books on your to read list.

Ok, which of these 3 should I read first.

The Red Heart
Children of the First Man
Follow The River

Btw Abecedarian, Waltons Mountain (actually it is a little town called Schuyler) is very close to where I live, just a little bit south. I have been up the mountain a few times and visited the home. There was an article in the paper last week that they are closing The Walton's Country store after many years of operation.

muggle said:

Ok, which of these 3 should I read first.

The Red Heart
Children of the First Man
Follow The River

Btw Abecedarian, Waltons Mountain (actually it is a little town called Schuyler) is very close to where I live, just a little bit south. I have been up the mountain a few times and visited the home. There was an article in the paper last week that they are closing The Walton's Country store after many years of operation.

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I read The Red Heart first. But you really can't go wrong, just pick one! I recently read Goodnight John Boy by Earl Hammner..interesting.

My "to read" list right now consists of:

Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sister Carrie - Theodore Drieser
City of God - E. L. Doctorow

Has anyone read any of these? And, if so, what did you think?

thats a long list. i have a list of over 280 books to read, but these are the books on top of my head

1984
catch-22
the invisible man
the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde
the journey to the centre of the earth
the outsiders
brave new world
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [and the two books after it]
the anne of green gables series
re-read HP#5
read HP#6
wuthering heights
bless me ultima
middlesex
re-read the song reader
everything is illuminated
the historian
angels and demons
finish da vinci code
survivor
farienheit 451
The Kite Runner
a million little pieces
the life of pi
the time travelers wife
the fountainhead
cat's cradle
slaughterhouse 45
a wild sheep chase
the gunslinger
the green mile
different seasons
the old man and the sea
The Real Inspector Hound
arcadia
junky
queer


there's lots more..

William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
RObert Bloch - Psycho
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
Michael Crichton - The Lost World
Richard Price - Clockers
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex


There's more... but those are the highlights that I want to read.

ok, well, i've read the 3 musketeers so you wont' ive it away to me..unless your'e talking about the sequels.

I'm looking forward to reading the whole Chronicles of Narnia series.

Has anyone read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is the only book at the store that is catching my eye right now, but it is a big and quite expensive book. Would anyone reccomend it?

Well currently this is how my tbr list stands.

Evening Glass by Maeve Binchy
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
Yesterday by Fern Michaels
Late Bloomer by Fern Michaels
Close to You by Christina Dodd
Almost Like Being in Love by Christina Dodd
Gone With the Nerd by Vicki Lewis Thompson
Mystic Warrior by Laura Hickman and Tracy Hickman
The Temple of Optimism by James Fleming
The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein by Minda Webber
Serenity by Keith R A DeCandido
It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
In the Land of Second Chances by George Shaffner
The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
Carnal Innocence by Nora Roberts
Birthright by Nora Roberts
The Gift by Danielle Steel
Mary's Land by Lucia St. Clair Robson
The Carousel by Belva Plain
The Quinn Brothers Trilogy by Nora Roberts
Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
Midnight in Ruby Bayou Elizabeth Lowell
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Symphony of Ages series by Elizabeth Haydon
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
The LOTR Trilogy by J R R Tolkien


And some other books that are in different series that I need the rest of before I can read them.

Gone By The Wind by Margaret Mitchell (ordered in my local bookstore, will pick it up tomorrow)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokow (ordered from play.com yesterday)
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen (ordered from play.com yesterday)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Wish I had more time to read. After getting into this forum I have found so many interesting books that I want to read. The next months will be filled with about 200 hours extra hours at work, so there will not be so much time to enjoy books

I currently have over 100 on my list and about... 20-30 more in my room waiting to be read. I'm in the process of rewriting my list to include entire series' by many authors. I'm not going to start trying to type my list out.

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I currently have over 100 on my list and about... 20-30 more in my room waiting to be read. I'm in the process of rewriting my list to include entire series' by many authors. I'm not going to start trying to type my list out.

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LOL Forget writer's cramp..carpal tunnel is a much scarier threat!

i have bookshelves full of TBR read stuff. After I finished with my Henry Bellamann books I want to read Fahrenheit 451

I also want to read The Thorn Birds
The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
and some Dave Sedaris.

That's the really short list.

I have a big backlog of books

As a reviewer, I get a lot of books to read and review. And some of them don't get read that easily! So, I have a big backlog of books at any time, fiction and non-fiction, children's books...

Last year and the year before, I had some health problems and that resulted in a bigger pile than usual and unfortunately the books got a little dated and review doesn't become that urgent now. Also Amazon was not allowing me to post my reviews under customer reviews columns since I did not buy the books from them.

As I read the books, I will keep sharing the reviews and hence will not post the long list of books waiting to be read. I say No to many requests for reviews now a days because of the backlog.

Here is a list of just the books I have immediate access to, and wish to read this year, in no particular order;


Classics:

The Jungle
Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin
David Copperfield
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
Lord of the Flies
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Awakening
Brideshead Revisited
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Tortilla Flat
Cannery Row
Vanity Fair
Around the World in 80 days
Orlando
The Age of Innocence
Maurice
Ulysses
The Dubliners
Beneath the Wheel
Narcissus and Goldmund
Madame Bovary
Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Agnes Grey
The Professor-Bronte
Prisoner of Zenda
Tale of Two Cities
The Once and Future King
All Quiet on the Western Front
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Great Gatsby
Sons and Lovers
A Passage to India
All the King's Men
Lord Jim
Ironweed

Sci/Fi-Fantasy:

Specter of the past
Vision of the future
This Perfect Day
The Squares of the City
The Eighty Minute Hour
Frankenstein Unbound
We
A Clockwork Orange

General Fiction:

Ballad of Frankie Silver
West of the Moon
The Bell Jar
Atlas Shrugged
The Mask of Apollo
The Conquering Family
The Magnificent Century
The Three Edwards
The Last Plantagenets
This Side of Innocence
The Human Fly and Other Stories
Peter and the Star Catchers
American Psycho
Cavern of Babel
Bridget Jone's Diary
Cold Mountain
Handmaid's Tale
Catch-22
Deliverance

Mystery:

Black Justice
Bertie and the Seven Bodies
Bloody Kin
An Enigmatic Disappearance
The Black Tower
Murder Wears a Cowl
Spies Among Us
Posterns of Fate
Black Coffee
The Last Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Grave Music
The Last Dance
The Haunting of Hill House

Non-Fiction:

Communion
Mein Kampf
Primary Elections in the South
Tantric Quest
Life's Greatest Questions

LINK

That's a creative way to keep a list! Great assortment too.

Silas Marner
The Stand
The Kite Runner
On The Road
House of the Dead
Life of Pi

and that's just the books i have bought already...

I make up my list month to month, anything else wouldn't bring me much further. My pile's up to 800 something unread books.

That's my Feb. list but I certainly won't make it through all of them.

The River Killings by Merry Jones *read*
Victim by Gayle Wilson *read*
Taken by Thomas Cook *read*
The Vampire Of New York by Lee Hunt *read*
V: The Second Generation by Kenneth Johnson *read*
Night Work by Steve Hamilton *read*
The Appeal by John Grisham *currently reading*
Savage by Richard Laymon
18 Seconds by George D. Shuman
Last Breath by George D. Shuman
The Keeper by Sarah Langan
Independence Day by Dean Devlin
Renfield - Slave Of Dracula by Barbara Hambly
Blue Heaven by C. J. Box
The Shell Game by Steve Alten

Too many!