The Next Best Book Club discussion

right now what would you buy?

Hero with a Thousand Faces
And all the current Vampire Hunter D novels that are out that I haven't gotten yet which I think are 6-10.

Anna Karenina
Jane Eyre (still don't own it)
Pride and Prejudice
People's History of the United States
Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

Torn Apart - James Patterson & Hal Friedman
Ceremony - Leslie Marmon
The Story of Psychology - Morton Hunt
The Tipping Point - Gladwell
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

These change on a very regular basis, tomorrow it may be a completely different list of five books. All I know is every day of the week I could easily buy five books and not run out of books I want to buy, my lists are endless!

-Life Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
-Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
-20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
-Being the Mom: 10 Coping Strategies I Learned on Accident Because I Had Children on Purpose by Emily Watts
-Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee and Other Family Disasters by Annie Choi

Kind of a random selection of books from my To Read list. Really, a lot of the time I just go on half.com and search for whatever books I can find the cheapest and buy them.

Oooofffff.
Ok.
Lets see.

If I was running out the store I would be looking for:
Chuck Bukowski - anything that I dont currently own.
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Something by George Carlin (may he rest in peace, if that is possible!)
The Invention of Morel (which I may have to buy online as no store I have stepped foot in carries it anymore!)

Jim Harrison - The English Major
Mark Anthony Jarman - 19 Knives
Rawi Hage - Cockroach
Sam Abell - The Life of a Photograph
Don Quixote (Edith Grossman translation)

Oh, I like this question. It's like being able to shop without spending any money. I would buy:

War and Peace (Pevear / Volokhonsky Translation) - Tolstoy
Bullfinch's Mythology
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Wuthering Heights - Emile Bronte

Like others have said, this list is likely to change a moment's notice depending on anything from whim to weather to what's been recommended to me today. But if I were to place an order right now, I would get:

Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s (Library of America Collection) by Philip K. Dick
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology ed. by James Patrick Kelly
Failed States: he Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky
Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century ed. by Alex Stephen
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Ravens Exile by Ellen Meloy

La Dolce Vegan cookbook by Sarah Kramer

Light on Life by B.K.S. Iyengar

Bonk by Mary Roach

I want more than 5 books but right now it would be:

The Jane Austen Book Club
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Bleak House
slow Man
A long fatal love chase

Having read Leaving Mother Lake which is about a contemporary society with no husbands or fathers - its boyfriends and uncles there. I really want:

A Society Without Fathers or Husbands The Na of China and
A History and Anthropological Study of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland - Naxi and Mosuo but this book is $139.95 which is too much for me right now.
Giraffes Giraffes
by Doris Haggis-on-Whey which is a book without any kind of sense and hilariously funny. I read it years ago but I've always wanted my own copy.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores and
Call The Midwife A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s because I read her first book about living in a nunnery and working in the workhouses and tenements in the area in the post-war years and it was fascinating.

1. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

2. Crank by Ellen Hopkins

3. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

4. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

5. Everything About Me Is Fake-- And I'm Perfect by Janice Dickenson

5 books I would by right now out of my hundreds of TBR would be:

1. The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
3. Rick Steves' Italy 2007
4. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
5. The Josaphine Bonaparte Collection by Sandra Gulland (that counts right..pretend its a packaged deal!)

Masques by Patricia Briggs - out of print and rare
Brisingr - too expensive right now
The Sisters Grimm #3-6
All the Warriors books (for my daughter, she has a few)
a Piers Anthony collection (for my oldest daughter who sold hers when she divoriced)

Masques is a very expensive book. I hope you get it for Christmas, Rebecca.

1) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
2) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
3) The Mysterious Island- Jules Verne
4) Journey to the Center of the Earth-Jules Verne
5) Treasure Island-Robert Louis Stevenson

The last books by Patricia Cornwell that I don't have yet.
uhmm..and some of my lists but as I want them all, it is okay whatever on them.

An Echo in the Bone by
Diana Gabaldon

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

The Guy Not Taken: Stories by Jennifer Weiner

Shadowbrook: A Novel of Love, War, and the Birth of America by Beverly Swerling

The Department of Lost & Found: A Novel by Allison Winn Scotch

if anyone has a copy for trade let me know :)

If I could buy five books, two would be books that I have already read years ago, but want to reread, namely:
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Otherwise:
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
only in your dreams by Cecily von Ziegesar
Thankfully, amazon.com has supersaver shipping or free shipping for orders over $25, so if I need to buy one thing that's under $25, that's an excuse to toss a book into my order as well!

I have been feeling the pull of the used bookstore lately, and mostly have been resisting. But these are the five books that are the most insistent, at the moment:

Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
The House of the Seven Gables
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
Absalom, Absalom!
Cloud Atlas

Outlander- Diana Gabaldon
The Southern Vampire series-Charlaine Harris
The Book Thief-Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas- John Boyne
A Thousand Splendid Suns-Khaled Hosseini

On Writing - Stephen King (I've read it but don't own it)

The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry

Here's The Story - Maureen McCormick ( I KNOW I KNOW)

Just After Sunset: Stories - Stephen King

Grace - Richard Paul Evans

I keep a running list of books with a picture of their covers in a Books To Buy word document. I read way more fiction than non-fiction, but, interestingly enough, it would seem my next five (well, actually six, two are related) to purchase are half non-fiction.

