TBR LIST - 11/02/2010

• The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
• Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
• Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
• Stories we could tell - Tony Parsons
• Extreme- My Autobiography - Sharon Osbourne
• Next to you - Gloria Hunniford
• Filthy Rich - Wendy Holden
• Death on the nile - Agatha Christie

• 4.50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie
• Putting on the style - Freda Lightfoot
• A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
• Nighteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• 253 - Geoff Ryman
• Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
• Ransom - Danielle Steel
• The No1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
• Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
• To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The old house on the corner - Maureen Lee
• Balaclava Row - Patricia Grey
• A dinner of herbs - Catherine Cookson
• A mothers love - Lyn Andrews
• An innocent man - John Grisham
• Footprints in the sand - Sarah Challis
• Different Seasons featuring The shawshank redemption - Stephen King
• Down Under - Bill Bryson
• The Kiss - Danielle Steel
• Made in America - Bill Bryson
• The last of the mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper
• Which brings me to you -  Steve Almond & Julianna Baggott
• Killing me softly - Nicci French
• Lucky - Alice Sebold
• The house at Riverton - Kate Morton
• A walk in the woods - Bill Bryson
• Roots - Alex Haley
• Neither here nor there - Bill Bryson
• The wedding - Danielle Steel
• Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
• Chocolate Girls - Annie Murray
• The catalpa tree - Denyse Devlin
• City Lives - Patricia Scanlan
• Star of the sea - Jospeh O'Connor
• Mulligan's Yard - Ruth Hamilton
• The catcher in rye - J.D.Salinger
• The late arrival - Jemima Hunt
• The true and outstanding adventures of the hunt sisters - Elisabeth Robinson
• Every second counts- Lance Armstrong
• Mary, Mary - James Patterson
• Gangster - Lorenzo Carcaterra
• We were soldiers once...and young - LT. Gen Harold G. Moore (Ret) and Joseph L. Galloway
• Cross - James Patterson
• The autobiography - Martin Johnson
• Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks
• It's a kind of magic - Carole Matthews
• Pop goes the weasel - James Patterson
• Four blind mice - James Patterson
• Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
• a small part of me - Noelle Harrison
• Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
• Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
• Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
• Lifeguard - James Patterson
• The luxury of time - Jane & Mike Tomlinson
• Sleep no more - Greg Iles
• The small boat of great sorrows - Dan Fesperman
• The broker - John Grisham
• Violets are blue - James Patterson
• Then we came to the end - Joshua Ferris
• An accomplished woman - Jude Morgan
• The sound of laughter - Peter Kay
• Lovely Green Eyes - Arnost Lustig   (PROMISED TO JULIE32)
• The reading group - Elizabeth Noble
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel
• Rose Alley - Audrey Howard
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• Persuading Annie - Melissa Nathan
• This Book will save your life - A.M.Holmes
• The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
• The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
• 24 Hours - Greg Iles
• Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
• Sophie's Bakery for the Broken Hearted - Lolly Winston
• The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon
• The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
• The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
• Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson
• Just One Look - Harlen Coben
• Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcatera
• My Best Friend's Girl - Dorothy Koomson
• The world according to Clarkson - Jeremy Clarkson
• The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
• Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
• We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Schriver
• Gentlemen & Players - Joanne Harris
• Girl with a pearl earring - Tracy Chevalier
• The Harmony Silk Factory - Tash Aw
• The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
• The Murder Book - Jonathan Kellerman
• If nobody speaks of remarkable things - Jon Mcgregor
• Can you keep a secret - Sophie Kinsella
• The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
• The Butterfly House - Marcia Preston
• The Abortionist's Daughter - Elizabeth Hyde
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
• Hurting Distance - Sophie Hannah
• Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs
• Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
• The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
• The Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
• Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
• My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
• The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
• Overheard in Dream - Torey Hayden
• The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets - Sophie Hannah
• I'm a Believer - Jessica Adams
• The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith
• Blue Shoes & Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith
• The Big Stone Gap Trilogy - Adriana Trigiani
• The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
• Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
• The Stone Diaries - Carole Shields
• Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
• The Wedding Officer - Anthony Capella
• The English Patient- Michael Ondaatje
• In Between The Sheets - Ian McEwan
• Omnibus: A is for Alibi, B is for Burgalar and C is for Corpse - Sue Grafton
• Disgrace - J M Coetzee
• Carter Beats The Devil - Glen David Gold
• That'll Be The Day - Freda Lightfoot
• Sail - James Patterson
• On The Edge: My Story - Richard Hammond
• Pilgrim State - Jacqueline Walker
• Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
• Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
• The Food of Love - Anthony Capella
• The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris
• Notes From an Exhibition - Patrick Gale
• The Resurrectionist - James Bradley
• Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
• An Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfield
• Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
• Pig Island - Mo Hayder
• Vanish - Tess Gerritsen
• The Colour of Law - Mark Gimenez
• The Memory of Running - Ron Mclarty
• City of Ice - John Farrow
• Beautiful Lies - Lisa Unger
• Tokyo - Mo Hayder
• On Chesil Beach - Ian Mcewan
• A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
• The Timer Game - Susan Arnout Smith
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie
• The Observations - Jane Harris
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
• Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
• Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
• The Mathematics of Love - Emma Darwin
• The Point of Rescue - Sophie Hannah
• Hide and Seek - Claire Sambrook
• A Short History of Tractors in the Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
• In The Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
• The Pillars of The Earth - Ken Follett  (MY BOOK CHALLENGE BOOK FOR 2010)
• The Appeal - John Grisham
• Always and Forever - Cathy Kelly
• At My Mothers Knee....and other low joints - Paul O'Grady
• The Future Homemakers of America - Laurie Graham
• Last Man Down - The Fireman's Story - Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto
• The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
• Strange Fits of Passion - Anita Shreve
• Double Cross - James Patterson
• Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
• East of The Sun - Julia Gregson
• The Good Plain Cook - Bethan Roberts
• War of The Worlds - H.G.Wells (MY BOOK CHALLENGE BOOK FOR 2009)
• My Life With George - Judith Summers
• Marley and Me - John Grogan
• The Third Angel - Alice Hoffmann
• I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
• The Colour - Rose Tremain
• Oranges are not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
• Season of the Witch - Natasha Mostert
• What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
• Things I Want My Daughter to Know - Elizabeth Noble
• Sushi For Beginners - Marian Keyes
• Walking Ollie - Stephen Foster
• The Last to Know - Melissa Hill
• A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
• The Pursuit of Happyness - Chris Gardner
• A Quiet Vendetta - R.J. Ellory
• Perfume - Patrick Suskind
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
• The Kissing Gates - Mackenzie Ford
• Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
• The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
• Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Idea of Perfection - Kate Grenville
• The Plague - Albert Camus
• Angels Crest - Leslie Schwartz
• Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
• A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve
• The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
• Dubliners - James Joyce
• Ice Trap - Kitty Sewell
• The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
• Dear Fatty - Dawn French
• Broken Biscuits - Liz Kettle
• Playing With The Moon - Eliza Graham
• The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
• Wild Swans - Jung Chang
• The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
• The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
• Animal Instincts - Alan Titchmarsh

