What book(s) do you WANT to read?

[jmnixon95]

There's a thread on books that you are currently reading, but I haven't seen an organized one dedicated to naming books that we want to read. So, here it is.

As of now, I really wish to obtain a copy of The Trial by Franz Kafka; I also plan on reading the Michio Kaku book I purchased (as well as the one I borrowed from the library), and the book on British genetics.

What about you all?

[ChicagoReader]

Lolita is next on my reading list while i want to also read some more McCarthy, specifically Suttree

[iamnobody]

Next up:

Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
Oblomov-Ivan Goncharov
My Antonia-Willa Cather
The Consolation of Philosophy-Boethius

[Zee.]

Just bought:

Brideshead Revisited
The Corrections
The Wasp Factory
Blood Meridian
Something Wicked This Way Comes

[ChicagoReader]

^^Blood Meridian is fantastic. Rivals The Road in my opinion also probably the most gruesome book I have read!

[Zee.]

Just read that it is going to be made in to a movie

edit - interesting that you refer to it as gruesome, from what i've read about it, it is referred to as being a book that 'reads like a nightmare'

[Venerable Bede]

Books I have lined up to read soon:

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales

[Calidore]

Literary want-to-reads queued up include War and Peace and a bunch of Dumas (which I've been collecting for years but haven't read much of past the "basics"). I've finally got all of his Marie Antoinette series in unabridged editions, so that'll probably be first.

[lowradiation]

Too many things are on my to-read list. I only have the Summer before I need to begin my third-year degree reading.

Pynchon, Pynchon, more Pynchon
The Corrections - Franzen
Dave Eggers
McCarthy Border Trilogy
Lolita

[Brock]

Ok. Today I just purchased Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong and this looks like an absolute corker so that's next on the list. But I've also got Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth in mind and Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw's Why does e=mc2?. I LOVE a bit of scientific reading :smile5:

[Chris 73]

Winters Bone-Daniel Woodrell
The Wasp Factory- Iain Banks
The Historian-Elizabeth Kostova
The Children Of Men-PD James
Shogun-James Clavell
A Dance With Dragons-George RR Martin(six sodding years I've been waiting:smile5:)
The Bloody Chamber-Angela Carter
Cloud Atlas-David Mitchell
The Iron Dragons Daughter-Michael Swannick

[hampusforev]

Man you guys are structured, do you actually follow your reading lists? Because I make some but never stick to them. I like starting to read books on a whim, it's the best way that I've found. After Anna Karenina and The Border Trilogy I think I need something perhaps a little bit... Alright I'll say it, shorter.

I just bought Flannery O'Connor's two novels, I absolutely love her short stories so hopefully my whim will tell me to pick up either Wise Blood or The Violent Bear It Away. But honestly it could go either way, I definitely want to check out more Tolstoy but there's NO way I'm picking up War & Peace, I just finished moving two piano's and my underarms are already sore as all hell.

[misterreplicant]

I WANT to read the rest of my books on my bookshelf (50% I have not read yet, but hey, I'm working hard.)

I want to buy Johnny Got His Gun, it looks depressing, but I wanna check it out.
Thank God for the 25 dollar B&N gift card I got from Easter.