green_amber

OH alright.

Cute to get empirical data on this - I certainl;y recognise quite a few of these on my shelves..

"The normal, bold those you've read, italicise those you've started but haven't finished; the number in brackets is the number of library thing users who have these on their unread shelf."

A shame there's apparently no coded distinction to make between "haven't read" and "own but haven't read" (or even "thought of buying but knew I'd never get through it" which is exactly how I feel about no 1 on the list.)

( list ) What this brings home to me is (a) I was a very dutiful school girl - if I had to read the damn book, I did. (b) I am a very undutiful adult - if I think I won't want to read a book, largely I just DON'T BUY it. I do not need to prove anything :)

Having said that I do in fact have a shelf staring at me of books I bought and do not apparently want to read; Anyone want to talk me into any of these, or alternately, want the book?

Clara - Janice Galloway
Summertime - Michael Chabon
All is vanity - Christina Schwartz (also Drowning Ruth - I think my sister gives giving me books by her)
We Need To Talk to Kevin bla bla
Moo - Jane Smiley
Dead Air - ian Banks
The Hippoptamus - Stephen Fry
Everything You Need - A L Kennedy
Lights Out for the Territory - iain Sinclair
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Bl;ack Swan Green - david Mitchell ((I loved al the others, can't seem to get into this one))
Uglies - Scott Westerfield
The Feast - Antony Sher
The Bitch Goddess Notebook - Martha O'Connor
The Anxiety of Everyday Objects - Aurelie Sherman (for V that one..)
Everything is Illuminated - JOnathan Foer