bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 (edited) Welcome to my book thread for 2014!! Feel free to post, as I've set all my initial lists up. I'm quite happy with the scoring system I used last year (credit to Willoyd) so I will be continuing with it this year: 1/6: I didn't like it2/6: It was okay3/6: I liked it4/6: I really liked it5/6: It was amazing6/6: Simply outstanding - on my 'best of all time' list I'm going to set myself a loose goal of 60 books to read in 2014, but I'm not too bothered whether I achieve it or not. Quality over quantity, right? I'm not going to bother trying to restrict the number of books I buy either, because let's face it....it just doesn't work, does it? Last year I gave myself a yearly limit of 24 books, and ended up buying over 70 books, so that worked well, didn't it? Last year, I also included only Kindle books on my TBR pile, completely neglecting the tree books on my shelf, most of which have sat there for 10+ years. This year I'll list them in a separate post, as it's a bit silly to ignore them. Hope you have fun reading this thread! Edited December 14, 2013 by bobblybear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 (edited) Books Read This Year January The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd Dracula - Bram Stoker The Observations - Jane Harris Sinema: The Northumberland Massacre - Rod Glenn The Lost Daughter - Diane Chamberlain The English Monster - Lloyd Shepherd The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals - Wendy Jones February Dark Lord: The Teenage Years - Jamie Thomson (unfinished) The Shining - Stephen King Dune - Frank Herbert A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness The Final Winter: An Apocalyptic Horror Novel - Iain Rob Wright The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan First and Only - Peter Flannery March The First Time: The True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found - Kate Monro The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas Pet Semetary - Stephen King Life After Life - Kate Atkinson Extinction Point - Paul Anthony Jones The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion Missing Gretyl: Only Fools and Trollops - Si Page, Mark Stibbe, Tony Trimmer (unfinished) Flowertown - S G Redling April Revenge of the Tide - Elizabeth Haynes The Dummy Line - Bobby Cole 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off - John Lloyd, John Mitchinson Pets In A Pickle - Malcolm Westerman May The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King Pandora's Star - Peter F Hamilton June The Invisible Ones - Stef Penney Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (unfinished) The World Without Us - Alan Weisman Mr Mercedes - Stephen King July The Uninvited - Liz Jensen Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb Sycamore Row - John Grisham August A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (unfinished) Mr. China - Tim Clissold Company of Liars - Karen Maitland The Secret River - Kate Grenville September After Tomorrow - Gillian Cross Timebomb - Scott K Andrews The Emergence of Judy Taylor - Angela Jackson The Humans - Matt Haig Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume Deenie - Judy Blume Forever - Judy Blume Mr Penumbra's 24 Book Store - Robin Sloan October Horns - Joe Hill Blubber - Judy Blume I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - Jen Campbell The Ocean At The End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman The Crow Road - Iain Banks November Capital - John Lanchester Dark Places - Gillian Flynn Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn Revival - Stephen King The Maze Runner - James Dashner Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - Mark Stevens The Martian - Andy Weir December Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult Night Waking - Sarah Moss (unfinished) The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes Afterwards - Rosamund Lupton Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Airtravel - Patrick Smith The Misremembered Man - Christina McKenna Requiem - Ken McClure Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Edited December 31, 2014 by bobblybear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 (edited) Books Purchased This Year Total = 85 The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton The Ocean At The End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman Life After Life - Kate Atkinson One Summer: America 1927 - Bill Bryson The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz A Dog's Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron Ablutions - Patrick DeWitt I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou The Good Father - Diane Chamberlain The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick The House at Riverton - Kate Morton Missing Gretyl: Only Fools and Trollops - Si Page, Mark Stibbe, Tony Trimmer The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion On The Beach - Nevil Shute Necessary Lies - Diane Chamberlain Afterwards - Rosamund Lupton Summer's Child - Diane Chamberlain The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on Edge - Faisal Islam Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills you need for the great outdoors - Joe O'Leary Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - Jen