What have you planned for 2006?

[Pensive]

As we all know that a new year is approaching. I wonder that what have you planned to read for the next year/2005?

I think that I will try A Farewell To Arms, Memoirs of a Geisha, Love in the time of Cholera, Dracula, Middle March and Silas Marner.

SO What Are Your Plans for the upcoming year? Which books are you eager to read?

[Riesa]

Hey Pensive,
I've got: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
The AutoBio of Henry VIII
Mrs. Dalloway
The Good Conscience by Carlos Fuentes
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom & Other Writings
The Life and Times of Chaucer
The Return of the Native
The short stories of E. Hemingway
and
Breath of Snow and Ashes all lined up like little soldiers on my nightstand.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Well, I have no idea what I plan on reading next year, I tend to just grab something I feel like reading at a moment in time. I want to get my reading pile down, so I can say that for 2006 my plan is to buy less books... I just have to get through Christmas, know I am getting some for that, and then I can try and read what I have.

Some ones I want to read, not sure when I will read are:
The rest of the books I have by Anita Shreve, James Rollins, and David Adams Richards
Kate Pullinger's new novel, maybe if I can read it this year I will have two books for my best of 2005 list
The Poisonwood Bible
I also plan to read Dracula. I read the play version, but I should read the novel.
Oh, finish the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

I have lots more, but that is just what I can think of right now.

[starrwriter]

Well, I have no idea what I plan on reading next year, I tend to just grab something I feel like reading at a moment in time.
Me, too. I never "plan" to read anything.


I want to get my reading pile down, so I can say that for 2006 my plan is to buy less books...
Two words: public library! Why buy books when you can get them free at the library?


I also plan to read Dracula. I read the play version, but I should read the novel.
You're in for a treat. I expected Dracula to be a shoddy novel written in the turn of the centry style I hate, but Bram Stoker did an amazingly good job. The book is real literature.

[Kiwi Shelf]

The public library idea was a good idea in my old town, but the library here sucks. :( They are good for stuff when I need it for school, but novels are hard to come by. That's why I do second hand... and of course I am just one of those people that when I read a book I want to keep it. :) I think Dracula will be good, too, the copy I have was a gift from my friend. Good thing he hasn't asked how far along I am in it... :) I have had it forever. And I am glad I am not alone in my unplanned reading. :)

[starrwriter]

The public library idea was a good idea in my old town, but the library here sucks. :( They are good for stuff when I need it for school, but novels are hard to come by. That's why I do second hand...
Many public libraries must be going to hell nowadays. The smallest town I ever lived in had a decent library. People in Hawaii don't read all that much, but Honolulu has a great library where I can find just about anything I wish to read.

Some day in the forseeable future all books will be available on the web for free or a nominal fee. Only by then the web will be called The Matrix or HAL or something equally ominous.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Many public libraries must be going to hell nowadays. The smallest town I ever lived in had a decent library. People in Hawaii don't read all that much, but Honolulu has a great library where I can find just about anything I wish to read.

Some day in the forseeable future all books will be available on the web for free or a nominal fee. Only by then the web will be called The Matrix or HAL or something equally ominous.

That's exactly what I was saying. I lived in a small town before and we had an awesome library. Named after a rum runner. heh. Anyways, this town has a university so seems to cater to the academic minds instead of the fun minds. We don't even have a book store on-campus anymore. It's lousy. As to the online thing, I do not like reading books on pc. I have seen these little handheld things that you can download books to, but even that would like annoy me.

[RobinHood3000]

Planning to reread Harry Potter Five before reading number Six, but short on time, so I don't know whether I'll be able to get to it.

[Mortis Anarchy]

[QUOTE]

Two words: public library! Why buy books when you can get them free at the library?

QUOTE]

My local library is horrible. They(it) never has any of the books I want...I get so depressed. Plus, I'm working on creating my own personal library. I LOVE BOOKS! :nod:

[Mortis Anarchy]

oooppsie! I posted it twice!

[starrwriter]

As to the online thing, I do not like reading books on pc. I have seen these little handheld things that you can download books to, but even that would like annoy me.
Eventually, I'm sure people will be able to print out a whole book in a few minutes from an online source so they can read a hard copy. Public libraries and bookstores will become obsolete at some point in the future -- probably sooner than most think now.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Very true. I wonder if the increase of paper for that purpose though will wind up having libraries charge you how much you would be paying for a book anyways...

[RobinHood3000]

I can't stand how technology is presumably "phasing out" the book. I love technology, make no doubt about it, but the more technology meddles, the less versatile we become. Take the new gas-pedal limiters in the news, that will make it harder to press the gas if you're going over the speed limit. What if there's an emergency? A massive fireball is exploding behind your car and gaining fast, and you are promptly roasted because your car is too smart. E-books are nice for some, but a person's got to have SOMETHING to read when the power goes out.

[starrwriter]

E-books are nice for some, but a person's got to have SOMETHING to read when the power goes out.
How can you read without electric lights? You'll ruin your eyes trying to read by candle light.

[Shea]

I'm in the middle of the road where technology is concerned, but I do like the feel of the paper in my hands.

I plan to participate in the Book Club this year, and probably get to reading those "teasers" from my survey courses now that I'm done reading for grades. But I don't really have a plan either.

[crisaor]

For 2006, finishing the Ulysses, hopefully.

[EAP]

For 2006, getting past the fourth page of Ulysses, hopefully.

[Ranoo]

I'm planning toread Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country and some plays by Bernard Shaw "Mrs.Warren's profession","The Devil's Disciple",and "Arms and The Man". Also, I hope to read more than this. :D

[Nightshade]

How can you read without electric lights? You'll ruin your eyes trying to read by candle light.
I know this one! you have those little travel lights that yopu where roound your neck to read on a train or aeroplane or car etc and always have a supply of battries :D :nod:
As for me I like e-books to a point but the problem is I tend to like to curl up when Im reading which is apain in these new ergowhatsit chairs. I did once move the armchair in front of the computer ... put got in trouble for nicking chairs from the sitting room so people had no place to sit. *sigh*

I used to watch this technology program and they had a quote once from some sir or other on technology. somthig along the lines of --If only someone would invent that is light, portable and stores alot of information. They have its called the paperback book"

:D

[Pendragon]

Looking forward to the Ghosts of Baker Street in Feburary. It was supposed to be out LAST Feburary, but got pushed back a year. It's a set of Holmes stories all with a supernatural theme. I can hardly wait! http://www.smileyville.net/mellow/mf_sherlock.gif

[Pensive]

How can you read without electric lights? You'll ruin your eyes trying to read by candle light.

We can read in the day without electric lights. Sun can be our source of light. :p

[Shea]

little travel lights that yopu where roound your neck

*slight diversion.* I just have to say that half the fun of being here lately is decifering Nightshades typing :lol: . Just like my husband thinks faster than he can talk, you think faster than you can type! :lol: :D

[Shea]

For 2006, getting past the fourth page of Ulysses, hopefully.

I'm in there with you on that one! :eek2:

[michela]

Plans for the next year?
It's hard to say what books i intend to read 'cause i just buy to many of them and then i don't have the time to read them all,but what i know is that i MUST finish to read all the books of Virginia woolf i miss Jacob's room,Orlando and the years then i'll be ready to write my "tesi" i don't know how you call it in english but it is something like a last long composition to get the "degree"is it right?
Then i'll have another friend to meet again...Anna Karenina 'cause i have a short edition and so i think i have to buy the longer one.I suppose that it will be as hard as the the last time,i mean a big mess with the russian names.

Anyway i just wanted to ask something to Shea,
i'm going to do an exam on february which is totally about BEOWULF and i find it very hard probably 'cause i'm italian.Have you got some advice to get a good approach with it?

[Wendigo_49]

All I have planned right now is to start and finish Joseph and his Brothers by Thomas Mann and Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais.

[Shea]

Anyway i just wanted to ask something to Shea,
i'm going to do an exam on february which is totally about BEOWULF and i find it very hard probably 'cause i'm italian.Have you got some advice to get a good approach with it?

