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Books you have bought but haven't read yet

I never added my list the other day :(

Its much to long to type out :eek:

Then I go in my fav book shop today saying I will only look :) not buy...
er um well
tis only one more :eek:

'A Confederacy Of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole

But after reading how the book came to be .... And reading the foreword!
WOW! I had to buy it....
Next time your in a book shop, take five and go read that Foreword..
Amazing.... and quite sad.
Bet you buy it to :)
 
mehastings said:
My next up shelf contains:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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Ooo! Read this one next!!! I've had that one recommended to me very recently, but I wasn't sure if it was available in North America. Anyone read it??
 
The Satanic Verses - Rushdie
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - Saramago
L'insoutenable legerete de l'etre - Kundera
The Feast of the Goat- Vargas Llosa
 
I'm quite disciplined. Only got about 5 unread books on my desk. Got another 12 in the post from Amazon though :)
 
Oh gosh...I went to a library sale last weekend. Although I only had about 20 minutes to look around(had to go somewhere else :( ) I managed to pick out 10 books!!! Plus I have a library book to read and 3 more than I just bought and still some more on my shelves to read. That makes...a LOT!!! Yikes!! :D
 
I guess I have about 100+ books on the shelf TBR. I used to finish a book then be pissed off for a couple of days till I found the time to hit the book shops and find something else to read.

Now I have gone the other way and I have become a bit addicted to buying books. I even put up extra shelves to house them all, however they are still stacked ontop of one another. More shelves, more shelves I cry.
So recently I have stopped buying books :( .






Unless of course I really want a particular book :D
 
Some that I have that have either been lent to me, given to me, or I've bought for some reason:

-The Book of Jhereg - Stephen Brust (on recommendation of a good friend)
-DaVinci Code (lent to me by a coworker)
-Memoirs of a Geisha (birthday present)

And a whole host of others, but those are the main ones that spring to mind.
 
jaycee said:
Oh gosh...I went to a library sale last weekend. Although I only had about 20 minutes to look around(had to go somewhere else :( ) I managed to pick out 10 books!!! Plus I have a library book to read and 3 more than I just bought and still some more on my shelves to read. That makes...a LOT!!! Yikes!! :D
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Library sales are both a blessing and a curse. I went to one last February and I've still got almost 120 books from there I haven't read yet. :eek: I keep getting new titles from the library and then forget my old ones. I can bet I have about at least 150 books to read, and I WILL NOT LIST THEM... except a few...

Odd Thomas
Forever Odd
Interview with a Vampire
Queen of the Damned
No Place Like Home
From the Corner of His Eye
Mr. Murder
Fallen Angels
Angel of Death
Angel of Damnation
More more more more and guess what? MORE... :eek:
 
It would take up too much space to type out all the books I have that I haven't read. I'll just say I have so many on the list that some of them had to just be given away because they were on the shelf for years and will never be read.
 
I've got about 20 on my shelf still to be read - I stopped buying books a few months back because otherwise the number of unread books was just going to go through the roof.

Still left to read:
My Story by Dave Pelzer
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Maximum Ride by James Patterson
Whiteout by Ken Follett
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
The Woman who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Lion of Senet by Jennifer Fallon
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
 
I don't dare start counting.

I recently got rid of a few that have been on my shelves for years and that I'll probably never read. Still, I must have about 70 waiting. Although I woved I wouldn't buy any more this year, I keep stumbling on new releases by my favourite authors, sequels, prequels and so on...
 
Despite having a copy of The Exorcist for a year, I never got around to reading it. Since I read the book several years ago, I'm not really worried.

Also didn't get around to reading Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey and The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher. There's always next month...
 
There are lots, but here’s the top of the stack:

Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Kidnapped, Jan Burke
The Echo Maker, Richard Powers
Echo Park, Michael Connelly
The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult
The Frog King, Adam Davies
All Mortal Flesh, Julia Spencer-Fleming
Gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
Billy Boyle: A WWII Mystery, James Benn
A Dangerous Man, Charlie Huston

Note to Self: Must stop buying books…
 
These are in no particular order.

Las Light of the Sun, Guy Gavriel Kay
1491, Charles C. Mann
Ulyssess, James Joyce
Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens
Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy - I am waiting for the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation before I read this.
Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Adolescent, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
the Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco
Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler
The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Snow, Orham Pamuk
The Navigator of New York, Wayne Johnston
The Custodian of Paradise, Wayne Johnston
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Consumption, Kevin Patterson
Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

This is taking too long. That's thirty. There's at least thirty more. For the most part the above list is what I plan on reading...crap. This doesn't include what I'm going to buy and desperately want to read. I have enough books to read for two years without buying another. Assuming the rate at which I read doesn't change.
 
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Fall by Albert Camus
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Libra by Don DeLillo
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Native Son by Richard Wright
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Night by Elie Wiesel
Dawn by Elie Wiesel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

Wow, I've just convinced myself to stop purchasing books. Well, maybe.
 
I have very little books that I haven't read yet.

Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
Decamerone by Boccaccio
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Random Sherlock Holmes books
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody
Random H.P. Lovecraft novels
 
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