I have to do something about all these books

[rachelmanija]

I have so many never-read books that I think of them in sometimes overlapping categories, ranked in order of when I have to read them. Sort of.

1. Books by favorite authors that I'm dying to read.

2. Library books.

3. Books I need to review.

4. Books I borrowed from friends.

5. Books I bought recently that look interesting.

6. Books I'm saving for some special occasion/plane trip/leisurely vacation/when I really need to read something that I know for sure I'll enjoy/etc.

7. Books I bought years ago that have been sitting on my shelf forever.

It's the last set that I need help with. (I'm not even counting books that are primarily for research or reference.) I will present you with a list of books that I can see from where I sit, which is, horrifyingly, about a tenth of the total. Most of them have been sitting untouched on my shelves for years. Your job is to tell me if any of them a) are wonderful and I'll love them and should get to them sooner, b) really suck, c) are something that for some reason you'd be really curious to read my opinion on, so I should move them up the que and report on them here.



Joan Aiken, Nightfall

Zadie Smith, White Teeth

Alexander Key, The Forgotten Door

Nicholas Start Gray, Grimbold's Other World

Terry Pratchett, Johnny Maxwell trilogy

Bruce Coville, The Ghost Wore Gray

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of my Heart

William Mayne, Drift

Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

Garth Nix, Mister Monday

Lisa Goldstein, Walking the Labyrinth

Diana Darling, The Painted Alphabet

Teresa Edgerton, The Queen's Necklace

Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Song of the Gargoyle; The Trespassers

Patricia McKillip, The House on Parchment Street

Georgette Heyer, Sylvester; The Convenient Marriage; Arabella

Caroline Stevermer, The Serpent's Egg, River Rats

Jack Vance, Cugel's Saga

Garry Kilworth, House of Tribes, A Midsummer's Nightmare

Angela Carter, Saints and Strangers

Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness; Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Darkness, Swords in the Mist

C. J. Cherryh, Angel with the Sword, Finity's End; Downbelow Station

Jane Lindskold, Changer

Bonus manga section, volume 1 of each:

Planetes

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles

XXXHolic

Fake

Hikaru No Go

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Naruto

Vagabond

Chronicles of the Cursed Sword

Dragon Hunter

Ragnarok

Cowboy Bebop