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lovely treez · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject: Lovely Treez's TBR pile

Completely revamped, all new, all singing, dancing TBR pile as of 16th January 2009, almost a year since I last updated it...

Treez – Mount TBR as of 16th January 2009

Current Library Books

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale

Daphne – Justine Picardie (currently reading)
The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway

Home grown TBR pile

New Additions - 23 January 2009

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows

The Household Guide to Dying - Debra Adelaide

Sister Kate - Nursing through the Troubles - Kate O'Hanlon

Candlemoth - R J Ellory

Updated 17th January 2009

The Floating Book - Michelle Lovric
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Affinity - Sarah Waters
The Scandal of the Season - Sophie Gee
The Clothes on their Backs - Linda Grant

Grievance – Marguerite Alexander

City of Beasts – Isabel Allende

Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende

The Blind Assassin – Margaret Attwood

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (re-read)

The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster

The Olive Readers – Christine Aziz

The Porcupine – Julian Barnes

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty – Sebastian Barry

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death – MC Beaton

Rebecca’s Tale – Sally Beauman

The Poison Principle – Gail Bell

Portrait of An Unknown Woman – Vanora Bennett

The City of Falling Angels – John Berendt

The Ghost at the Table – Suzanne Berne

Birds Without Wings – Louis de Bernieres

Whitethorn Woods – Maeve Binchy

Restless – William Boyd

Beloved Stranger – Clare Boylan

The Illustrated Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (illustrated by Dame Dancy)

The Good Earth – Pearl S Buck

The Family Tree – Carole Cadwalladr

The Alienist – Caleb Carr

The Wedding Officer – Anthony Capella

Fireworks – Angela Carter

Wise Children – Angela Carter

The Pirate’s Daughter – Margaret Cezair-Thompson

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon

The Great Stink – Clare Clark

Shooting Butterflies – Marika Cobbold

Onze Minutes – Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl – The Arctic Incident – Eoin Colfer

The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

The Secret Potato Queens’ Book of Love – Jill Conner Browne

The Rain Before It Falls – Jonathan Coe

The Timewaster Letters - Robin Cooper

The Art of Dying – Vena Cork

Girlfriend in A Coma – Douglas Coupland

The Meaning of Night – Michael Cox

Arlington Park – Rachel Cusk

Saving Agnes – Rachel Cusk

Boy – Roald Dahl

Narrow Dog to Carcassonne – Terry Darlington

The Mathematics of Love – Emma Darwin

The Painter – Will Davenport

Angel’s Rest – Charles Davies

The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai

The Last Days of Dogtown – Anita Diamant

The Red Tent – Anita Diamant

Eva – Peter Dickinson

The Church of the Dead Girls – Stephen Dobyns

The Stolen Child – Keith Donohue

Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls – R S Downie

House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III

My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier

Mapping the Edge – Sarah Dunant

The Sixth Wife – Suzannah Dunn

Baudolino – Umberto Eco

The Frozen Lake – Elizabeth Edmondson

The Gathering – Anne Enright

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

26a – Diana Evans

The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans

Bitter Sweets – Roopa Farooki

Engleby – Sebastian Faulks

Under the Persimmon Tree – Suzanne Fisher Staples

The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald

Hidden Lives – Margaret Forster

The Memory Box – Margaret Forster

Hanna’s Daughters – Marianne Friedriksson

A Million Little Pieces – James Frey

The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke

The Good Doctor – Damon Galgut

The Hungry Tide – Amitav Ghosh

Lord of the Flies – William Golding (re-read)