What kind of an exam is it? I love relating Beowulf to other works like Gawain and the Green Knight, Judith, or the more contemporary The Hobbit. Even Peter Jackson kept some of the Beowulf themes when he made the Lord of the Rings films ( did the celebration of the battle of Helm's Deep in the third film look familiar?) Think about the hero, Beowulf. How does he compare with the heroes in these other stories (that is, if you've read them)? What are some common themes? Can you compare Beowulf to other works you've studied? Another good thing you can do is to research a little on the Anglo-Saxons. My favorite aspect of their history is the Scop. Run "scop" through some credible searches and see what you get.

Let me know if this helps. :D

[Vampire Kari]

Next year I plan on reading every single one of the Dark Shadow books and all the Anne Rice books I haven't read yet.

[Koa]

I do have plans cos it's been ages since I could read freely so now I'm starting to read all I want to... right now I'm reading Maser and Margarita and then I want to buy The Plague by Camus, and 1984 both in original language...and hopefully this all will be before 2006 or just into early January...

My big plan for 2006 has been on my shelf for a couple of years already but I needed an unlimited time ahead of me... and that's The Karamazof Brothers. I'm really curious...

michela, so far I've been calling my 'tesi' (finita a novembre :)) in the most various ways... final paper, graduation thesis... essay... anything that gives the idea...
PS benvenuta... :)

[kilted exile]

I have decided that in 2006, I am going to read every book by dickens (my favourite author), I have read most of them but I will thoroughly enjoy rereading most of them, and others for the first time.

[Lady19thC]

I have tons of things planned for 2006.

All of E.M. Forster
Wind in the Willows
Little Women
A Pilgrim's Progress
Lorna Doone
Lark Rise to Candleford
All of Austen
All of George Eliot
North and South-Gaskell
Syvia's Lovers-Gaskell
a bunch of stuff by Hardy
Jamaica Inn
Cousin Rachel
4 books by Wilkie Collins
Hobbit & LOTR trilogy
Entire Anne of Green Gables series
a bunch of bios and poetry
Shakespeare stuff...
Some history on Victorian England
A bunch of Sir Walter Scott

Some are rereads, some will be first timers!

[Pensive]

Watership Down and Flowers in the Attic added to my list.

[lovely_girl]

sometimes, when we plan to do something or to read something, we don't do it.
But I hope this time, or in the next year I hope to read new books for differents writers that I never read them before.
I will study some plays next year in my major. I hope it will be fun.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Finish Tristram Shandy.
Finish re-reading all of John Fowles work.
The new Salman Rushdie - Shalamar the Clown.
Read the last couple of Milan Kundera's that I haven't read yet - Laughable Loves & Immortality.
Try and find something I haven't read by Italo Calvino.
Martin Amis - Yellow Dog.
James Elroy - The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy.

And for light relief - anything new by Terry Pratchett that appears this year.

Gonna be busy.

[Jay T]

I'm a bit of a Science Fiction/Fantasy Fan and these are the 2006 books I will probably buy:

These are all 2006 releases:

Ink by Hal Duncan
Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (already read)
Twelve Collections and the Teashop by Zoran Zivkovic
The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker (already read)
Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff Vandermeer
The Golden By Lucius Shepard (will be a worthy reread)
Of Tales and Enigmas by Minsoo Kang
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
Fain the Sorceror by Steve Aylett
The Bonehunters by Steven Erikson
The Vengeance of Rome by Michael Moorcock
The Burning Girl by Holly Phillips
Fugitives of Chaos by John C. Wright
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
Killing with the Edge of the Moon by A.A. Attanasio
Ilario: The Lion's Eye by Mary Gentle
Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell (reading now)
Black Swan Green by David Mithcell
Salt of the Air by Vera Nazarian
Mervyn Peake: A Memoir by Michael Moorcock
The Tourmaline by Paul Park
The Voyage of Night Shining White by Chris Roberson
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Alan DeNiro
White Time by Margo Lanagan
Solistice Wood by Patricia Mckillip
Bridge of Dreams by Chaz Brenchley
Three Days to Never by Tim Powers
The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams
Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
The Newford Collection by Charles de Lint
Kushiel’s Scion by Jacqueline Carey
Quantum Gravity: Keeping It Real by Justina Robson
Kafka in Bronteland and other stories by Tamar Yellin
The King's Last Song by Geoff Ryman
Black Man by Richard Morgan
The Line Between by Peter S Beagle
Emperor by Stephen Baxter
The Blood Knight by Greg Keyes
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (pushed back to 2007)
The Voyage of the Sable Keech by Neal Asher
The Virtu by Sarah Monette
Wings to the Kingdom by Cheries Priest
The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne M. Valente
Gradisil by Adam Roberts
End of the World Blues by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Glasshouse by Charles Stross
Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover (if it comes out)
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (if itcomes out)

