What's your fall/winter lineup?

[Razeus]

For me (in order):

The Brothers Karamazov
Anna Karenina
Lolita
Crime & Punishment
The Idiot
War & Peace (don't think I'll actually get to this one, but it'll be on my 2011 reading list)

[Rores28]

You must really be into Russian Literature. Any particular reason for going all Russian?

Canterbury Tales (10% into)
Infinite Jest
Blood Meridian (Almost Done)
The Odyssey (10% into)
The Sound and the Fury
The Bluest Eye
Mrs. Dalloway
Julius Caesar
Labyrinths
The Sandman Series (Neil Gaiman)

Others I'd like to check out....

The Communist Manifesto
Democracy in America
The Prince

[Razeus]

You must really be into Russian Literature. Any particular reason for going all Russian?

Canterbury Tales (10% into)
Infinite Jest
Blood Meridian (Almost Done)
The Odyssey (10% into)
The Sound and the Fury
The Bluest Eye
Mrs. Dalloway
Julius Caesar
Labyrinths
The Sandman Series (Neil Gaiman)

Others I'd like to check out....

The Communist Manifesto
Democracy in America
The Prince

That's just the "theme" for this season.

[dfloyd]

The Bridge at San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
Tales of Hoffman - E. T. A. Hoffman
Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
Page of the Duke of Savoy - Alexander Dumas
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (reread)
Emma - Jane Austen
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico - Diaz
The Trial - Franz Kafka (reread)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allen Poe (reread)

[Patrick_Bateman]

For me (in order):

The Brothers Karamazov
Anna Karenina
Lolita
Crime & Punishment
The Idiot
War & Peace (don't think I'll actually get to this one, but it'll be on my 2011 reading list)

I'm like you with my Russians
Out of those I'm still yet to read Lolita and Anna Karenina but I have them at the ready.

Also hoping do devour more Hemingway, Ray Bradbury - Illustrated Man, more Poe a book on Greek Mythology, Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, Metropole - Ferenc Karinthy

[iamnobody]

Sometimes a Great Notion - Ken Kesey
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
Ficcones - J.L. Borges
Lao-tzu 'Dao De Jing' - Mengzi
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche
The Upanishads- translated by Eknath Easwaran
Tai-Pan - James Clavell

[Ghuyuran]

I want to read The Brothers Karamazov this winter. As for the rest, I have not done a list, nor do I intend to. I prefer taking one of the many unread books on my shelves, whatever fits my mood. I might try my hand again at Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.

[Jassy Melson]

1. Of Time and the River - Thomas Wolfe

2. Romola - George Eliot

3. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot

4. Emma - Jane Austin

5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

[LuggageFan]

Wuthering Heights
Dracula
the next couple installments of Discworld
a smattering of pop fiction

[Gregory Samsa]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
and a biography about Olof Palme.

[stlukesguild]

Line up? What's that?

Seriously, I can certainly see the merit of some sort of formal structure to one's reading from time to time... but at this point I am largely led from one book to the next without a lot of formal structure or thought to where I end up next. Sometimes I will be directed by one book to the next. Other times I'm simply drawn to a given book for whatever reason.

[Modest Proposal]

In the last several years I have been buying books as I found them for good prices and just letting them build up. The last 6 months I've been making a big push to read all of the books that I own (which means slowing my buying as well).

I'll finish 'A House For Mr. Biswas' and then read in some order:
'The Cossacks' by Leo Tolstoy
'A River Runs Through It' by Norman Maclean
'Plague Dogs' by Richard Adams
'Thousand Acres' by Jane Smiley
'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Doyle
'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke
'History of Henry Esmond Esq.' by William Makepeace Thakeray


It's nice to see the end so close in sight. I will try and only buy books as I can manage them from here on out. It's tough because between teaching and taking classes I don't have much pleasure reading time.

[JuniperWoolf]

Line up? What's that?

