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

oh and the lakeland catalogue

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

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.

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

Exciting eh?

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

Oh god i don't have any books on my bedside table

I am co-sleeping with dd2 and she wakes when i read by torchlight.

I can't wait till i have a reading pile again!

Nicholas coleridge, A much married man. He is my current favourite author - much needed escapism from the unbelievable shock/life change of having a baby (she's 4 months now). Polecat I love Jaspar Fford, all the Thursday Next books are well worth reading if you haven't already. I read the Rise of Fall of a Yummy Mummy about 6 weeks after becoming a not so yummy mummy myself, chick lit crap but pertinent enough in its observations of life with leeky boobs etc...

Have ...

Austerity Britain
London: A Life in Maps

Lost World, Conan Doyle
King Solomon's Mines, Rider Haggard
Jekyll & Hyde

• those three from a Book People batch of thrilling adventures, of which I have already read the oddity that is The Man Who Was Thursday -

and
Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career

• from a Book People batch of Viragoes, of which I have just done The Weather in the Streets, and another oddity by Elaine Dundy [Ken Tynan's first wife] and something else, oh yes a Willa Cather

Gemma Bovery (Bovary? no I think it's deliberately Bovery) is lurking too down among the Baker Ross catalogues & semi-read LRBs

I don't have a pile but i do have Keith Allen Autobiography which i am slowly working my way through

Currently reading "Cobweb" by Neal Stephenson.

Next is "Miracles of life", J. G. Ballard's autobiography.

Notsuperwoman - Interpretation of Murder is quite good. 7/10.

my 'to be read' pile has turned into a couple of shelves - I do read all the time but I buy faster than I can read.

Just finishing Eliza Graham's (she of MN fame !) Book 'PLaying with the Moon' which is fantastic

then am going to read the latest Lady detective book

then not sure - it may then be time for my next book club read or I might get another one in before the meeting.

Califrau - I recently reread Ballet Shoes. It was a great trip down memory lane (and interesting to see how they'd 'disneyfied' the film !)

Raising Happy Children
For one more day
Money
Memory keepers daughter
1000 splendid suns
half of a yellow sun
gem squash tokoloshe
the electric michaelangelo
the rain before it falls
anansi boys
small island
the amateur marriage
the daydreamer
quicksilver
the promise of happiness
one big damn puzzler
the gum thief
white oleander

eek- haven't read enough this month

A thousand Splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
Hello? Is anybody there? By Jostein Gaarder
The Mitfords, Letters Between Six Sisters By Charlotte Mosely

oh ledodgey- i really want to read that mitford one

The Kiterunner( Keeps slipping to the bottom)
The Book Thief( dd has already read it)
Berlin( God it looks dull)
Short history of tractors in Ukraina( nearly finished)
The Balkan Trilogy( reread)
Agent Zigzag Ben MacIntyre( part read)
Journey Into Darkenss(Anthony Faramus)

Cremola I loved the Book Thief! I enjoyed the Short History of tractors in the Ukrainia but not as much as some did on here. I think we have the same taste in books.

Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives- Deepak Chopra (not fininshed and a bit too late now as having CS tomorrow morning!)

The Book Thief -Markus Susak (fabulous, wonderful, engrossing and the reason why I've not finished Deepak Chopra)

The Island-Victora Hislop (not bad, ok for lazy maternity leave afternoons)

How to be a Baby by Me, The Big Sister- Sally Lloyd Jones and Sue Heap (bought for DD, a little young for her but the sentiments and illustrations are perfect)

Might as well kiss goodbye to the book pile for now as I think I might have my hands full for the next few weeks. Hopefully someone will bring me a few glossy magazines to read while LO sleeps during my stay in the hospital.

mmn history of tractors is really making me smirk more than laugh. but i do love it.not as trivial as i thought it might be.
looking forward to the book thief- i think it is up next if i can stop sneaking a peak at agent zigzag.I have been obsessed by the war of late.
on green dolphin street was good and i read a book called restless about a female MI6 agent during ww2 which was good. also finshed Stasiland by Anna Funder which is fanastic particularly after watching the lives of others.
Tend to read one authors books in a row.
joanne Harris
Kate Atkinson
Seb faulkes
Barbara trapido
Rose Tremain
Harlen Coben

I do wish Audrey Niffeneggar would write a sequel to time Travellers wife.

Oh I do too. I love TTW. I think you either love it or hate it and I loved it! I also went through a phase of reading Murakami after reading his Tube Tales where he interviews the people, relatives of victims and the perpetrators of the Sarin gas attacks on the Toyko subway.

I read the Underground boook as well and found it fascinating. I also liked Norweegian Wood.

Also just finished A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon which was entertaining.

I'm seriously concerned about the size of some of these book piles. Doncha know you you're now living in an earthquake zone?? Imagine it, Death by Book Pile!!

I have finally put down Electric Michelangleo and taken up 'India' again. It's a hefty tome so I'm also reading Zoe Heller's 'Everything You Know' to read in traffic jams.

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MN Towers

I seem to have one of those huge book piles as well but my immediate reading list is:
Doris Lessing - Love, Again
Harlan Coban - The Woods
Dorothy Koomson - Running for Chocolate
Stephen King - Lisey's Story

Of the top of my head

Chaos - James Gleike
Sushi for beginners
the restraint of beasts
The man who mistook his wife for a hat
The Highly Sensitive Child

I need a refresh