What's Everyone Reading in the New Year?

just reading Saturday by Ian McEwan the prose is fabulous but am not sure about the plot it is a good read though...

Can't decide at all what to read next..... have loads sitting on bookshelf but new years resolution is to get back to reading lots after last year hardly reading anything (dd about to turn 1 !). Am going to choose between The Pact, Salem Falls (loved Sisters Keeper), Shadow of the winds, the sequel to the rotters club (can't remember title of top of head), or a lighter read - Alexander McCall Smith (44 Scotland St or another one I have), one of the Dan Browns.... Argh... too much choice.. oh and I promised my mum I would read her copy of Pompeii quickly as she wants to lend it to someone else and I've already had it a few months so maybe that should be my priority......

The Mitford Girls by Mary S Lovell - A gripping and very well written, very thorough account of the lives of the Mtiford Sisters - I'm not usually into biography, but this is tremendous - recommended!! Going to read Atonement by Ian McEwan next cos that the next book up for discussion in my book group I attend!!

Hello,
Just had to add to this thread! I've recently discovered Douglas Kennedy, who is a great storyteller, I highly recommend his books - in particular, ''The Pursuit of Happiness'' is amazing! But you WILL stay up all night to read it...
Also adore Paullina Simons who has several novels - her best is ''The Bronze Horseman'' which is just the saddest tale but so unputdownable...and it has a sequel - ''Tatiana and Alexander''. Fabulous. I have recommended these books to many friends who have been as obsessed by them as me. Real sleep depriving stuff.

I was reading 'Toxic Parents' but I gave it to someone with a greater need because I will now be reading, 'Diabetes. A Complete Guide' and any other books which come up on the subject.

Curious Incident was covered on MN at great length 1-2 years ago, cat - mind you not all the threads listed are about the dog in the night-time

The River by Tricia Wastvedt, v.absorbing story told in flashbacks, short chapters so ideal for picking up in an odd 10 minutes.

Hmm, I'd look under the bridge on the south bank? I don't really know second-hand book dealers in London that well.

hox, will probably start On Beauty. Have got a bit sidetracked by a) an issue of American Scholar we bought last summer and b) Les Particules Elementaires, by Houllebecq. I'm sure I'd hate him if I read him in English, but somehow he works in French, for me. (I realise he's an insufferable chauvinist little troll.)

!!Excited contribution alert!!

Have just put up an old bookshelf in ds & dd's room and one shelf is exactly the height of the 70s Puffins (did you know they got half an inch bigger after that?) - so now I am forced to fill it with 15p classics from secondhand shops (which will be my reading stock this year, of course). So far have scored:

Stig of the Dump
My Friend Mr Leakey
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Borrowers
Heidi
The Moon of Gomrath

Anyone want to suggest hunting grounds for me (London)?

(used to be binkie, by the way: reversion for twelfth night + update)

i'm enjoying on beauty nqc, it's keeping me awake when i should be sleeping! let me know what you think.

Oh, I liked Running With Scissors. Should read Dry. I read he has an actual novel (not memoir) coming out, too.

I have just ordered "Mao" from the book people, a bargain at £10.
It may sit a while whilst I summon up the enrgy to read it!

hello everyone, this is my first post! Really interesting to see what everyone is reading, as I am sitting in my bookshop wondering what to stock in the new year. Supposed to be doing a stocktake but I can tell dh that I've been carrying out vital market research

For those of you who like David Sedaris I highly recommend Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors is scarily hilarious and Dry is funny and poignant!).

I've almost finished "We need to talk about Kevin" and will hopefully be moving on to "Memoirs of a Geisha".

Not sure if any of you guys have heard of it (or if it's already been mentioned) but there's a brilliant site for people in the UK called:

www.readitswapit.co.uk/

Basically, you sign up... add any books you don't want and then swap them.. it's free (apart from P&P) and a brilliant way of getting new books! I highly recommend it!

Just finished The Accidental. I liked the ending, so will certainly look out for other books by her.

I think I might read On Beauty next. I liked White Teeth ok, didn't bother with Autograph Man, even though I liked the excerpt in the New Yorker.

I have finished Sharon Osbourne:Extreme and it is faabulous!

Just finished reading "my sisters keeper" by Jodi Picoult.
Was a Christmas pressie from my best friend, thought it was a little odd as I've just had DD (13 weeks). I thought that it would be a little raw to read anyway, not least with hormones flying all over the place.
However, forced myself to read it, stayed up til one the other night to finish it.
Very very sad, but such a good read.
Got "Fen" by Freya North to read next, pressie from DH's best friend.

Hello, can I join this thread?
I'm reading The Accidental by Ali Smith and really enjoying it. It's told in the third person but each chapter so far is from the point of view of a different character. I'm awake most of the time with my 6-month old so am pleased to have a good book to read!

Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks

Hmm. Not sure I'd describe those two as uber-Canadian.

My official off-the-cuff list of uber-Canadian authors:

• W.P. Kinsella, but only the Indian books, not the baseball ones.
• David McFadden! He rocks!
• Grey Owl, may he rot in hell. Stupid English fake freak.
• Margaret Laurence
• Michel Tremblay (but only in French)

Hmm, I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them. Margaret Laurence really is quite good.

Oh, Chester Brown, and Joe Matt, if we're allowing graphic novels.

Snurk Pruni, I had forgot the plinths!
Sorry about your back and your bike NQC. I do think J Coe is a very, very English author. But fair dos - I am prepared to love and adore uber-Canadians Margaret Atwood and Robertson Davies you know

Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale (love him - a real story teller). Since having dd 11 mths ago am really slow at reading. Before I probably read a book a week now I think I have read 3/4 in 11 mths. Anyone else find this.

Was the same after ds but got inti the swing whe i went back to work.

Just finished reading The First casualty by Ben Elton, which dh gave me at Christmas. Never read any of his books before but I had heard him talking about this and sounded good. Really enjoyed it- set in WW1, which I know very little about, so was also interesting.

Back from spending book vouchers which dh also gave me( love love love getting them!) Waterstones have got loads at half price so- Nigel Slater Kitchen Diaries
The Soup kitchen( a soup recipe book! cos we love soup)
Ben Elton Past Mortem
Philippa Gregory The Constant Princess
Patricia Cornwell Predator (don't normally buy her)
Harlan Coben The Innocent
Michael Connelly The Closers

Where do I start, am like a pig in sh** at the moment

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