Rescuing DaVinci: Hitler and the Nazis Stole Europe's Great Art--America and Her Allies Recovered It by Robert M. Edsel

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez

The Little Book by Selden Edwards

Lady Macbeth: A Novel by Susan Frazer King

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

Liz, The Beekeeper's Apprentice is one of my favorite books. I love the whole Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series by King.

If I would go to the shop now and be smart enough to take my little notebook with me, which should be my 'official', main wish list than I would hope I buy the next five books:
The mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lenin's tomb by David Remnick
The tirth Harry Potter book
Gai-Jin by James Clavell
The sweetest dream by Luis Sepulveda

The only reason for these five is that it were the first books I wrote on tht wish list BUT THEY ARE ON IT FOR ALEADY ALMOST FIVE YEARS!!!!!!

The last week I got six new books, most presents that I choose and I hadn't put any of them on my lists!!!

Jamie wrote: "1. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler


Don't rush out to the store too fast for the Chelsea Handler book! I checked it out from the library because I wasn't sure I wanted to spend the money and I'm glad I didn't. It's funny but nothing like I expected. Crank, on the other hand was great. If you like other Hopkins books you'll love Crank. You should also read Identical if you haven't already- that one might be her best yet in my opinion!

King Leopold's Ghost
Posters for the People: Art of the WPA
Inferno
Selected Art and Writings of Henry Darger
Hurry Down Sunshine

Hmmm..I'm not sure what I'd end up going for- my to-read list is fairly long and I just managed to grab two books from BookMooch that I've been wanting for awhile- The Hour I First Believed and Seductve Poison.
I'm not even sure what I'd buy right now! LOL

You see, I ma not following my whish lists!!! I would go and buy the following ones:
Scarpetta
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Stardust

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Book Thief
Breaking Dawn
Choke
Me Talk Pretty One Day

My list keeps growing:

Stardust
Bell Jar
Motherless Brooklyn
Prodigal Summer
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

I so want too! I sent my dad a list of about 100 books that is on the list. He finds me books for nothing!

fiona, I have those symptoms for more than a year now and sometimes i go crazy!!!!

what a great list Fiona! :-))))))

There is an opening at my work but you'd have to move. I don't think you could commute that far daily. And there is a B&N and Borders by my work. Oh yeah lunch breaks can be hazardious!

No Fiona he doesn't write much but maybe it is because he always does a lot of research before writing a new book. About ten years ago he published The horse whisperer I think. But treasures aren't produced in mass.

extremely loud and incredibly close- jonathon safron foer
water for elephants- sara gruen
charlie bone #1- jenny nimmo
oh, the places you'll go- dr. seuss
lion among me- gregory maguire

My daughter loves the Charlie Bone books. I should read them.

1. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (just because I can't get it in the libraries or book stores over here)
2. Complete Tales & Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
3. Graceling - Kristin Cashore
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream - Hunter S. Thompson
5. Terrier - Tamora Pierce

Definitely a couple of out of print books that I can't find anywhere! (Is that allowed?)

1. Just Like Beauty: A Novel by Lisa Lerner
2. The girl who had everything: The story of "the fire and ice girl" by Dorian Leigh
3. Necessary Secrets: Journals of Elizabeth Smart by Elizabeth Smart

And books which are so expensive that I can't justify the cost to myself.
4. Blankets by Craig Thomson
5. 2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

Now I have theses 5 books on waiting.

1. Possession A Romance by A.S. Byatt
2. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
3. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
5. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
American Wife A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Hayer
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. AND The Last Great Dance on Earth by Sandra Gulland.

I just ordered a kind of varied assortment for a few of my spring challenge tasks:

Memoirs of A Geisha - Arthur Golden (a reread for me, but I absolutely love this book)
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones
Girls in Trucks - Katie Crouch
Atticus: A Novels - Ron Hansen (another reread I enjoyed the first time around)

Catch 22-Heller
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius-Eggers
The Princess Bride-Goldman
The Stand-King
Crime and Punishment-Dostoyevski

Um...Probably Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech,Fog Magic by Julia L. Sauer and maybe Life of Fred: Geometry,Life of Fred: Advanced Algebra,Life of Fred Calculus,Life of Fred Trigonometry, and Life of Fred. Statistics, all by Stanley F. Schmidt

Only five, that's tough
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Hornet's Sting by Derek Robinson
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman

Distant Thunders: Destroyermen by Taylor Anderson
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

... this is why I avoid impulse buying

My five would be ...

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead by Max Brooks
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell
Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays by George Orwell

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
The Rules of Attraction,
Pride and Prejudice,
Great Expectations,
and
Fight Club.