A person will add a book title/author from someone's Library that I really am intersted in reading and the owner of that library

Then someone searches their library and adds a book that is interesting to them.

The last entry is always the library that the next person searches to find a book that they would be interested in reading.

So on and so on

Got it?

This will keep your wish list growing.

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From Suziehsharp's Library I pick The Neighbors by Lisa Gardner

:) From callmejacx's library See Jane Die by, Erica Spindler have seen this author but never read anything by her.

I never heard of her either until my friend lend me out her books. Fast read and enjoyable

From susiesharp's library I will pick Tales from the Drones Club by P.G. Wodehouse. About time I branched out from the Jeeves and Wooster books.

From AHS-Wolfy I picked Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. Need to explore more works in the non-American genre.

From george1295, I choose Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - the whole Booker shortlist is waiting for me to pick them up and the winner is probably a good start :)

PS: Whoever picks from mine, use the proposed style or make Work:Title and Author visible to see the English names of my Bulgarian language books

From AnnieMod's library I would love to read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. I think this is the first in the series and I have heard lots of good things about these books.

From DeltaQueen50's library I chose The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it's already in my wishlist.

Edit: Am I the only one in this thread with less than 200 books?

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From the collection of ageeliz I would pick Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. I've recently read the fantastic Ender's Game and want to carry on with the next in the series at some point.

I've seen others participate with less than 100 but size doesn't matter it's the quality not the quantity to coin a couple of phrases and I've never had a problem finding something to choose from your library.

From AHS-Wolfy library, I would pick Inspector Morse: The Complete Collection by Colin Dexter - I like the series and had always wanted to pick up the books.

From AnnieMod's library, I have chosen After the Funeral by Agatha Christie because I have enjoyed Hercule Poirot in the past.

From nzurisana's library, I choose The Land of Green Ginger. I keep meaning to read something by Winifred Holtby

From aussiecowgurl's library, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by (Hampton Sides)

From cwflatt's library, I chose Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer. Fantastic author!

From Carmenere I would like to read Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, but I think I would have to sneak it away as it's listed as her current read.

#9 Ageeliz - perhaps you just have better self control than most of us when it comes to buying books! I admit it, I have an addiction to book buying!

From DeltaQueen50's library I would like to chose Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, I still haven't read it and want to do so before getting Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

P.S: Not that I really care, but my nick is aqeeliz with Q not G :)

From aqeeliz's library I would read A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif - a great title that just begs to be read (and the description sounds like something that I might like actually). And looking through this library, I was reminded again that I need to get all my books in LT at the end :)

PS: Whoever picks from mine, use the proposed style or make "Work:Title and Author" visible to see the English names of my Bulgarian language books.

From AnnieMod's library I choose The Umbrella Academy Volume 1 by Gerard Way, which I understand is a very inventive graphic novel.

From jnwelch's library, I have chosen Breakfast with Buddha: A Novel by Roland Merullo.

From nzurisana's collection, I've selected The Wall by John Hersey.

From Sandydog1's library I'll choose Vanity Fair by Thackeray. I've wanted to read this for the past 9/10 years. Because it was the last book my eldest great-aunt read before she got lost in the darkness of Alzheimer's.

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From Porua,s library I would love to read The Scandal of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton. It has been a long time since I last read a Father Brown mystery, and this is a title I don't recognize

From nzurisana's library, I'm grabbing Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. I need this one for my LOST collection.

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From Carmenere's library I chose The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by, Erik Larson.
Sounds interesting!

From susiesharp's library I choose Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams. I've heard this is really good, and have wanted to read it for a while now.

from jnwelch's library I'd like to read Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

I would choose Medicine Woman by Lynn V Andrews from callemejacz

I would choose Medicine Woman by Lynn V Andrews from callemejacz

Hi everyone - not sure where this thread is at so I will take the plunge and make choices from both lunarcheck and mnleona's libraries:

From lunacheck's library I choose Out by Natsuo Kirino - I am a sucker for mystery/ crime/ thrillers and this received a good rating from lunacheck.

From mnleona's libray I choose The Crystal Skull by Manda Scott - same reason as above :-)

Happy reading all!

From lkernagh's library I would pick On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons - one of those titles that make me check the book and I like what I read as a description.

PS: Whoever picks from mine, use the proposed style or make "Work:Title and Author" visible to see the English names of my Bulgarian language books.

I would like to read Strange Highways by Dean Koontz from AnnieMod's library. He is one of my favorite authors and I haven't read this one.

I would like At Home In Mitford by Jan Karon from PaperbackPirate's library. People seem to love this series and I would like to try it out.

I would like to read Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper from DetaQueen50's library. It is considered a classic, and I have never read it.

I choose The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst from Fuzzy's library. This will be unexplored territory for me, so I hope it's the place to start!

From LizzieD' library I choose Midshipman's Hope by David Feinteuch. I like military space opera and I've never heard of this one!

Oooh... A new library to go through. The choice was an easy one... from aviddiva's library I choose A Countess Below by Eva Ibbotson.... Historical Fiction and the Russian Revolution... I am now off to hunt down a copy!

From lkernagh's library I pick One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. A classic untouched by me.

From AHS-Wolfy's library I choose The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
@9: I'm with you!
If it's inappropriate to choose a book that was already chosen, I'll pick Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Having read Master and Margarita and Catch 22 already, I think I'd enjoy this title from sneuper's collection. I've chosen The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.

Into the Heart of Borneo by Redmond O'Hanlon
is my choice frm Sandydog's library

this thread has gone pretty quiet. if it's ok I'm going to suggest a variation - as well as a book I want to read from the previous person's library (which after all might not be any good since I haven't read it yet) I'm going to recommend one maybe surprising book from my own library that I'm absolutely sure many people would enjoy and that they might not think of themselves.

from grelobe's library I want to read from the earth to the moon by jules verne.

from my own library I really really liked utz by bruce chatwin.

From the library of lunarcheck, I've selected Chess Story.

As for my library, uh I don't know. I thought Ulysses was a pretty cool read.

From Sandydog1's library, I choose The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin. I have a lovely old Harvard classics copy of it that I haven't got around to reading yet.

From my own library, I recommend A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher

I found a Georgette Heyer that I haven't read yet in Aviddiva's library, so I would love to read The Quiet Gentleman.

Edited to add my selection from my library: The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig was a recent great read.

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I am choosing The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani (unless I've already done so). I own a copy that I haven't read, but it was on last year's Orange Broadband Prize longlist.

From my own library I'd choose the OBP winner for 2008, The Road Home by Rose Tremain: absolutely my favorite book of the year and maybe the decade.

(Edited to say - great idea, Lunarcheck!)

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From LizzidD's many mysteries I have chosen Best Man to Die by Ruth Rendell, one of my favorite authors.

From my own library I recommend The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi. The author deals with a subject so many of my Indian friends have had to confront, and Malladi's wonderful ending left me feeling there is still hope for this world.

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from nzurisana's library I'd lik to read Anne Frank Remembered : the Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family by Miep Gies

From my wn library I recommend Apartment in Athens by Glenway Welscot
1942 in Athens an apartment is requisitioned to put up a Nazi German Officier. In the flat live a married couple with a son and a daughter . Him is a witty and patient intellecual. She’s a nervous and ailing housewife. The boy, ten year old, is full of avenge feelings, the daughter is clumsy perhaps ritarded. When Captain Kalter come, all this is blotted out, he is methodic and cruel, who imposes only terror upon them

From grelob's library I've grabbed The Battle: A New History of Waterloo.

From my library, I'll recommend Master and Margarita. It would be tough to find another book that does such a great job with that whole Stalinist, witchcraft, passion, crucifiction, talking-machine-gun-toting cat genre.

From Sandydog1's library I choose Darwin and the Beagle. I've been wanting to read a good bio about Darwin and Sandydog1 gave it 4 stars.

From my library I would recommend Gone With the Wind. Long but awesome.

from paperbackpirate I pick Plainsong by Kent Haruf.I've looked at this book a few times and you gave it 5 stars so will give it a try.

From my Library I would recommend Earthly Pleasures by, Karen Neches This is a really fun book about a greeter in heaven and how all of the worlds problems can be solved by the lyrics to Beatles songs!

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From Susiesharp's library I would like to pick Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, I've heard that she's a great fantasy writer.

Keeping with the fantasy genre, I would recommend The Lions of al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay, he's another great fantasy writer and this book is one of his best.

susiesharp...I never tire from looking in your library. This time I think I will pick The Book of Flying by Keith Miller. I am not a big fan of fantasy but there comes a time when a person has to get out of their comfort zone and seek new and maybe better things.

Lucky we shouldn't have picked the same book DeltaQueen. lol I suppose the next person can pick from either your library or mine.

Well I'll choose from both your libraries!From Deltaqueen All My Sisters by, Judith Lennox.
And from callmejax Copy Cat by, Erica Spindler.

I will suggest anything my Juliet Marillier She is a great fantasy author!

from susiesharp's library I'd like to read a breath of snow and ashes - I don't know anything about the author or the series but it's such a cool title.

from my library I love le grand meaulnes by alain-fournier. definitely one of those novels you have to read "before you die" and that you will be glad you did. check out the guardian's review by clicking on the title.

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from lunarcheck 's library this memory book drawn my attention on it
The Empty Mirror Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery by Janwillem Van De Wetering

from my library I suggest The Devil's Cup : A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen

As a torrefactioner 's son , and having been a torrefactioner myself for a good deal of years, I can assure you , that this book is not only witty, but is also informative about coffee.

