what is in the book pile on your bedside table?

NotSuperWoman - Interpretation of murder - fantastic, very good who dunnit with Freud and jung. The House at riverton, ok but a bit predictable, bit of a daft "twist" at the end and atonement is better. I am currently reading ( trying to find time to read) a book by Richard Fortey about the Natural History Museum and a biog of Edith Piaf.(just watched La Vie En Rose and loved it!) many books under my bed not even opened yet

Clarice Bean Don't Look Now
Vile Bodies (been there for months)
An ancient Boots Pregnancy manual
Pevsners Sussex edition

Exciting eh?

Maggie O' Farrell The Disappearing Act Of Esme Lennox-which I am really enjoying.

Alfie Kohn Unconditional Parenting (after reading the thread on here about it).

Just finished The Gathering by Anne Enright.

A third of a way through Suite Francaise

Human Traces Sebastian Faulks-not sure whether to give it another go as started it a while back and only read about twenty pages before abandoning it and tbh have never been that keen on his novels.

Recently finished The Inheritance of Loss -which I thought was excellent.

Various sections of last Sunday's newspaper, a Which? magazine, a copy of Gone with the Wind and a book on Budhism!

oh and the lakeland catalogue

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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?)

Yes it is thanks its a good book actually

'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'?

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

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)

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

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

Exit Ghost by Phillip Roth