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I suppose it depends what you are looking for. What are you looking for? What are you reading now? Read recently? Favourite books of all time?

The longlist for the Man Booker Prize 2008 has been announced. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (Atlantic) Girl In A Blue Dress, Gaynor Arnold (Tindal Street) The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber) From A To X, John Berger (Verso) The Lost Dog, Michelle de Kretser (Chatto &...

The Master, Colm Tóibín (Henry James) And, forthcoming, Gaynor Arnold's Girl in a Blue Dress (Charles Dickens). Like Bret Easton Ellis in Lunar Park or Helen Garner in The Spare Room. Then there's the disguised versions of authors in works, such as Bernard Malamud (E.I. Lonoff) in Philip...

I think also good is an understatement. They have content. Lots of it. I'd rather just use a wheel than reinvent it.

I've met loads, mostly from Palimpsest. Some of them are members here too, such as Shade and Flor. Met a young lady off a programming forum many years ago: didn't work. Randomly turned up for a meal with a bunch of strangers one night - that was bizarre. More, too.

If it's the Borders in Buchanan Street then possibly. I'm in there all the time, working from A to Z. If you recognise me from the avatar, say hello.

How's this for obscure: The Torontonians by Phyllis Brett Young? Other names that spring to mind are Joy Kogawa, Brian Moore, Mavis Gallant, Kenneth J. Harvey, Timothy Findley, Mordechai Richler, Rohinton Mistry, Robertson Davies, Rawi Hage, and Gaétan Soucy. Some more obscure than others; at...

Asleep In The Sun, Adolfo Bioy Casares Clark Gifford's Body, Kenneth Fearing The Radiance Of The King, Camara Laye A Way Of Life, Like Any Other, Darcy O'Brien

I'll probably finish Helen Garner's The Spare Room, and fit in Florian Zeller's Julien Parme before the Booker longlist gets announced on Tuesday. Then it's straight into all thirteen titles before the shortlist gets announced six weeks later.

A five star review and you don't want to talk about it? :confused:

Having just read The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, I think I'd rather smack Diaz. I didn't like it and relied on Yunior's engaging voice to push me to the end. I know I've read it from the wrong angle, but there was so many annoying little devices and whatnots in there that annoyed me...

Can't argue with that. Too true.

Add my favourite in too: Last Year In Marienbad. Not for everyone, admittedly.

I'd first begin by cutting out the purple prose. All this at its zenith and scalding waves of humid fire says nothing. Take all that out and you are left with: The sun blazed. It's good, a simple, declarative sentence, and it gets the idea across. I would, however, choose a word that sounds more...

If you mean to add more options. I've just done this for you.

More than forty here, too. And it would have been much more if I didn't get a nasty reading block through April to June. But here's the list, not including those I've also read so much and then abandoned. July 044. Trauma, Patrick McGrath 043. Girl Meets Boy, Ali Smith 042. The Diving Pool...

I have a section on my blog for this list and, as I review the books I put a link on the list to the review. I'm in no hurry to read them all, but just thought it would be cool to have the list there. I've read more than I've reviewed, but I'm in no hurry to actually count them.

Each person has the option to put their current read in their profile.

Love In A Cold Climate and Other Novels, Nancy Mitford His Illegal Self, Peter Carey The Spare Room, Helen Garner

Yes, that's why I mentioned LibraryThing, Shelfari, and GoodReads, which all offer, to a voluminour degree, what you are proposing.