Good topic. Some recent reads:
River of Doubt by Candice Millard. Documentary-thriller about Teddy Roosevelt's near-suicidal journey through an uncharted Amazon River.
Pale Fire by Vladamir Nabokov. Hilarious, poignant, lunatic, brilliant...
Zen Mind Beginners Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. Classic intro-to-Zen-text...
Maynard and Jennica by Rudolph Delson. Light-hearted, laugh-out-loud funny story about a witty young 00's generation urban couple.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Probably my favorite piece contemporary fiction, which I re-read about a year ago, a tour-de-force drama/tragedy/mystery/thriller/comedy following a group of students in a Vermont College.
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth By Tim Flannery, best book I've read on Climate Change.
House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power By James Carrol
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires by Selwyn Raab, the New York Times Reporter who has covered the mob for 40 years. Scholarly, un-sensationalist, unromantic, and chilling.
Yah I'd recommend all of the above. Nothing like a good cup of tea, a good book, and a little free time...
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I can't comment on the other sites, but LT users do exactly as they like. Some of them catalogue their books, irrespective of whether or not they're read them; others catalogue all the books they've read, irrespective of whether or not they own them!Thirsty Daruma wrote:As far as LibraryThing goes, it always struck me as like Google Books - books you own but not necessarily read, whereas GoodReads and maybe even Shelfari are books you read but don't necessarily own.
Such questions do spark very lively discussions on the LibraryThing forums. I would mention that many people who do use LT to track their library reading, take advantage of the robust tagging feature to distinguish those books from the ones they actually possess.
I don't track my library reading, but I do "catalogue" some books with the personal tag @wishlist as a way of keeping track of all the ones I really want to buy but haven't actually purchased yet. It's better than using Amazon's wishlist feature, since many books I want aren't listed on Amazon (and they aren't my go-to books vendor anyhow). Also, my hubby can look up the list for birthday and Christmas ideas... if it occurs to him