• Double Fault - Lionel Shriver
• The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
• Crossing the Lines - Melvyn Bragg
• I am fifteen and I do not want to die - Christine Arnothy
• The Journal of Dora Damage - Belinda Starling
• Under The Skin - Michael Faber
• The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
• A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar
• Brother of the more famous Jack - Barbara Trapido
• The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
• Sign of the Cross - Chris Kuzneski
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
• Company of Liars - Karen Maitland
• Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
• Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
• Mrs Kimble - Jennifer Haigh
• The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
• The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
• Love Songs and Lies - Libby Purves
• The Rose of Sebastopol - Katharine Mcmahon
• Thanks for the Memories - Cecelia Ahern
• Rumour has it - Jill Mansell 
• Blood River - Tim Butcher
• The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton
• Vinegar Hill - A.Manette Ansay
• The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt
• Ways to live forever - Sally Nicholls
• Born Under a Million Shadows - Andrea Busfield
• The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
• Home - Marilynne Robinson
• The Piano Teacher - Janice Y K Lee
• By any means - Charley Boorman
• That they may face the rising sun - John McGahern
• Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
• A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
• Too Close to Home - Linwood Barclay
• Rosewater and Soda Bread - Marsha Mehran
• Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
• Songs of The Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult
• Starting Over - Tony Parsons
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
• The Good Mayor - Andrew Nicoll
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Testimony - Anita Shreve
• The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
• Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
• The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
• Bright Shiny Morning - James Frey
• I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
• Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
• My Friend Leonard - James Frey
• The Brutal Art - Jesse Kellerman
• Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
• Missing You Already - Pauline McLynn
• The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
• Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
• Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift
• 2666 - Roberto Bolano   (MY BOOK CHALLENGE BOOK FOR 2010)
• The Time of My Life - Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi
• The Book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern
• East of the Mountains - David Guterson
• The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
• Julius Winsome - Gerard Donovan
• The Last Family in England - Matt Haig
• The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
• A Simple Act of Violence - R J Ellory
• Fixing Shadows - Susan Barrett
• The Miracle at Speedy Motors - Alexander McCall Smith
• The Gift - Cecelia Ahern
• The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith
• Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard
• American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld
• Gardens of Water - Alan Drew
• Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
• Soft Voices Whispering - Adrienne Dines
• The Watchman - Robert Crais
• Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
• 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
• The Girl with Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
• The Outlander - Gil Adamson
• City of Lies - R.J.Ellory
• The Boy with the Cuckoo - Clock Heart - Mathias Malzieu
• The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
• Swimsuit - James Patterson
• Sundays at Tiffanys - James Patterson

