The Next Best Book Club discussion

So there I was, all high and mighty reading about so many of you with your long list of owned to-reads and thinking that I didn't have any (I've been reading the books I buy right away).

But last week my mom shipped me my book collection that has been hanging out in Michigan ever since I moved to Oregon. Now I have 70-80 owned to-reads! And I have to join many of you in your challenge... :)

The list:

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Oliver Twist
A History of God
The Cider House Rules
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Roots
East,West
The Color Purple
Death in Venice
The Scarlet Letter
Brave New World
The Three Mustketeers
The Man in the Iron Mask
Arthur and George
White Oleander
Love, again
The Bookseller of Kabul
Three Cups of Tea
Die heimliche Wut der Pflanzen
1984
The Oxford History of Christianity
Die Faehigkeit zu trauern
Die Unfaehigkeit zu trauern
Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa...
Kipling - Selected Stories and Poems
Out of Africa
The Corrections
Stories and Poems selected by Harold Bloom
The Meaning of Everything
A Passage to India
Hocus Pocus
A Separate Peace
Die Blechtrommel
Interesting Times
The Time Traveler's Wife
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Red Tent
Anthropology of an American Girl
Tom Jones
Home
The Sandbox Investment
The Forever War
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Nostromo
Heart of Darkness
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Into Thin Air
Invisible Man
Ragtime
Last of the Mohicans
The Great Mortality
Lost
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Pitcher Shower
The Wall
The Satanic Verses
All the Pretty Horses
The Killer Angels
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Don Quixote
Kim
11 books by Robert Jordan
8 books by Terry Goodkind
6 Volumes of Die Erzaehlungen aus der Tausend-und-eine Naechte

Double digits... *wistful* I'm at 171. :)

I haven't had the courage to count my owned 'to-reads', I am afraid the figure will scare me!

hahaha me too Monef.....too scary! Plus I dont think I can count that high!

Yeah, I would rather not count, and if I could bring myself to count, think I'd rather not confess;)

I recently made a database for all my owned books and the number came out to 357. I bet I have about 50 of those read and about 49 of those deserve a re-read. Yikes

I think I have at least 100 owned but unread books, not including the ones that I just haven't remembered to add. I said I would add them all last summer, but always wound up avoiding the text because it seemed daunting.

I have 379 owned to read. Not counting the database of e-books I have on my computer and the ones I have on my Kindle. Just thinking about it gets me stressed out, so I tend not to.

8 books by Terry Goodkind? Good luck. Those are snoresville. My sister bet me to read them b/c she loves them. I could only do 3.

Gosh I only have 15 own to read, but my list is growing. I have to stop it.

15! That's barely a full shelf, let alone double-stacked and two-deep! O_O

Such self control....

Fiona wrote: "I think about it all the time... about how to add more to it!"

Amen. I got a second job to support my addiction...well it was initially to save up for the Europe trip in June and pay off some credit card debt but it ended up being book fodder.

LOL I think I have 23 more to purchase or find sometime this year.

Read The Picture of Dorian Gray, so that's one down!

My review: This is a dark, dark book with an interesting premise. If our sins and years didn't blemish us, would we become totally evil? The answer seems to be yes, however, even the eternally youthful Dorian is demonized by his sins and eventually driven to destroy himself. In some ways, this story is about how the outside of a person doesn't always reflect the inside. Henry was an interesting character - able to corrupt Dorian so easily, but not quite evil himself.