Some others I plan on getting, books I haven't gotten to or more 2006 releases):

51. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
52. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
53. Hammered by Elizabeth Bear
54. Scardown by Elizabeth Bear
55. Worldwired by Elizabeth Bear
56. Carnival by Elizabeth Bear
57. The March by E. L. Doctorow
58. No Country for Old Men by Cormac Mccarthy
59. Seeing by José Saramago
60. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
61. Die Earthman Die: Tales of Horror And Sf 9antholgy includes Df Lewis)
62. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19th Annual Collection (Datlow, Grant, Link)
63. The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner'
66. Map of Dreams by M. Rickert
67. Wild Things by Charles Coleman Finlay
68. A Verse From Babylon by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
69. Nocturne by Jus Neuce
70. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
71. Candlewick anthology edited by Deborah Noyes
72. The Bible Repairman by Tim Powers (chapbook)
73. Seven Touches of Music by Zoran Zivkovic
74. Secret Stories byRamsey Campbell
75. Streetcar Dreams by Richard Bowes
76. Snake Agent by Liz Wiliams
77. Gist Hunter and other stories by Matthew Hughes
78. Visionary in Residence by Bruce Sterling
79. Paragaea by Chris Roberson
80. The Best of Philip Jose Farmer by Philip Jose Farmer
81. The Oracle's Queen by Lynn Flewelling
82. The Scalding Rooms by Conrad Williams


I have to wait for more releases announced, or learn of some I'm not aware of., but I would like to get to at least those.

[RobinHood3000]

Wow. That's a sizable load to budget for.

[Pensive]

Yup, Such a long list.

[Aurora Ariel]

Literature List:

*Including ( I also find it hard to select only a few.I have so many I want to read next year, but here's a shorter version):

Villette- Charlotte Bronte

Lodore, Mathilde, and Valperga- Mary Shelley

A Room of One's Own ( read about this and will read this next), and The Voyage Out- Virginia Woolf ( I actually hope to finish reading all of her works really soon, as there are a couple still left).

Jude The Obscure, and Tess of the d' Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy

Daniel Deronda (I love this story), The Mill On The Floss, and Middlemarch- George Eliot

Vanity Fair- William Makepeace Thackery

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Dubliners- James Joyce

What Maisie Knew, and The Wings of the Dove- Henry James

The Women in White, and Moonstone- Wilkie Collins

Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Monk- Matthew Lewis

Caleb Williams- William Godwin

A Modern Utopia, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and War of the Worlds- H.G Wells

Maria- Mary Wollenstonecraft

Troilus and Cressida- William Shakespeare

A Doll's House- Henry Ibsen

Full collected works of Swinburne, Tennyson, and Browning ( previously I have only read selections and a few poems here and there, not their entire life collection of poetry in full)

Down And Out In Paris And London, and Homage To Catalonia- George Orwell

The Pearl- John Steinbeck

One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

The Handmaid's Tale, and The Penelopiad- Margaret Atwood


More recent/ New books:

The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova

The Virgin's Lover- Philippa Gregory

The Other Boleyn Girl- Philippa Gregory

Falling Angels- Tracy Chevalier

[Kiwi Shelf]

Aurora:
I was wondering if you have read The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory. If not, with you planning to read the other books in the series, I was thinking to suggest to you reading it first because while it came out last, it takes place first. Then The Other Boelyn Girl and so on take place when the woman, who starts out as five in The Constant Princess, becomes a woman. Not to mention, it's a good book. It was my first Gregory novel, I really enjoyed it. :)

[Eva Marina]