 the only one ive read is dont tell mummy toni maguire i enjoyed this

i do have a few others but there on my to be read list 

The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney - enjoyed once got used to the different narratives.
Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann - tbr
Nighteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - read years ago
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse - tbr
The No1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith - light easy read
Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith - light easy read
To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee B - enjoyed
A dinner of herbs - Catherine Cookson - Only book by Catherine Cookson I have read and didn't enjoy it at all.  Put me off reading her other books.
Footprints in the sand - Sarah Challis - tbr
The house at Riverton - Kate Morton - tbr
Star of the sea - Jospeh O'Connor - tbr
Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks - tbr

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse - read and enjoyed

To Kill A Mocking Bird - Read and loved

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - quite a good story, although lots of descriptive passages in places

• Death on the nile - Agatha Christie - I love both of these Agatha Christie books - classics!
• 4.50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie
• Labyrinth - Kate Mosse got this on my TBR
• Four blind mice - James Patterson really good read
• Then we came to the end - Joshua Ferris I enjoyed this , but I think its not everybody's cup of tea

•  
• Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela. TBR.
• Nighteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell. Started twice but couldn't get into this. Might try it again one day.
• To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee. Studied this for GCSE. Absolutely loved it. Very good book.
• Lucky - Alice Sebold TBR
• Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder. TBR
• The catcher in rye - J.D.Salinger. studied for AS level. Didn't really like it. It was ok but I
• Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult. Loved this.

TBR LIST - 19/04/2008

• The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney - on my TBR, I'm planning to read this one in Kefalonia next month
• Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann - This was OK, I found the first half very slow but it got better
  
• Second Chance - Jane Green - on my TBR
  
• Cat and Mouse - James Patterson - read this when it was first published, enjoyed it then
  
• Extreme- My Autobiography - Sharon Osbourne - it was OK but a bit over the top
  
• 
  
• Nighteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - a classic, I read it in my teens and would like to re-read it
  
• 253 - Geoff Ryman - didnt really enjoy this
  
• Labyrinth - Kate Mosse - loved this one
  
• To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee - wonderful, one of my favourite books now
  
• A dinner of herbs - Catherine Cookson - read years and years ago and enjoyed it a the time
• Before I wake - R.J.Wiersema - on my TBR
  
• Lucky - Alice Sebold - an excellent read, very emotional though
  
• The house at Riverton - Kate Morton - loved this one
  
• Chocolate Girls - Annie Murray - a nice easy read
  
• The catalpa tree - Denyse Devlin - on my TBR
  
• City Lives - Patricia Scanlan - have enjoyed one of hers, this is a good series
• Star of the sea - Jospeh O'Connor - didnt enjoy this at all
  
• a small part of me - Noelle Harrison - on myTBR
• The five people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom - really not my thing, too sickly sweet
  
• Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult - my least favourite of hers
  
• Then we came to the end - Joshua Ferris - on myTBR
• The sound of laughter - Peter Kay  - on my TBR
  
• Lovely Green Eyes - Arnost Lustig - on my TBR
  
• The reading group - Elizabeth Noble - gave up on this one
• 
  
• Rose Alley - Audrey Howard- on my TBR
  
• 
  

Excellent list - lots to look forward to on there...