The Unfortunates – Laurie Graham

When I Lived in Modern Times – Linda Grant

Fallen Skies – Philippa Gregory

A Respectable Trade – Philippa Gregory

Wideacre – Philippa Gregory

Virgin Earth – Philippa Gregory

Zelda’s Cut – Philippa Gregory

The Little House – Philippa Gregory

East of the Sun – Julia Gregson

The Idea of Perfection – Kate Grenville

The Secret River – Kate Grenville

The Confessions of Max Tivoli – Andrew Sean Greer

La Touche Etoile – Benoit Groult

The Laments – George Hagen

The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid

The Speckled People – Hugo Hamilton

Hurting Distance – Sophie Hannah

The Gone-Away World – Nick Harkaway

Tokyo – Mo Hayder

The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard

Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn

The Secret of Crickley Hall – James Herbert

The Widow of the South – Robert Hicks

The Pure in Heart – Susan Hill

Local Girls – Alice Hoffman

The Drowning Season – Alice Hoffman

Carry Me Down – M J Hyland

Madensky Square – Eva Ibbotson

The Gospel According to Judas – Benjamin Iscariot

The Word According to Garp – John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro

War Crimes for the Home – Liz Jensen

Painting Mona Lisa – Jeanne Kalogridis

Be Mine – Laura Kasischke

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

A Party in San Niccolo – Christobel Kent

Cell – Stephen King

Song for Susannah – Stephen King

The Wolves of Calla – Stephen King

Lisey’s Story – Stephen King

Out – Natsuo Kirino

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

By the Light of the Moon – Dean Koontz

Man Walks into A Room – Nicole Krauss

I Know this Much is True – Wally Lamb

The Seduction of Silence – Bem Le Hunte

The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi

Small Island –Andrea Levy

My Latest Grievance – Eleanor Lipman

Reflections from a Bookshop Window – Clive Linklater

Ferney - James Long

The Anatomy School – Bernard MacLaverty

On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan

The Memory of Running – Ron McLarty

J’ai Reve de Courir – Ron McLarty

The Alchemist’s Apprentice – Katharine McMahon

The Diary of Ma Yan

Fludd – Hilary Mantel

Property – Valerie Martin

Stuart – A Life Backwards – Alexander Masters

Autobiography of A Geisha – Sayo Masuda

Where Love Goes – Joyce Maynard

Black Swan Green – David Mitchell

The Skin Gods – Richard Montanari

Vinegar Hill – A Manette Ansay

Big Chief Elizabeth – Giles Milton

The Wrong Way Home – Peter Moore

Natural Flights of the Human Mind – Clare Morrall

The Last Witchfinder – James Morrow

Kafka on the Shore – Murakami

Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky

Man Crazy – Carol Oates

People I Wanted to Be – Gina Ochsner

At Swim Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill

The Orchid Thief – Susan Orlean

Himalaya – Michael Palin

Italian Neighbours – Tim |Parks

Pop Goes the Weasel – James Patterson

1st To Die – James Patterson

An Instance of the Fingerpost – Iain Pears

Delicious – Nicky Pellegrino

Songs of the Humpback Whale – Jodi Picoult

The Ruby in the Smoke – Philip Pullman

The Scarecrow and his Servant – Philip Pullman

Banished Children of Eve – Peter Quinn

The Naming of the Dead – Ian Rankin

Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

The Devil’s Footsteps – E E Richardson

The Va Dinci Cod – A R R R Roberts

Les Ombres du Lac – Nora Roberts

The Reincarnationalist – M J Rose

The Interpretation of Murder – Jed Rubenfeld

London – The Novel – Edward Rutherford

Despite the Falling Snow – Shamim Sarif

Drowing Ruth – Christina – Schwarz

The Almost Moon – Alice Sebold

The *** of Istanbul – Elif Shafak

The Illumination of Merton Browne – J M Shaw

Double Fault – Lionel Shriver

The Post Birthday World – Lionel Shriver

Tully – Paullina Simons

Endymion Spring – Matthew Skelton

A Faint Cold Fear – Karin Slaughter

Indelible – Karin Slaughter

The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks

The Child that Books Built – Francis Spufford

Un Si Grand Amour – Danielle Steel

Dracula – Bram Stoker

The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan

My Name is Martha Brown – Nicola Thorne

Thomas Hardy – The Time Torn Man – Claire Tomalin

How to Talk to a Widower – Jonathan Tropper

With One Lousy Packet of Seed – Lynne Truss

Back When We Were Grown Ups – Anne Tyler

Earthly Possessions – Anne Tyler

A Map of Glass – Jane Urquhart

Miss Garnet’s Angel – Sally Vickers

Yes Man – Danny Wallace

The Falling Angels – John Walsh

The Princes in the Tower – Alison Weir

The Secrets of the Masterchefs – Irvine Welsh

