Books you have bought but haven't read yet

[StephenKingman]

Know what you mean, i have a whole shelf of books waiting to be read but i love having the choice of them all there.

Got that Nintendo DS Cart with 100 classic novels.

I have read 0 so far....

[Howardasherman]

Here are books that I've been given to review but haven't gotten to yet:

Messages: Signs, Visits and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11 by Bonnie McEneaney

Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto by Dick Armey

Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Normon Ollestad

Destiny's Drum by L. Ron Hubbard

Here's one I picked up at the library and hope to get to over Thanksgiving:

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

Howard Sherman

[Elphaba]

I have so many of these. Especially ebooks. When I read a good review that I like about a book that is free or very cheap (<5$) as an ebook I just buy or download it. Some of what I have...
Frankenstein
Dracula
The day of the triffid
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Awakening and other stories
Childhood's End
A Canticle For Leibowitz
Emerson's Essays
His Majesty's Dragon

[GotThatSwing]

I have so many TBR books at home. The list is never ending as the amount of books grows after my each visit in the bookstore. I tried to keep away from bookstores for a while but it didn't work out for long.

[Aspasia]

I have Tolkien's biography and Sylvia Plath's unabridged journals that I still need to read.

[NikkiMoe]

I bought the book IT but never read it, It just sits on my book shelf

[Carolineh]

[quote="keep.walking"]I love to buy books, I would say I buy one ever week. It is kind of a Hobby. And I hate to read books that arent mine, even those from libraries. I MUST own the book i am reading, and I must have it on my shelf.

This is why I cant use the library - fines for not returning a book are huge!
I am so glad to see so many people with the same 'must buy books' attitude! My partner (not a reader!) can’t understand it at all and I am currently banned from bookstores after my last trip...3 for 2 so I walked out with 10!? These are tricky, you pick up 3 but then find a 4th you really want so you've got to go to 6(otherwise it's not a bargain!) and then you see a 7th etc.
I love the whole searching through the shelves at bookstores and prefer the independent used stores where you can hardly move for the books.
At the moment I have a TBR pile of about 13 when I get down to about 3 I will restock!

[Fran]

Some of my Xmas gifts to myself:

A History of Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
1415 Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer

Should be enough there to see me through Xmas anyway ... but the to be read shelf is creaking.

[AzKowgirl]

Oh, boy ... in which room, and on what shelf, do I even begin my list?

[StephenKingman]

Some of my Xmas gifts to myself:

A History of Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
1415 Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer

Should be enough there to see me through Xmas anyway ... but the to be read shelf is creaking.

Real variety there Fran, that would keep me going until next Xmas!

[Fran]

Some of my Xmas gifts to myself:

A History of Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
1415 Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer

Should be enough there to see me through Xmas anyway ... but the to be read shelf is creaking.

Real variety there Fran, that would keep me going until next Xmas!

Just in case we get more snow - have to be prepared

[StephenKingman]

Ha it reminds me of the scene in The Road where the father and son, starving and freezing, chance upon a house with a secret basement of food, drink and supplies, in your case it would be intellectual stimulation

[Fran]

[Mairin]

I have so many of these. Especially ebooks. When I read a good review that I like about a book that is free or very cheap (<5$) as an ebook I just buy or download it. Some of what I have...
Frankenstein
Dracula
The day of the triffid
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Awakening and other stories
Childhood's End
A Canticle For Leibowitz
Emerson's Essays
His Majesty's Dragon

Those are some good books you have on your TBR list!! I loved Dracula and Frankenstein. I did not care for Oscar Wilde's hatred towards women in The Picture of Dorain Gray, but I also have to admit it is a well written story that does deserve to be read.

[Browsers]

"History of the United States" by Henry Adams....will I seriously ever read this? Important, insightful, one of the best books of its type, but still. If only I was more into US history, I might be inspired. Oh, well...at least 20% of the books in the house are unread. Is that bad?

oh--almost forgot. Whoever it was that had Dracula on the list--beware.... Hated it as a teenager, read it again last year & still thought it was awful!!