So what's in your 'Book Pile'?

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I'm currently reading..

Frankenstein -Mary Shelley
Don't Tell - Karen Rose
on the last few pages of Run for your Life -James Patterson -thought it was a bit crap tbh
and about to start Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris...

sure I've got another one floating about somewhere

anyhoo..

So I've told you mine ...now tell me yours

At the moment I'm re reading:

The Stranger House by Reginald Hill

I've just finished reading Eclipse and I'm hoping to buy Breaking Dawn next week.

I'm running out of good books to read, have re read most on my bookshelves.

(thread hijack sorry - sheepgomeep! is years since I have noticed your name on mn. have you really been away, or am I just blind?)

my book pile is distressingly small. I am currently eking out the last of The Golden Notebook, and will have to go out and buy something.

I have just bought the Granta Book of the Family v looking forward to starting it.

Am just finishing Ian McE's Amsterdam, and enjoyed it so am queuing Enduring Love.

Book club book is Robert Bolano's The Skating Rink, never heard of it till was chosen, and haven't even bought it yet...

We need to talk about Kevin
A Prayer for Owen Meaney
The White Tiger

hello! I tend come and go on MN, I never get into big debates.. can't think straight! might be why you don't see me around much

I love the name sheepgomeep

my dd1 who was about 3 at the time insited that sheep went meep and not baaa. The name sort of stuck

True Blood book 1,

lined up, The Diary of Anne Frank (been 20 yrs since last read it) Catcher In the Rye (RIP JD Salinger) and The Return by Victoria Hislop (loved The Island so am hoping it'll live up to expectations)

babyOcho Loved Kevin, hated Tiger

(but you do have a talent for nicknames)

Reading: Revelation by CJ Sansom

On pile: Anna Karenina - Tolstoy, The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing and Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman

May I join you? Lovely to find a book thread. I used to read so much but have so little time at the moment.

I've just finished Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger) which I loved.

I have a pile to read, including:

The Childrens' Book (A S Byatt)
The Secret Scripture (Sebastian Barry)
The History of MI5 (which may never be read)
Wolf Hall (Hillary Mantel)
Even (Andrew Grant)

I loved The Stranger House. I do like a good mystery.

Lets see

When we were orphans - just finished, interesting read ... but not totally sure about the ending, felt a bit rushed

Reading "Half of a Yellow Sun" Chimamanda Adichie, totally absorbing ..... dont want it to end

Then have

Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs"

Nothing.

I have been ill for four days and have been reduced to re-reading the Little Women series.

Oh I have the new Liz Jensen but wanted to be well before I started it.

Janeite - wow! All of them? Now you've got me wondering where they are around here. I haven't read those books since I was about 13. Hmmm... May have to add them to my list.

Hope you're feeling better soon.

ooh ooh ooh was going to ask on here who had a book pile (I have one next to my bed)

have just finished

William Boyd Ordinary Thunderstorms

have just started

The Little Stranger

then in my pile is

PD James The Private Patient
McKingy Fifty Grand
The Gargoyle Andrew Davidson
Sebastian Faulks A Week in December

there are 3 other books mil has given me for the commute but I might not get to them (No Time for Goodbye, The Standing Pool and The Blood Spilt (which looks quite gruesome!)).

I love book piles!

Thanks Belle. Yes - they took zero-effort and are a good size for holding limply under a blanket with a hot water bottle clutched fetchingly under the other arm. Am feeling much better thank you.

Sea of Poppies (which lots on here have said they enjoyed so am looking forward to starting it)

Stet - Diana Athill

All our Worldly Goods - Irene Nemirovsky

My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead - collection of love stories

Time after time - Molly Keane

Janeite they are perfect comfort reading - I had a nasty bout of flu at New Year last year and convalesced with the Mallory Towers series - not quite the same but served a similar purpose

peter F Hamilton 'The Naked God' - pretty much a pile in its own right. actually i have just finished that - terribly disappointing in the end - like he suddenly chose to do the 'it's a wonderful life' ending and couldn't be arsed with working out a more painful denouement.

and am moving on to 'Fallen Dragon' for some more of the same. then they can back up into the attic, and i can return to full time mumsnetting...

Yum to Mallory Towers.

And double yum to The Yellow Wallpaper.

Have just finished An Experiment In Love by Hilary Mantel which was great and am nearly finished with The Elegance of the Hedgehog by a French person whose name escapes me. Wasn't so keen at the start but it's growing on me. I needed something more literary after reading all the Sookie Stackhouse books in quick succession.

Next on the list - I should probably try again with Wolf Hall. It's not that I dislike it, but I'm just not gripped by it. Then I'm going to read Venice by Peter Ackroyd which I got for Christmas. And I saw an ad for the new Sarah Dunnant book on the tube so might seek that out as well.

have always intended to read THe Yellow Wallpaper - must get on and do so

i, lucifer
behind the scenes at the museum (book swap)
the gift (book group)
pandaemonium
dead until dark
a big stack of anita blake

just finished Survivor by Chuck Palahnuik

started Haunted by same but secretly re-reading Choke (also Palahnuik)

am a bit of serial reader and seem to read and re-read books by same authors until something else comes along

have a few guilty pleasures on the pile, genre books (thrillers mainly)