[Tanniker Smith]

I imagine that many of us have the new Harry Potter book on their list, even if they don't have a copy reserved or pre-purchased yet.

As for me, picking up a DVD of "The War of the Worlds" is giving me the desire to give Wells another go (I've never made it through any of his books). And while I'm at it, I going to try some Jules Verne.

Currently, I'm reading 3001: The Final Odyssey, a not-for-sale readers' proof edition that I won at a charity book raffle. (There are some other books in that pile waiting to be read. I just finished a 50th anniversary Peanuts collection.)

On the nonfiction front: I finished Mark Levin's book, Men in Black and I'' probably head for the library soon to reserve a few other conservative books.

What are you looking forward to? Discuss.

TS

[bwteim]

Robert McCammon's Speaks the Nightbird
older book (2002) but new to me.

Good historical adventure novel set in Carolina in 1699.

http://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/speaks_the_nightbird.html

[Portnoy]

Three upcoming novels I am looking forward to are:

Until I Find You, by John Irving
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde
The New Harry Potter

[bannie]

Fresh off of the Cambridge University Press, Viking Empires.

[Phantom Lord]

Steve Beam's Semi-Automatic Card Tricks, volume 1-5.

[bannie]

I'd like to be on your list, please!

[Little Ray]

Watch on the Rhine (The Posleen War)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (43rd in line at the library - might just give up and buy it...).
A Mankind Witch

Maybe The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay if I get a chance.

[twigs]

Currently reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

"Silent Witness : The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo's Death" by Mark Fuhrman.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060853379/qid=1119031134/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-4235465-7687133

To all the Michael Schiavo supporters out there, you couldn't even pay me to care what you think about it.

[retrokitten]

I just finished reading We Thought You'd Be Prettier and Autobiography of a Fat Bride, both by Laurie Natoro. She seems like she is probably a lib, but for the most part keeps her politics out of her books. Anyway, I was laughing so hard in parts I was crying.

Now back to reading 1776 and, of course, waiting eagerly for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[peacebaby]

and of course the new book on Hillary....

[Ladysmith]

It's for the Contemporary American Society class I'm in. This class has been very interesting, to say the least.

[Tanniker Smith]

One book that I forgot to mention: I have to get a hold of a copy of Atlanta Nights by Travis Tea.

It has to be ... experienced ... to be believed.

TS

[WinOne4TheGipper]

1776. I just started reading it.

[Cecily]

Books I want to read:

State of Fear by Michael Crichton

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis

Has anyone read the new book about Thomas Jefferson by Christopher Hitchens?

I recently read Lightning Out of Lebanon by Tom Diaz and Barbara Newman and Tower of Babble by Dore Gold. Both were very interesting.

[Minnesocold]

George Washington: The Founding Father, by Paul Johnson.

Johnson was a guest on Dennis Prager this week, offering a great snapshot of Washington's life in a slimmer book.

[sharktrager]

I Am Charolette Simmons by Tom Wolfe.

Damned If I Know

[everyvotecounts]

Please add me to your ping list - thanks!

[sauropod]

1776 by McCullough. I just finished reading it.

[Xenophobic Alien]

/kidding

[AppyPappy]

Just read the new Phil Lesh book about the Grateful Dead "Searching For The Sound". Still working on Building the Contagious Church, The longest war : the Iran-Iraq military conflict by Dilip Hiro and Guadalcanal remembered by Herbert Christian Merillat.