Campbell The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough False Impression - Jeffrey Archer Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie The World Without Us - Alan Weisman Exodus (Extinction Point, Book 2) - Paul Antony Jones Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates I Am Pilgrim - Terry Jones Mr Mercedes - Stephen King Sycamore Row - John Grisham The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes Columbine - Dave Cullen Dyatlov Pass - Alan K Baker Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional - And What that Means for Life in the Universe - David Waltham Stealing Phoenix - Joss Stirling The Knot - Mark Watson A Day At The Office - Matt Dunn Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s - Alwyn Turner Lifers - Jane Harvey-Berrick Mary Poppins: The Complete Collection - P.L. Travers The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan The Humans - Matt Haig The Reapers Are the Angels - Alden Bell The Dinner - Herman Koch Horns - Joe Hill Blubber - Judy Blume Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume Deenie - Judy Blume Forever - Judy Blume Gideon's Spies: The Inside Story of Israeli's Secret Service - Gordon Thomas The Dreaming Void - Peter F Hamilton The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection - L Frank Baum Ellie Quinn: Episode 1 - Alex Scarrow Not A Drop to Drink - Mindy McGinnis Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays - Christopher Hitchens The Giver - Lois Lowry Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets - Joanna Blythman Revival - Stephen King Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Airtravel - Patrick Smith The Maze Runner - James Dashner Pattern Recognition - William Gibson The Mangle Street Murders - M.R.C Kasasian Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard Every Living Thing - James Herriot This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate - Naomi Klein The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Flier Burial Rites - Hannah Kent The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 - Max Hastings Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss (wanted this one for ages) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jnr Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide - JP McEvoy, Oscar Zarate Robopocalypse - Daniel H Wilson A Prisoner of Birth - Jeffrey Archer The State We're In - Adele Parks We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver Beowulf's Children (Heorot series book 2) - Larry Niven Judas Unchained - Peter F Hamilton Edited December 31, 2014 by bobblybear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 (edited) TBR Pile - Kindle Books (by year of purchase.....2013 and earlier) Total = 138 unread ( ) 2013 The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living - Russ HarrisThe Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. HamiltonFirst and Only - Peter FlanneryIncoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying and learn to Love the Meteorite - Ted NieldSworn Secret - Amanda JenningsNothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea - Barbara DemickThe Lost Daughter - Diane Chamberlain1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World - Charles C. MannCapital - John LanchesterWhite Fang - Jack LondonDeceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right Is Wrong - David BradleyUncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe Great Apes - Will Self Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding Boneshaker - Cherie Priest The Phoenix Conspiracy - Richard Sanders The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters - Richard Rumelt Extinction Point - Paul Antony Jones You Are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends On Facebook, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself - David McRaney Z 2134 - Sean Platt and David W. Wright The Distant Hours - Kate Morton On Books and the Housing of Them - W E Gladstone The Martian - Andy Weir Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit - Ian Leslie The Korean War - Max Hastings The Beach - Alex Garland Flowertown - S G Redling Kiss River - Diane Chamberlain Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson The Dog Stars - Peter Heller The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe Au Revoir, Europe: What If Britain Left The EU? - David Charter The Shining - Stephen King The Uninvited - Liz Jensen After Tomorrow - Gillian Cross Bang! The Complete History of the Universe - Patrick Moore, Brian May, Chris Lintott The Emergence of Judy Taylor - Angela Jackson The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford And Still I Rise - Doreen Lawrence The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business - Richard Brooks Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn Dark Places - Gillian Flynn The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd The Crow Road - Iain Banks Wild: A Journey From Lost To Found - Cheryl Strayed QI The Book of the Dead - John Mitchinson, John Lloyd Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tells Us About The Universe - Marcus Chown Misery - Stephen King Pet Semetary - Stephen King How Do We Fix This Mess? - Robert Peston The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy - Robin Hobb The Glass Guardian - Linda Gillard Great Expectations - Charles Dickens The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt Homeland: Carrie's Run - Andrew Kaplan A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness Dark Eden - Chris Beckett Stuffed and Starved: From Farm to Fork - Raj Patel All Hell Let Loose: The World at War: 1939 - 1945 - Max Hastings Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson 2012 Supersense - Bruce HoodWhat's Wrong With Eating People - Peter CaveThe Little Friend - Donna TarttWritten In Stone - Brian SwitekQI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition - John Lloyd and John MitchinsonBroadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - Mark StevensQuantum - Manjit KumarThe Moonstone - Wilkie CollinsCursed: A Jack Nightingale Short Story - Stephen LeatherFire and Ice (Liam Campbell #1) - Dana StabenowCompromised - Derek KeyteQI: The Second Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John MitchinsonMirage Men - Mark PilkingtonThe Secret River - Kate GrenvilleThe Book of Human Skin - Michelle LovricThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen CoveyThe Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas AdamsThe Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition - Richard DawkinsThe Elephant Whisperer - Graham Spence and Anthony LawrenceThe Girl On The Wall - Jean BaggottHow to Raise the Perfect Dog: Through puppyhood and beyond - Cesar MillanThe Key To Rebecca - Ken FollettAre We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000 Miles Around Britain in a Vauxhall Astra - Ben HatchThe Misremembered Man - Christina McKennaFarmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers : And other odd events on the way to scientific discovery - Stephanie PainAre You Smart Enough to Work at Google? - William PoundstoneThe Making of Modern Britain - Andrew MarrAs The Crow Flies - Jeffrey ArcherThe Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset - Nick PowdthaveeGolden Lies - Barbara FreethyAround the World in 80 Days Junior Edition - Jules VerneMr. China - Tim ClissoldAn Atlas of Impossible Longing - Anuradha RoyDaddy-Long-Legs - Jean WebsterThe Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari StrachanInflight Science: A Guide to the World from your Airplane Window - Brian CleggRequiem - Ken McClureNight Waking - Sarah Moss (unfinished)The World's Greatest Idea - John FarndonThe Etymologicon: A Circular Scroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language - Mark ForsythOne Million Tiny Plays About Britain - Craig TaylorAlmost French: A New Life In Paris - Sarah TurnbullA Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (unfinished)The Eleventh Commandment - Jeffrey ArcherRevenge of the Tide - Elizabeth HaynesOnly Time Will Tell - Jeffrey ArcherThe First Time: The True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found - Kate MonroAsh - James HerbertSarah Thornhill - Kate GrenvilleVIII - H M CastorThe Joy of Sin: The Psychology of the Seven Deadly Sins - Simon LahamThe Heat of the Sun - David RainThe Dummy Line - Bobby ColeThe Hills is Lonely - Lillian BeckwithThe Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals - Wendy JonesThe Lewis Man - Peter MayWinter of the World - Ken FolletYesterday's Gone: Season Two - Sean Platt and David WrightDeath and the Devil - Frank SchatzingTimes Echo - Pamela HartshorneTrojan Horse - Mark RussinovichHow Not To Worry: The Remarkable Truth of How a Small Change Can Help You Stress Less and Enjoy Life More - Paul McGeeDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas AdamsThe Dead Women of Juarez - Sam Hawken1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off - John Lloyd, John MitchinsonLes Miserables - Victor HugoThe Final Winter: An Apocalyptic Horror Novel - Iain Rob WrightThe Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Grass Is Singing - Doris LessingPicture Perfect - Jodi PicoultThe Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through The Lost Words of the English Language - Mark ForsythThe History of the World In Bite-Sized Chunks - Emma MarriottCompany of Liars - Karen MaitlandThe English Monster - Lloyd ShepherdDark Lord: The Teenage Years - Jamie ThomsonReamde - Neal StephensonThe Millenium Trilogy - Stieg LarssonThe Invisible Ones - Stef PenneyA History of 20th Century Britain - Andrew MarrThe Mess We're In: Why Politicians Can't Fix Financial Crises - Guy Fraser-SampsonYesterday's Country Customs: A History of English Folk Traditions - Hentry BucktonBright Young Things - Scarlett ThomasA 1960's Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania - Paul FeeneyViva La Revolution!: The Story of People Power in 30 Revolutions - Derry Nairn Pre-2012 The Observations - Jane HarrisThe Fire Gospel (Myths) - Michel FaberDracula: A Mystery Story - Bram StokerKidnapped - Robert Louis StevensonCK - 12 Biology 1 - HonorsCK - 12 Earth Science Honors for Middle SchoolThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington IrvingGrimm's Fairy Stories - Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmGulliver's Travels - Jonathan SwiftThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero - Aileen OrrKilling the Messenger - Christopher WallaceA Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road - Christopher Aslan AlexanderGuiness