning for People with a Chronic Condition or Disability and Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting. Then, I need to read the next book group book, The Earth Without Us.

Should I get off track, bored, or just looking for variety I have about 10 To Be Read, for no particular reason other than I was attracted to them, books sitting right in front of me, staring at me.

So many books, so much life. Lovin' it.

Message edited by its author, Apr 30, 2009, 11:02am.

Like the others, I'm not a live by the list or die kind of person, but I have five I NEED to finish soon-

The Mysteries of Udolpho
Howards End
My name is Asher Lev
Stone of Tears
Valley of the Kings

It's really cool to see what everyone is thinking about picking up next- great topic Kim!

I am currently finishing up my first set of books for the 999 challenge, plus I have some library books to read. So here's my list.

Doctrines of Salvation
No Doubt About It
The Bar Code Tattoo
Carthage Conspiracy
The Lost Queen

Finished all of these!

Message edited by its author, Jun 18, 2009, 1:52am.

>15 finishing 999? Wow!

as of today my TBR list is

The Secret Magdalene - Ki Longfellow (library)
Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg (library)
The Age of the Picts - WA Cummins
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Artists in Crime - Ngaio Marsh

Maggie, I love the titles of your 2 books. Estate Planning followed by Your Life is Waiting. Tee hee, I found it funny.

me, too,

it is good to laugh, daily! out loud!

This list is highly fluid, but this year at least I plan on reading:

Heart of Bronze by Matthew Stover
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (and its sequel)
The Dark Lord Trilogy by James Luceno/Matthew Stover (I own the individual books)
There Are Doors by Gene Wolfe (if I can ever find a copy cheap)

I'm also itching to do some rereads, which I try to keep to a minimum. Among these:

Shardik by Richard Adams (my favorite book, and it's been a few years)
The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card
The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson (my favorite series, though I'm trying to resist the temptation, as it will take at least half a year)

Message edited by its author, Apr 30, 2009, 11:48am.

Halting state
Century rain
To ride hell's chasm
Hunting party

...in no particular order.

>14 Thank you MissWoodhouse. I'm glad you liked it.

Even I don't have it all set in stone.Those books on my list have newly arrived home.They smell good & I can't wait to finish them all!!

Love, everyone!

The only TBRs that are set in stone are my ARCs, so my next read will be The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. After that I have to see where my mood takes me, whether I want fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora or To Ride Hell's Chasm or historical fiction Drood or Mr. Pip or a more modern fiction like Love Marriage or The Complete Stories of Truman Capote. I love finishing a book and then browsing my bookshelves and seeing what takes my fancy. It's almost like going into a travel agency and looking at all the travel pamphlets - where am I going to go next?

ARCs?

Advance Reading Copies. ^-^ Basically, books sent out before the book is released.

Well the ones that have been TBR the longest are probably:
First Among Sequels
Furies of Calderon
Vanity Fair
Invention of Hugo Cabret
Nineteen Minutes

But the next one's I'll read are probably
Tears of the Giraffe
Forget About It
Stealing Home
(since they're from the library).

I don't have a priority system for my TBR stack...I just pull out what feels interesting...so my list is the top 5 books on the stack rather then what I may be reading next.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
B is for Beer by Tom Robbins
Always Looking Up by Michael J Fox
The Last Single Woman in America by Cindy Guidry
The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith

Right now the top five books in the stack are: "The Prince" by Jerry Pournelle, "Druid's Blood" by Esther Friesner, "The Face Of Another" by Kobo Abe, "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabakov, and an H.P. Lovecraft collection called "Dreams of Terror And Death." Although I will certainly be reading the Pournelle omnibus (or at least the first half) next, the others may well change according to my whim at the particular moment...

Breach of Faith by Jed Horne
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

I love threads like this. It's so much fun to see what everyone else is planning to read.

The first two books on my list are set in stone, but the others are subject to change:

Seven For A Secret by Elizabeth Bear
Looking For Alaska by John Green
Tattoo Heaven by Lori Weber
Changeling by Delia Sherman
Witch Child by Celia Rees

I'm not much for lists either, but I need to prioritize these books:

Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg (LTER book)
Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner (non-renewable interlibrary loan)
Death of my aunt by C H B Kitchin (non-renewable interlibrary loan)
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood (non-renewable interlibrary loan)

and number five would be a new manual for work.

I have five bookshelves I pull books from randomly to read. Right now I'm reading four of them (I have them on my profile) and the only one waiting to be started is a biography on Davy Crockett.

It's been 3 weeks, so time for a revive! Here are my five:

Threads from the Web of Life - ER book, so it's on top
Jesus the Christ - Talmage - the one I've been reading the longest
The Irregulars - one I get it from hold at the library - can't wait!
A Comedy of Errors
Murder Every Monday - because I need a laugh.

And here I finished 1, 3, 4, and 5, still working on 2. And 3 was a dud, too. Disappointing.

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Catch-22 - on a couple of my lists, taking me awhile to read as I can only handle a certain amount of nonsense at once

Spirituality for Dummies - still on my list

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - next on a couple of my challenges

Let Your Life Speak - from my UU minister

The Name of the Rose - from my genre challenge and due at the library soon

I looked back at my last post (8) and realized I only read two of the five I listed although I've read at least five books since then. My new list of top 5 tbr:

Blood Rites by Jim Butcher (waiting for me at the library)
The Wheel of Nuldoid by Russ Woody (author requested review via Shelfari)
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (which I keep telling myself I want to get to)
What I Meant by Marie Lamba (same reason as last post)

After that I'm really not sure. Probably a romance of some sort because I go into withdrawal without my romances (I know, pathetic!) Maybe the Romance Book Group read, Vision in White if it comes in from the library or something from off one of my challenge lists.

I am working on an attitude of relaxation however I do have some obligatory reads.

Darling Jim
Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting
The World Without Us
Dancing in the Streets
Exit Ghost

I really am reading the first three sort of simultaneously.

I'm reading two right now, when they are finished, I'll read:

Small Gods by Pratchett
Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora by Felix Shay
Augustine: Confessions and Enchiridion
Life of James Rolph, Jr.

(For an update on before I've read three of the books on my original list. Then the post came in and, well, chaos ensued.)

I'm now reading:
Daylight by Elizabeth Knox and When Dreams Came True by Jack Zipes (non-fiction! It's scary! Fun, but I don't agree well with most non-fiction.)

Below those are:
Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon
The Swan Maiden by Jules Watson and...
Actually I'm not sure. I'm not that far along with my reading list plans yet.

Here are 5 library books that are about to come due:

Boxen: Childhood chronicles Before Narnia by CS Lewis
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
The Last Knight by Hilari Bell
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper

Hmm, lots of juvenile fantasy coming up.

Like many others on here, what I pick up to read is a spur-of-the-moment decision. Waiting for me to decide to read them are:

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
In a Dark Wood by Amanda Craig
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

But there are many others on the TBR pile, because I have no self-control.

I'm currently reading The Secret of Lost Things (not to be confused with The Book of Lost Things, though both are good), Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant and Anna Karenina (for a LT book group).

For those who like threads like this, I highly recommend perusing one of the reading challenge groups. Those participating each have a thread where they list/review what they are reading. I'm in the 75 Book Challenge group and my TBR pile grew to enormous proportions within a couple weeks of joining.

Time to add my next possible 5!

Audacity of Hope ~ Barack Obama
I did a Bad Thing ~ Linda Green
Angel on Square
Rage of Angels ~ Sidney Sheldon
White Tiger ~ Aravind Adiga

Looking back to my last post on this thread... I didn't finish (or even start!) any of the books I listed.

Hopefully this time I'll do better. :-S
Just starting/about to start...
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
The Book of Three: The Prydain Chronicles, book 1 - Lloyd Alexander
Don't Miss Your Life! - Charlene Ann Baumbich

The two I'm in the middle of so they don't count for this thread... Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne.
When done with those the next two up on the TBR stack are Bleak House - Charles Dickens, and Evanly Bodies - Rhys Bowen

Here's what's cued up unread on the Kindle:

Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
The Curse of Chalion & Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

Looks to be a nice summer.

The next five on the TBR list are:

The City and The City by China Mieville
Captain's Outrageous by Joe R. Lansdale
Cop Hater by Ed McBain
The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
American Skin by Ken Bruen

If you can't tell, I've been on a noir kick this year.

Top 5 on my Bookpile are:-
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Our Lady of Pain by John Blackburn
Sideshow by Sherri S. Tepper
The Dreamthief's Daughter by Michael Moorcock
Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi

Yeeeah!

