The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger

Just discovering the former and loving every word of it.
Rereading the latter and loving every word of it, too :)

I still read "Ravens of Avalon" from M. Zimmer Bradley. But "Die Nibelungen" of F.Hebbel is already ready as the next.

Masada by Ernest K. Gann
The Night Triolgy by Elie Wiesel

Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" :)

"The Ongoing Moment" by Geoff Dyer.

I'm now reading 'heaven knows I'm miserable now' by Andrew Collins

"Pigs in Heaven" by Barbara Kingsolver. Love it !

The Wednesday Sisters by meg waite clayton

Angels & Demons, Dan Brown

The Importance of Being Earnest & Four Other Plays, by Oscar Wilde. Currently on Lady Windemere's Fan. Just brilliant.

Talk Talk by TC Boyle

The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of The Prince of Nothing - R. Scott Bakker (a very difficult book indeed)

Elantris - Brandon Sanderson

@Krista - reading 2 books at once?!?!?! Now you really are showing off :o)

Robert: LOL - hey, I figure if you can read extra Steinbeck books while still sticking to your 50 novel challenge, I should be able to read two at once! ;-)

I don't know yet! I finished the stone key and now I want something light but I haven't found it yet.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger

Just discovering the former and loving every word of it.
Rereading the latter and loving every word of it, too :)

Love love love The Heart is a Lonely Hunter! I also have fond memories of reading The Catcher in the Rye over and over in high school.

This month I've vowed to not pick up another novel until I finally finish Moby Dick once and for all.

miyagisan: I just finished THIALH this morning, and I almost hugged the darn book - it was that good! Definitely one of my favorites on my current book challenge...

@miyagisan and @Krista - You both sounded so passionate about THIALH that I went on a hunt to find out more about it. The story sounds great, my kind of story, so I'm adding this 'gem' to my reading list as well. Thanks guys!!!

just finished One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn

In honor of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn I have just moved The Gulag Archipelago to the top of my list.

Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

"The Good Girl's Guide to Living in Sin: The New Rules for Moving In With Your Man" by Joselin Linder and Elena Donovan Mauer.

I know, I know. "Rules." But this book has brought up many things my boyfriend & I may not have thought through completely, or discussed, yet.
Great so far. Recommended for others wanting to cohabitate.

The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932 by J. Fergus

This is so cool, as i'm reading the manuscript of a friend's novel. I'm the first person apart from him to have read it! It's called 'A Good Soldier Spoiled' by Paul Garcia. You heard it here first!!
Re. people who only read one book at a time: it's so much more fun to read several at once, you get the 'cut piece' effect, and have no idea what's going on in any of them ;)
I'm also reading a Sara Paretsky crime novel and Bernhard Schlink's 'Der Vorleser'.

Remedies and Rituals by Kathleen Stokker---folk medicine in Norway and in the new land

God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater by Vonnegut. It is hilarious.

The Fears of Henry IV by Ian Mortimer. Normally I don't go for biographies, much less Medieval biographies, but this one is really engaging. It's neat to see the real man behind the character I had to study in literature class.

also, finishing up Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover

An oldie, but a goodie; Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg.

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

"Speaking Shakespeare" by Patsy Rodenburg

The Soloist by Steve Lopez

Falconer by John Cheever

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach

well, actually, that didn't take me long ...

Hatteras Blues, Tom Carlson

"Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"La Reine du Sud" (La Reina del Sur) by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart - Joyce Carol Oates

SNOOP - What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling, PH.D

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

Notes from a small island by Bill Bryson

then some more by Bill Bryson and hopefully some research for new school term in sept...lots of children's and teen reads.

Dan Simmons's "Terror". Very cheerful book. :)

now onto "that's me in the corner" by andrew collins

planning on finishing "the idiot" by fyodor dostoyevsky then after will read "the penguin history of the church: the reformation" by owen chadwick :)

ian mcewan's "atonement"

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Lisa :)

"The Potter's Field" by Ellis Peters

The Lecture by Randy Paush
It is inspirational to see how to live life with such a positive outlook and to attain our dreams even when facing challenges and death.

Hi,
I read an old book by Joseph Conrad "Victory" an Islandstory
and Hans Leip "Herz im Wind" (Heart in the wind) plays in the north of germany.

Sadie,
"The Last Lecture" is really a wonderful book. I listened to it on my travels this summer. Enjoy!
Lisa :)

Lisa,
Thank You i am enjoying it. i saw his last interview on Primetime and was captured by his spirit so i am reading to fully grasp his wisdom. It brings a different perspective to facing "challenges" in life.

respectfully MD's kahlan

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
(trying to decide if i should take a chance on the movie)

where demons dare (outlaw demon wails in the u.s.) kim harrison.

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

The Guises of the Morrigan by David Rankine and Sorita D'Este.

vampire mountain by darren shan (i think)

touched by the dead by robert barnard

room one by andrew clements

@jane: I have Waugh's A Handful of Dust coming up after The Heart of the Matter - let me know how you liked Brideshead, as I've never read any of Waugh's work... :)

Not ONE said 'The Lemurian'?? LOL

Anita Nair: Ladies Coupe

The Private Series by Kate Brian
What can I say? They're one of my guilty pleasures.

Atonement, Ian McEwan (haven't seen the movie, now I'm wondering if it's worth renting it.)

caddy, i just finished reading "atonement" and watching the movie and was surprised at how closely the movie followed the book. i thought it was worth watching.

Just finished reading "Man Gone Down" by Michael Thomas. Fascinating, great writer.

Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford.

Caddy, Atonement the movie is certainly worth a look, if only to see how a novel of such interiority can be rendered in the less cerebral, more emotional terms of the movie vocabulary (and there's a great single tracking shot on Dunkirk beach that lasts for over a quarter of an hour, too!). They try amusingly to imitate "action" with a hyperkinetic score and lots of gratuitous rapid motion, but there are lots of visually poetic images too. I blubbed (lol).
I just finished McEwan's latest, "On Chesil Beach", last night, and was moved again, after feeling that with his previous novel, Saturday, he overreached and underacheived.

nicholas wade's "before the dawn: recovering the lost history of our ancestors." it's for a human evolution class i'm taking in the fall.

- Pinocchio
- Brothers Grimm: The Complete Fairy Tales
- The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple Mysteries)
- New Europe. Michael Palin

The new great game- Blood and oil in central asia
Journey of the Magi- Paul William Roberts
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Re. Ian McEwan topics: I really can't recommend highly enough McEwan's earliest works eg. the short story collection First Love, Last Rites or The Cement Garden, or even A Child In Time. There's a dark twisted underscore to these books that is missing from his later books: i'd say anything from Enduring Love onwards. I have 'Saturday' stacked up by the side of my bed to read though, Lorettayoungsilks comments echo my fears about it before reading it, buy i'll wait and see so i'll post up what i think.

Reading 'All He Ever Wanted' by Anita Shreve. Wasn't a massive fan after reading The Pilot's Wife, but this is much better.

"Eisenhower and the Cold War" and "The Road to Pearl Harbor." I'm reading them for an American history class. I'll be glad when I can what I want again...

shinyrednerp, i read "the cement garden" earlier this year and really enjoyed. once i get some of these books read that i have lying around, i'll definitely looking into more of his earlier work. thanks for the suggestion!

So far this month

Moby-Dick
My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
The Geographer's Library - Jon Fasman
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver

Starting Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham today.

hannu raitila: atlantis
Stephen Clarke: A Year in the Merde
douglas adams: starship titanic, lachs im zweifel
terry pratschett: carpe jugulum

Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

Murakami "After Dark"
Smith "The Accidental"
awesome :)

Nelson DeMill's Wild Fire, and hopefully Steve Paolini's Brizerling when it is published.

About a Boy - Nick Hornby is beauitful.
I will def pick up The heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Reading To Kill a Mocking Bird.

I don't have to go to work tomorrow, yay! So I'm gonna spend the whole day catching up on sleep (if there is such a thing), and reading Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone.

Just finished Gould's Book of Fish (Richard Flanagan), blew me over.
Also reading Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather) and Tristes Tropiques (Lévi Strauss).

The Bondage of Ballinger, about a man who ruins his life buying books.

I am currently reading Shibumi by Trevanian and Norwegian Wood by Murakami.

'Norwegian Wood', that's a great book! I like Murakami a lot. I haven't read 'After Dark' though. SassySara, would be great to know what you think of it.
I've finished 'All He Ever Wanted' which was pretty good.
Now I'm reading '15 Modern Tales of Attraction' by Alison MacLeod. I went to a workshop she gave this year on short story writing, and she taught me a lot, so i have high hopes of this one.

the Little Book by Selden Edwards

A big thank you to . I went to Google to find out about The Bondage of Ballinger, and now I'm reading it too. This is a real gem.

Addendum: I was so enthralled, I finished it in one day! In the process of looking for a readable copy online (Google Books' copy is a really bad scan) I found www.manybooks.net. Maybe I'm the last to know, but this is a real find.

For some "out there" reading:
ZINE study

I just started The Fountainhead.
Finished Atlas Shrugged last year *woah* and figured why not.
Though, I already think Atlas was better..or perhaps it's too soon to judge

I am reading, 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' (dreamlike and mystical fantasy) by Haruki Murakami.

On a personal level, Everyday Blessings and for the toddler Arthur and the Minimoys that im totally in love with. :D

Easy peasey reading:

'Stormbreaker' by Anthony Horowitz

Lady Tracy this is too weird. After seeing Exile Bibliophile's mention of Bondage of Ballinger, I too went on a hunt for it and guess what? I also discovered it on manybooks.net. Thankfully the freakiness stops there, because unlike you I haven't read it yet (still tied into Grapes of Wrath) :o)

Thanks for the initial 'heads up' Exile B

There are untold riches at ManyBooks! If you don't mind reading off the computer screen, you can have a ball.

Right now I am reading 'In country' by Bobbie Ann Mason. I am also waiting for three books by Nicholas Sparks that I have ordered.

The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld

Undiscovered, Debra Winger's memoir, and The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel.

James Agee's A Death in the Family

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"How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
"I Feel Bad About My Neck" by Nora Ephron
"Emma" by Jane Austen

I finished Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird earler this week and have started Joesph Heller's classic Catch-22 ...

@Krista - i just finished Brideshead Revisited. it was beautiful...i don't know how he fits so many words on a page. it was also my first Waugh. funnily enough next in my pile is also:

James Agee's A Death in the Family

The Pact by Jodi Picoult

Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)

the rainbow by d.h. lawrence