Sophie’s Bakery for the Broken Hearted – Lolly Winston

The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

Gem Squash Tokoloshe – Rachel Zadok

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miranda · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject:

Lord of the Flies and The handmaid's tale are must reads treez. You will definitely love Lord of the Flies it is quite dark and creepy. I enjoyed The Handmaid's Tale too it's like 1984 from a female perspective - also quite frightening. The only other one I have read on your list is The Alchemist I wasn't too keen on it, but it was ages ago I read it - my sister gave it to me to help me decide about my future! LOL
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Tigerlily · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject:

I'd like to read The Handmaid's Tale too. I read The Alchemist a couple of years ago and I could relate to it - I see lots of those 'signs', apparently sent by the Universe, and they've all been significant to me.
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lovely treez · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject:

Bumped as I would appreciate some input on where to go next! Of course there is the small matter of The Winter Queen (awaiting me at the library) and Beauty which are both TBR soon for reading groups. I must seek out my copy of The Colour Purple from years ago - around the time the film came out - whenever that was??

If you have time please comment on any of the TBR pile. Negatives AND positives!

sirg1006 · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject:

Not read many

The Alchemist I loved (bought about 4 more of his books but not had the chance to read them yet)... keeping The Alchemist though - one of the few I want to re-read.

Goodnight Mr Tom was a great book (and love the film) although I think I was in about Primary 6 when I read it (aged 10/11?).

A lot of other authors I know on your list and like/heard they're good but not read any.

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miranda · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject:

LT

You should definitely read The Handmaid's Tale next!!! The only other one I could comment on would be The Lady and The Unicorn; I didn't enjoy this at all and gave up about 40 or so pages in. Hope this helps!
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sparkymarky · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject:

now see i loved lady and the unicorn but then it was the first of chevaliers i have read

MissMuppet · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject:

The Constant Princess is good, but then all her books are good... I read Driving Over Lemons on my way back from France and it was very good, will probably read the next one after Fingersmith unless anything more tempting comes my way first!

blueflower · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

Looked through your list and picked out the ones I have read and put in order. The one I liked best first. I haven’t read Lord of the Flies for years but think I liked it. I wasn’t keen on Driving over Lemons. I think this was the book I had to give up on because of the description of pig killing. Despite been a farmers daughter I prefer not to read about the mechanics of meat production.

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The American Boy - Andrew Taylor
Narrow Dog To Carcassonne - Terry Darlington
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Highest Tide - Jim Lynch
First to Die - James Patterson
Driving over Lemons - Chris Stewart

I have got quote a few of the other books on your list but haven’t read them but would like to read the Sarah Rayne and The Crimson Petal and the White but it may be sometime before I get around to them.

grockle · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:06 am Post subject:

i have recently read 'the constant princess' - i enjoyed it, even though it left things out i wanted to be in. it's a totally different way of looking at catherine and henry.

miss garnet's angel is wonderful. i cannot recomend this highly enough.

lord of the flies i studied in school, and it's a great story but i havent looked at it in 20yrs.

a dark dividing is brilliant - very dark, and keeps you guessing.

at swim two boys. good, and if you dont know your irish history well it is really educational as well as being a great story.

lovely treez · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

Thank you for your thoughts, Grockle - it's good to have some feedback and it can help us make a decision on what to read next. Do you have much on your TBR Pile?

