Top 5 on your TBR list

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.

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!

>15 cmbohn: 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)

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

...in no particular order.

>14 MissWoodhouse1816: 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.

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.

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

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

#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.

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. ^-^

Looking back to my August post I've read all but one book which I've now placed over onto my 2010 TBR Challenge list.

I'm planning out my December reading because there are some things I'd really like to have finished by the end of the year, although once again, nothing is ever written in stone.

I'm just starting My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent and after that my reading list is as follows:

A NASCAR Holiday Holiday anthology and my romance group Holiday read.
Sick of Shadows by Marion Chesney which I have out from the library
Lily and the Lost Boy by Paula Fox which was my Go Review That Book! pick from a couple months ago I haven't gotten to yet.
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry which is the last book on my primary TBR Challenge list for 2009.

Not sure after those what will be next.

Read all of the fiction previously listed here, plus one of the non fiction books (The talking ape).

Currently I'm reading another item from the TBR - The search for the perfect language.

On the immediate TBR are -
Blue Mars
Green Mars

Cyberabad days

...plus some non fiction (some of which are listed above), but all of those are real bricks, barely 'mobile', and I want to be able to carry a book with me. So I guess those will have to wait.

Oh, I've read about The Search for the Perfect Language. It has some strong potential for language-obsessed me, but I find Eco rather dry. I'll be interested in your opinion of it.

The Alchemyst - Michael Scott
Soulless - Gail Carriger
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

As well as re-reading A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords and A Feast of Crows

The way I'm dragging my way through The Anubis Gates I'm not holding my breath to make much progress on the pile.

So my books from message 66 - I finished all but The Warlock in Spite of Himself. Don't know what happened with that one. Also finished all the others I mentioned.

Currently reading: The Essential Father Brown or something like that
Wild Magic - Weatherill
Crossing to Safety - slow going
1066 The Year of the Conquest

Next 5:
The Alienist
Tanglewreck
The Other Book - wrong touchstone
Mable Riley
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World

Silk by Alessandro Barrico
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer

and finish The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

Since my last post I've read a fair few things, but
Parzival remains unstarted and Arthurian Romances unfinished.

So those remain on my pile. Except I'm going to focus on finishing what I've started for now, so my top 5 looks sort-of like this:
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes
Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
Girl Genius (vol 4 & 5, because I cheat and count these as one item) by Phil & Kaya Foglio
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

The last two are actually rereads, but I plan to relax with some rereading after the Semester of DOOM and Literary Reading Fail. ^-~

I've read only half of the books I mentioned back in April, and the rest of my list has changed somewhat since then:

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Book of the Short Sun by Gene Wolfe
Heart of Bronze by Matthew Stover
Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Invention of Hugo Cabret
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Lo, how the mighty are fallen...)
The Broken Teaglass

Still working my way through

Reading In The Brain and Proust and the Squid, both of which have to do with how our brains are wired or re-wired for purposes of reading text.

Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
Chai, Chai - Bishwanath Ghosh
Atonement - Ian McIwan

These are all new books that came home. Suprrrrr excited to read 'em! ^_^

The ones from the last list -
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Freakonomics = Steven D. Levitt

Next 5:

Amaranth Enchantment
Albion's Seed
Greenwitch
Winter Queen
Yearning for the Living God

All for my 1010 challenge.

Just starting Green Mars, so on the immediate TBR is

Blue Mars
Cyberabad days
Consider Phlebas
...and a handful of older C.J. Cherryh books I've purchased used during the last weeks of 2009 - don't really know where to start.

In the non fiction pile is a set of books almost too heavy to carry around (especially since I carry a large format laptop as well) but I'm loathe to read books only at certain times, like before bed, so I don't know when I'll get around to Darwin's sacred cause, Maps of time, or Social origins of dictatorship and democracy.

