It’s been a while since I asked this one but I thought I’d get a pulse on the current reading public.
What are you reading at the moment?
I’m reading the fantastic Hollow City by my friend Ransom Riggs. Like many other people I was so impressed by the conceit of the found photographs that give so much peculiar life to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, yet what really brings these novels to life is Ransom’s incredibly deft writing, which is on brilliant display in Hollow City.
Highly recommend.
What about you?
Art: Portrait of a Bibliophile by Anonymous
joan gelfand says
"My New American Life" by Francine Prose – it is a riot!
Abbigail says
I am reading "The Last Time They Met" by Anita Shreve for the second time. The language is just phenomenal.
Ashley Dominique says
I'm currently reading Blackout by Mira Grant. Since I'm two sit downs away from finishing, I guess I'll say my next on deck is The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Jaimie says
I'm reading The Egyptian, a historical novel. I just finished The Winter of Our Discontent, which challenges The Great Gatsby for my favorite American novel.
Kim Batchelor says
I'm reading Alice Hoffman's latest, Museum of Extraordinary Things, which I'm finding compelling so far. I haven't read anything by her since At Risk, so some of her fans are expressing let down over this book compared to the others, but I like it well enough that I plan to go back and read more.
haydenthorne.com says
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. It's hilarious.
Randolph Brzoska says
'Stand on Zanzibar' by John Brunner. Very dense, very good.
mmbadger says
Finished The Goldfinch, which I enjoyed so much that I'm diving into Tartt's 1st novel, The Secret History.
Adelle Yeung says
The Bone Doll's Twin 🙂 Lovely dark fantasy.
Catie Rhodes says
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. It came up on a Kindle Daily Deal recently for $1.99. I'd seen the movie but never read the book so decided to give it a try. I can't believe I never read this before! It's fantastic.
Ben Campbell says
I'm reading one traditionally published book, Donna Tartt's seductive "The Goldfinch," as well as two indie eBooks, Legacy Rising by Shane Scollins and Old Habits by Maggie Katz.
Anonymous says
My wife wanted me to read Divergent before we go see the movie, so I'm reading that.
Neurotic Workaholic says
I'm reading 25 Ways to Beat Writer's Block by Paul Carroll; I'd heard about it on Twitter and downloaded it to my Kindle. It's pretty good so far; his suggestions really make sense. Other than that, for my dissertation I'm reading a bunch of scholarly books filled with academic jargon and hundreds of footnotes, sighhh…
Dana Britt says
I just started It's Complicated:the social lives of networked teens by danah boyd (lowercases hers). Very interesting breakdown of her recent study. I'm baffled by mainstream society's fear of social media/digital world/video games when it comes to kids.
Fiction-wise, I just started Desolate Heart by Sidney Archer–so far a page-turner!
I enjoy talking about books and seeing what others are reading. I'll be reading over the other comments for TBR ideas 🙂
Bill Peschel says
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. Set in turn of the (last) century New York. A golem specially designed to appear to be a real woman finds herself in NY after her master dies. A jinni trapped in a bottle appears at a tinsmith who is a Syrian immigrant. Early days, yet, but I'm really thrilled by this.
Just finished "Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest" by A. Lee Martinez. Fun book, in which a girl minotaur and the most perfect boy have to go on a quest (I also liked his "Gil's All Fright Diner"). Think of an American Tim Holt.
Anonymous says
I'm currently reading The Daniel Plan by Rick Warren and London Bridges by James Patterson. I highly recommend Red Rising by Pierce Brown and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.
Christina Kit. says
Sarah Dessen's Just Listen – so amazing and real and necessary 🙂
Kerrie says
Unbroken. Also, The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane (with my son).
Shakier Anthem says
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (reading) and Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (listening).
gehayi says
I just finished The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, the last book in Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles, The Serpent's Shadow, and Tamora Pierce's Provost's Dog series. Next I'm going to read Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen, Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone, and Broken Homes: A Rivers of London Novel by Ben Aaronovitch. After that…mmm. Maybe Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.
scruffy says
Watership Down
cuz somehow i missed it when i was younger. And i'm quite surprised to find it has nothing to do with a boat at all.
Linda Maye Adams says
I'm reading a cozy mystery called Inherit the Word. I admit I bought the book because it had a cute fuzzy kitten on the cover!
abc says
The Power of Six–which I don't really like (it's the next after I am Number Four), but I keep reading because I read the first one, which I also didn't really like. Your book, How to Write a Novel (I'm taking my time on it, but it is awesome!). A really long story from H.P. Lovecraft because I was thinking I should read something by him. And my kid and I are reading Under Wildwood together (which I'm liking better than the first one).
