Bon, I read A Fatal Grace not too long ago. I enjoyed it, but not as much as the first Louise Penny book. :)

I don't have a TBR pile. I do have a very long list of quilting/needlework projects, though. Both projects in progress and planned. Yes, It's a very long list...

Donna

A mix from my physical TBR stack and my "For Later Shelf" on my library's website, these are ones I think I'm likely to read in the near future. But who knows? Not me.

The Rosie Project -- Graeme Simsion (actually pulled it from the stack last night)

Dear Mrs. Bird -- A. J. Pearce

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven -- Chris Cleave

The Last Kind Words Saloon -- Larry McMurtry

The Other Woman -- Sandie Jones

Kathy...I'd forgotten that I also wanted to read Dear Mrs. Bird ! Just ordered a copy on Ebay :0) Can never have too many books. ( or can we ?)

Off the top of my head (I'm at work), I have on my night stand:

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America by John Waters

Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea by Linda Greenlaw (actually started reading that one about a year ago, but other books intervened and it can now be considered TBR)

And one I'm waiting for to arrive in the mail and intend to read as soon as it gets here: Red Queen by Christina Henry.

From an 'upstairs' pile of books:

Whatever it Takes - Adele Parks

The Runaway Quilt - Jennifer Chiaverini

The Fisher King - Anthony Powell

Newes from the Dead Mary Hooper

The Lives of Stella Bain - Anita Shreve

All the above were picked up at various 'sales'. I might find a few more tomorrow at the local RC church Autumn fete.

Only 5? :)

I have 2 library books sitting there waiting for me: The Magic of Reality and Before Mars. I had started the Before Mars novel, but it got so claustrophobic that I needed a break from it, so now it's been sitting there so long, I'll probably have to renew before I finish it. I have 3 books on hold at the library, and one (the review of Hugo winners by Jo Walton) has just come in. Of my own books sitting on the Mount, I have John Crowley's Ka, a collection of American Indian Trickster Tales, Statistics Gone Wrong, The Edge of the World, and Danubia, the last having been recommended by someone here a while ago. Last week, I did finally get Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust off the pile where it's been since Christmas.

Sheri, I read Katherine Arden's book earlier this year, and liked it enough to pick up the sequel just a couple weeks ago. I like the setting of medieval Russia for the fantasy - one can get tired of the western European backgrounds that are so popular.

I have a weird assortment of books at the moment:

Currently reading Florida by Lauren Groff

From the library in my TBR pile, I have:

Still Life by Louise Penny (I see so many people who read her books but this will be my first)

After Anna by Lisa Scottoline (another fairly prolific author I’ve never read)

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

Belleweather by Susannah Kearsley

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

4kids....I enjoyed Still LIfe.....and really liked Bellewether.

I'm currently working on The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, the middle book of the Hugo award willing trilogy.

After that I plan to finish the last two Heinlein juvenile SF novels, The Rolling Stones and Between Planets. I last read them back in high school. Recently I decided to re-read them all, and thanks to inexpensive reprint collections, I now have them on my shelf.

Next that will come River of Stars by Guy Gabriel Kay and Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. Interspersed with those I will read any number of library books. I don't count library books as to-be-read, even though they really are, because if I don't get around to reading them I can easily just return them.

4kids4us, I really enjoyed Peace Like a River.

Rosefolly

My TBR pile:

Tales of a Female Nomad : Rita Gelman

Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain

A Shropshire Lad: A. E. Housman

Joe Riley and the Rise of Charleston: Brian Hicks

Magic in Ancient Egypt: Geraldine Pinch

Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: Erik Hornung

(The last two are for a class at the College).

In the past few days I pulled 3 books out of my TBR pile and donated them to the library book sale. You have no idea (or maybe you do) how much I enjoyed doing that!

The Masterpiece - Fiona Davis

The Univited Guests - Sadie Jones

Dear Mrs. Bird - A.J. Pearce

A Tuscan Childhood - Kinta Beevor

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir - Jennifer Ryan

It's interesting to compare my current list to the one I posted two months ago.

