Which book are you reading now? Volume XIII

[hobbsyoyo]

Question:

Do any of you binge read? - I seem to go through a cycle where I will get bored of reading halfway through a book, not pick a book up for months and then i'll read half a dozen in a month, before the cycle repeats.

It might be something to do with an obsessive personality (I tend to focus on one thing for a period then change focus to something else).

I don't really binge read but I do read in spurts. I don't really read more than one book at a time for whatever reason but I will start a book, stop, then come back to it weeks or months later and continue reading.

 

[Birdjaguar]

America's Favorite books 2018 Edition

America’s Best-Loved Novel will be chosen by viewers like you based on The Great American Read top 100 books list. The top 100 books were chosen through a survey of Americans conducted by PBS, The Great American Readand a polling service (more on that selection process below). The books chosen could be from anywhere in the world as long as they were published in English – the only requirement was that they be fiction. From beloved world literature to contemporary bestsellers, the list contains a broad range of novels, authors, time periods, countries, genres and subject matter.

Bolding mine.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Outlander (Series)
3. Harry Potter (Series)
4. Pride and Prejudice
5. Lord of the Rings
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Charlotte’s Web
8. Little Women
9. Chronicles of Narnia
10. Jane Eyre
11. Anne of Green Gables
12. Grapes of Wrath
13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
14. Book Thief
15. Great Gatsby
16. The Help
17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
18. 1984
19. And Then There Were None
20. Atlas Shrugged
21. Wuthering Heights
22. Lonesome Dove
23. Pillars of the Earth
24. Stand
25. Rebecca
26. A Prayer for Owen Meany
27. Color Purple
28. Alice in Wonderland
29. Great Expectations
30. Catcher in the Rye
31. Where the Red Fern Grows
32. Outsiders
33. The Da Vinci Code
34. The Handmaid’s Tale
35. Dune
36. The Little Prince
37. Call of the Wild
38. The Clan of the Cave Bear
39. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy
40. The Hunger Games
41. The Count of Monte Cristo
42. The Joy Luck Club
43. Frankenstein
44. The Giver
45. Memoirs of a Geisha
46. Moby Dick
47. Catch 22
48. Game of Thrones (series)
49. Foundation (series)
50. War and Peace
51. Their Eyes Were Watching God
52. Jurassic Park
53. The Godfather
54. One Hundred Years of Solitude
55. The Picture of Dorian Gray
56. The Notebook
57. The Shack
58. A Confederacy of Dunces
59. The Hunt for Red October
60. Beloved
61. The Martian
62. The Wheel of Time (series)
63. Siddhartha
64. Crime and Punishment
65. The Sun Also Rises
66. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
67. A Separate Peace
68. Don Quixote
69. The Lovely Bones
70. The Alchemist
71. Hatchet (series)
72. Invisible Man
73. The Twilight Saga (series)
74. Tales of the City (series)
75. Gulliver’s Travels
76. Ready Player One
77. Left Behind (series)
78. Gone Girl
79. Watchers
80. The Pilgrim’s Progress
81. Alex Cross Mysteries (series)
82. Things Fall Apart
83. Heart of Darkness
84. Gilead
85. Flowers in the Attic
86. Fifty Shades of Grey
87. The Sirens of Titan
88. This Present Darkness
89. Americanah
90. Another Country
91. Bless Me, Ultima
92. Looking for Alaska
93. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
94. Swan Song
95. Mind Invaders
96. White Teeth
97. Ghost
98. The Coldest Winter Ever
99. The Intuitionist
100. Doña Bárbára

 

[yung.carl.jung]

not as bad as I expected, there's many good books in there

 

[Paul in Saudi]

I just finished Frederick Douglass; Prophet of Freedom because it was on Obama's book list. This has led me to The War Before the War which deals with some of the same issues.

 

[Kyriakos]

War and peace is the most favoured non anglo book there? (Other than the baobab one)
Why? Have they actually read it?
Tkamb seems a bit of a politi-insert, no?
No flowers for algernon seems casual.
No poe? W. Irving? Even Lovecraft (due to the mythos).
Maybe it is more of a "what books can you name" thing

 

[Dachs]

Tkamb seems a bit of a politi-insert, no?

I don't think so. From my teaching experience, TKAM's popularity has a lot more to do with its well-drawn characters than with its - somewhat squishy - political message.

 

[Kyriakos]

Maybe! I was expecting it to be high in a us list, just not at #1

 

[Birdjaguar]

I believe it is a popularity contest where anyone can vote. It shows what Americans as a big group like to read.

 

[Ajidica]

not as bad as I expected, there's many good books in there

Yeah.
Apart from Atlas Shrugged and 50 Shades of Grey, the list is a pretty decent mix of popular novels, classics, and "serious reading".

Reading a book I got for Christmas, Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago by Heath W. Carter. I'm not too far in to it, but it seems interesting if a bit dry. A friend recommended it because his professor wrote it.

 

[Kyriakos]

Reading some Aristotle; on the psyche. Book 1 is an overview of other philosophers' claims. Iirc book3 is quite interesting, cause it deals with the notion of position/movement.
Like every other book written, this too is not as boring as heidegger

 

[Traitorfish]

Yeah.
Apart from Atlas Shrugged and 50 Shades of Grey, the list is a pretty decent mix of popular novels, classics, and "serious reading".

You forgot to mention the Left Behind series- it's in at #77. That'll be the old Evangelical voting bloc, I guess. Even PBS can't quit escape it.

 

[Mouthwash]

I can't forgive ASoIaF being called 'Game of Thrones'.

 

[JohannaK]

It's tragic.

 

[Dachs]

I can't forgive ASoIaF being called 'Game of Thrones'.

Blame Martin for not finishing.

 

[Mouthwash]

I blame him for greenlighting the show in the first place.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I blame him for greenlighting the show in the first place.

I think he thought he could keep up with his writing and the money was too enticing. Getting very much richer now outweighed writing. Which would you choose?

 

[Takhisis]

Blame Martin for not finishing.

Eh, at least we got that glorious slew of South Park episodes.

‘wiener, wiener, wiener! wiener, wiener, wiener, wiener, wiener…’

‘HE'S LYING TO YOU!’

 

[JollyRoger]

 

[Kyriakos]

An overview of the history of the greek stone columned temple. By tony spawforth. Not sure if he is a reputable scholar; i borrowed the book from the local library. Contains general info, including lists of sites of partly surviving temples, photos and volumetrics, as well as some quotes by ancient visitors to the monuments.

 

[AmazonQueen]

An overview of the history of the greek stone columned temple. By tony spawforth. Not sure if he is a reputable scholar; i borrowed the book from the local library. Contains general info, including lists of sites of partly surviving temples, photos and volumetrics, as well as some quotes by ancient visitors to the monuments.

Hes a professor at Newcastle University in the School of History, Classics and Archeology. http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/authors/tony-spawforth