I've got:

The Dance of Anger
You Did What? Mad Plans
American Gospel
The Tree of Life
Persuasion

Just updated to add that I am still working (a little) on reading 1, finished 2, 3, and 4, and haven't started 5.

Message edited by its author, Jun 18, 2009, 1:47am.

Like others, my TBR pile isn't organized in any way. As I finish one, I'll grab another, and as a bunch of them are short story collections, I also do some jumping around between them. With 39 books on the "pile" right now, I wouldn't even want to decide on a top five.

They're all in my "To Read" collection for anyone curious to see what a frog has waiting to be read. *G*

For now its :

Twilight
Remember me?
Message in a Bottle

And from the earlier lot:

I Did a Bad Thing
Angel on Square

I updated my lists on here. It looks like I did pretty well!

I've raided the NZ collections at the library:
Phone Home Berlin by Nigel Cox
Leave before you go by Emily Perkins
Alchemy by Margaret Mahy
Orchard Street by Maurice Gee

and have just finished the Margaret Mahy Biography by Tessa Duder which is excellent!

My 5th TBR pick is Asterix and Obelix all at sea. I am an old fan and wigged out when I saw this at the library - an Asterix I've never read!

peril's gate and grand conspiracy which mean a re-read of fugitive prince at least.

Warbreaker

and blue mars because I'm currently half way through the series.

Ebooks aare dangerous, I never used to have a TBR pile because I wouldn't buy any until I was ready to read them, now it's think, want, click, have.

#50 - All the dangers of online shopping... ;-)

From my list above I can make a 'check' for Hunting Party - the others (Halting state, Century rain & To ride hell's chasm) remains on the list.

Also on the list is The Talking Ape, Social origins of dictatorship and democracy and Darwin's sacred cause. Plus some more, both fiction and non fiction.

I hope to make a dent in the stack during summer ;-)

I think I'll be going with:

Murder After Hours by Agatha Christie
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Angels by Marian Keyes
Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende
Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright

That's subject to change, though. I've been pretty mercurial lately; one moment I'm craving historical fiction, the next I want a contemporary story. Three minutes after that, it's fantasy or nothing. Sigh. It makes it tough to choose what to read next.

Here I am a few weeks later and my quasi-planned next five books have changed to:

Vision in White by Nora Roberts - The May Romance group pick which finally came in from the library
Wolf Moon by John Holt - My most recent Go Review That Book! pick I've been putting off for quite a while.
An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis which I have out from the library and need to renew and read (I need to stop taking out library books if I'm to ever have hope of making a dent in my TBR pile).
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. I am bound and determined I'm going to get to this book soon!

Probably after or sometime in between I'll be picking up the next Harry Dresden novel because I've been making a run on the series. I'm currently reading White Night now.

Trying desperately to get through and retain some meaning from The Bible: A Biography and finish A song for Arbonne and The Unlikely Disciple but after that I want to read Why I Write and Clubbed to Death.

It's a few more than five, but since I can be found reading up to ten books at a time, I try to keep ten in queue, as well. Here's the current list:

The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman)
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Walter Isaacson)
The Golem's Eye (Jonathan Stroud)
Lamb (Christopher Moore)
The Sooterkin (Tom Gilling)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Venus In Furs (Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch)

So the five I posted on the 18th haven't panned out at all. I read one of them.

That said, I think I'll be reading these five books next:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

I may alternate between the Kushiel books and a few shorter reads if I start to feel too bogged down.

The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb managed to buy my copy this week.....yay!!!
Elephants For Water by Sara Gruen
Skybowl Dragon Star series by Melanie Rawn
Remember Me by Derek Hansen
The Secret River by Kate Grenville

#55 I hope you enjoy The Sooterkin.......it's a very unusual story.

The Watcher by Jeanne C. Stein
Legacy by Jeanne C. Stein
White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison
The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich

Stacked by my chair, waiting for me to plow through the books I've already started, are:

Do Hard Things by Alex Harris
Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
Life of James Rolfe, Jr. by David Wooster Taylor
The Great Democracies by Winston S. Churchill

I think these are next up after I finish my current books:

Pottery Decoration by Thomas Shafer
The Fisherman and the Genie from the Arabian Nights Entertainments.
Robert E. Howard's The Hour of the Dragon
The Way of Heaven by Manly Palmer Hall
A Right to Die by Rex Stout

Message edited by its author, Jul 5, 2009, 6:56pm.

