Book Wish List

[sagedautumn]

It's the holidays, the season of giving; and more importantly, getting something back for your long efforts in trying to get the perfect gift for your loved ones. Sooo..... what books are on your holiday wishlist? Why?

[bookworm]

Oh this is such a good topic sagedautumn! Actually, I've been trying to narrow down my wish list in the past few days but I haven't been very successful... Everyday I think of a new book I always wanted or someone mentions reading a great book or I watch an old GG episode and Rory is reading something else... It's crazy! I will post back when I have my top-5 books...

[Lu]

Totally know what you mean, bookworm. Since my parents asked me about some books I wish for Christmas I tried to write a shorter list but it's really an hard work

[sagedautumn]

I honestly can't figure out which ones to post either. I have an ongoing battle with myself each time I go to buy a book for myself as to which one I should buy!

[Paige]

My parents asked me to make a list of books I want for Christmas. I was like ok this will be easy, no problem. So I just started typing up books I wanted and ended up with around 50. Well, my parents love me and all, but not enough to buy me 50 books. I'm trying to narrow it down to no more than 10. I figure that way they can have a choice of which ones they want to buy, and it'll be sort of a surprise. I'll post them once I get it figured out...

[sagedautumn]

haha!

[bookaddict]

I'm not asking for books this year. I bought way too many already,

[Isa]

Same here!

[zeldafitzgerald]

My books wishlist this year:

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
At Large and Small by Anne Fadiman
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (the new edition illustrated by Lauren Child
Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 by Phil Baines
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote by Truman Capote

I've been told I'm extremely hard to shop for, so my family tends to stick to my lists. Though my mom always finds a few great surprises for me too. I make long lists so they can pick and choose and so I'm still surprised about what things I actually get.

[Michelle]

These were the books on my wishlist this year:

- Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
- New Moon and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
- The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class by David S. Kidder
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen (Six Volume Set) by Jane Austen
- The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

[sagedautumn]

Here are some of Mine:

A Sweet Far Thing: It will be sad to see this trilogy go!! But I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book!
Eclipse: I have been holding out since August and I can't hold out no more!!
Stardust: I really liked the movie and now i want to read the book!
I am America and So Can You (Stephen Colbert Rocks!!!)
Water for Elephants: The story line seems really interesting

[Lu]

I've tried to narrow my list down a little:

- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Idiot by Fedor Dostoevskij
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
- Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- La Chiave a Stella by Primo Levi
- Storia Delle Mie Storie by Bianca Pitzorno
- Il Mestiere di Vivere by Cesare Pavese
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Vanity Fair by WIlliam M. Thackeray
- The Death of Ivan Ilych by Lev Tolstoj
- Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
- The electric kool-aid acid test by Tom Wolfe

[bookworm]

lu, seems we have some common books on our 'shortened' lists!
My list:
- The kite runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Les miserables by Victor Hugo
- As I lay dying by William Faulkner
- The sound and the fury by William Faulkner
- Fahreneit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[Lu]

bookworm said:

lu, seems we have some common books on our 'shortened' lists!