I thought I'd try Down and Out in Paris and London from grelobe's collection.

Speaking of gloomy but very, very interesting, I'm almost through The Great Influenza. I strongly recommend it.

I apology to step in again so early
but I don't want to forget (given the times) to pick Sandydog1 suggestion about The Great Influenza by John M.Barry

yesterday browsing my own library I came across this book that I had forgotten altoghether
Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk, it is not an easy reading because the story-line is a little complicated and spawns on two hundred years, but it is worth the effort.

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Well, it's been several days, so I'm gonna just jump back in. From Grelobe, I've chosen Outwitting History. I heard about this effort from one of Nicholas Basbanes' books.

As for a recommendation I can't say enough about the books of Nicholas Basbanes. Try Patience & Fortitude or A Splendor of Letters. These are books for book lovers.

I keep losing track of this thread! I would really like to read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. This collection of short stories about Viet Nam sounds intriguing.

I would like to recommend Plum Island by Nelson DeMille. I think it is one of his best. A great thriller with plenty of his trademark humor.

From DeltaQueen's library I will chose Still Life by Louise Penny. My mother and others keep recommending her to me and I haven't read a good mystery in a while.

From my library, keeping to the mystery genre I suggest Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell. Her young barristers always make me laugh.

Hi, I'm new to LibraryThing; may I join in? Such an interesting thread!

From aviddiva's library, I would choose Basics of Singing by Janice Schmidt. I am a (very) amateur singer, having sung in choirs of around 80-120 voices for 20 years but never, ever, volunteering for a solo! I'm conscientious about note-bashing (do you use that expression in the States? - means note-learning but is more expressive!) but don't think my voice sounds that great and I struggle with breath control. I'd like voice lessons but they are too far down the list of priorities to spend money on. So why didn't I think of looking for a How-To book? No idea. Sometimes you just don't know that there are questions that can be asked.

So that's my choice, and I'm now off to Amazon.co.uk to search for it or something similar. Many thanks, aviddiva!

Welcome JoannaON! From your library I would like Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I read Coraline recently and I think I would like Stardust even more.

From my library I would suggest A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier by Diana Preston. Best non-fiction I think I've ever read.

Oh dear, I've just realised I got so involved in perusing aviddiva's library that I forgot about the second element...

So, going back a step, the book I suggest from my own library is A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam, which is deep, funny, short, and concerned amongst other things with the nature of being a writer...And usually found classified as a children's book!

I chose The Monkey Wrench Gang from PaperbackPirate.

As for a recommendation, I'd visit (or re-visit) Ulysses. I "read" huge chunks of it on audio, and that really helped.

From Sandydog's library I choose Woman in White by, Wilkie Collins.
Recommended from my library is Nefertiti: A Novel by, Michelle Moran~She writes great historical fiction!

From Susiesharp' library I choose Replay by Ken Grimwood

from my library my suggestion is: Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger Sands is the name that Bedu give to the hardest desert of Arabia , the so called , by the Europeans, Empty Quarter. Thesiger wasn’t the first European to go into it, already two English man did it long before him, but the first two, only criss-crossed it, from north to south and from east to west; Thesiger instead, spent five years og his life exploring and mapping it,and sharing the harsh life ot the bedu tribes.

i would love to read the new Ellen Hopkins book Tricks.

sorry , shelby , but I suppose you've got to look for it somewhere else, because I don't have it in my library

its ok. it just came out to buy. :) ty anywayz

To get us back on track I choose from grelobe's library The Accidental Tourist by, Anne Tyler

From my library I recommend Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings The Belgariad #1..Great Epic Fantasy!

From Susiesharp's library I choose Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer. This looks like a fun series and the kind of book I would love to share with my grandaughter when she's just a little older. It's currently on my Wishlist.

From my library I would like to offer River of Darkness by Rennie Airth. A very good historical mystery set in the years just after WWI.

From DeltaQueen's library I choose One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus -- it's historical fiction on a quite unusual subject.

From my library, I recommend The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis. A novel about a female chess prodigy which deserves to be better known than it is.

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From aviddiva's library--The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs.

From my library? Gardening for love : the market bulletins by Elizabeth Lawrence.

I just spent considerable time strolling the stacks of MsMixte's library. I've settled on Cap'n Fatso!

I'm currently reading about those dysfunctional Karamazov boys, I'd recommend The Brothers Karamazov

77> MsMixte, The Animal Dialogues are wonderful -- I highly recommend them!

from Sandydog1's library I choose :"Nine Hills to Nambonkaha : Two Years in the Heart of an African Village" by Sara Erdman

from my library I suggest Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
It can be read from various point of view; there’s the Jews condition and way of life early in 1900, the immigrant condition, the classic family pattern and how religion can influence a young mind.

besides, I just want to back, to support and to second the aviddiva suggestion: The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevi, one of my all time favorite books. Even if you know very little about chess, like me, the way the author describes the long match is absolutely riveting. Then there’s also the life and the story of the adopted girl.