• The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney Really absorbing read, loved it (not sure it's the right book for Kefalonia though Anne!)
• Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann Another one I loved - heartbreaking
• A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Been meaning to read this for ages, but something else always takes priority...!
• Nighteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell Read many years ago but made an enormous impression
• Labyrinth - Kate Mosse Loved it - Cathars not something I knew about before, 2 parallel stories well told (don't let the size put you off...)
• To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee Still haven't read this, and slightly ashamed of myself...
• Footprints in the sand - Sarah Challis Excellent nonsense, well written superior tosh... (loved it)
• Losing you - Nicci French Does she ever write a bad one? But not her best...
• The Kiss - Danielle Steel If you like her (and I sometimes do...) this is a good one - up with some of her earlier ones
• Love & Dr Devon - Alan Titchmarsh Haven't read this one, but like how he writes...
• Killing me softly - Nicci French Now this IS one of her best...
• Lucky - Alice Sebold Brilliant book, but quite upsetting read...
• The house at Riverton - Kate Morton Good read, but a bit too long I thought..
• Chocolate Girls - Annie Murray A light read, but quite enjoyed it - read for a bookclub + wouldn't have thought of reading it otherwise
• The catalpa tree - Denyse Devlin Another good lightish one
• Star of the sea - Jospeh O'Connor Just couldn't get on with this one - hope you do better
• The catcher in rye - J.D.Salinger Classic - you should read, but I really didn't like it much
• Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks OK - but, unusually for me, liked film better
• Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier Some people loved this, I just couldn't get into it - didn't like film much either!
• The five people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom  Been on my TBR ages ... need to find out what the fuss is about
• Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Excellent read - loved it
• Sam's letters to Jennifer - James Patterson Large box of tissues... 
• Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult Not her best...
• The Lake House - James Patterson On TBR
• Then we came to the end - Joshua Ferris  Rarity - an R+J I didn't fancy
• Lovely Green Eyes - Arnost Lustig  My first swap challenge!! Will read soon...
• The reading group - Elizabeth Noble  Enjoyed this one
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel  Another on TBR that never makes it to top of the pile 

Thanks for taking the time to reply with your comments regarding my list.

I haven't read any Jodi Picoult before so I think that perhaps I will leave Vanishing Act for now and start off with one of her others.

From what you have all said so far I think I will move Lucky by Alice Sebold and To kill a mockingbird up near the top of my list.

• Extreme- My Autobiography - Sharon Osbourne Very enjoyable
• Labyrinth - Kate Mosse Ok, didn't like it that much
• An innocent man - John Grisham Quite good
• The house at Riverton - Kate Morton Loved it
• The catcher in rye - J.D.Salinger I read this about 15 years ago, thought it was ok
• The broker - John Grisham Not one of his best
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards Didn't like it, found it boring
• Little Face - Sophie Hannah Enjoyed but didn't like the ending

amethystmegan:

Here goes my first shot at doing my TBR, I will try to keep this as updated as I can:

TBR LIST - 21/04/2008

• The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney  Very good book, enjoyed this one alot
• Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann On my TBR 
• To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee Very good book
• Losing you - Nicci French Was ok, not one of their best
• Killing me softly - Nicci French Excellent book, loved this
• Mary, Mary - James Patterson Not as good as the other Alex Cross books
• Cross - James Patterson On my TBR
• Pop goes the weasel - James Patterson Really good
• Four blind mice - James Patterson Good book
• Violets are blue - James Patterson Excellent, one of the best in the series 
• Little Face - Sophie Hannah  Very good and very twisty

OK I think that is it for now, I better go and do some reading now

 

amethystmegan:

•  
• Second Chance - Jane Green Loved it, love all Jane Green's
• Remember me? - Sophie Kinsella On my tbr
• To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee Read it at school, very good, on my tbr again
• A dinner of herbs - Catherine Cookson Read my mum's copy years ago, typical Cookson
• Hens Dancing - Raffaella Barker Very funny, makes me look normal
• Killing me softly - Nicci French Have just swapped for this
• The house at Riverton - Kate Morton Brilliant
• Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult Loved it, love them all
• Silent Boy - Torey Hayden On wishlist
• The sound of laughter - Peter Kay As you'd expect, funny
• The reading group - Elizabeth Noble very good enjoyed it
• Life of Pi - Yann Martel On my tbr
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards Good story but left me feeling a bit disappointed
• Little Face - Sophie Hannah Really brilliant
• Persuading Annie - Melissa Nathan Reading now ad enjoying it

 

Thanks for your comments guys if anyone is desperate for one of my list let me know and we may be able to sort something out.

Thanks again guys. 

Another few added