Academ's Fury - Codex Alera 2 - Jim Butcher
The Difference Engine - William Gibson
Boneshaker - Cherie Priest
The Alchemyst - Michael Scott
Soulless - Gail Carriger

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Crazy Years by Spider Robinson
Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner
Marley and Me by John Grogan

King Solomon's Mines by Haggard
Vox by Baker
The Coming of the Quantum Cats by Pohl
Mules and Men by Hurston
The Red House Mystery by Milne

I have a bunch of TBR's, but I don't schedule what I'll read, I just pick up what feels right after I finish a book. That said, I have some half-read books I need to finish - The Children's Book and Chronic City, plus some series I want to finish - Soldier's Son, Thursday Next, and the Aubrey/Maturin books. For some reason, I'm stalled in The Yellow Admiral.

Plus I want to read Shades of Grey, the new Jasper Fforde, and start the new Rain Wilds series which comes out this month in the US.

Just started reading Tempted by P. C. Cast, so now my TBR list is:

Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin
maybe Another One Bites the Dust by Jennifer Rardin
Das Siegel der Finsternis by Marcus Reichard
Fire by Kirstin Cashore (If I finally get my christmas gift...)
The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz

Yeah... That's it. Most likely I'll decide to change the list during the next days.

Yesterday I started Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward for my 1010 Challenge. My next five (loosely) will be:

Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace for my TBR Challenge
Alien Taste for my Alphabet Challenge
Dust for my Go Review That Book! group pick
Hush, Hush which was a Christmas gift
and then probably something off of my Paranormal 1010 TBR challenge list.

Morphy - We read I Capture the Castle for my book club, and the general consensus was that we liked it a lot but didn't quite love it. I think you'll enjoy it.

Storm Front - Jim Butcher
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
Wildwood Dancing - Juliet Marillier
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Gloriana - Michael Moorcock

The Council of the Cursed by Peter Tremayne
Beginning: Second Book in the Laurian Pentology by Danny Birt
The Hunt for Dark Infinity by James Dashner
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane

That isn't necessarily the order they will be read. The Forgotten Legion I am going to review for a blog, if it ever shows up, so it will be started whenever I receive it.

Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
Prince of Chaos by Roger Zelazny (I'm halfway through the series!)
The Obsidian Dagger by Catherine Webb
Dragonheart by Todd McCaffrey
Flinx Transcendent by Alan Dean Foster (I've been reading the series for years, and he's finally finished it!)

Although I'll probably get sidetracked by something else before I manage to read all of these!

From post 96 I finished all but one (go me!) My next five after my current read (My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent) are:

Tea with the Black Dragon by R.A. Macavoy (started this on a bus trip to NYC this past Saturday but had a couple other books I wanted to read more come in)

The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller (next on my alphabet challenge)

Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace by MaryJanice Davidson (the one I didn't get to from my last post)

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson (on its way from the library)

The last one is a toss up between a few different books, not sure what yet.

Read all of my last ones.

1776 by McCullough (on many of my lists)

The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (from 1001 Fantasy list)

Kitty Raises Hell by Vaughn (fun!)

The Book of Genesis illustrated by R. Crumb (thought would be interesting)

Steamed by MacAlister (ER)

well, I don't know for sure but I think my next reads will be:

Bad Land - a reread for my book group; The Girl Who Played With Fire - also for my book group; Photoshop 8 for Dummies - just because; Crows and Ravens - because I love crows and crow watching; Inflammation Nation - for my good health; and Hood - my cheap paperback for the bathtub reading! There, that seems like enough.

read 4 of the 5 previous ones on my list. I am currently reading my ER book Time of Terror and then I will read my 5th book from my list above, Red Seas Under Red Skies

then
A wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
King of Foxes by Raymond Feist

Changes - Jim Butcher
The Alchemy of Stone - Ekatrina Sedia
The Templar Legacy - Steve Berry
Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

From 89 - finished all but Greenwitch. That series seems to be one that sounds good to me, but I never actually read.

This time:

Interesting Times
Mansfield Park
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Doomsday Book
The Quiet Gentleman

But first I need to finish Articles of Faith, Copernicus' Secret, and Spineless Wonders.

hi I am new here but have a massive love of fantasy novels. i was quite surprised to see some of the books i have read in other peoples TBR lists.