World Records: 2012The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance - Nessa CareyIntroducing Neurolinguistic Programming - Neil ShahDo Polar Bears Get Lonely? - New ScientistAncestor Stones - Aminatta FornaSapper Martin - Richard van EmdenHeart of Darkness - Joseph ConradDavid Copperfield - Charles DickensWuthering Heights - Emily BrontePets in a Pickle - Malcolm WestermanThe Last Man - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly50 Facts That Should Change The World - Jessica WilliamsThe Lord of the Rings - JRR TolkienExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles MackaySinema: The Northumberland Massacre - Rod GlennThe Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre DumasThe Reluctant Traveler - Bill LumleyDiary of a Nobody - George GrossmithOrigin - Randolph Lalonde Edited December 31, 2014 by bobblybear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 (edited) TBR Pile - Tree Books Total = 86 unread ( ) Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Eye of the Storm - Patrick White Cantana-140 - Philip K. Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack I, Claudius - Robert Graves Shardik - Richard Adams Surfacing - Margaret Atwood Murder In The Dark - Margaret Atwood The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. Song Of The Silent Snow - Hubert Selby Jr. The Room - Hubert Selby Jr. The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving The Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain Black House - Stephen King and Peter Straub Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas London - Edward Rutherfurd Sarum - Edward Rutherfurd I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb Generation X - Douglas Coupland The Outsider - Albert Camus Junky - WIlliam S. Burroughs Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke Woman On The Edge of Time - Marge Piercy Let The Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist Dune - Frank Herbert Life Before Man - Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick Scarface - Paul Monette Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Lila - Robert M. Pirsig Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Evolution - Stephen Baxter The Memory of Eva Ryker - Donald A. Starwood The Surgeon Of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein Do Worms Have Willies? And 100 other very silly questions and answers - Sarah Herman and Lucy York The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Antonia Fraser A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker The Dinosaur Hunters - Deborah Cadbury Physics of the Earth - T.F. Gaskell The Man In The Ice - Konrad Spindler The Beautiful Basics of Science - Natalie Ancier The Universe - John Gribbin The Earth - Richard Fortey Life: An Unauthorised Biography - Richard Fortey The Penguin History of the World - J. M. Roberts A Very Short History of the World - Geoffrey Blainey Supernature - Lyall Watson The Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan Life in the Undergrowth - David Attenborough Life on Earth - David Attenborough Trials of Life - David Attenborough The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking The Illustrated History of England - John Burke King James - Antonia Fraser The Case of the Missing Neutrinos - John Gribbin Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig Human, All Too Human - Nietzsche Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins The Lying Stones of Marrakech - Stephen J. Gould Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond Collapse - Jared Diamond Cosmic Dispatches - John Nobel Wilford Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Comet - Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection - Carl Sagan Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan Science: A History 1543 - 2001 - John Gribbon Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins Steal This Book - Abbie Hofman What Just Happened? - James Gleick Edited July 22, 2014 by bobblybear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Lots of very tempting books on your TBR mountain Bobbly, i have the Count Of Monte Cristo to read as well, i'm pretty sure i bought it after Ben gave it such a good review but it's such a big book i have to be in the right frame of mind to start it. Also i read Still LIfe With Woodpecker Tom Robbins years ago, it's definitely an odd one but i enjoyed it so will be interested to hear what you make of it. A thumbs up as well for The Little Friend Donna Tartt, people generally seem to prefer Secret History but i loved TLF as well. I too think Wiloyd's scoring system is a good one so am planning to use it myself next year for the books with that WOW!!!! ...factor which i hope there'll be plenty of next year for both of us Happy reading in 2014 Bobbly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Thanks, Kidsmum. I'm a bit stunned by how many books I have unread in total. I really don't want that list to get any bigger! I have a feeling that my copy of The Count of Monte Cristo is abridged as it's not a big volume at all. I think I will probably swap it for the unabridged version when I get around to reading it. I have a bit of an odd mix of books on my shelf and quite a few of them are books that I probably wouldn't buy today, as my tastes have changed. Anyway, as long as I can slowly whittle away at them, I'll be happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 (edited) Hi BB Thought I'd come pay a visit to your new thread this morning ... We have a few books in common : The Little Friend and Wild ,, I have on my kindle too , yet to read . Books I've read from your lists : White Fang - long ago as a kid . The Secret Life of Bees - better than The Help in my opinion, and much the same type of theme . Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - interesting !The Moonstone - Can't say anything bad about Wilkie !The Key To Rebecca - another long ago . Very good .tThe Hills is Lonely - another long ago. Very charming . Dracula: A Mystery Story - read as a teen ... too many years have passed . Kidnapped - I love ship ,pirate and buried treasure type books, so this was great .Grimm's Fairy Stories - an old book, given to me by my grandmother. I read it over and over as a kid .I like the way THEY told fairy tales . David Copperfield - Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ---Waddya say about Dickens, other than GREAT .The Count of Monte Cristo - All time favorites list. SO good !!! Surfacing - read it long ago, have no clue what it was about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A PLUS -- I Know This Much Is True - Another all time favorite ! Best of luck in the coming year. You certainly have a nice selection to choose from . Edited December 14, 2013 by julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Thanks, Julie. I appreciate your comments on my books - it will help narrow down the choices when deciding what to read next. If The Secret Life of Bees is better than The Help then I may make it one of my next reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 So many fantastically interesting sounding books on your combined TBR piles bobblybear! I really like you because your TBR is bigger than mine so I can at least gloat a tiny bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Jeez, thanks! This is the first year I've counted up my TBR pile and I have to say I'm a bit shocked. At my current rate it will take over 4 years to clear it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signor Finzione Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Wow, BB, that's one monster of a TBR you have there. I have to say: Do Worms Have Willies? made me giggle like a schoolgirl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Yeah, that one was a gift from a few years ago. I was chuckling when I was typing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 I think you should make that one a priority read for 2014! Happy reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Here are some comments on some books on your TBR: The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton This series is one of my favourite science-fiction series, so far. I love it so much. I hope you like it too! The Lost Daughter - Diane Chamberlain Kiss River - Diane Chamberlain These are on my TBR too. So far I've loved all Diane Chamberlain books, I look forward to hear what you think of this one. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding I loved this one. The Beach - Alex Garland I think I had a copy that I've read at secondary school but I haven't been able to find it yet. The Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I love this series! Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut It might be on my TBR. I bought some Kurt Vonnegut books for on the Kindle but on top off my head I'm not sure if I bought this one or not, I might have. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd This is on my wishlist. QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson I have one QI book on my TBR, I think it's the top one. Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition - Jules Verne The 'normal' edition is on my TBR. Dune - Frank Herbert I quite liked this book! It's quite unique. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder I loved this book! It's such a great story and educational too. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving This is on my wishlist. Evolution - Stephen Baxter It's either on my TBR or on my wishlist. On my TBR too: White Fang - Jack London Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe On Books and the Housing of Them - W E Gladstone The Shining - Stephen King Misery - Stephen King Pet Semetary - Stephen King The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy - Robin Hobb The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams Les Miserables - Victor Hugo The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult Reamde - Neal Stephenson The Millenium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson Dracula: A Mystery Story - Bram Stoker Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad David Copperfield - Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte The Last Man - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain London - Edward Rutherfurd Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke Human, All Too Human - Nietzsche Happy Reading in 2014, BB ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) Thanks, Janet and Athena. So many books on my TBR list have been there for years (like Dune, and A Prayer for Owen Meany), and