And Now For Something Completely Different discussion

Since the group's been quiet for a while, I thought I'd ask what books you all have in your To Be Read pile (or what books you're looking forward to read if you don't have a TBR pile).

Right now I'm working on my own pile. I just finished The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin, and I'm currently a quarter of the way through Warbird by Karin Lowachee and I've still got a lot of stuff I bought during my last used book binge to get through.

I'm enjoying Warbird a lot, but it almost made me miss my stop on the subway I got so engrossed in it! If I hadn't accidentally looked up after turning a page, I would've had to walk a long way home.

I think next to read will be A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin or the last of Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood books, Imago (I read the first two earlier this year).

After that it's a hard call. So, in no particular order, the rest of my TBR pile:

The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
Coyote Dreams (Walker Papers Book 3) by C.E. Murphy
Darkness Calls by Marjorie M. Liu
Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Dhalgren by Samuel Delany

And that's just the top of the pile! So what does everyone else have waiting in the wings to be read?

More books than I can count or remember, and rising.

I have a pile of DTBs (Dead Tree Books) on loan from a friend who works at a bookstore and is always finding new and interesting books. I have another pile of recommendations from cow orkers, and yet another of books given to me by my gentleman (which lately contains books from the First North Americans series by William Sarabande).

And then there are the Kindle TBRs ... which amount to around 200+ at the moment, including books I actually intend to read, as well as others that were on limited time free-for-Kindle, and dozens of classics (free again) that I've never read or think I should reread.

So many books, so little time. Shame that working both supports and gets in the way of my reading habit.

i have 400 kobo books on my wishlist, j.r.r tolkein THE TWO TOWERS, and 100 books in my closet. 2011 challenge--to get through 200 books this year.

Oh, boy. My "to be read" pile is often the place books go to die. I've been working on some of them lately, though. Public shaming helps - I suddenly got cornered by a couple of friends asking if I had ever gotten around to the books they gave me. If they had just lent them, I could blow it off and return them, saying "I just don't know when I'll find the time, and I don't want to keep it from you any longer," but they were gifts, so I feel extra-guilty. It's not my fault that my favorite authors have been unusually prolific in the past couple of years. :\

Here's what I've managed to move from that pile to the "currently reading" pile:

Daemon by Daniel Suarez
In the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover
Guns, Germs and Steel

I now have 351 dtb's unread. started dieting for my first bodybuilding show so my focus has been on training.

Currently rereading through the WoT series to refresh myself and enjoy the last book in the series

I Am Alive And You Are Dead, the biography of Philip K. Dick is one of mine.