My next 5 books , aside from text books for uni, are
(black prism) by (brent weeks).i LOVE his Night Angle trilogy
(Darkness at Sethanon) by (raymond e feist)
the rest of (Robert Jordan) series only read book 4 so far
(burned) (pc cast) and (kristen cast)
and i will read (polgara the sorceress) again because (david eddings) is the greatest author that ever lived. lol

Kallocain by Karin Boye
The Last Voyage of the Karluk by William Laird McKinlay
Fireworks over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

My mother just finished The Professor and the Madman and loved it, so I may start there.

108 - Isn't it cheating to list a whole series as one of the books? ^-~ I hope you'll enjoy them, Bonny! (and of course that you'll enjoy the other books on your immediate TBR pile as well!) And welcome! ^-^

I finished all the books I mentioned in my last post (85), which I'd be proud of if there wasn't almost a quarter of a year in between that post and this!

On my immediate TBR pile right now are...
Le Morte d'Arthur volume 2
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto

and, uhm, that was it.

I'm also, slowly, going to start reading The Tale of Genji at the same time as a friend of mine. We'll be adopting a 4 chapters/around 80 pages per week schedule. So I guess that makes 3. ^-^

For the next two, I'll say...
Weesquachak by Ruby Slipperjack
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin, but for all I know I'll throw these two out of the window entirely. (Not literally! Sheesh.)

The others are all coursework and/or 'agreed to read' work, so I pretty much have to read them. Makes it easy to put them on the immediate TBR pile. ^-~

I tried The Tale of Genji a couple of years ago and just couldn't get into it. I hope the group read makes it more fun, Shanra.

There is no "cheating" when it comes to listing what we are reading. This is a "you decide" kind of a place.

Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger yes yes I know i should have read it years ago
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee ditto that
The Grave Maurice by Martha Grimes
Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce
HP and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling

I know, Maggie. I wasn't trying to tell Bonny off, hence the smiley behind it.

oh, that wasn't me....commenting on your comment....it was my evil twin sister, the one that keeps acting like a school teacher! Shame on her.

But seriously, I did not recognize that as a smiley. My bad.

I'm not able to think 5 books ahead right now, I'm reading totally by impulse, except for my ER book, God of the Hive which will be next, both by choice and necessity. I have to finish Except the Dying first, which I am not enjoying as much as I had hoped I would.

I'll have to admit some of the books I mentioned earlier aren't read (yet). Instead I've read a lot of other stuff. Then, out of the blue (not!) arrived two new releases, totally rearranging my TBR -

Deceiver by Cherryh
Under Heaven by Kay

I think I'll pick Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks after that, or Baudolino, by Umberto Eco.

I realise this is only four, but this is as far as I can plan, at the moment!

61 Hours by Lee Child
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isable Allende
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork

Since these are from the library (I requested them after they tempted me at the store during a lean month), these are next:

Scar Night by Alan Campbell
Broken Angels by Richard Morgan
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Woken Furies by Richard Morgan

And, on audio from the library:
Until Proven Guilty by J.A. Jance

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (which I sadly have to return to the library because I won't finish it before it's due back because I'm newly engrossed in):
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Something by either Jane Gardam or Connie Willis (my two author "finds" of the year so far).

121 - Isn't Connie Willis great?! Some of her short stories are brilliant, as well as her novels.

122 - I've only read To Say Nothing of the Dog and I loved it. I was thinking of reading the Doomsday Book during the summer but I didn't even realize she'd written short stories. Maybe I'll try those first.

Top 5 for this month:

1. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
2. Confessions of a Lapdance by Anonymous
3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
4. The Notebook by Nicholas Spark
5. Grimm's fairy Tales by Grimm Brothers

It by Stephen King
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
Ill-Made Mute by Cecelia Dart-Thornton
Poison Study by Maria Snyder
Wise Child by Monica Furlong

Also listening to The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield on audiobook.

Does it count if we have 5 on the go at one time? I think I have...

Kim - Kipling
Cry the Beloved Country - Paton
In pursuit of Love - Mitford
Wild Swans - Chang
All quiet on the Western Front - Remarque

Wow. I really do have 5 on the go...