even though I really want to read them, I never seem to be in the mood for them. It's quite frustrating, as I'm sure I will enjoy them....it's just making that first step of picking them up. I really want to concentrate on reading those books that have been on my list the longest, but I just can't seem to do that! Edited December 21, 2013 by bobblybear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 So many books on my TBR list have been there for years (like Dune, and A Prayer for Owen Meany), and even though I really want to read them, I never seem to be in the mood for them. It's quite frustrating, as I'm sure I will enjoy them....it's just making that first step of picking them up. I really want to concentrate on reading those books that have been on my list the longest, but I just can't seem to do that! x I have this too sometimes! I can't really help you with it though.. I hope that you'll be in the mood for them in 2014 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie H Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Phew, you have some great books on your TBR list! Hope you enjoy a reading year . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I loved Sophie`s World, The Little Friend and A Discovery of Witches. I read Dune and all the various sequels as a teenager - though devoured is probably a better word than read - those books really stay with you. Oops, I realised looking at your TBR that I completely forgot to list my Kindle TBR`s. Oopsies. Though my ebooks don`t really count as part of my TBR ; that`s just the way it is. Good luck with your 2014 reads ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Wow, lots of lists with great books!! London and Sarum are both fascinating books, I read them ages ago, and could easily reread them. Also I, Claudius...but you must follow it up with Claudius, the God. Fantastic. A regular soap opera! heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 (edited) If The Secret Life of Bees is better than The Help then I may make it one of my next reads. I personally preferred it to The Help, I was absorbed much more into TSLoB than I was with The Help and it had many more stand out moments in it too. (And a nicer cover! ) A Monster Calls was a fab read, nice and quick but highly emotive. A Discovery of Witches was brilliant, it's a big book but I read it in just a few days it was so good. Sadly the second in the series, Shadow of Night didn't grab me as much, I'm hoping the third book will recapture me! Edited December 22, 2013 by chaliepud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 Phew, you have some great books on your TBR list! Hope you enjoy a reading year . Thank you, Marie. I loved Sophie`s World, The Little Friend and A Discovery of Witches. I read Dune and all the various sequels as a teenager - though devoured is probably a better word than read - those books really stay with you. Sophie's World is one I have tried to read numerous times, but always given up on. Mind you, I haven't tried reading it in about 10 years, so maybe I will enjoy it more now. I've tried The Little Friend as well, and had to give up on it, but as I loved The Secret History so much, I'm willing to give it a second try. I don't know why I haven't read A Discovery of Witches yet because I've heard many positive things about it, and I'm sure I meant to read it as soon as I bought it. It's one that's pretty high on my TBR pile so I should get to it in 2014. London and Sarum are both fascinating books, I read them ages ago, and could easily reread them. I think the size of London and Sarum have made me postpone reading them....I kind of feel like I need to work up to it. I've never read any of Edward Rutherfurd's books, though I've always been interested in them. I guess I'll find out sooner or later whether I like them or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 I personally preferred it to The Help, I was absorbed much more into TSLoB than I was with The Help and it had many more stand out moments in it too. (And a nicer cover! ) A Monster Calls was a fab read, nice and quick but highly emotive. A Discovery of Witches was brilliant, it's a big book but I read it in just a few days it was so good. Sadly the second in the series, Shadow of Night didn't grab me as much, I'm hoping the third book will recapture me! These three are all pretty high up on my TBR list as I've heard many good things about them. I'll probably get started on one (or more) of them over the Christmas break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Hi bobblybear! I've got quite a few of your TBR books on my pile (I fear once I've bitten the bullet and counted them it may have to be renamed as a mountain) and lots of tempting sounding ones among the rest! I too adored the Secret Life of Bees but I have The Help on my pile so I can't compare I'm afraid Enjoy reading your way through 2014! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookmonkey Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I haven't read London and Sarum, but I have read New York by Edward Rutherfurd and really liked it. I do plan to read the rest of his books when I can find them in the library. They are big books, but easy to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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