Whats in your stack of books waiting to be read?

dr gonzo

The thread about bookshop mind control had me thinking that perhaps im not alone in purchasing books far faster then i can read them and now it would appear that quite a few boardsies have a huge collection of books next to their beds to get through. So whats in your unread collection?

Travel is good

Are you serious? I would be days or weeks trying to post a list up here. It's just easier to say that whatever book the Book Depository sells, I probably have it. I've got some great recommendations from fellow boardsies. My latest purchases from TBD are The Game of Thrones by George Martin and The Pychopath Test by Jon Ronson. I recently bought another 2 books by Jon Ronson but now I can't remember what they are. I am trying to record what I've read this year, scary. I also read a fair few library books.

DarkDusk

Travel is good wrote: »

Are you serious? I would be days or weeks trying to post a list up here. It's just easier to say that whatever book the Book Depository sells, I probably have it. I've got some great recommendations from fellow boardsies. My latest purchases from TBD are The Game of Thrones by George Martin and The Pychopath Test by Jon Ronson. I recently bought another 2 books by Jon Ronson but now I can't remember what they are. I am trying to record what I've read this year, scary. I also read a fair few library books.

Currently reading Game of Thrones. It's brill! I'm so hooked now and it's not normal...:p

Kinski

How long have you got?

Travel is good wrote: »

It's just easier to say that whatever book the Book Depository sells, I probably have it.

Wow, you must own a lot of books. I presume that this means your bookcase is stocked with such volumes as Julian Montague's The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich by James A. Yannes, and - how could we forget - Alonso Durable's 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men.

None of those titles would interest me, but I salute your wide-ranging and adventurous tastes.:pac:

Sonovagun

DarkDusk wrote: »

Currently reading Game of Thrones. It's brill! I'm so hooked now and it's not normal...:p

I literary just finished Game of Thrones. I have thought long and hard about reading A Clash of Kings, in fear of ruining season two of the tv series. But after finishing GoT I can't wait to start ACoK.

Travel is good

Kinski wrote: »

How long have you got?



Wow, you must own a lot of books. I presume that this means your bookcase is stocked with such volumes as Julian Montague's The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, Collectible Spoons of the 3rd Reich by James A. Yannes, and - how could we forget - Alonso Durable's 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men.

None of those titles would interest me, but I salute your wide-ranging and adventurous tastes.:pac:

However did you guess? I didn't want to bore you all by posting up all the titles. I'm looking forward to starting Game of Thrones now, I hear it's not normal..

Other titles on my book shelf -
Nothing to Envy (about North Korea)
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
Enough is Enough and Ship of Fools by Fintan O'Toole
A Race of a Lifetime by John Heilmann & Mark Halperin
The hour I first Believed by Wally Lamb (I have most of his books)
The Fourth Hand by John Irving (ditto )
Engleby (Sebastian Faulks)
Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman


OK I'll stop now. Actually it's been a bit therapeutic for me to post up some of these titles. I figure I have about 300-400 books. I have a lot of them registered on Book Crossing anyway, and have some documented on www.shelfari.com also. Though I read them quicker than I can register them!

Asphyxia

I love Shelfari, I must update it though I get into a mood of putting up my books but never think about doing some reviews :rolleyes:

dr gonzo

Haha, good point people. I like most of you probably have too many waiting to be read to be listed here but i thought i would post the question anyway.

I also just finished Game of Thrones and have Clash of Kings already bought and ready to be read but put it aside temporarily. Just finshed Starman, a biography of Yuri Gargarin and am about half way through metro 2033. After that though i think its back to the Starks and Lannisters for me!

Gneez

I've piled up a load too lately, three books by Ken Follet, five by Philip K. Dick, Blue Mars (have to finish the trilogy) and The Stand by Stephen King, not too impressed by the Stephen King stuff I've read so far though, is The Stand any good?

Travel is good

I love the Stand, one of my favourite books. Stephen King's early books are good, some of the later ones are not great. I read The Stand years ago, and have lost a few copies as poeople never return it to me. I have just added it to my wish list as I'd like to read it again.

I presume your Ken Follett books are also hefty tomes? It sounds like a good summer ahead for reading!

The Princess Bride

None.
I only buy books as I have time to read them-with the exception of every Christmas- I buy a book,wrap it and thoroughly enjoy opening it on Christmas morning.:)A little treat from me to me.
Would get too frustrated if I had a pile of books awaiting my eager brain.No thanks.