Currently reading Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks

Current top 5 TBR (I rearrange when I feel like it):

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Dragon Keeper - Robin Hobb
Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay
Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan

I SHOULD be reading my voter's manual. We have a primary coming up in Florida and I work as a poll worker, poll worker trainer, and early voting poll worker.

Ai, Consider Phlebas have been carried around the world with me and is currently on the very top of my TBR list! Only problem being reading the current one takes forever (I've even put in reading two omnibuses in-between)... ;-)

Others on the list are -

Baudolino by Umberto Eco
Polity Agent by Neal Asher
Cyberabad days & River of Gods by Ian McDonald

Also an anthology containing essays written by researchers/social scientists on the history of Swedish suffrage on loan from my parents. My current read had me asking some very specific questions on the shaping of modern Swedish society and the range of books they offered me would had lasted a lifetime of dedicated research... I chose to go with this single volume instead (and a 2 hour ad hoc seminar - the danger of having parents who majored in modern history and political science, lol)

There are other unread books beckoning me but they'll have to wait their turn.

I am currently reading The Doomsday Key by James Rollins then if they ever show up from ER Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo and In harm's way by Ridley Pearson

Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
Beginning an Ending by our own Danny Birt
S is for Silence by Sue Grafton
King of Foxes by Raymond Feist

Hopefully I'll get to these before the summer ends:

1. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
2. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosney
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
4. Born Round by Frank Bruni
5. The Bolter by Frances Osborn

BekkaJo - Some great books on that list.

I finished all of mine from 107, and on my list next up:

The Continuous Atonement
Frankenstein
Malice
Troll's Eye View
Andrew Jackson, American Lion

My summer vacations are on. Here are the top 5 books on TBR pile.

Alchemy of Desire by Tarun Tejpal
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicolas Spark
A Bridge across Forever by Richard Bach
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Prospero Lost by L. Jagi Lamplighter
Darkship Thieves by Sarah A. Hoyt
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Indemnity Only for my library mystery group
The Book Thief for my meetup group
Seth (no touchstone) by my friend Bill Offutt
Innocents Aboard
The First Five Pages (an ongoing read)

Just glanced at my post above - 127... oddly enough I once again have 5 on the go! One of them is still Wild Swans as well! It's my bath book... and I have no time for those at the mo.

Also reading;
The Land of Painted Caves - Jean M Auel (so far massively dissapoitned)
She - Rider Haggard (hate it!!!)
Moby Dick - Melville (kitchen book, slow going also)
The Mag'I of Cyador - Modesitt (yet another Recluse novel - really slow)

Huh. Sudden realisation that I'm not really enjoying anything I'm actively reading. Must finish it all of and start something good.

Next on the list The Crimson Petal and the White for book group - supposedly rather good. Fingers crossed.

• Dracula's Guest by Michael Sims... This is an ER copy I received last year (!!!) and read it, started to write the obligatory review, but then realized Anthologies are bane for perfectionists like me. Mainly because that means rereading it and then reviewing each short story; which is now taking me aeons to do.
• Elf Love: An Anthology by Josie Brown. Another ER anthology *sigh*.
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Which I have picked up and put down a myriad of times, I feel I am somewhere along page 150 or so.
• The Art Spirit by Robert Henri (wrong wrong wrong touchstone)
• The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

All of which are subject to change at a moments notice, depending on which way the wind is blowing, my mood, and my whims and ways. :O)

Looks like it'll be :

• The Family Trade
• Trinity Blood 1 & 2
• Accelerando
• The Last Wish

I've been resisting this question:

I am reading, on my Nook: The Game of Thrones (to follow the TV series better, eh?), and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (for the book group), and on my Kindle: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, and Merchant (Terrene Chronicles) and, finally for while I am bathing, a paperback copy of The Discovery of France. I also pick up other stuff from time to time, but right now I think it is pretty much just these five.

I love reading.

#1: The Game of Thrones
#2 - 5: I need more time in my life to read.

