top five on your TBR list?

[abecedarian]

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)

That Lolita and the guy with the funny name sure get around a lot, don't they? Hope you enjoy getting to know them.

 

[pontalba]

That Lolita and the guy with the funny name sure get around a lot, don't they? Hope you enjoy getting to know them.

And just think Lolita is only the first you are reading.....

Top 5 huh? /sigh/
The Great Deluge Douglas Brinkley
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
Look at the Harlequins! The Russian
Tales of Love and Loss Knut Namsun {experimental}
Pale Fire The Russian {maybe}

Not necessarily in that order. Or not.......

 

[steffee]

1. The World According To Garp - Irving (one of my favorite authors)

That's a fantastic book.

2. This book you all probably NEVER heard of called Lolita by some guy with a funny last name

Hmmm, no, don't I have heard of it. Lolita? Hmmm, that does sound familiar though.

 

[Dogmatix]

That's a fantastic book.

I've been meaning to start it for a very long time. A Prayer for Owen Meaney is one of my favorites.

Hmmm, no, don't I have heard of it. Lolita? Hmmm, that does sound familiar though.

That dosen't mean I'm comming over to the Dark Side or anything

 

[muggle]

And just think Lolita is only the first you are reading.....

Top 5 huh? /sigh/
The Great Deluge Douglas Brinkley
The New York Trilogy Paul Auster
Look at the Harlequins! The Russian
Tales of Love and Loss Knut Namsun {experimental}
Pale Fire The Russian {maybe}

Not necessarily in that order. Or not.......

Young lady. When are you going to start the Steinbeck and another James Lee Burke.

 

[pontalba]

LOL Muggle! OK, I have Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, and Sweet Thrusday in front of me right now. crono wise, thats the order right? I'll start TF tonight!
You are right, they'd slipped too far down the stack.

Youngins....there ain't no youngins 'round these here parts...

 

[cabrasopa]

Wolves Eat Dogs - Martin Cruz Smith
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Aberystwyth Mon Amour - Malcolm Pryce
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
The Eight - Katherine Neville

Can't make up my mind which order to read them in yet !

 

[muggle]

LOL Muggle! OK, I have Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, and Sweet Thrusday in front of me right now. crono wise, thats the order right? I'll start TF tonight!
You are right, they'd slipped too far down the stack.

Youngins....there ain't no youngins 'round these here parts...

You have the order correct for Steinbeck. However, you don't put me off that easy. Where does Burke stand on your TBR list.

 

[mrkgnao]

OK, so it's a top ten... But they've been piling up during my quest for the Dark Tower - which still has a long way to go... but after that:

Annie Proulx: Close range – Brokeback Mountain and other stories
Jim Butcher: Dead beat
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: Captain Alatriste
Nelson Algren: A walk on the wild side
Lynn Flewelling: Luck in the shadows
Philip Pullman: The tin princess
Cornelia Funke: Inkspell
MaryJanice Davidson: Undead and unwed
Mary Hoffman: Stravaganza City of flowers
Tom Holland: The vampyre
- and on the same theme I’m going to pick up
John Crowley: Lord Byron’s novel – The evening land

…and that’s just the ones I have at home; at work there are a number of books the publishers have sent free copies of that I also want to read… So many books, so little time…

*mrkgnao*

 

[Duvodas]

This may change but so far here is the top five to-read books.
The Swords of Night and Day by David Gemmell
Quest for Lost Heroes by David Gemmell
Morningstar by David Gemmell
The Demon Awakens by R.A. Salvatore
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

 

[steffee]

Only slightly updated...

Never Mind the Harlequins! - 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
The Cider House Rules - John Irving

 

[curiouswonder]

We leave for vacation on Saturday! The books that are coming with me...

Hip: The History - John Leland
Critical Mass - Philip Ball
Christ Plays in 10,000 Places - Eugene Peterson
The Weight of Glory - CS Lewis
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Chainfire - Terry Goodkind
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[theoptimist]

At the moment my next 5 are:

1. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
2. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
3. The Spell - Alan Hollinghurst
4. Runaway - Alice Munro
5. Calendar Girl - Stella Duffy

 

[pwilson]

I won't vouch for the accuracy of this list since I've still only read 2 of the books on my list from last September.

1. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
2. An Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
3. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
4. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
5. On The Road - Jack Kerouac

 

[Gem]

Top of the pile are;

1)Somersault - Kenzaburo Oe (I'm supposed to have been reading this for the last couple weeks but have been in a bit of a reading rut.)
2)The Real Life of Sebastian Knight - Nabokov
3)Look at the Harlequins! - Nabokov
4)The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
5)The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck or A Prayer for Owen Meaney - Irving

All but the very last have been moved to the top of the pile because of endorsements by forum members. You lot are a bad influence

 

[Isabell]

A Tale of Two Cities (again) -Dickens
How the Irish saved Civilization -Thomas Cahill
The Island of the Day Before - Eco
Walk On - Steve Stockman
The Canturbury Tales - Chaucer
Dubliners - Joyce

 

[kuroc]

1.A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
2.The Garden of the Moon by Steve Erikson
3.The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
4. Dragon Wing by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
5. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

 

[bluecaffeine]

I only have 3 of my library books sitting here in my immediate TBR pile.
-Labyrinth: Kate Mosse
-For Laci: Sharon Rocha
-Kafka on the shore: Haruki Murakami

 

[abecedarian]

These are all for my olympic challenge:

The Long Night of White Chickens-Francisco Goldman (Guatemala)

The Stone Raft-Jose Saramago(Portugal)

Love and Garbage-Ivan Klima(Czech Republic)

The Master and Margarita-Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia)

Daughter of Fortune- Isabel Allende (Chile)

 

[Thursday_Next]

Hm, tough one. I think that these are the next 5:

On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones

Hopefully anyway...