What do you want to read?

[Arctic]

Thought I'd start off by sharing some of my to-read list, to give an idea of my reading interests. These are from my to-finish and desperately-want-to-read-soon shelves. no particular order:

Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
Christ the Lord Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
Saturday by Ian McEwan
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch by George Eliot
A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
Rincewind the Wizzard by Terry Pratchett
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Paradise War by Stephen R Lawhead
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Mountain of Black Glass by Tad Williams
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
The Trial by Franz Kafka
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos

[Charles]

I'm rereading "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett. I loved it when I read it about 15-20 years ago, and now I'm rereading it so I can read the recently released sequel.

[Arctic]

I've been meaning to start Pillars since...January I think. O_O November sounds like as good a time as any for me. I think the length has been what's keeping me. Otherwise I've heard nothing but great things about it from everyone I know that has read it.

I have the sequel as well, but I'll see how the first book is before I commit to reading both right now.

In any case I'll post some Pillars of the Earth discussion threads early next month. It's a good starting point if nothing else. :) Thanks for chiming in and welcome to the group, Charles!

[Kara]

Checking out your list... Bookshelf is pretty full right now, but I think our little Alaskan groupd should get something going.

I too have been meaning to read The Chronicles of Amber, and have never (but always meant to) read The Catcher in the Rye.

I have also been curious about The Firecracker Boys: H-bombs, Eskimos, and the Birth of the Environmental Movement.

Other ides anyone?

[Kara]

Or... Arctic Dreams? Or a book I remember liking as a kid, but don't really remember, White Fang.

[Shannon]

Arctic Dreams is outstanding!