Up next:

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner (on audio when it arrives from the library)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (also on audio, read by the fabulous Juliet Stevenson)

Note: Read and enjoyed all those from Message #131 except The Bolter. Just couldn't get into that one.

Lallia(Dumarest Saga, 6) by E. C. Tubb
Technos (Dumarest Saga, 7) by E. C. Tubb
Veruchia (Dumarest Saga, 8) by E. C. Tubb
Mayenne (Dumarest Saga, 9) by E. C. Tubb
Jondelle (Dumarest Saga, 10) by E. C. Tubb

And I'd be reading them now if that damn Amazon Marketplace Seller hadn't sent me the wrong book instead of 'Lallia' :-(

Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson (TIOLI Tag)
Island in the sea of time - S.M.Stirling
The Black Company - Glen Cook
Embassytown - China Mieville - Early Review
Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson

Wow, the last time I posted here was 4/14/2010, a little over a year ago. I didn't even get to one of the books from that post, it is one I keep picking up and putting down. At this point I'm really not sure at all what my next five books might be.

Let me see...In no particular order...

Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher
The newest one A Game of Thrones by George Martin
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Progeny by R T Kaelin (can't find right touchstones)
and finally The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

BekkaJo and Pandora, why do you need to finish them if you don't like them????? Just close the books and walk away. Run, if you need to. Hide them under other books. Return them to the library ASAP. Give them to a thrift store immediately. Toss them in the garbage if necessary! But you really, really, really, don't have to finish them. Unless you are in school, in which case, I'm sorry, really sorry, but I guess you probably do have to at least skim through to the end. (Or try sparknotes.com - or wikipedia; hey, desperate times and all that).

Don't make yourself miserable. Life is too short. And as LT tells me, I personally have enough books to reach the top of Niagara falls, and that does not count all my kindle books, so there are plenty of other things out there too read.

Sorry, my rant is now over.

I bet BekkaJo and Pandora eat every pea on their plate too. Those poor starving kids in China and all that....

#147 ha! I've been reading Indemnity Only and V I Warshawski makes a reference to cleaning her plate so kids in India won't go hungry.

I, unfortunately, was told of the Starving Armenians. That sad tale is still controversial.

I had the Starving Kids in India. Sounds like a universal Mother Ploy for a certain generation.

146# Lol! But no, sorry, can't do it. Unless its truly god awful I will make myself finish. And if it's a 1,001 I'll def force myself to do it. Sometimes the ones I've really hated give me good surprises, you never know till that last page is finished.

Still, have finished two from my list above and started The Crimson Petal and the White - so far I think its brilliant.

#147 etc - tee hee, starving kids in Africa I think... but more in our house it was you didn't get pudding if you didn't eat your veg.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Now its: "Eat dessert first, life is short"

#152 Lol - one of Dad's favourite lines too.

I use that as an excuse at Starbucks all the time! (Am I the only one who thinks that their healthy food initiative has fallen off the radar? Saturated fat seems to be holding its own in their display case.)

My TBR is:

1. The Game of Thrones
2. Still Life
3. Miss Mole
4. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition
5. A Darker God

Fun! A revival thread! I see I cheated above and didn't list five, but I did read the two I listed. :) This year I have a stack of books by my chair to finish, although I will be reading others in between since most of these are large.

Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien
Following the Equator by Mark Twain
On the old West Coast by Major Horace Bell

Several of these I have chosen on the basis that they are the largest on the TBR shelf and take up the most room, so reading them will give me more room on the shelf.

While it did revive the thread, it's spam. Be sure to flag it. (New poster, link to a product.)

Saga, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan (LT Recommended)
Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan (LT Recommended)
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (due at the library and already started)
Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson (due at the library and already started)
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (GD group read)

I just flagged him/her. (No touchstones for the titles listed, but the link to his commercial was live.)

1. Middlemarch
2. When They Severed Earth From the Sky
3. My Life in Middlemarch -- started but not completed
4. Jerusalem Inn
5. The Gentle Art of Murder

Weeeeeeee

The Nao of Brown
Doc
An Unnecessary Woman
Daisy Miller
the life-changing magic of tidying up
and several others which I have with book marks in them