To-Read Lists

What are some of the top books on your To-Read list?

Some that I would like to read in the hopefully near future:

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (I'd like the illustrated hardcover one). I've always wanted to read it, since it is probably one of the most important non-fiction books written in my lifetime, but just never got around to it. I've been wanting to read it more lately since that new Hawking's Universe series started this week.


The Three Musketeers - I absolutely loved The Count of Monte Cristo, I thought it was one of the most amazing books I've ever read, so I look forward to reading this one.

More science fiction. I've just been really interested in that lately. I've never read any Wells. Wouldn't mind reading some Orwell (I've read 1984 and Animal Farm, but wouldn't mind re-reading those, as that was a long time ago). I'd like to read some Vonnegut, since I never have.

I have all my books catalogued on LibraryThing and I tag the ones I have yet to read TBR (To Be Read). As of right now, Mount TBR is 447 books high. 

It's totally daunting and I'm never sure what to read next, but sometime this summer, I'd like to read Vanity Fair.

My to-read list is waaaay too long.   

But, off the top of my head:

Three Cups of Tea
Midwives
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Strength in What Remains
The Snakehead
Denialism
Overdosed America
The Kite Runner
Besa

Yay Chary!  447?  You're making me feel better. 

I'm nothing like that organized, but my TBR list exists as piles of (mostly) paperbacks on shelves, side tables, windowsills, under my bed, and still living in libraries and bookstores.  I'm in danger of being "extruded into the waters surrounding this island" or however that quote goes.  Because I haven't kept track though, I'm going to maintain that my list is shorter than yours. 

Well, yeah, there are probably hundreds or thousands that I would like to read (and my list on WeRead is pretty long, too)! But I was just wondering what was on top of your list, or sitting on your shelf that you maybe bought but hadn't read.  

Lined up on the Kindle (I am saving some for the flight in a few weeks!):

Blockade Billy - Stephen King
South of Broad - Pat Conroy
The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

And some more..but I gotta check and see!

But I was just wondering what was on top of your list, or sitting on your shelf that you maybe bought but hadn't read.  

That's what I meant, though. There are 447 books on my shelves at this very moment that I haven't read.

I'm nothing like that organized, but my TBR list exists as piles of (mostly) paperbacks on shelves, side tables, windowsills, under my bed,

My TBR list is only organised on paper. In reality, it sounds very much like yours. 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Yes, this one too!

I'm nothing like that organized, but my TBR list exists as piles of (mostly) paperbacks on shelves, side tables, windowsills, under my bed, and still living in libraries and bookstores. 

This.  Tin has seen my house - she can vouch for me. 

Here are a some titles from the pile on my dresser: 
Into the Arms of Strangers - Stories of the Kindertransport by Harris & Oppenheimer
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Wodehouse - A Life by Robert McCrum

And this is the book I'm going to read aloud with my kids next, having just finished the last of the Little House series:  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by e.l. konigsburg.

This.  Tin has seen my house - she can vouch for me. 

Yep, I've now seen this for myself, too. 

And thanks to Internet Addict's DH I now have a whole new list of books on my To-Read list. Woohoo!

And this is the book I'm going to read aloud with my kids next, having just finished the last of the Little House series:  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by e.l. konigsburg.

this is one of my all time favourites from my childhood

And this is the book I'm going to read aloud with my kids next, having just finished the last of the Little House series:  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by e.l. konigsburg.

That book is awesome! 

I've got some Bill Bryson sitting on the bedside table I can't quite get to at the moment as my reward for finishing my OU course next week.  Then I'm buying a few books with money I got for my birthday - yay for paranormal romance by Jayne Ann Krentz!

That book is awesome! 

I've got some Bill Bryson sitting on the bedside table I can't quite get to at the moment as my reward for finishing my OU course next week. 

Just curious which ones?  We've read all of his books (dh reads aloud for us at bed) but some of them we found disappointing.  By far, his best book was Walk in the Woods, at least in our opinion, followed closely by Notes from a Small Island.  The others have been.. disappointing.   

We've read all of his books (dh reads aloud for us at bed) but some of them we found disappointing.  By far, his best book was Walk in the Woods, at least in our opinion, followed closely by Notes from a Small Island.  The others have been.. disappointing.   

I've almost finished reading 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', which I think is really good. However, that may be because I am a scientist and found the history of the science I've studied really interesting to read about (he basically covered the content of both my university degrees in the book ).