wish list

When I was a little kid, my dad brought me 2 hardbound books, which, only God knows where they are. They are two classic stories namely, Black Beauty and Alice in Wonderland. I was able to read the first chapter of Black Beauty, but since I was no fan of big and really thick books when I am in grade school, I simply put the books on the shelf, just for decoration, just to boast to visitors that I do read classics, and I want them in hard binds. Then, when I am all ready to read those books, they are gone! I dunno how it all happened, and it saddens me too much. Those prints were very rare and very expensive.

Enough for the off-topic introduction, those books just came into my mind because I am so much into reading again. Even if I still got lots of books piled at home, there are still lots of books I want to acquire, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Below, I will have my list of books I have finished reading, books I am currently reading (I do read simultaneously), books I have at home that are waiting to be read and books that I am dying to have. I just wish that the last list would soon move to the second list.

Books read in the last 5 years:

1.      Bob Ong Books (yes, all of them)

2.      My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (currently with my cousin, Zyme)

3.      Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

4.      Clash of the Civilizations and Remaking of World Order

5.      Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck

6.      Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (adapted as The Golden Compass)

7.      The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

8.      Who Moved My Cheese

9.      Door to December by Dean Koontz

10.     Voice of the Night by Dean Koontz

11.     Night Chills by Dean Koontz

12.     False Memory by Dean Koontz

13.     Mind to Murder by P.D. James

14.     Hundred Years of Solitude by G.G. Marquez

15.     To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

16.     The Old Man and the Sea

17.     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (though I believe that book is not complete, so this still appears on my 4^th list, still checking on the shelves of bookstores for other volumes)

Books I am currently reading:

1.      Culture Shock! Germany

2.      The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (last in the series)

3.      Anna- Geschichten (borrowed from Goethe, by the way, not mine)

4.      Novembernacht by Christoph Wortberg (again borrowed from Goethe, great read indeed)

5.      Adventures of Alice in Wonderland 

Books waiting to be read:

1.      The Kite Runner

2.      Fruitcake (related to Eraserheads’ album Fruitcake)

3.      Das Verlorene Symbol (German edition of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown)

4.      Die Brooklyn Revue (German edition of The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster)

5.      Don Quixote

Books I want to have ASAP:

1.      Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

2.      Lyra’s Oxford (this is like the Hobbit to the series LOTR, this one’s for Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials, and I am wondering where can I get this one!)

3.      A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

4.      Classical Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies (I only have the Hamilton edition)

5.      Clockwork Orange

6.      1984

7.      Arsene Lupin: A Gentleman Thief

8.      Little Prince

9.      Time Traveler’s Wife

10.     Animal Farm

11.     Huckleberry Finn

12.     Tom Sawyer

13.     The Secret Garden

14.     Cyrano de Bergerac (I remember using some parts of this in our Public Speaking class in High School)

15.     Pride and Prejudice

16.     Les Miserables

17.     Oliver Twist

18.     The Count of Monte Cristo

19.     Canterbury Tales (I have read this, I just want my own copy)

20.     Memoirs of a Geisha

21.     Nicholas Sparks’ books (ALL!)

22.     A Child Called It

23.     A Thousand Splendid Suns

24.     Lord of the Rings Trilogy

25.     The Hobbit

There are still some books that I find interesting that I want to read, but are really not top of my priority, most I must say, are more for teens/ young adults, just some light reading, but I fancy the classics more these days… I might update these lists from time to time… ;-)

How I wish Power Books do carry it all, then, I have no problem searching somewhere else, however, I’m afraid they don’t.