Wow. Big plans for 2006. First off, start and finish all those dusty novels sitting on my bookshelf. Particularly the ones that already have bookmarks in the middle of them. A few of them are the following:

The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1984 by George Orwell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (school reading)
The LOTR Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein
Dracula by Bram Stoker
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I hope you all have an excellent 2006! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[Kiwi Shelf]

I have a better goal system. This year I read 161 books. My goal for next year is 200. I am curious if I can do it. :)

[Pensive]

Wow. Big plans for 2006. First off, start and finish all those dusty novels sitting on my bookshelf. Particularly the ones that already have bookmarks in the middle of them. A few of them are the following:

The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1984 by George Orwell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (school reading)
The LOTR Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein
Dracula by Bram Stoker
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I hope you all have an excellent 2006! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Your post contains two of the best books. You will enjoy "Pride and Prejudice" and "LOTR"

Both are written very nicely. :D

[Aurora Ariel]

I'll cross some of these off my list.I've already read quite a few books, for this year, so far, including some listed above, before I read them, ( The Penelopiad- Margaret Atwood, The Island of Dr. Moreau -H.G Wells.About a day or two after New Year's, I also finally got around to reading The Great Gatsby, and I was very impressed with this book which is often thought to be Fitzgerald's finest work.Another one I read, not listed earlier, was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.I usually like to take out at least one book with me.My list keeps growing as the year progresses.

Kiwi shelf,

The Virgin's Lover is actually the first book by Phillippa Gregory which I picked up.It's one of the books I'm reading now, but I did happen to notice that her two most recent books are featured on the inside pages of my 2005 copy.The first edition of the book was published in 2004, but I assume this is after The Other Boleyn Girl.Do you mean The Queen's Fool?This book could possibly have be renamed here in Oceania.Recently, I read another historical novel, not listed here, that was totally renamed for the Australian market.The Constant Princess is not listed inside on the By The Same Author page.Or could that be because it has just been made available, and come out in the last month or two?I have not heard of The Constant Princess, before I read your post, but thanks for the information.I originally found out about The Other Boleyn Girl by watching the BBC adaptation in a previous year.Then, later, I came across The Virgin's Lover in various bookshops, and decided to purchase a copy of it.This provoked my further interest in the author's work.

[Matilda]

Hm, what I'm going to read?

At the moment I'm reading all those Elizabeth George novels. Normally detective storiees aren't my kind of thing, but I really like these.

Promised someone to read Midnight's Children as well. Though mostly I have no plans, just read wht I want to.

[rachel]

I don't believe libraries are going to be phased out anytime soon. When I take baby Hasia to the library and see all the people from all walks of life strolling around picking up books and talking to friends, arguing with friends about this and that phrase; when I see people studying quietly and over in the 'jungle' area listen to the teacher reading a book to the tiny ones at story time- I see what a social thing a library is. No matter the technology I believe this will endure. of course things are very technologically advanced now in our library-but nonetheless.
I have this thought that we all go up up up and then something goes wrong or society rebells and we fall back again and become more humane. and then it starts over again.
so I don't worry.
I hope to read this year(for some of them it is for the umpteenth time)
1.crime and punishment
2. Anna Karenina
3.Tea House of the August Moon
4. As much Dante as I can get my hands on
5.Last of the Mohichans
6.Les Miserables
7. The Three Muskateers

[beer good]

Currently in my to-read-within-the-immediate-future pile:
Jeanette Winterson - Lighthousekeeping
DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
Daniel Wallace - Big Fish
Eyvind Johnson - Return To Ithaca
Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf
Georges Perec - Life: A Users Manual
Mary Shelley - The Last Man
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Andrej Volos - Hurramabad
Antonio Tabucchi - Tristano Dies
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Christ almighty... I need a new bookshelf again, I think.

[subterranean]

I was planning to be a Hardy "expert" this year, mean that I'd read and re-read all Thomas Hardy's works. This thought came to my mind after I read Bennet's "How to Live 24 Hours a Day", where he mentioned that instead of reading wildly, we could gain more by becoming an "expert" of certain topics/authors.

[rachel]

yaye little Sub, everytime I see your avy I feel so happy. Hope everything is perfect in your world.

