Steeeeve Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Ok, so I'm always interested to see people's amazon wish lists so I thought I'd see if anyone wanted to link to theirs or post it here. To be fair I have way too much time on my hands so I don't know if anyone will. Here is mine. I'll give a cookie to anyone who gets past the first few lines (Note: this is not legally binding). At the end it gets a bit atheist heavy and I wouldn't buy most of those any more. Just thought I'd include all the books that are on there for honesty's sake. In fact I don't know how many of them I'd buy at all. I'm getting more and more into fiction now and this was started when I wasn't so much. Hmm. Should do a culling really. (Ooooh I just previewed this post and it's massive) -Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin -The Forever War (S.F. Masterworks) by Joe Haldeman -Gateway (S.F. Masterworks) by Frederik Pohl -The Stars My Destination (S.F. Masterworks) by Alfred Bester -I am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert -Through a Glass, Darkly by Bill Hussey -The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke -The Room by Hubert Selby Jr -Letters on England (Classics) by Voltaire -Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King -The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter -The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins -What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-reading People by Joe Navarro -Phantoms of the Card Table: Confessions of a Card Sharp by David Britland -This May Help You Understand the World: A Timely Book for Those -Confused by the Problems of a Troubled World by Lawrence Potter -Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey -A Mathematician's Apology (Canto) by G.H. Hardy -The Essential Batman Encyclopedia by Robert Greenberger -Paradoxes by R. M. Sainsbury -An Introduction to Philosophical Logic by Anthony C. Grayling -The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France -Terry Jones' Barbarians by Terry Jones , Alan Ereira -The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway Morris -Soul Searching: Human Nature and Supernatural Belief by Nicholas Humphrey -Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey -Cause of Death: Memoirs of a Home Office Pathologist by Geoffrey Garrett, Andrew Nott -Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi -Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach -On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA by Lord Melvyn Bragg -Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion by Feng-Hsiung Hsu -Science Confronts the Paranormal by Kendrick Frazier -Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World by S Perkowitz -Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Michel Onfray , Jeremy Leggatt -Patrick Moore: The Autobiography by Sir Patrick Moore -Norton Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt -Asimov's Guide to the Bible by Isaac Asimov , Rafael Palacios (Illustrator) -Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare by Isaac Asimov, Rafael Palacios (Illustrator) -Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The causes of mass extinctions by Tony Hallam -Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges -The Da Vinci Fraud: Why the Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction by Robert M. Price -A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science by Noretta Koertge (Editor) -An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume , Eric Steinberg (Editor) -God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory by Richard Dawkins (Foreword), Niall Shanks (Author) -The Atheists are Revolting! by Nick Gisburne -God, the Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J. Stenger -Reclaiming History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by V Bugliosi -Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman -The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Acharya S -Atheism: The Case against God (Skeptic's Bookshelf) by George H. Smith -The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw -The Story of Architecture by Jonathan Glancey -Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife -The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege by Marilynne K. Roach -Why Gods Persist: Scientific Approach to Religion by Robert A. Hinde -Nature's Oracle: A Life of W.D.Hamilton by Ullica Segerstrale -Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? by Earl Doherty -The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave by Robert M. Price, Jeffery Jay Lowder -The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens -Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton L. Mack -Atheist Universe by David Mills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I have bits of wishlist all over the place, so everything I want isn't on my Amazon one, usually just things I see while online, or I update it when people want to see it for a reason. The Closed Circle- Johnathan Coe House Rules- Jodi Picoult The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman- Gaines Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind"- Alexandra Ripley Rhett Butler's People- Donald McCaig A Recipe for Bees- Gail Anderson-Dargat Before I Die- Jenny Downham The Book With No Name- Anonymous And Another Thing ...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6)- Eoin Colfer Shades of Grey- Jasper Fforde Another Woman- Penny Vincenzi The Pink Stallion (Coronet Books) by Lucy Pinney Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: and Six Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald London Belongs to Me (Penguin Modern Classics) by Norman Collins The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke Storm Front (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adam Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl by Tracy Quan The Book of General Ignorance (A Quite Interesting Book) Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour The Shack by Wm Paul Young The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby The House at Riverton by Kate Morton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steeeeve Posted April 24, 2010 Author Share Posted April 24, 2010 Only one crossover between our lists. I've decided to keep a tally. The person with the most crossovers will win my hand in marriage. Guys...where you going?....Guys?! GUUUYS?!?