What books are gathering dust on your bookshelves?

[MrsSpoon]

I'm presuming we all have them, two or three books that have taken up residence on the shelf and never been read. I thought perhaps we could mention them here and someone could encourage us to read them or charity shop them.

Mine are:-

The Poisonwood Bible - recommended here loads of times but I just never manage to pick it up.

Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani - Didn't like Big Stone Gap so have presumed I won't like this either.

White Teeth by Zadie Smith - I have owned this book a couple of times but never actually read it.

Cold Mountain

Captain Correli's Mandolin

I'm sure there must be more but these ones concern me most.

i haven't read 'perfume'. at all.

I don't own a copy of Perfume. I don't know anything about it. What is it?

Gina Ford Contented Little Baby Book....

ncq it's a novel by Patrick Suskind, from what I can remember it's about smells in Paris

It's by Patrick Suskind. I remember enjoying it years ago, as a page-turner, not 'literature'.

"An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion - his sense of smell - leads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"-the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity."

NQC, I hope to get Slightly Foxed as a surprise present one day in the future...

Eh, that doesn't sound like my sort of thing.

Yeah, I got Slightly Foxed + all back issues as a gift.

I am currently really enjoying "Everything is Shit", which is very fluffy bathroom reading really, but very enjoyable all the same. Very very well-written, too.

the Piers Morgan is similar type bathroom reading, but less well-written (entertaining nontheless)

(meant to say Piers Morgan autobiography)

Gosh, I just realized how long that post is. Sorry about that. I'm not a literary critic or anything, just an avid reader.

thank you for your insight, cotedazur. It is frustrating to read a book in translation, even though the translation is very good - I felt that a lot of it was going over my head as I didnt know a great deal about recent Turkish history.
(We did know that Blue was a code name btw, because it was translated into English, whereas Ipek and Kadife kept their Turkish names.)