[McLean]

the library here sucks. :( They are good for stuff when I need it for school, but novels are hard to come by. That's why I do second hand.) I think Dracula will be good, too, the copy I have was a gift from my friend. )

You can get some stuff right here on the internet, in case you didn't know. Dracula is one of them, but it's great that you have a copy in hand. I second the other person who said that you'll probably like it.

My library system (King County in Washington State), is hooked up with other libraries all over the United States, plus some in Canada. You can put in a library loan request, and it gets sent out to hundreds of libraries. I've found lots of very interesting and rare books that way, as well as popular ones that my library just doesn't have.

If by some chance you haven't asked about that kind of service from your library, you might give it a try.

[Pendragon]

Well, I intend to try to catch up on my book collection reading. I remember when I was never behind. Now, due to constant illness and things, but still compulsive collecting, I find myself more than 100 books in the hole, most at lest 250 pages long, quite a few longer. But I'm setting goals and keeping them. If they would just hold off on print so many good books that I love...http://www.smileyville.net/mellow/mf_bookread.gif

[rachel]

my dear Pen,
you are a constant source of astonishment to me. I was reading your sent poem today and trying to figure out where to hang it on the wall so everyone will notice it and read it. Iam going to gild the frame with gold foil.

[Themis]

Hmm...
So far I'm planning to read

"The Criminal Process" by Andrew Ashworth
"The Criminal Law" which is also by A. Ashworth, I think. But I'm not sure.
"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
"Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian

[adilyoussef]

It's difficult to get a desured book here in my country, especially in English for it is not wildly used in communication: It's just the third language spokken in Morocco.

For 2006, I have few books to be read. Among them:
1. Tess of the D'urbervilles by Hardy
2. The return of the Native by Hardy
3. The Waves by Woolf
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
5. King Solomon's Mines by Haggard
6. Peter Pan by Barrie
7. When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
8. The Zeppelin Destroyer by William Le Queux
Lately I've managed to add
9. The Day of the Scorpion by Poll Scott
10. Disclosure by Michael Crichton
11. Word of Honor by Welson DeMille
And the one I'm reading now
12. Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon

[Pensive]

It's difficult to get a desured book here in my country, especially in English for it is not wildly used in communication: It's just the third language spokken in Morocco.

For 2006, I have few books to be read. Among them:
1. Tess of the D'urbervilles by Hardy
2. The return of the Native by Hardy
3. The Waves by Woolf
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
5. King Solomon's Mines by Haggard
6. Peter Pan by Barrie
7. When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
8. The Zeppelin Destroyer by William Le Queux
Lately I've managed to add
9. The Day of the Scorpion by Poll Scott
10. Disclosure by Michael Crichton
11. Word of Honor by Welson DeMille
And the one I'm reading now
12. Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon

I think that you will enjoy Peter Pan a lot. A Tale Of Two Cities is the masterpiece of Dickens so please don't forget to read it. I can fairly well remember that Tess Of D"Urbervilles was good book too.

[adilyoussef]

Ok, I'll carry on your advice. Thanks Glady.

[rodanho]

I have decided that in 2006, I am going to read every book by dickens (my favourite author), I have read most of them but I will thoroughly enjoy rereading most of them, and others for the first time.
I am with you in that!Dickens has always been my favorite author, and I have read most of his novels! I am on the Great Expectations now, and find it an wonderful read!

[Molko]

Hmmm I plan to read the following:

*~ War and Peace
*~ The Brothers Karamazov (again ;))
*~ Hitchickers Guide To the Galaxy
*~ We
*~ Tale of the Body Theif
*~ Finish reading Crime and Punishment (had to stop due to exams)
*~ And last, but not least read the last two harry potter novels, hehehehe

[Nisha]

Harry Potter & the half blood prince is stunning.I wish I could read it again for the first time..unfortunately I find that reading a book kind of takes the glamour away from it..
I am thinking of reading the Anna Karenina.If I can get it that is.Books lik that are hard to come by here ...I am hopin a friend of mine in UK cud mail em for me.
I love historical romances..any suggestions?

[NightmareBeauty]

i am planning on reading tons of horror and fantasy books and working on my music and my creative writting
:banana: