top five on your TBR list?

[curiouswonder]

Just curious (hrm) what the top of everyone's TBR list looks like.

My next five (unless something else catches my ADD eye or comes up from the library hold list).

The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
Ethics - James McLendon
The Peaceable Kingdom - Stanley Hauerwas
Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time 10) - Robert Jordan
Yes Man - Danny Wallace

Yours?
J

 

[Prairie_Girl]

My Life by Bill Clinton
Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna by Umberto Eco
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

good thread!

 

[clueless]

Kill me Softly – Nicci French

The Begum’s Five Hundred Million - Verne

Decameron – Bocaccio (again)

Complete Tales _ Gogol

Complete Works, vol. 1 - Borges

I forgot - Palindrome Hannah - Michael Bailey. I'll read it when I get it

 

[ions]

After I finish Pillars of the Earth by Follett:

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Palindrome Hannah by Michael Bailey
IT by Stephen King
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This could change depending on what books fall into my lap or if my mood dictates a change.

 

[Peder]

Och, you catch me in a serious mood.

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov, for an October book forum

Nabokov's Pale Fire - Brian Boyd, a literary critique of above

If on a winter's night... - Italo Calvino, for entertainment

Literary Theory, A Very Short Introduction - Jonathan Culler, to learn some

The Burglar Who [....] - Lawrence Block, for entertainment.

All of the above are in hand except the last one. Now I just have to do it.
Peder

 

[tartan_skirt]

After I finish The Lovely Bones for school I'm hoping to read these:

Shade's Children - Garth Nix
The Long Tea-time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
The Crow Road - Iain Banks
Hide & Seek - Ian Rankin
Along Came A Spider - James Patterson

 

[mehastings]

Hm...Thinking off the top of my head:

The Canterbury Tales Chaucer
One Thousand and One Ghosts Dumas
Running with Scissors Burroughs
March Brooks
Odd Girl Out Simmons

 

[Halo]

Mine are:

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke (yes, I've got it as my "currently reading", and it's got a bookmark in it ready and everything, but I still haven't had time to start it!)
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Sue Townsend More Moley! Hurrah!
Life Expectancy - Dean Koontz
The Gift - Alison Croggan
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

 

[cajunmama]

The pile beside my bed contains:

A Walk in the Woods- Bill Bryson
A Brief History of Science- Thomas Crump
A Good Yarn- Debbie Macomber
Scientific Genius- Jim Glenn
Night of the Wolf- Alice Borchardt
Lifeguard- James Patterson & Andrew Gross
No Place Like Home- Mary Higgins Clark (may not read this one, the librarian handed it to me, but its not really my cup of tea at the moment)

 

[Ronny]

Well my actual stack sitting here on my desk is-

Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zaphon
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Gogol
Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Thomas Ligotti

 

[pwilson]

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Game Of Thrones – George RR Martin
Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Almost forgot about
Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

 

[abecedarian]

This isn't etched in stone, I reserve the right to change what's left of my mind at any time, for whatever reason fits at the time:

1. The Song Reader-Lisa Tucker

2. Frankenstein:The Prodigal Son-Dean Koontz

3. St. Dale-Sharyn McCrumb

4. Tis'-Frank McCourt

5. The House of the Spirits-Isabel Allende

I have some books on Library hold I need to attend to also, but these above are from my personal collection.

 

[SFG75]

1.)One of Ours-Willa Cather
2.)The Garden Troll-Will Cather
3.)A Farewwell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway
2.)1776-David McCullough
1.)Debt of Honor-Tom Clancy

 

[ions]

Already mine has changed. I picked up Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce at the library today. It will likely follow the Follett book directly.

 

[Libra6Poe]

In order

1. The Sandman: The Wake -Neil Gaiman
2. Anansi Boys -Neil Gaiman
3. Story of O -Pauline Reage (to finish actually)
4. Submission -Marthe Blau
5. Little Birds -Anais Nin

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

My list is very liable to change at any given moment, depending on what is actually available in the library..

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Palindrome Hannah - Micheal Bailey
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (yes.. I actually admitted it )
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

 

[Mafalda]

My Top5:

Der Campus by Dietrich Schwanitz
99 Francs by Frederic Beigbeder
Rosehill by Susanna Kearsley
A biography of Pelé
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon

 

[cabrasopa]

Consider Phlebas - Iain Banks
The Mortdecai Trilogy - Kyril Bonfiglioli
The White Company - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Wasp factory - Iain Banks

 

[chop_chop]

I have the following books waiting to be read, but whether they will be read next or whether something else will appear begging to be read first is anyone's guess:

Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

Some books always jump the queue if I am in the mood for them, like The Lord of the Rings or any of the Harry Potter books.

 

[abecedarian]

Here's what is next on my list:

A Patchwork Planet-Anne Tyler
My dh read this after I offered it to him, then loved it an insists I need to read it too.

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun-Weiss Roberts

Celtic Christianity-Anthony Duncan

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed-Jared Diamond
My dh took this one to work this morning!

Walking in This World-Julia Cameron

Gotta go, I have stuff to do