Book lovers discussion

Hi Everybody here is a list of the Books that I want to read in 2010 over and above my Group Reads....

Elizabeth Barrett Browning,A Portrait
The Wedding
On The Beach
Cakes and Ale
Death Comes as the End
Absent in the Spring
Becoming Jane Austen
Hungary Hill
Suite Francaise
The Devils of Loudon
The Constant Princess
The Joy Luck Club. FINISHED 4/3/2010
Northanger Abbey.FINISHED 9/3/2010.
Alice in Wonderland
The Wizard of Oz.FINISHED 24/6/2010.
Anna Karenina
The First Men on the Moon
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Origin of Species
Darwin
Moby Dick
Aldous Huxley:A Biography
Wolf Hall
Inteview with the Vampire
Me Talk Pretty One Day. FINISHED 15/1/2010
The English Patient
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
The Black Dahlia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
My Legendary Girlfriend. FINISHED 13/1/2010
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Turning Thirty
Dinner For Two
The Reader FINISHED 23/3/2010.
His`n`Hers
The Lovely Bones
I Capture the Castle
Comfort Food
Brand New Friend
The Godfather
Life and Soul of the Party
The To-Do List
FRANKENSTEIN BOOK 1"Prodigal Son"
BOOK 2"City of Night"
BOOK 3"Dead and Alive"
A Short Residence in Sweden and Memoirs of the Author of "The Rights of Woman"
The Code of The Woosters
Brave New World Revisited
Pinkertons Sister
Possesion......

And I`ll post up all others as I read them,please wish me luck as I haven`t done anything like this before......

Howards End is on the Landing-3/1/2010
Gods Utility Function-6/1/2010
My Name is Legion-8/1/2010
Vile Bodies-7/1/2010
Juliet,Naked-5/2/2010
The Tennant of Wildfell Hall-25/2/10
The Little Stranger-26/2/2010
Gossip Girl-1/3/2010
Empire of the Sun.-17/3/2010
Daphne du Maurier A Daghters Memoir.-15/3/2010
The Blind Assasin.-21/3/2010
Mrs Zhivago of Queens Park.-22/3/2010
The Dark River.-28/3/2010
Under The Tuscan Sun.-31/3/2010
A Womans Work is Never Done.-4/4/2010
Cross Stitch.-10/4/2010
Bonjour Tristess.-11/4/2010.
Not Married,Not Bothered.-21/4/2010
Wish You Were Here.-22/4/2010
One Day.-26/4/2010
Rebecca.-10/5/2010
Notes from an Exhibition.-3/5/2010
The Best Of Times.-13/5/2010
The Kindness of Women.-16/5/2010
The Ghost.-26/5/2010
The Information officer.-24/5/2010
On Chesil Beach.-28/5/2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.-21/6/2010
Affinity.-9/6/2010
Solar.-15/6/2010
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.-16/6/2010.
The Shadow of the Wind.-18/6/2010
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.-22/6/2010

Love the list! I haven't chosen mine yet but looking at yours there are few on it that I haven't read and own.

You will love the Mike Gayle ones! I have all his and have read 3 off your list and they were brilliant! I will have to go through my bookcases and pick out some for 2010. I have about 100 this year so would love to beat that!

Good Luck, and ENJOY!

Thanks Lynne I hope you have a fab challenge too...let me know when you post your list,that way I can kick myself for forgetting something...LOL!

Good luck DJ! This is an intimidating list, but I'll help you out with 6 of them. ;)

Kaliki wrote: "Good luck DJ! This is an intimidating list, but I'll help you out with 6 of them. ;)"

Thanks Kaliki,looking forward to it!!

Hi Jo,yeah it is a big list and I`m not helping myself as my first 5 reads of the year were not on my list or even groupreads...LOL!!!
I must practise self control!!

Good Luck!

The Constant Princess is a brilliant book.

Gem H aka *Dhelirious* wrote: "Good Luck!

The Constant Princess is a brilliant book."

Thanks,I`m really looking forward to it.....

Ooops finally remmbered to mark up some that I have read....

Not bad I`ve read 14 Books so far this year and halfway through THE BLIND ASSASIN considering I do not really read in February!!

So far I would say the Daphne du Maurier,as I have such love for Rebecca,I am planning on reading all the Rebecca related books......

I`ve listed all the off shoots as well as I have had them for ages and never got round to them,there is also THE REBECCA NOTEBOOK which is a vauge description of her plotlines it is ok but personally I expected a lot more from it and so I havent listed it as I felt people would be wasting their money....
I really believe you will enjoy it....

I know people rave about Margaret Atwood but I feel like I wasted 4 days of reading time on this!!!!!

The only book by Atwood that I've read was Oryx and Crake. I think I rated it as a 3. Pretty good, not super, though. I did like the ideas in it, but she's not the most compelling writer. What was the book you read?

I saw some other books on your list that I really liked, DJ. I read On the Beach last year. It was very good - depressing, but good. "Alice in Wonderland" is way different to read than what I expected after being raised on the Disney version. Darwin's books were hell to get through for me, but interesting in short doses. I loved "The Godfather".

I'd highly recommend you read an abridged copy of Moby Dick. There is a long, very detailed section on cutting up a whale that is boring as can be - actually, a lot of it is. I read & abridged version years later & loved it. Barely made it through the original.

Are you planning to read theothers in the Oz series?


Who is the author of Black Dahlia-there is a few with that title?

James Ellroy is the Author of The Black Dahlia...
Re The Wizard of Oz...Not sure I will probably decid after reading it.

DJ wrote: "I know people rave about Margaret Atwood but I feel like I wasted 4 days of reading time on this!!!!!"

I had to respond to your comment because I share your opinion. I don't see why Margaret Atwood is so admired.

I will be curious to hear what you think of Cakes and Ale. I read it a few years ago and quite liked it.

Pat wrote: "DJ wrote: "I know people rave about Margaret Atwood but I feel like I wasted 4 days of reading time on this!!!!!"

I had to respond to your comment because I share your opinion. I don't see why M..."

Hi Pat I am delighted to read your comment on Margaret Atwood as I was concerned when I first posted it that I would suffer a deluge of pro Atwood comments.
I will be most delighted to let you know what I think of CAKES AND ALE once I have read it.I will make a notation on it to remind me..

Hi added a lot of new ones both to official list and from MRS ZHIVAGO OF QUEENS PARK!!!