DazMarz

Couple of Frederick Forsyth novels, a couple of biographies, and 'The Club'... Nothing major. Compared to a time when I had about a dozen books in the waiting list.

msthe80s

msthe80s wrote: »

None.
I only buy books as I have time to read them-with the exception of every Christmas- I buy a book,wrap it and thoroughly enjoy opening it on Christmas morning.:)A little treat from me to me.
Would get too frustrated if I had a pile of books awaiting my eager brain.No thanks.

Yeah, this ^
I'll buy books a few at a time and work through them but I won't buy a stack and leave them unread... would drive me up the wall

x_Ellie_x

I have a giant stack of books that I have yet to read. I think there must be about 50 to 60 of them.

Einhard

I have the exact same problem. I once placed a moratorium on the buying of books until I had read all the outstanding ones I owned, and even had a list where I wrote those I would buy once I had achieved that goal, but I just can't help but go on a mini-spree every time I enter a bookshop. I swear, there should be some form of 12 steps programme for such an addiction! Still, apart from booze, cocaine, hookers, and gambling, it is my only vice...:D

Waiting for my reading delectation therefore, I have:

God's War by Christopher Tyerman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan
Rome by Robert Hughes
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
Europe's Tragedy by Peter H Wilson
Talking Heads by Julian Barnes
The Complete Pepys by Robert Latham
The Reformation by Dermot McCollough
The God Species by Mark Lynas
The last three of the Game of Thrones series
A Death in Tuscany by Michele Guttari

A load of books on the Franks which I should have read for college work, but haven't.

Also, almost all of that series on great modern literature that the Indo ran a few years back.

I actually feel somewhat comforted that I'm not alone, and that pthers are way worse than me!:D

Although, it begs the question, if I have all these to read, what the fup am I do hanging about here so much??

dr gonzo

Einhard wrote: »

I have the exact same problem. I once placed a moratorium on the buying of books until I had read all the outstanding ones I owned

Only recently came to a similar conclusion which lasted about a day before i bought two more books. In my defense though, it was my first time in chapters, parnell street.

Sincerely now, no more books will be bought until the shelf beside my bed is cleared...

lindtee

Also have the same problem of buying too many books. Every week I say no more but cannot help myself. I'd say I have at the very least 300 books that I have yet to read:o Have bought the "Song of Fire and Ice" (Game of thrones) books and hope to start them after finish reading A million little pieces.

SBWife

In no particular order:

How to Live - A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer - by Sarah Bakewell

Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos

Coco Chanel - The Legend and the Life - by Justine Picardie

The Hare with Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal

Against the Gods - The Remarkable Story of Risk - Peter L. Bernstein

Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

Currently reading:

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World - Allen Greenspan

Ghost Light - Joseph O'Connor

Just finished:

Skippy Dies - Paul Murphy
No and Me - Delphine de Vigan

kylith

Currently reading The Hobbit.
Next is Labyrinth, then Sepulchre.

Slow Show

A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Catch 22 - Joseph Heer
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Emma - Jane Austen
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (I don't know what it is about me but I struggle to read this. :pac:)

Haven't bought books in ages so my stack is way smaller than usual, and those classics have been sitting there for months.

Busi_Girl08

Interpretation of a Murder
Great Expectations
To Kill a Mockingbird
Trainspotting
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
The Reader
The Colour Purple
Freakonomics
The God Delusion
Trick or Treatment?
Car Fever (collection of James May articles)
Driven to Distraction (Jeremy Clarkson articles)
Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles.

TanG411

I bought a few books from Amazon which arrived yesterday. Here they are:

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis

Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis

Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk

Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk

Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

I'm a bit of an Ellis fan after reading American Psycho. The same for Palahniuk after Fight Club. Some other books I didn't purchase but will eventually include 1984, Catch 22, and Animal Farm

randomguy

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
The Balkan Trilogy - Olivia Manning
Oh, Play That Thing - Roddy Doyle
Room - Emma Donoghue
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
The Hare with the Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (been there a long time now)
The Shrimp and the Anemone - LP Hartley
Oblivion - David Foster Wallace

And about 8 or 9 random second-hand books, including 2 which may be interesting:
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance - Matthew Kneale
Borrowed Finery - Paula Fox

But I think I'll end up buying Slash's autobiography and reading it before I get around to any of these...