OT: Books

[Miss Phode]

This is way off topic, but I'm creating a list of books that I'd like to read over the next 12 months. Some of the books on my list are ones I have already read, some I've always planned to read, but never got around too. Some are classics, some are not. You all post your favorite books too! I love to read, so this should be fun.

My current list:

1984 (currently reading)
Mrs. DeWinter (on my nightstand, will read after 1984)
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Catcher and the Rye
Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Clockwork Orange

[fancypantstomatch]

Memoirs of a Geisha
A tree grows in brooklyn
East of Eden
Survivor (by chuck palhunik [same guy who wrote Fight Club])
Ethan Frome
The Red Hat Club
All the Harry Potter books (the books are SOOOO much better than the movies)


That's all I can think of right now

[cleochatra]

BHG Big Book of flowers
Neil Sperry's Texas Gardening Guide
Public Finance (textbook--I love public finance)
Sherlock Holmes (any stories)
Stories by O'Henry
Essays by Mark Twain (Hilarious)
Atkins 2002 New Diet Revolution Book
Robert's Rules of Order (just so you can say stuff like, "I move we table that item until the next work session")
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Beram Stokerr's Dracula (It's important to read the real things to see where it all began and they are surprisingly quite good)
Poetry of Walt Whitman
Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Jean Jacques Rousseau "Emille"
John Locke (anything by him, especially his Treatise on Education)
Shakespeare's The Tempest
Any of the Tolkein Books, the man is a genius
Anything by Patrick F McManus

[Hafsa226]

Harry Potter (Reserving 6th book now...)
David Copperfield
1001 Arabian Nights
Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series
The Hobbit
LOTR (Yes, I'm such a geek, but I love them)

[Sarah_K]

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
just about anything by Ursula K. LeGuin (just heard her give a reading last month and she was AWESOME), but especially the Earthsea books
LOTR, too (Tolkein, definitely a genius. When I'm feeling blue I start in and reread these. Love Treebeard in the Two Towers!)
any of Wallace Stevens' poetry
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (kind of an obscure book, but it's one of the coolest I've read)

[penelope]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (whole series)
Women-charles bukowski (all of his stuff is my fave)
Memoir of a Geisha
Fight Club
Candide
The Misfortunes of Virtue

[softnred]

I'm a major major MAJOR Harry Potter addict (I reserved book six in December...and I'm showing up at Midnight when they are released), so I'm always re-reading my HP books...

I also love "Dance of a Fallen Monk" by George Fowler.

I've been sooooo busy in the past few weeks that I haven't had much time to read...

[ztachick]

Well i cant really think of any except the one im reading right now
and its
the purpose driven life by rick warren

[Laurenfra]

I will be rereading all the Left Behind Books summer I finially bought the last one so I can read them all at once.

A friend just offered me Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy So I may start that after LB

[Katlam]

Have been on a Chris Moore kick lately, so have just eaten up

Fluke (or I know why the winged whale sings)
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Coyote Blue
Bloodsucking Fiends

(previously read Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal, Practical Demonkeeping and The Stupidest Angel)

Have read Kiterunner

Just read a Margaret Weiss but can't recall the title.

Waiting for from my local library--
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
True Believer by Nicholas Sparks

Kathy

[Origam]

I have tons of books I'm working on.. but they've all been put aside for.. ready for this?

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.

Yup.. I went and bought a hard cover book.. I never EVER buy hard cover books. Dropped $34 on it and it's SIGNED by the author. :yes But that's not important to me. *sigh*

I've read it twice now and am waiting impatiently for the movie to come out.. don't want to see it opening day though cause I don't want to fight crowds with my little boy who is addicted to Star Wars too. We're seeing it in Colorado cause we're visiting there when it comes out. :joy


*edited to add*
I love Harry Potter! Everyone in my family reads them! We have the 6th reserved too.

Anyone read the Red Hat Club? Or The Same Sweet Girls? They're cute books.. my mom and I read books like those. I prefer horror and mystery books though.. but I don't mind reading chick books.

[Curveegrrl]

I read The Life of Pi last summer and really enjoyed it. I was on a bus ride from Koszalin, Poland to London, it really made the houtrs fly by! I'd highly reccomend it.

[Momof3greatgirls]

Sas letters to Jennifer
Suzanne diary for Nicholas
The Guardian
The red tent
4th of July
Soon
Silenced
Babylon Rising
The rising

Amy

[sidrah]

Anything by Dan Brown. Angels and Demons is good. Better than The DaVinci Code, I think.

I like anything with philosophy or greek mythology, too. I like mysteries with a good story, so:

Christopher Rice's books are all great. I am in the middle of the third one, now.


Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil is really good. much better than teh movie

I will read almost anything, but not western stuff.


What about The Thornbirds????Excellent! I love anything with such obvious symbolism. it was great, as is the North adn South trilogy and Godfather. There is a new Godfather book out by someone else that I want to read. I love summer cause i get to read!!

[ciaobella]

I'm a major major MAJOR Harry Potter addict (I reserved book six in December...and I'm showing up at Midnight when they are released), so I'm always re-reading my HP books...

OMG I LOVE HARRY POTTER......has anyone listened to the books on tape they are AMAZING!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i can't wait for the 6th book...

haha ok done with that

Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim

haha i love this books and all of his stuff hysterical!! [/quote]