I'm with you, I just read what I bump into at the library - except for right now, I've got two overdue books and I don't have the money to pay the fees. Damn Alberta library system, every library in the province is connected by the same computer system. If you have late fees in one town, you have to pay them before you can get a book in any other library within 661,848 square kilometers. How stupid is that?

[bouquin]

my "shortlist" (subject to modification) -

July's People / Nadine Gordimer
Night and Day / Virginia Woolf
Les Noces Barbares / Yann Queffélec
Quartet in Autumn / Barbara Pym
Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys
The Long Valley / John Steinbeck

[L.M. The Third]

I have so many I don't know where to start. But I don't usually stick to a schedule either. Or else I waste reading time shuffling my line-up around.


I'm with you, I just read what I bump into at the library - except for right now, I've got two overdue books and I don't have the money to pay the fees. Damn Alberta library system, every library in the province is connected by the same computer system. If you have late fees in one town, you have to pay them before you can get a book in any other library within 661,848 square kilometers. How stupid is that?

But the best part is that they're interconnected and I can order from all over. If I just read what's available at the local library I'd be severely undernourished.
Maybe you can beg someone to pay enough of your fee to bring it down to under $10.

[dfloyd]

I thought it was by Cole Porter.

[lichtrausch]

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Yoko Tawada - The Bridgegroom Was a Dog

[JBI]

Line up? What's that?

Seriously, I can certainly see the merit of some sort of formal structure to one's reading from time to time... but at this point I am largely led from one book to the next without a lot of formal structure or thought to where I end up next. Sometimes I will be directed by one book to the next. Other times I'm simply drawn to a given book for whatever reason.

Better than me. Books in China are something like 3$ Canadian a piece, for good editions with nice amounts of commentary and notes. I've been going buying crazy and am swamped in books I cannot understand because the language is too hard, so I use my dictionary from one poem to the next in random books, swamped. OF course, my roommate thinks I am crazy and does not understand why I buy so many, especially since I cannot understand them, but, then again, he has never read a book outside of high school, so we can forgive him his ignorance of the sheer joy of buying books.


As for lineup, probably some minor translations and memorization of some fundamental canonical Chinese texts, like the Analects and the like, mostly to build classical vocabulary. From there will continue to work on the Shi Jing or Book of Songs, and then maybe delve into some easy children's poems and see if I can memorize a few of them.

[kiki1982]

Gosh, don't know really... I am still doing Scott, so that'll take a while, but that'll probably go more quickly by the end...

And The Canterbury Tales I am doing while cooking ;). It's only a selection though, by Penguin. So looking to buy the whole thing, with footnotes...

Then I have picked up some nice and cheap editions of tales of Heinrich von Kleist and one by Fontane. I guess that's an option. Not to mention Faust which has been waiting for a while now.

And then I have found, in a car boot sale, a jubileum edition by Reclam of the brothers Grimm's fairytales with original remarks. A reprint of 1857! :banana: I will be trying some of that.

And then I could throw in an Austen, my last :(.

[Paulclem]

I've got about 8 books on the go - I focus on one or another until I finish - unless something catches my eye - or I fancy a switch of genre for a time - and so I slot those inbetween. It's an undisciplined way of reading, but I just read what I want and when. It's how I watch tv. I flick around until I find something that I really want to watch and then focus on that. (Although I'm watching less and less these days).

[The Comedian]

Oh, I admit that I have something of a line up. . .

1. Moby-Dick, Melville (re-read) . . . . my current read as well. (I'm going to teach early American Literature some time next year, and while it was my emphasis in graduate school, it's been a while. . .)

2. Gorgias, Plato -- I teach a rhetoric class, and for some reason I've never read this one by Plato. So I figure it's about time.

3. Summer World: A Season of Bounty, Bernd Heinrich -- one of my favorite contemporary nature writers.

4. Lock and Key (Graphic Novel) by Joe Hill, et al. . . . suspense/horror and the art is really great too.