My "To Read Soon" Pile

Submitted by Faustess on Thu, 08/23/2007 - 02:53
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  1. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
  2. The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
  3. Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
  4. Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading by Nancy M. Malone
  5. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
  6. The Red Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel
  7. The Snow Empress by Laura Joh Rowland
  8. Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building of America, From the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention of the Internet by James Tobin
  9. An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
  10. Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy Ryback
  11. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
  12. The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth Century New York by Joel Rose
  13. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
  14. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  15. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  16. Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
  17. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
  18. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
  19. A G-Man's Life by Mark Felt
  20. The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
  21. The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower
  22. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  23. Gulliver's Travels by Johathan Swift
  24. The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
  25. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
  26. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
  27. Henry James: The Conquest of London by Leon Edel
  28. Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
  29. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
  30. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
  31. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl G. Jung
  32. Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
  33. The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama
  34. Candles Burning by Tabitha King
  35. The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
  36. The Varieties of Scientific Experience : A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan
  37. The Physician's Tale by Ann Benson
  38. Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
  39. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  40. The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes
  41. Always Running - La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis Rodriguez
  42. Giants of Jazz by Studs Terkel
  43. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
  44. The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
  45. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
  46. Gormenghast by M. Peake
  47. War and Peace: Tolstoy's Mirror of the World (a Twayne's Masterwork Study)
  48. Inside Inside by James Lipton
  49. Present at the Future by Ira Flatow
  50. Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
  51. Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
  52. Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe
  53. Fangland by John Marks
  54. Breakfast With the Ones You Love by Eliot Fintushel
  55. From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
  56. Serving Crazy with Curry by Amulya Malladi
  57. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly C. Crosby
  58. The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and the Meaning of Life by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.
  59. The Scientist as Rebel by Freeman Dyson
  60. A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
  61. Me and Shakespeare: Life-Changing Adventures with the Bard by Herman Gollob
Author Comments: 

Kind of a wide variety. Some I am reading because they sounded interesting, others because they are bestsellers (or the first book in a bestselling series) and I am trying to keep up with those better for work (I am a librarian). Still others are from my Mega List of lifetime reading. I am hoping to finish some of these before too long so I can post them on Bookmooch and send them on to their next reader. However, as with all things, sometimes that newly discovered AWESOME book just seems to find its way to the top instead of having to wait until I read the several thousand pages I'd planned to read before it. haha :)

misscurly11/12/2007

I think you should change the title of this to "to read soon PILES", since they're scattered all over your house!

So as a librarian, do you get to read at work?

Faustess11/13/2007

Sadly, no - I give some a quick look-through as they arrive in our "new books," but all the reading is done on my own time. I do have multiple piles. lol! ;)

misscurly12/12/2007

I love that War and Peace is on your list. I think it's on everyone's list. The problem is it literally takes months to read, so not many people seem to actually get around to it. I reccomend you move that one to the forefront, because once you actually DO finish it, your sense of accomplishment will be worth all the extra time you took. Trust me.

Faustess12/13/2007

I've actually read War and Peace and really enjoyed it (I read it in a Tolstoy in Translation class I took - I think I was the only one in the class who finished all the reading!). The book on my list is one I discovered that's *about* the book. I totally agree with all your comments! I am also intrigued by a recently published version of War and Peace that was an earlier draft before Tolstoy expanded the historical and philosophical aspects of the novel. I'm interested, but I don't know when I'll get to that....

professor12/14/2007

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake is a masterpiece (at least the first two volumes, anyway).

JohnnyW12/26/2007

I recently read Molly Crosby's American Plague and was a little disappointed. The story is great, as is Crosby's research, but the narrative doesn't flow well, hitting the same points again and again, and goes into too many digressions. Still worth reading though, especially if you like American history or medical/scientific history.

Johnny Waco