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top five on your TBR list?

Almost done with Elmer Gantry, the list is....

Main Street; Upton Sinclair
One of Ours; Willa Cather
The Troll Garden; Willa Cather
Famous Tales of Mystery and Horror; Edgar Allan Poe.
The Ides of March; Thornton Wilder
Philip Roth's newest book about death.
 
'The Empire Of The Ants' by Bernard Werber

'Saturday' by Ian McEwan

'Never Let Me Go' by Kazuo Ishiguro

'Misfortune' by Wesley Stace

'The Great Stink' by Clare Clark :D
 
A fair guess today would be five out of:
1. Nabokov - The Gift or Look at the Harlequins
2. Flaubert - Madame Bovary
3. Faulkner - As I Lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury
4. Conrad - The Secret Agent or Heart of Darkness
5. Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt, or Green Mars, or Blue Mars
6. James - Washington Square
Peder
 
Peder said:
A fair guess today would be five out of:
1. Nabokov - The Gift or Look at the Harlequins
2. Flaubert - Madame Bovary
3. Faulkner - As I Lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury
4. Conrad - The Secret Agent or Heart of Darkness
5. Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt, or Green Mars, or Blue Mars
6. James - Washington Square
Peder
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Oh oh oh!

I adore The Secret Agent,read Look at the Harlequins and report back on it. :D
 
Actually...........I liked Red Mars so well (still half way thru it though :eek: ) that I bought The Gold Coast, Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson. I already had Green Mars and Blue Mars ;)
 
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

After this there are several candidates. One of which will be a piece of non-fiction.
 
:D My TBR list:

1. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
3. The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett
4. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Sussana Clarke
5. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
 
Ms. said:
Oh oh oh!

I adore The Secret Agent,read Look at the Harlequins and report back on it. :D
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OK, for Harlequins; you got it! But I'll probably peek at Secret Agent as well. :)
 
My TBR list is getting longer and longer. If I include my Physical TBR Shelf of books, my wish list on Amazon.com, wish list on Amazon.co.uk, list of Norwegien books suggested by Zolipara and books by favourite authors I've not got round to yet, I think it all adds up to at least 300 odd. Given I've read four books in the last ten weeks this may take some time to clear up.

Anyway, I'm probably going to tackle these first:

Scenes from the Bathhouse by Mikhail Zoshchenko (almost finished)
Soul by Andrey Platonov
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama (never finished last couple of chapters some some reason)
Candide and Other Stories by Voltaire
The Concert by Ismail Kadare

K-S
 
I am going to read

The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
A Breath of Snow and Ashes - Diana Gabaldon
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova

The last two books I meant to read in March, but I got sidetracked with other good recommendations. :) I must now try to get them out of the way before the summer.
 
I've decided to reread Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty before the TV adaptation starts this week. Then comes:

Peter Schneider, The Wall Jumper
Benjamín Prado, Snow is Silent
Voltaire, Candide
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Herman Melville, Billy Budd & other stories

How many of these I get through before something else distracts me is another question altogether...
 
Kenny Shovel said:
My TBR list is getting longer and longer. If I include my Physical TBR Shelf of books, my wish list on Amazon.com, wish list on Amazon.co.uk, list of Norwegien books suggested by Zolipara and books by favourite authors I've not got round to yet, I think it all adds up to at least 300 odd. Given I've read four books in the last ten weeks this may take some time to clear up.

Anyway, I'm probably going to tackle these first:

Scenes from the Bathhouse by Mikhail Zoshchenko (almost finished)
Soul by Andrey Platonov
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama (never finished last couple of chapters some some reason)
Candide and Other Stories by Voltaire
The Concert by Ismail Kadare

K-S
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Well, I've just bought two new books I want to read straight away, so that post is out of date within 24 hours.
 
Kenny Shovel said:
Well, I've just bought two new books I want to read straight away, so that post is out of date within 24 hours.
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Oh dear! That sounds very familiar... :D
 
Where There's a Will - John Mortimer
The World of Nagaraj - R. K. Narayan
Songbird Journeys - Miyoko Chu
Money for Nothing - P. G. Wodehouse
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco


Must reread Candide!
 
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (of which I am in the middle)
2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
3. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
4. The Stranger by Albert Camus
5. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
 
Right now, I'm finishing up The Spanish Queen, don't know the author, it's about Catherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's first wife) then, probably in THIS order:

The secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Simone du Beavoir and Jean-Paul Sarte (can't remember author)
Odd Girl Out: hidden aggression in girls
 
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Double Fault - Lionel Shriver
Poet in New York - Federico Garcia Lorca

(That's six, I know.)
 
I always read this thread to get book ideas and I wanted to mention that I've seen the Historian on a few people's lists. It may have already been a BOTM but if not you guys should nominate it. I've read it and think it would make for an excellent discussion book. I don't imagine I would reread it but I'd love to join in a discussion about it. Just my 2 cents.

My top TBR

1. The World According To Garp - Irving (one of my favorite authors)
2. This book you all probably NEVER heard of called Lolita by some guy with a funny last name
3. The Flanders Panel Arturo Perez Reverte
4. Mr Muo's Travelling Couch - Dai Sijie
5. (this one's still up for grabs)
 
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