My next 5 (or so I hope!)

The Castle of Otranto
Under Western Eyes
The Secret Agent
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Black Arrow

At least, those are the ones left in my 999 challenge. I'm so close! I have less than 20 books left.

Looking forward to reading these:

Common Wealth - Jeffrey D. Sachs
End of Poverty - Jeffery D. Sachs
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
Hot, Flat and Crowded - Thomas L. Friedman
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

I want to be an economist. Do let me know other books related to the subject..

Some new arrivals made it impossible for me to stick to the one I posted on July 3rd, but I did get through three of those books! Here's my new one:

Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill
Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

I did a decent job sticking to my list from June but I've been in a reading slump and still not finished all of them.
Still reading (in order of most pages read..)
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde

Next 5 in my TBR pile
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Getting the Girl - Markus Zusak
The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
Fleshmarket Alley - Ian Rankin

From my last post I read all but the library book which I returned unread.

I've just started The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling and only have a very loose idea of my next four after:

Awakening by K. Lippi
What I Meant by Marie Lamba
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Upon a Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon

This could change at any moment.

I didn't do so well with this one. So here's my list (again)

Cry, the Beloved Country - I really need to read this one!
Soul Music
Countess Below Stairs
Winter Rose
The Warlock in Spite of Himself

And I have way too many books going right now, mostly Don Quixote, which is a task all by itself, plus Heart of Darkness - my downstairs read - The Forgotten Man - Sumner - very dry, but a ER books - and Putting on the Armor of God - good, but also a slow book.

I'd just like to mention that I have only read 1 1/2 of the books I mention above, yet have read several others that I didn't mention. TBRs in my world are never kept in any kind of order - it's whatever strikes my fancy when I finish something.

Poor neglected little post. :(

I'm pleased to report that I actually got through the last five I listed! Horray! Two of them were 5-star books, too, and one has joined my list of absolute favourites.

I plan to read these five next:

Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
The Dragons of Hazlett by Michelle Scott
Joust by Mercedes Lackey
The Iliad by Homer

xicanti, congrats on making it through! I always have trouble actually sticking to what I think will be next on my reading list.

From my last post I read two and should have a third done tonight, which I guess is okay for right around a month. My next five very loosely planned now are:

Dream Chaser by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen (my Go Review That Book! group pick I've been putting off)
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
What I Meant by Marie Lamba
Skin Game by Max Allen Collins

I have actually read some of he books off my TBR as of above (since last update Halting State and Century Rain, and halfway through The Talking Ape) but I agree with littlegeek on this one. My TBR consists of unread books; my immediate TBR's are books at the top of the queue, at the time I write. But not necessarily always in that position ;-)

The thing I HAVE to read RIGHT NOW is a report on Public Sector Data Hosts...

Oh, Busifer, I'll bet that report is actually a page-turner.

Well, when I referred back to what I reported as of July 2, I am pleased to say that I have actually completed four out of the five listed.

Now, I'm reading (or at least am tempted by) the following TBR titles:

Walden
Death of a Cozy Writer
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition
and Death in the Haymarket

Message edited by its author, Aug 24, 2009, 3:59pm.

#71 - I've only managed the appendices, this far, so I really don't know yet ;-)

#72 What makes me think that the appendices may be the best bit? ;)

#73 - Because that's where they put the source data? ;-)

Anyway, slogging my way through the summary plus select parts of the analysis. I think the most enjoyable parts is were I disagree with the author. Reports that just confirms my own findings are too boring to bother with ;D

Maybe arguing with the author (at least in thought) will help keep you awake.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Oliver's Story
Thanks for the Memories
Breaking Dawn
Animal Farm

I don't have a TBR list. I just read!

I've been a good girl, I suppose. Of the books I listed in my last post (You know, the one that has the number 37?) I read all of them.

I'm currently in the middle of reading:
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Sea Glass by Maria V. Snyder

On my TBR pile at the moment are:
Celtic Twilight by W.B. Yeats
Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach

Most all of those books are coursebooks, so I have no doubt I'll read them all. (Er, does that mean I'm cheating, by the by?) Only the Snyder and Yeats books aren't course material. I'm trying to divide my coursework reading with 'leisure' reading, but I'm thinking I might - finally - have found my coursework reading stride. ^-^