Tami Veldura says
What am I not reading? I've started as a reviewer with Read The Rainbow, specifically so I can read more books this year. Already I've read more than I did last year, and it's awesome.
I'm also reading/critiquing work in two different critique groups, which is great. I love being able to help others formulate their work in the beginning stages.
So currently I'm reading three different stories in critique groups, a thriller and two romances, and I'm going to read The Copper Horse: Fear by KA Merikan for review next.
All kinds of exciting things!
Laura Marcella says
I'm reading Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor.
I really enjoyed Riggs' first book, too. Glad to hear the sequel is just as good!
Happy reading and writing! from Laura Marcella @ Wavy Lines
Chase March says
I'm reading "And Another Thing…"
It's Part 6 of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
This time it's written by Eoin Colfer, but it feels so much like Adams wrote it. Not sure how Colfer pulled it off, but he has.
I guess it's now a trilogy written in six parts.
sally says
'Mother of Pearl' by Melinda Haynes … what a voice!
Julie Musil says
Oooh, fun question. I'm reading "What We Saw at Night" by Jacquelyn Mitchard. First YA title of hers that I've read!
Bamboo Grovers says
I am savouring a second read through of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series. Most entertaining and thoughtful sci-fi I've ever read.
Rosi says
Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman. It is terrific.
Bruce Bonafede says
I just finished rereading "The Guns at Last Light," the final book in Rick Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy." It's an outstanding narrative history and reads like a very well-written novel.
Laurie Boris says
I'm reading "It Isn't Cheating if He's Dead" by Julie Frayn. Lovely, touching story.
Teresa R says
Happy Wives Club by Fawn Weaver
Carol Coven Grannick says
The exquisite JOSEPHINE, written by Patricia Hruby Powell with art by Christian Robinson. Georgeous.
Jyl says
Urban Renewal by Andrew Vachss – It's deep work.
Jennifer R. Hubbard says
Just finishing Brian Malloy's THE YEAR OF ICE (a rather dark YA, well-written, a good study in voice), and starting Walter Kirn's BLOOD WILL OUT (nonfiction: writer meets con man).
Unknown says
"The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes. I'd heard about it for years but it became real to me after I read Patrick O'Brian's novels. They depict the world of 18th and early 19th century navigation so compellingly that I totally get what the early settlers of Australia went through. It's exhausting. It's also nearly 700 pages long, so I'm going to be tired but happy for a long, long time.
Lis says
Switching between Erik Larson's Thunderstruck (fantastic so far, as is all his work), Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones and Regina Brett's Be the Miracle. All very different, but I like a few options depending on what mood I'm in and how much work my brain needs to be doing right about then.
Helen W. Mallon says
The wonderful trilogy about the Aubrey family by the no longer fashionable Rebecca West. (The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund. Magic.
Woelf2.0 says
Sword in the Storm by David Gemmell, and so far it's great.
Rachael says
Just finished Seraphina by Rachel Hartman and it was absolutely fantastic. Now on The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. It's my first book by him and really not like anything I've ever read before.
Elaine Smith says
I am reading Heart of Stone by ML Welsh because I can't resist anything that twists the elements into YA fiction. I love the voice – and the fact that the prose sings.
G. B. Miller says
I just finished reading "The Heart Of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend."
Bill Az says
Dear Life: Stories. Alice Munro. I highly recommend it.
thesoundofonehandtyping says
I'm reading Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. As an introvert who was convinced he was an extrovert for years, I find myself reading it and saying, "Oh, so that's why I felt that way…"
Melinda Friesen says
When Quitting is Not an Option by Arvid and Paul Loewen. It's an biography about the Guiness Record holder for cycling across Canada. Very inspiring!
Terin Tashi Miller says
I'm reading "Shame," by Salman Rushdie. So far, he seems to be doing with Pakistan what Gabriel Garcia Marquez did, better, with Venezuela (The General in his Labrinth) and Colombia (Love in the Time of Cholera, 100 Years of Solitude).
Still, it is an interesting–yet different–style.
Next, I'm reading "And The Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini.
And guess what? I'm NOT writing about Asia in my next novel!
Jill Paterson says
I'm reading "The Hotel on Place Vendome" by Tilar J. Mazzeo. Just started it.
Petrea Burchard says
"Arthur and George" by Julian Barnes. (So far it's wonderful.) This shows how far behind I am on my reading list. "Miss Peregrine's…" is on my list, too.
Kristi Helvig says
I'm finishing The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon and then will start our book club book of the month (Night Film by Marisha Pessl).