What book is currently by your bedside table?

Question

I've just finished McCarthy's No Country For Old Men and have just started The Life of Pi. What are you currently reading?

Answer 1

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Sunsanne Clarke

The Bible old testament according to Spike Milligan

Eclispe

The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert

Duma Key by Stephen King

Answer 2

just jane. its basically a biography of jane austen. its kinda slow, but overall good, i guess.

Answer 3

The Drowning Man by Micheal Robotham and In The Woods by Tana French

Am an avid reader, and yes I buy more books even though I have plenty to read, my husband is threatening to reinforce the floorboards lol.

Answer 4

Traditional crafts of Ireland , with the changes of the last few years ,it is nice to look back on life 50 years ago  

Answer 5

I'm rereading the god delusion by richard dawkins, its really good, interesting and well written.  

Answer 6

Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Answer 7

Just finished reading "Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - And the People Who Pay the Price" by Jonathan Cohn and "The Terror" by Dan Simmons, both great reads. Currently reading "The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge MD :)

Answer 8

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin

Girl, Missing - Sophie Mckenzie

Answer 9

At the moment Cell by Stephen King ( got only 20 more pages to go!)

Tomorrow it'll be The Other Boleyn Girl

I'm on the roll this summer, every 2 days it's a different book!

Answer 10

I've just finished Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March", am currently rereading Hemingway's "The Garden of Eden", and next up is Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway".

Answer 11

"Magical Wishes," the 7th book in the short-story anthology series "Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy," edited by Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh. It's pretty good.

Answer 12

Just looked and there are two:  Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon, and Green Eggs and Ham (lol) - my twins are learning to read and LOVE Green Eggs and Ham - gotta admit tho, I'm rapidly going off it!!!!!

Answer 13

The Secret History of the World, by Jonathan Black.

Answer 14

Dream Chaser by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Answer 15

Three books, actually. May On Motors by James May, a book about computer bots, and another book called 'Is It Just Me Or Is Everything ****?', the second installment.

Answer 16

The one I'm writing, and all the c**p that comes with it, IE: post-its, pens, notebooks, notecards...

Answer 17

South. by Ernest Shackleton.

Answer 18

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (rereading the series) and The Kite Runner

Answer 19

Camern Reid - Late night shopping, Just this morning finished Jane moore - perfect match  

Answer 20

Atonement by Ian McEwan and when that gets too heavy I am re-reading the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King.

Answer 21

The Dark of summer. By Eric Linklater. just started it.  

Answer 22

Rhett Butler's People - It's a sequel to Gone with the Wind, but it's not as good as Scarlett.

Answer 23

Life as we knew it.

It's a really good book about like the moon knocking closer to the Earth causing tons of tsunami's and stuff. It's about a girl and her family surviving the post apocalyptic life.

Answer 24

I just finished 1984 by George Orwell last week.

Now I'm reading The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner.

Answer 25

i just finished breaking dawn by stephenie meyer it is great

Answer 26

2 books at the moment -

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill ( the play is so scary!!)

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

Answer 27

I have 3 actually. I read depending on mood. I have Jane Austen's complete works, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the King James version of the Bible.

Answer 28

Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer

Queen of Babble, by Meg Cabot

Answer 29

I'm reading a book called "The Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier that I stumbled across in the library.  Very interesting story.  

It's based on a belief in many areas in Africa that when someone dies, there's actually two different places that they go.  The first place is somewhere they live as long as there is a single person still alive who remembers them.  (I mean *actually* remembers them...not someone who's only *heard* of them.)  Once the last person who actually remembers you dies, you move on to the final place.

The story goes back and forth from this place to Earth.  A deadly plague wipes out just about everyone on Earth, and as the people are dying very rapidly, the place in the next world where the "remembered" souls are starts to empty out rapidly, as the souls there suddenly have no one alive to remember them.  There is one woman who was in the Antarctic on an expedition, and she survives the plague, and the souls of those in her memory are the only ones left in the "next" world.

Very interesting story.

http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Dead...

Answer 30

Robin Hobb's Trilogy "The Tawny Man" - reading the second one at the moment but near the end so will be starting the third soon.

Answer 31

The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman.