what is in the book pile on your bedside table?

[polecat]

I can't wait.....I have a pile of books waiting to be read and they all look so good! Just wondering what everyone has on their to-read list?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Sorrows of an American
One Good Turn
The Eyre Affair

[morethanmum]

Atonement
Spinoza's Ethics
Bed Rest
Another six I keep meaning to read, but replacing with chicklit.
Have you noticed it's no longer 'PR girl with gay bf fancies boss' but 'stressed mummy recounting hilarious tales of parenthood' - where is the original stuff? Recommend something!

[turquoise]

All part read:

Return of the Native
Moab is my Washpot
Barbara and Jane
My Booky Wook (that one's going to Oxfam)

Unopened:
THe Shipping News
Labyrinth
Three biogs of Edward II + Isabella.

Too busy reading dry course work and being seduced by magazines.

[Miaou]

Oooh turquoise, I ordered Moab is my Washpot from the library in October and I'm still waiting - there is only one copy left in the whole of the Highlands and there were 7 people in front of me waiting for it!!

I've got -

Swallowing Grandma by Kate Long (she of the Bad Mother's Handbook)
Pillow Talk by Freya North (chick lit but not bad)
More Secrets of Happy Children by Steven Biddulph (lent by a friend)

I never have more than 10 minutes uninterrupted to read, so haven't attempted anything more challenging since ds1 was born ... I reckon it'll be at least another couple of years before I can get back to "proper" books !

[peanutbear]

Labyrinth is that the book about a religion in europe that is persecuted out of existence

I have all read though so out to get more!!

A thousand Splendid Suns
the Visible World
Kite Runner

and a book I can remember its name about the civil war in Nigeria when the igbo community wanted Biafra

[peanutbear]

I also have Screwed by Ronnie Thompson - made the fatal error of thinking it would be an itelligent book about life as a prison office but I was so wrong

[poodlepusher]

Exit Ghost by Phillip Roth

[Cappuccino]

Haweswater by Sarah Hall
Esme Lennox book by Maggie O Farrell
Biyi Bandele's Burma Boy

[carmenelectra]

A dreams book
A REALLY old childbirth book that my SIL found in her loft(i was reading it when i was preg last yr and still havent moved it. Just keep polishing/vacuuming round it!

Some newspaper Sunday mag and another mag, Chat or something

[TheHonEnid]

Sainsburys Magazine (I love it)
On Chesil Beach (actually finished)
The History of Love (finished lst night - for book club)
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (surprisingly fascinating)

[castille]

Currently reading some chicklit with a pink cover: "Petite Anglaise" by Catherine Sanderson. Next in line is Kate Atkinson "One Good Turn"

Also got two non-fiction books in French: "Chagrin d'Ecole" by Daniel Pennac and one about WW1 which is a bit heavy going for bedtime reading

Moab is my Washpot is fabbo

[suedonim]

'India' by John Keay
'The Electric Michaelangelo' by Sarah Hall.

I've been reading both for months. The first is a big heavy book so I don't lug it round with me and the second, I can't really get into but I do want to find out what happens.

Peanut, is your book 'Half of a Yellow Sun'?

[peanutbear]

Yes it is thanks its a good book actually

[Notsuperwoman]

1. Pillars of The Earth( Amazing best story in Years)
   
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Really Great)!
   
3. The Kite Runner (Fantastic)
   
4. Half of a yellow Sun ( Fanatastic)
   
5. Purple Hibiscus (good)
   6)The Inheritance of Loss ( a bit slow)
   
6. Tenderness of Wolves ( Not started heared it's good)
   
7. Surrendered Wife ( Great Advice)
   
8. Nanny Dairies (not finished, seems trivial)
   
9. The interpretation of Murder. ( have not read has anyone read it is it a good book?)
   
10. The house at Riverton ( have not startedhas anyone read it is it a good book?)

[turquoise]

Miaou my copy's from work or I'd send you it - it is, indeed, fabbo. Will keep my eyes peeled in our local oxfam though (excellent - hence enormous 'to read' pile!)

Forgot the Kite Runner is also knocking around somewhere waiting to be read, and what I've called 'Barbara and Jane' is actually 'Prudence and Jane', by Barbara Pym.

[turquoise]

I read Pillars of the Earth about 20 years ago and loved it, need to reread it now there's a sequel out.

[Notsuperwoman]

What would you say is the best book you have read recently which is not on my list? I am looking for a really good book, suggestions please!

[poodlepusher]

I dont' know where your list is, so sorry if this is repetition

I would say the following:

Everyman by Phillip Roth
Summer Falls by Esther Freud
The Sea by John Banville
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Charlotte Grey by Sebastian Faulks
Devotion by Howard Norman (anything by him)
Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore

[Miaou]

turquoise, you are a love, but amazingly the library rang me this afternoon to say it a=had come in!! I must have willed it here

[hatwoman]

Recessional for Grace - read about 4 chapters got bored
Human Stain by Philip Roth - half way through
Remains of the Day - just finished - brilliant

[WendyWeber]

The pile on my bedside table is nearly 2' high but I am ignoring most of it.

What I am currently reading, off the floor, is (are):

The Mitfords - letters between 6 sisters
And Another Thing - the world according to Clarkson
The Times Thurs 21 Feb
The Provincial Lady in Russia - E M Delafield (p122 completely blank, must complain to amazon)
the latest Cotton Traders brochure
The Best Novels of Nancy Mitford - the 4 England/France novels

[scaryteacher]

My book pile includes
The Mitfords - letters between six sisters
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
The Kite Runner
The Blind Watchmaker and the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Bleak House - Dickens (trying for the third time!
The Kitchen Diaries - Nigel Slater
Exile - Richard North Patterson
a couple of thrillers - Barbara Nadel and Kathy Reichs I think

[SilentTerror]

I've got
My Enemy's Cradle (about the Lebensborn homes in Nazi Germany)
House of Lost Souls by Fg Cottram
Strachan's War by Laura Wilson
A Visible World.

[Dottydot]

On Chesil beach - wonderful
Full Moon and Twilight - both by stephanie Meyer. Love them and am itching to get the next one.
The God Delusion - haven't read yet.
The Clock Winder - Anne Tyler - just finished today - fantastic.

[pollywobbledoodle]

balzac and the little chinese seamstress.for bookgroup

saving fish from drowning..amy tan..love her writing

mrs woolf and the servants

mothers milk..edward st aubyn....a short history of almost anything..bill bryson..i keep putting these 2 off