What books are on your Xmas wish list ? If you don’t celebrate Christmas, then what are your next book purchases / gifts going to be ?
What books are on your Xmas wish list ? If you don’t celebrate Christmas, then what are your next book purchases / gifts going to be ?
I would love some or all ? of these:
Gone with wind
Swan Song
A prayer for Owen Meany
Prayer for Owen Meany was amazing! I read it years ago and still remember how I felt.
@Valerie I’ve heard it’s really good, it’s been on my tbr list for a long time ?
Anything by Sherrilyn Kenyon
War & Peace
The newest Ben Aaronovitch novel and the Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris. I also wouldn’t say no to any other books 🙂
I am preparing for the New Year. I have five Hemingway books left before I finish another author. My specialist author(S) is/ are ‘The Brothers Grimm’, plus to continue working on H G Wells
@James I never tire of Hemingway, again visited his home in Key West a few months ago. The Nick Adams Stories are good to pick up and read at random.
@James I plan on reading more Hemingway next year too
@Evelyn/ @Sean I have been reading Hemingway on and off for many years. Around October time I always check Goodreads to see how I am doing on an author. Although generally as a rule I don’t aim to read each book by every author all the time, but, when I saw I had only a few books left, I thought “what the heck” 🙂
@James I do that, I find a favorite author and find all I can about them and their writing.
@Evelyn love visiting there. I visit his Key West house every time I go.
I have a list of recent fiction, I have spent the past year re reading lots of the classics, so catch up time on newer authors.
I would like the latest from Kate Morton, Kate Atkinson and Anne Tyler.
@Yvette I’m getting Kate Atkinson’s latest book for Christmas 🙂
My husband has just bought me East of Eden so I can read it this month 🙂
@Gemma such a good book, my favorite by Steinbeck. Let us know what you think.?
@Evelyn I will do! ❤️
@Gemma awesome , I should hopefully finish this tonight ? it’s been very good so far.
Good to hear
Gemma Kahl there’s a horrible character and I quite enjoying a proper “bad guy”?
Can’t wait to ‘meet’ him!
I would like the books by Dr. Andreas Marneros on the Iliad and Odyssey from a psychiatric perspective.
I’m greedy. I want the full set of Penguin Clothbound classics AND the full set of Barnes and Noble leatherbound classics. Thanks for asking 😀
@Tante ?sounds great
We can but dream! I do have some… but not all.
I’d like to read all of the National Book Award shortlist for this year (excepting nonfiction). I’ve put quite a few of them on my Amazon wish list hoping that friends and family will take the hint.
Any Betty Smith, Rosamunde Pilcher!
I’m greedy so Shakespeare’s comedies and sonnets – I got the tragedies and histories last Christmas and love them!!
@Jessie good choice ?
I’d like to add a few more Penguin clothbound books to my shelves!
Hmm maybe the Odyssey/Iliad ?
“À la recherche du temps perdu, vol.6 , Albertine disparue – La fugitive” by Marcel Camus – in a very good Portuguese translation by Pedro Tamen. I’ve already read the previous ones and can’t wait to read this next one ?
I have so many Amazon and Barnes and Noble and small independent book store gift cards I decided to buy some books today as well as buy some gift cards for some folks.
Just ordered The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, after listening to him on both NPR and BBC radio discussing how every day folks and even some politicians who lack any expert knowledge often try and tell the actual experts they know better.
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle. Anne Lamott’s new book Almost Everything: Notes on Hope.
Why Religion?: A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels. A neuro psychiatrist friend gave me her earlier books back around 1992.
All of Beatrix Potters books for a baby gift and all of the C S Lewis Narnia books for a family whose kids LOVE to read.
And The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane which I believe any logophile or bibliophile would love. Had been reading it at a bookstore :-/ and figured I would be honest and buy it. 🙂