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First off ,aviddiva I just finished One Thousand White Women its really good!

From grelobes library I picked Happiness: A Novel
by Will Ferguson. It sounds funny and interesting.

And the book I just finished and am totally loving this author is The Heretic Queen by, Michelle Moran

Hello all.

I would choose Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner from susiesharp's Library.

From marcejewels library, I'd choose Water for Elephants. I've heard many good things about it but haven't gotten around to buying or reading it yet.

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester sounds like a tempting item from christiguc's library.

I think that christiguc (and anyone who enjoys reading cookbooks) might enjoy peeking at Bull cook and authentic historical recipes and practices by George Leonard Herter!

Sandydog1, Cap'n Fatso is an excellent choice. Aviddiva, I shall see about adding The Animal Dialogues to my reading list.

MsMixte, The Professor and the Madman is an amazing story! The professor relied on the madman for extremely obscure OED entries. Little did the professor know, that the madman could have probably written the entire OED.

I'm going to keep an eye out for Cap'n Fatso, but for this time, I will select Them : adventures with extremists.

I would suggest The Owl Papers. I've done a lot of owling in years past and am especially fond of the descriptions of visits in CT and the Bronx.

Because I am feeling more Canadian than usual, and because I thoroughly enjoyed Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, I pick Beauty Tips from Moosejaw by Will Ferguson from Sandydog1's collection.

From Corneggs' library, as a Canadian transplanted to the U.S. via marriage, I choose The Border: Canada, The U.S. And Dispatches From The 49th Parallel by James Laxer.

From tropics library I pick The Glass Castle by, Jeannette Walls..I've heard alot about this book and I'm definatly going to read it.

Since I picked a non-fiction book I would like to recommend a non-fiction book called My Lobotomy by, Howard Dully,it is an amazing story of a boy who's stepmother takes him in for a lobotomy because he acts up.Very powerful book!

From susiesharp's library I choose Beastly by Alex Flinn. I like Fairy tale retellings, and this one looks interesting.

From my library, keeping to YA fiction and curses, I recommend A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

I love reading plays. So, from aviddiva's wonderful collection of plays I choose Look Back in Anger by John Osborne.

Continuing in the same vein, from my own library I'd recommend a play that I've recently read (and loved!), The Playboy of the Western World by J.M.Synge.

from Porua's library I feel to try Life with Father by Clarence Day

from my own library I picked The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller, a powerful and poignant true story, about a young boy growing up in Wyoming and all he ever wanted was to be just like his dad, who worked on the oil rigs. He loved the mountains, hunting and fishing, and spending time outdoor with a few friends of him.

Ok, sorry that I camp out here more than Boy Scouts at Philmont. But the traffic has been really slow.

From the library of Grelobe, I selected Suite Francaise.

From mine, I'll suggest Zuleika Dobson.

I do love snooping through libraries. More players, more players, more players!

From Sandydog1, I selected War and Peace and also Zuleika Dobson, because you recommended it.

My library is teeny tiny, but I can't wait to see it grow and read all these great books!!

From wflooter480's library I would pick Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as it's a title I really do want to pick up at some point in the not too distant future.

For those that like a little humour with their mystery/crime writings then I would recommend one of Christopher Brookmyre's books.

From AHS-Wolfy's library I picked Johnny and the Dead (The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy) by, Terry Pratchett..Been meaning to read this one for awhile.

From my library I recommend The Help by, Kathryn Stockett..This was a really good book!

Heeding Sandydog1's plea, I pick Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams from susiesharp's library, which looks to be a fun YA mystery.

From my own library I recommend Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, a riveting and moralistic Socrates Fortlow story by Walter Mosley.

Love your library jnwelch! Because of discussions on other theads I would love to pick The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
And keeping with the British Mystery theme, I would recommend The Sculptress by Minette Walters from my library.

From deltaqueen ‘s library I choose The Mulberry Empire: A Novel by Philip Hensher

From my library I suggest Timbuktu by Paul Auster , a poignant story about a dog and his half crazy , beggar and poet owner; the dog dreams to go to a magical place called Timbuktu where dogs and owners can share the same language so they can comunicate to each other

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From grelobe's library I have chosen Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

From my library, I suggest Something Missing, a debut novel by Matthew Dicks. It's quirky and a lot of fun.

>93 Welcome, wflooter! LT is full of excellent suggestions. My library is a bit deceptive. I've hundreds of virtual TBR books in there.

'Can't go wrong with Nabokov. From the voluminous library of nzurisana, I've chosen The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov.

I would recommend The White Tiger, a Booker prize winner.