grockle · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:47 pm Post subject:

oh, lovely treez, i have 3 shelves full!

here's some of them:

the crimson petal and the white, michael faber
the dream merchant, isabel hoving
birds without wings, louis de beniers
gridlinked, niel asher
the holcroft covenant, robert ludlum
dissolution, gj jansom
coldheart canyon, clive barker
without my cloak, kate o'brien
wilderness tips, margaret atwod
when dreams travel, githa hariharan
the reader, bernhart schlink
local girls, alice hoffman
beyond black, hilary mantel
death of an ordinary man, glen duncan
the innocent, posie graeme-evans
one glass is never enough, jane wenham-jones
crime and punishment, fyodor dostroyevsky
the stand, stephen king
the flea palace, elif shafak
the first casualty, ben elton
eight of swords, david skibbins
following the wake, gemma o'connor
the moonstone, wilkie collins
mrs dalloway, virginia woolf
the chamber, john grisham
the black prince, iris murdoch
1916, morgan llywellynduende, jason webstane
lady anna, anthony trollope
children of eve, deirdre purcell
the portable virgin, ann enright
vodka, boris starling

actually, i think i'll cross reference this in my own thread!
it's getting quite big - sorry!

jerseygirl · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:34 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't dare list mine there must be 80 or so still to read and I cannot resist a swap.

mistymoo · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject:

The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory - I have't read any by her yet, but have got The Little house on my tbr pile, she is meant to be a good

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen - Got this on my tbr pile also

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - I've got The Penelopiad on my tbr pile, i hope it gets chosen in the book of the month.

Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult - Got on my tbr pile
The Pact - Jodi Picoult - Loved this book, the only JP one I have read, I've heard MSK is really good, got that on my Christmas list!
Me and Emma - Elizabeth Flock - got that on my tbr pile, and my Mum has borrowed it at the moment, she seems to be enjoyng it.
Beauty - Sheri S Tepper - Really liked this book, different to what I normally read. Recommended
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katey · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:03 pm Post subject:

Read I Capture the Castle-I loved it, although I found it quite slow going in places. I'd also like Goodnight Mr Tom-need to add it to my wanted list!
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grockle · Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

the handmaids tale is wonderful. i voted for the penelopiad too!

lovely treez · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject:

Bumped as I'd neglected this since November...

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mummymelly · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: Lovely Treez's TBR pile

The Baby Group - Rowan Coleman- on TBR
My Latest Grievance - Elinor Lipman - on TBR
The Abortionist's Daughter - Elisabeth Hyde - on TBR
The Mathematics of Love - Emma Darwin - on TBR
The Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier - couldn't get into this
The Church of Dead Girls - Stephen Dobyns - on TBR
Second Glance - Jodi Picoult - excellent
Air Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones - excellent read, liked this as much as Hotel
Tuscany for Beginners - Imogen Edwards Jones - on TBR
The Testatment of Gideon Mack - James Robertson - currently reading
The Little House - Philippa Gregory - on TBR
The Secret River - Kate Grenville - another I couldn't get into
The Pact - Jodi Picoult - excellent read
Never Look Back - Lesley Pearse - very good, love this author
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Mazzystar · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:16 am Post subject:

My Latest Grievance - Elinor Lipman - on my TBR
The Time Waster Letters - Robin Cooper - Had forgotten about this, want to read at some point
The Abortionist's Daughter - Elisabeth Hyde - want to read this too

The Mathematics of Love - Emma Darwin - Just finished, good read
Small Island - Andrea Levy - have read, great read
Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland - have read, good read
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - have read, fantastic read
A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly - on my TBR
Half a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - want to read, trying to get hold of a copy!
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - read, one of my favourite books
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan - want to read
The World According to Garp - John Irving - want to read
The Pact - Jodi Picoult - on my TBR
Atonement - Ian McEwan - read, ok book
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lovely treez · Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:56 am Post subject:

updated 27/08/07

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