top five on your TBR list?

[MonkeyCatcher]

At the moment:

1. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piocult
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
3. Running With Scissors by Augusteen Burroughs
4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
5. Wild Swans by Jung Chang

 

[steffee]

I'm determined this great thread is staying put...

My next five...
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
Lucky - Alice Sebold
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

 

[pontalba]

Its difficult for me to project which five books will be next. I am quite sure of the authors though.
Vladimir Nabokov
James Lee Burke
Kathy Reichs
Josephine Tey
Margaret Atwood

 

[Robert]

It's difficult to narrow the list down to five, but I'll give it my best guess.

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Fair Blows the Wind by Louis L’Amour
Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
The Big Sky by Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr.
Subterranean by James Rollins

 

[DiscoDan]

Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Stephen King - Bag of Bones
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Janet Evanovich - One for the Money
J. K. Rowling - ..Half Blood Prince

 

[steffee]

Its difficult for me to project which five books will be next. I am quite sure of the authors though.
Vladimir Nabokov
James Lee Burke
Kathy Reichs
Josephine Tey
Margaret Atwood

You crack me up Pontalba!

 

[angerball]

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Cell - Stephen King
The Horse and his Boy - CS Lewis
Prince Caspian - CS Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis

(Finally reading The Chronicles of Narnia).

 

[pontalba]

You crack me up Pontalba!

Well, they're all stacked about me looking reproachful. I have 57 books stacked right next to me here at the desk, then theres the 84 stacked on the table in front of the window.....not counting the Nabokov on the desk.....

Its sorta like trying to pick which one of your children you will spend time with next.......or at the same time.........aaaarrrggghhhhh!

ok, thats better.....

oh, but I didn't count the stacks upstairs..............

 

[steffee]

Well, they're all stacked about me looking reproachful. I have 57 books stacked right next to me here at the desk, then theres the 84 stacked on the table in front of the window.....not counting the Nabokov on the desk.....

Its sorta like trying to pick which one of your children you will spend time with next.......or at the same time.........aaaarrrggghhhhh!

ok, thats better.....

oh, but I didn't count the stacks upstairs..............

Awww, you poor poor thing!

Seriously though, it does get stressful when you have so many to pick and choose from. I sympathise.

 

[pontalba]

Oh Yesss...one thousand violins are playing My Heart Cries For You.....in stereo! LOL

 

[cabbagescribe]

I don't really plan it out, but the books I want to read outside of mandatory scholarly books are:

1. Jorges Luis Borges - The Aleph (collection of stories)
2. Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
3. Herman Hesse - The Glass Bead Game
4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
5. Edgar Allan Poe - Collection of stories

 

[SFG75]

Crime & Punishment;Dostoyevsky
Getting Even; Woody Allen
Hegemony or Survival; Noam Chomsky
Grand Delusions; Helen Levin
A book on the mafia, just not sure which one.

 

[curiouswonder]

The next five might be. . .
Cell - Stephen King
The Meritocracy Myth - McNamee and Miller
The European Dream - Jeremy Rifkin
The Singer Trilogy - Calvin Miller
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

...or maybe not.

 

[Ryouko]

*digs out TBR list*

I take it everywhere with me. I also have a "To Be Bought" list.

Top 5 TBR:
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Pride & Prejudice(re-read), Jane Austen
I, Elizabeth, Rosalind Miles
Golden Compass, Phillip Pullman
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

 

[Inkheart]

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevesky

At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O' Neil

The Night Listener - Armistead Maupin

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

The Food of Love - Anthony Capella

Can't decide on what order though!

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevesky

At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O' Neil

The Night Listener - Armistead Maupin

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

The Food of Love - Anthony Capella

Can't decide on what order though!

Read Oryx and Crake first. It's aboslutely brilliant

 

[Ronny]

Read Oryx and Crake first. It's aboslutely brilliant

Oryx and Crake is on my list as well as, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Shipping News by Annie Proulx, the Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot and the Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

 

[tartan_skirt]

Thought I'd dig this up to see what everyone else has stacked up. I also thought if I post the 5 I think I'll read next I can see how far I stray from it.

1. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
3. Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong
4. Haunted - Kelley Armstong
5. Walking On Glass - Iain Banks

 

[Dogmatix]

My list seems to change every day, depending on my mood and what you guys are reading/recommending. Every time I buy a book I put it at the top of the list because I'm excited about it but by the time I finish reading whatever I'm in the middle of when I purchased the new book I get turned on to something else. Sometimes books just wait in the wings for the right time or season to be read.

Also my TBR list is so long I try not to think about it or I get a little overwhelmed. I'm betting I have about 20-25 books in my TBR stack right now and another 10 or so on my TBB list.

I am wanting to get to Blindness- Jose Saramago and The World According to Garp -Irving soon though, so right now they are topping my list. We'll see......

 

[theoptimist]

My next 5 will probably be:

1. Natsuo Kirino - Out
2. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
3. Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
4. Ben Elton - High Society
5. Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake