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Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,297
edited January 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
Do you create lists of books that you would like to read? I create one every couple years. I look at different sources and reviews for inspiration. Then if I need something to read, and I don't have an impulsive idea of what to borrow of buy, I refer to my list. This is the new list that should last me a couple years:
1. Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
2. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
3. The World is What it is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
4. Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
5. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
6. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
7. Imperial Life in the Emerald City Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
8. Little Heatherns Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
By Mildred Armstrong Kalish
9. The Nine Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Toobin
10. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh A Woman in World History. By Linda Colley.
11. The Rest is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century. By Alex Ross.
12. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
13. The Forever War (Vintage) Dexter Filkins
14. Lush Life: A Novel Richard Price
15. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan
16. 2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
17. The Boat: Stories (Vintage) Nam Le
18. The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Aravind Adiga
19. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Annette Gordon-Reed
20. Olive Kitteridge: Fiction Elizabeth Strout
21. Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
22. Black Flies: A Novel Shannon Burke
23. Downtown Owl: A Novel Chuck Klosterman
24. The Story of a Marriage: A Novel Andrew Sean Greer
25. Ms. Hempel Chronicles Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

What is on your list?
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I read that list and then surmised that you are female. I then read your name and saw I was right. I also don't know why I think that's particularly relevant. :? :mrgreen:
  • pearljgirl2010pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    i couldn't begin to list my must-read books....i love reading and will read just about anything, so I'm constantly getting recommendations :-)
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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,304
    Go Dog Go



    A must read!
  • NarcisoNarciso Posts: 194
    The Sparrow
    Mary Doria Russell

    This is an amazing book!
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Right now I'm reading John Lennon: The Life. I'm thinking of reading The Proud Highway by Hunter S. Thompson after the Lennon book. I might also look at the philosophical stuff LOST references in the show with characters and stuff.
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  • peacegirlpeacegirl Posts: 841
    I don't have a list but I pick up a lot of books at thrift stores, flea markets & yard sales so I've always got piles of books to be read
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
    The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
    1984 - George Orwell
    Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
    Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis

    Some must haves for me...
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Don't really have a "list" but I am reading War and Peace right now. I have been meaning to read it for a long time.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • SawyerSawyer Posts: 2,411
    The Girl with the Dragon tattoo
  • he still standshe still stands Posts: 2,835
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Do you create lists of books that you would like to read? I create one every couple years. I look at different sources and reviews for inspiration. Then if I need something to read, and I don't have an impulsive idea of what to borrow of buy, I refer to my list. This is the new list that should last me a couple years:
    1. Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
    2. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
    3. The World is What it is The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
    4. Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
    5. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
    6. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
    7. Imperial Life in the Emerald City Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    8. Little Heatherns Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression.
    By Mildred Armstrong Kalish
    9. The Nine Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Toobin
    10. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh A Woman in World History. By Linda Colley.
    11. The Rest is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century. By Alex Ross.
    12. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
    13. The Forever War (Vintage) Dexter Filkins
    14. Lush Life: A Novel Richard Price
    15. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan
    16. 2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
    17. The Boat: Stories (Vintage) Nam Le
    18. The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) by Aravind Adiga
    19. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family Annette Gordon-Reed
    20. Olive Kitteridge: Fiction Elizabeth Strout
    21. Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
    Thomas L. Friedman
    22. Black Flies: A Novel Shannon Burke
    23. Downtown Owl: A Novel Chuck Klosterman
    24. The Story of a Marriage: A Novel Andrew Sean Greer
    25. Ms. Hempel Chronicles Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

    What is on your list?

    Wow... I thought I was fairly well read and have only one of those books under my belt; #21. I would suggest you take it off your list, but hey, there must be some reason Friedman is popular. :? Too many stats and over-simplification in my opinion. (yeah I realize that is sort of a paradox)

    I recently read The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Now the top of my queue is the rest of his books.

    I've never read Kerouac or Burroughs so that would be next.

    Then I have 2 or 3 by Robert Anton Wilson to finish his complete set.
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I make a list every so often and then I keep adding books as I learn about them. Usually it only has about 5-6 books but right now I'm in the process of creating a new list which will probably have about 15-20. I'd post it if it were ready. But at the top is Forward From this Moment by Leonard Pitts, Jr., which I got for Christmas.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Sawyer wrote:
    The Girl with the Dragon tattoo

    very good, easy read, with fun Scandanavian names/words
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  • HorosHoros Posts: 4,518
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance(An Inquiry into Values) by Robert M. Pirsig
    #FHP
  • rhcpjam1029rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,981
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
    The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
    1984 - George Orwell
    Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
    Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis

    Some must haves for me...

    ahhh...10th grade english class all over again.

    mrs. cesaro...?
    Beavis: All my friends are brown and red? What does that mean?
    Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
    Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
    Butthead: Huh huh.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    rhcpjam1029 wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
    The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
    1984 - George Orwell
    Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
    Less Than Zero - Brett Easton Ellis

    Some must haves for me...

    ahhh...10th grade english class all over again.

    mrs. cesaro...?

    Haha! I did read two of those in high school. :oops:
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    Sánchez Piñol, Albert - Cold skin(La pell freda,the spanish title..)
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    Sawyer wrote:
    The Girl with the Dragon tattoo
    :thumbup:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
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