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Aaah, I'm sure there are so many favourites that I just can't think of right now, but I quite like most of Haruki Murakami's titles. "Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World", for instance.
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I've just finished my English Literature A level and over the two year course, these are what my class read:

Hamlet
The Tempest
Translations
The Bell
Our Country's Good
The Merchant's Tale...

I can't bring myself to deliberately mark any of my books in any form! It makes me a little sad when I accidentally even crease a page or the front cover of one of my 'newish' looking books (I mostly...

Animorphs, I remember those! I don't think I ever read one but I do remember seeing them all on the school library shelf, with those odd morphing covers.

I don't think I can remember what the...

Charity shops usually, it's actually strangely addicting hunting around in them to see what gems you might come across.
I don't tend to buy very many books, I just use the library... although if I...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and The Golden Treasury by Palgrave.

It's been a while since I read it last so I may be mistaken but I'm sure there was a chess match in there somewhere, I think between Humbert and Gaston Godin? Yes, the more I think about it the more...

I walked to a couple of local charity shops during my college break and raided their books shelves again. I picked up a copy of The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins and also The Name of the Rose by...

Lolita springs to mind, I recall there being some chess matches within that one. Like Etienne brought up, Nabokov has some strong links to the chess and the theme seems to pop up in many of his...

I'm another fan of Nabokov, though I've only read Lolita and Glory so far and I'm halfway through Pnin. I love his writing, Lolita absolutely blew me away when I read it last year and it's definately...

I prefer paper books. The feel, the smell... physically turning the pages as you read. That said, I do see the practicality of having one of these e-book readers. It would save me lugging a bag full...

Thank you! I only wish I had enough time to get through them all. So far I'm halfway through Love in the Time of Cholera and I've picked up The Plague as my next read, but I just don't have enough...

To Kill a Mockingbird, Macbeth, Great Expectations and Animal Farm sat on my bookshelf for a long time unread. The first three were set texts in my English class and I still have no desire to pick...

I picked up some cheap, second-hand copies of Jude the Obscure, Middlemarch and Tess of the d'Ubervilles the other day. They'll just be lying unread on my shelves for decades most probably because,...

The Beginning and the End - Isis

My friend mentioned this to me this morning, I didn't quite believe her and thought she was either joking or had gotten him confused with someone else. So like many, I was terribly shocked when I...

I just got:
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Plague by Albert Camus
Poor People by Dostoevsky

Only popped in to return some books but just couldn't resist the...

I like mice, lovely little things. Understandably though, they're not the most welcome fellows to have running around your home.

You can buy traps quite easily these days that will trap a mouse...

I have an ever expanding list of books I'd like to read this year, here are some of those I'm especially keen on:

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Plague -...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pnin by Vladimir...

I bought three books yesterday (well, unless you'd count textbooks too... but bah, they're no fun :sick:)- Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Shakespeare's Hamlet and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (God...

Noisy neighbours! There's nothing quite as annoying as settling down with a nice book to be whisked off to some far away setting/period, only to instead find yourself disturbed by the sudden start up...

Books I've read this year so far, minus the odd few which may have slipped my mind...

Lolita
Crime & Punishment
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Notes From the Underground
The Bell Jar...

*hands up* I also have the terrible habit of starting too many books at once... Like kenikki, I get excited when I have them all lying around and I just can't resist not reading them until I've...

I often find myself walking around in a sort of daze after finishing a book or watching a film ... it's a bizarre feeling! Every now and then I just become so completely absorbed into the story and...