Sep 13 list:
The Rosie Project -- Read it and enjoyed it
Dear Mrs. Bird -- Read it and enjoyed it
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven -- Read only a bit of it and didn't care for it
The Last Kind Words Saloon -- Leafed through it, returned it to the library
The Other Woman -- I'm still on the library wait list, 4th in line now

Current list:
The Other Woman -- Sandie Jones
The Woman in the Window -- A.J. Finn
Beneath a Scarlet Sky -- Mark T. Sullivan
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen -- Hendrik Groen
Love Medicine -- Louise Erdrich

Kathy, I like the way you described your disposition of your books. I didn't do that. I will say now that I read a little of Manhattan Project, decided it was not my cup of tea, and passed it along. Too bad - I was intrigued with the reviews. However I already forget what the other two I discarded were. I would say no loss there, or if so, I don't care!

Beneath a Scarlet Sky was one of my book club books, but I was not able to go that month and did not read the book. However, the rest of the book club seemed to like it a lot.

The current top 5 books on my TBR pile:

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (biography)

Lessons from the Great Gardeners by Matthew Biggs (gardening)

Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace (SF)

Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe (fiction, but based on real people)

City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett (SF) - and this is the one I am currently reading.

Kathy.........Woman In The Window sounds a lot like James Stewart in Rear Window.

Yoyo - That's exactly what I thought … and said. I became intrigued when my two Monday-morning walking partners talked about it last week. They were both reading it for their book group (a different group than mine). One excitedly asked, "Have you finished it yet?" The other said, "NO, DON'T TELL ME HOW IT ENDS!!" The other replied, "I wouldn't dare." I must remind them not to discuss it in my presence this morning. Oops, I need to get going.

Kathy.......what part of the country are you in to be able to enjoy walking !? I am hoping that our temps get up around 45 degrees so I can get out there today.

I'm in Missouri, and though we live just 2 blocks from a spur of the Katy Trail (the MKT), we walked at the mall today because it's 29 degrees and snowing.

Leonardo da Vinci is still there, and I still plan to read it.

Latchkey is still there, and I probably will read it. I just don't love it the way I loved the first one Archivist Wasp.

I skimmed the Librarian of Auschwitz (didn't love it), read City of Blades (loved it) and donated Lessons from the Great Gardeners. I skimmed bits of that one as well.

I have added A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford. That one is a library book so I'll have to read or return it before the end of the year.

No doubt the holiday will pile the stack ever higher.

These of course are only the books actually on the nightstand. There are other books waiting on the bookshelf nearby.

Just looked at my TBR at the start of this and have read two of the books and set aside two others from the list.....not sure if I like them at all.

So now my current TBR pile is :

The Masterpiece - Fiona Davis

The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty

Our House - Louise Candlish

The Diaries of Adam And Eve - Mark Twain

I just finished Our House. Loved it!

One of the things I need to keep in mind is that while I do like to read thoughtful or deep books now and then, most of the time I want to read engaging stories.

I finished the 2 library books that were on my list above, but none of the ones I own! Now I have 5 library books sitting unread, and I just bought 5 more new ones last week. Sigh. I'm stuck halfway through Naomi Alderman's The Power - I don't like any of the characters so far, and it puts me off picking it up. I'm on my third renewal, so it's put-up-or-shut-up time.

" . . . most of the time I want to read engaging stories." Yes, Rosefolly!

I read few 'engaging stories' because, for me, it's almost impossible to find modern works that fit that category. I'm probably way too critical and demanding but when the writing is flat, the characters one-dimensional, the plot unlikely or going nowhere I'm just not prepared to waste my time finishing the book.

Where are all the 'modern' Daphne du Maurier's to provide us with a good satisfying read?

I read all of mine I mentioned above except Tom Sawyer. Tomorrow I will add to the pile from our public library. I am looking forward to finding and reading the newest additions to the mysteries of Susan Hill and Louise Penny.