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 (edited) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics Bill Amberg) by Oscar Wilde Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Classics Bill Amberg) - Truman Capote The Great Gatsby (Penguin Classics Bill Amberg) - F Scott Fitzgerald The Lady of the lake, (The Canterbury classics) by Walter Scott (Author) Charles Dickens: The Adventures of Oliver Twist/A Christmas Carol/A Tale of Two Cities/Great Expectations (Canterbury Classics) by Charles Dickens Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility/Pride and Prejudice/Emma/Northanger Abbey (Canterbury Classics) by Jane Austen Edgar Allan Poe: Collected Works (Canterbury Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/The Prince and the Pauper/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/A Connectticut Yankee in King Ar (Canterbury Classics) by Mark Twain CLASSIC FAIRY TALES & MOTHER GOOSE (LEATHER BOUND) by Easton Press (Editor), Scott Gustafson (Illustrator) The Reckoning: Darkest Powers Book 3 by Kelley Armstrong Angelic by Kelley Armstrong Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox Heat Wave (Nikki Heat) - Richard Castle Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home - Susan Hill Charted Monograms for Needlepoint and Cross-stitch (Dover Needlework) - Rita Weiss Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Ben H. Winters Mr Darcy's Diary - Maya Slater The Book With No Name - Anonymous The Complete Book of Cross Stitch - Jane Alford ... [et al.] Grow It, Eat It - DK Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox: 6 - Eoin Colfer Grow Your Own Veg (Rhs) - Carol Klein The reluctant widow - Georgette Heyer That last one is one I want purely because Stephen Fry said it was one of his favourite books ever. He's a frighteningly intelligent man and I adore him, so I figure that if the book is one of his favourites, it can't be bad! And I left all the links in because some of them are very specific versions I've chosen for aesthetic purposes as well as literary ones. Edited April 24, 2010 by Kell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 This is a great thread! Once I have a decent Amazon wishlist built up I'll post it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrysalis_stage Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 (edited) I have 500 plus books on my amazon wishlist , about 100 non-fiction, the rest fiction of all types and thats not even every book I wish for. I would post a link but it would feel like someone was reading my diary I'm always on there (wasting time) browsing, adding and deleting, slight addiction probably. All of the below were found in my amazon basket ready to be bought at some point in the last year but I haven’t clicked the button yet as lack of funds, so seems these are the ones i'm wanting the most lately, liable to change-mainly the fiction list. Non-Fiction 1 Tales from the Underground: A Natural History of Subterranean Life – David Wolfe 2 Describing Species: Practical Taxonomical Procedure for Biologists – JE Winston 3 Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth (Species and Systematics) – LR Parenti 4 Oxygen: The molecule that made the earth – Nick Lane 5 The Ancestor’s Tale – Richard Dawkins 6 Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies - Robert Hooke 7 Elements of Pantheism – Paul Harrison 8 Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel – Lucinda Hawksley 9 Vincent Price: A Daughters Biography – Victoria Price Fiction 1. Going out – Scarlett Thomas 2. Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut 3. The Gormanghast Trilogy – Mervyn Peake 4. Wildfire – Sarah Micklem 5. The Outsider – Colin Wilson 6. World’s End – Mark Chadbourn 7. The Labyrinth – Catherynne M. Valente (one of many by author) 8. Fishy-Fleshed – Carlton Melick 9. The Green Man: Tales from the mythic forest – Collection of authors 10. Ann Veronica – H. G. Wells 11. The Collector – John Fowles 12. The Suicide Club – Robert Louis Stevenson 13. Book 4,5,6 of The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - Michelle Paver 14. Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock many, many more wanted.... Edited April 24, 2010 by chrysalis_stage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 I only keep a few on my Amazon wishlist, because my Mum in particular buys me books from it and I don't want to frighten her with a huge amount of titles. Currently on it are .... 1. Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster 2. The Chapel at the Edge of the World - Kirsten McKenzie 3. The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint - Brady Udall 4. The Girl with Glass Feet - Ali Shaw 5. Ruby's Spoon - Anna Lawrence Pietroni 6. Howards End is on the Landing - Susan Hill 7. A Homemade Life - Molly Wizenberg 8. The Very Thought of You - Rosie Alison 9. Light Boxes - Shane Jones 10. The Pedant in the Kitchen - Julian Barnes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Oh Janet what a short list...surely you could double that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=2NWJYTXN1PBF1 This is a link to my lists. I have five separate wish lists that are public, and about 6 or 7 more that are private. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steeeeve Posted April 24, 2010 Author Share Posted April 24, 2010 http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=2NWJYTXN1PBF1 This is a link to my lists. I have five separate wish lists that are public, and about 6 or 7 more that are private. A lot of interesting ones in there. I may have to steal some. Also Banana is a great name for a human. I'm glad to see I'm not even close to having the longest list on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrysalis_stage Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 Oo I didn't know you could make some lists private while others stayed public Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 Oo I didn't know you could make some lists private while others stayed public Neither did I, I'm going to create a 'Janet-sized' one now just for my own eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 Oh Janet what a short list...surely you could double that? I have another one for Olympic challenge suggestions, but that's pathetically small at the moment! Neither did I, I'm going to create a 'Janet-sized' one now just for my own eyes. LOL @ Janet-sized! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 I use my private ones mainly for random things I plan on buying, or even just for ideas for the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 (edited) I did consider writing all the books I wanted but this was easier - http://www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/I43YCL4HJVEP EDT - There are many more books that I want but it would take me forever to list them all! Edited April 26, 2010 by Cookie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursenblack Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 This is my current amazon.com wishlist. I actually got to delete some because I purchased them or checked them out at the library. The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Nevermore by Kelly Creagh Timeless by Alexandra Monir The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart by Beth Pattillo Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1) by Cassandra Clare The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carleton Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 (edited) 58 on mine now: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Author) tThe Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart (Author) Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde (Author) tMay Contain Traces of Magic by Tom Holt (Author) The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Author) Room by Emma Donoghue (Author) I'd Know You Anywhere LP by Laura Lippman (Author) Crazy (Puffin Teenage Books) by Benjamin Lebert (Author), Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)S The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry (Author) Disquiet by Julia Leigh (Author) Nightswallow by Bronwen Winter Phoenix (Author) The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (Author) The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (Author) Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (Author) I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl by Laurie Notaro A Certain Age by Rebbecca Ray (Author) A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard (Author) The Lost Book of Salem by Katherine Howe (Author) The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Neil Strauss (Author), et al. £ Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas Double Vision by Pat Barker (Author) Migraine by Oliver Sacks The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe (Author) House Rules by Jodi Picoult (Author) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Gaines (Author) Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" by Alexandra Ripley Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig (Author) A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Author) Before I Die by Jenny Downham (Author) The Book With No Name by Anonymous (Author) And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three by Eoin Colfer Another Woman by Penny Vincenzi The Pink Stallion (Coronet Books) by Lucy Pinney Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley (Author) The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason (Author) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Author) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: And Six Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald London Belongs to Me (Penguin Modern Classics) by Norman Collins (Author), Ed Glinert The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke (Author) Storm Front (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs (Author A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams (Author), John Lloyd (Author) Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams (Author) The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (Author) First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde (Author) Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde (Author) Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl by Tracy Quan (Author) The Book of General Ignorance (A Quite Interesting Book) by Stephen Fry (Foreword), et al. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks (Author) Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham (Author) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Author), Chris Riddell (Illustrator) The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour (Author) The Shack by Wm Paul Young (Author) The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (Author) The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (Author) Edited September 3, 2010 by Lucybird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abecedarian Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 I have several lists: Interlibrary Loans This one is huge, and includes a lot of ideas for anyone interested in the Olympic Challenge. New Wish List This is more for stuff I'm interested in actually ordering sometime. For cookbooks or crochet pattern books, I like to preview with Interlibrary loan to see if I really need the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Impressive lists everyone! 1. Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood Series) by J. R. Ward 2. The Strain by Guillermo del Toro 3. The Fall by Guillermo del Toro 4. Covet by J. R. Ward 5. Harry Potter Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling 6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 7. Emily the Strange by Cosmic Debris 8. Carry Me Home by Terri Wiltshire 9. The Hungry Ghosts by Anne Berry 10. Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon 11. Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong 12. World War Z by Max Brooks 13. The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow 14. Meeting Evil by Thomas Berger 15. Neighbors by Thomas Berger 16. The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes 17. Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill 18. Wonderful Fool by Shusaku Endo 19. The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey 20. The Gates by John Connolly 21. Company of Liars by Karen Maitland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Mine still isn't very substantial because I keep forgetting to add titles to it, but: The Seasons of Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson The Double by Jose Saramago A Season of Eden by JM Warwick Daemon by Daniel Suarez Drood by Dan Simmons Sky Burial by Xinran Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots by Adeline Yen Mah The Book of Flying by Keith Miller The Shell House by Linda Newbery Independent People by Halldor Laxness World's End: Book One of the Age of Misrule by Mark Chadbourn Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Phantom by Susan Kay The Stormwatcher by Graham Joyce Dorian: An imitation by Will Self The Once and Future King by T. H. White Vlad Dracula: The Dragon Prince by Michael Augustyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 I've got 14 wishlists on amazon, all nicely organized 1 > Children's Book 2 > cooking books 3 > DVDs I'd like to watch 4 > DVDs and CDs I'd like to have 5 > cartoonish DVDs I'd like to have (Disney and such) 6 > books in german I'd like to have 7 > books in english I'd like to have 8 > dark books I'd like to read (thriller & crime) 9 > light books I'd like to read (chick lit & romance) 10 > fantasy books I'd like to read 11 > young adult/teen books I'd like to read 12 > non fiction I'd like to read (travel stories) 13 > nintendo ds games 14 > all the things that didn't fit in one of the other categories (and of course, all book series are bundled together in the right order.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 I haven't properly organised my Amazon wishlist yet, but seeing yours there lopeanha has inspired me, and aside from the books in German / English lists and the DS games, I'm going to steal your list titles and maybe add one or two more of my own. *sneaks off to steal list headings* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopeanha Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 I haven't properly organised my Amazon wishlist yet, but seeing yours there lopeanha has inspired me, and aside from the books in German / English lists and the DS games, I'm going to steal your list titles and maybe add one or two more of my own. *sneaks off to steal list headings* Just go ahead Chrissy and steal away. I did spent (and still sometimes do) quite some time organzing all the lists and adding new ones, rename old ones shifting things from one list to another. I just love to do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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