Fantasy book buying

[Lacivetta]

Given that I've an enormous stack of not yet read books, I'm trying to restrain my book buying habit. So...here's the books that I'd love to have bought and had time to read recently...what are yours?

Ilona Andrews, On the Edge and Bayou Moon
Kim Harrison, Every Witch Way But Dead
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Simon R Green, Ghost of a Chance
Also pretty much anything by Patricia McKillip (having read her Riddlemaster of Hed and Cygnet series, plus the Forgotten Beasts of Eld).

 

[fjeronimo]

Oh, you don't want to know. My to-buy list has over 200 books currently (all genres)...

 

[Lacivetta]

Oh, you don't want to know. My to-buy list has over 200 books currently (all genres)...

Best get typing then!

 

[fjeronimo]

Since you insist...

Here is a very small sample of my current to-buy list.

Sci-fi/fantasy or related:

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - Spider Robinson
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Unusual tales - Guy de Maupassant
Titus - Mervyn Peake
Vampire of Ropraz - Jacques Chessex
The sparrow - Maria Doria Russell
Grumbles from the Grave - Robert A. Heinlein

Other:

Collected stories - Mavis Gallant
Gulag: A History - Anne Applebaum
Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection - Raymond Aron
The War - Marguerite Duras
Dialogues with Leucò - Cesare Pavese

 

[Perpetual Man]

Well I don't think I really have a to buy list as such - my wish list on Amazon may seem to suggest otherwise, but most of the books there are waiting to be published. Most of the stuff I'd want to buy I'm lucky enough to actually have bought.

That being said actually having the books and reading them are two totally different things, and I have a 'too read' pile that is positively scary. When I find the time to read them is something else again. It's hard to say which ones I want to read the most, but any of the Brandon Sanderson books spring to mind.

 

[fjeronimo]

[...] and I have a 'too read' pile that is positively scary. [...]

Yes, I also suffer from that illness, which combined with compulsive buying doesn't lead to the best results...

 

[Connavar]

I have a buy list for all my genres keeping it on buy list shelf in Goodreads but i dont buy new books currently.

Have more than 50 new books unread at home including 5-10 fantasy so no new buys.

 

[soulsinging]

I'm too ocd to have a lot of unread books on my shelf. It makes me stressed out, like i have homework to do or something. Right now, I only have 2 unread books on my shelf (a third a friend gave me that I'm not terrible eager to read... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance).

My to buy list is all in my head, though I do occasionally jot down titles I want to look for... I have 3 right now:

last good kiss- james crumley
king solomon's mines- h rider haggard
richard morgan- altered carbon

 

[elvet]

My owned books to-be-read shelf at Goodreads sits at 138, with another 24 that I need to buy and 41 that have caught my interest. I tend not to read series until they are complete, but I buy the books as they come out.
I like to be able to find at least 5 choices for a new book/series when I want to read. I tend to alternate between standalones, series, SF and Fantasy. I like the variety, so I need to see those shelves filled .

 

[dask]

Like I've said before, my collection is my TBR pile!

Since you insist...

Here is a very small sample of my current to-buy list.

Sci-fi/fantasy or related:

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - Spider Robinson
I am Legend - Richard Matheson

I think you'll really enjoy these two.

 

[fjeronimo]

I think you'll really enjoy these two.

I am Legend is already on its way.

As for Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, I've been looking for it for almost two years and I can't seem to find it anywhere (other than ordering it directly from the USA).

 

[thatollie]

This is a perfect thread for me because my book buying has to be restricted, so here goes...

The Lyonesse Triology - Jack Vance
The End of The Story - Clark Ashton Smith
The Shadow Out of Time - H.P. Lovecraft
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

 

[chrispenycate]

Well, my unread (unopened) book selection now stands at a big round zero, and my "halfway through and given up till desperation strikes" pile at a slim five. It's that time of year again; when I start making the list to eMail to my family for the festivities, and prepare for English second-hand book shops…

 

[Lacivetta]

Updates and extended list...
Martin Millar, Lonely Werewolf Girl (will get over my werewolf aversion for this - Millar is hilarious)
China Mielville, Perdido Street station (English language, I had an Italian translation, god knows why, which was loaned before I read it and not returned.)
Jeff Vandermeer, City of saints and madmen
Ilona Andrews, On the Edge and Bayou Moon
Kim Harrison, Every Witch Way But Dead
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Simon R Green, Ghost of a Chance
Also pretty much anything by Patricia McKillip (having read her Riddlemaster of Hed and Cygnet series, plus the Forgotten Beasts of Eld).

 

[Clansman]

Also pretty much anything by Patricia McKillip (having read her Riddlemaster of Hed and Cygnet series, plus the Forgotten Beasts of Eld).

She's got a new one coming out in December, 2010...I forget the title, though.

 

[Lacivetta]

She's got a new one coming out in December, 2010...I forget the title, though.

*eyes as big as mill wheels* Ooh.

 

[Connavar]

My fantasy buys list gets bigger and bigger more when i see i dont have as much cash to buy new books. Becoming a student again has temporally killed the addicted book buyer in me.

These books make me drool, dream about buying at the moment:

Lyonesse Omnibus by Jack Vance
Maps by Nuruddin Farah a Somali writer who is acclaimed in many parts of the world.
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 

[Nesacat]

The to-read pile has filled several shelves but I don't really have a list of books to be bought. I tend to wander around a bookstore or two over the weekends and sometimes come out with a book and sometimes not.

There are books that stay in the back of my mind and if I do see them and can afford them then I'll pick them up. The other thing I usually do is have two friends in the business order them for me. In this way, I at least have some way to stagger the payments.

But as for a real, tangible list, there isn't one.

 

[GOLLUM]

Since you insist...

Here is a very small sample of my current to-buy list.

Sci-fi/fantasy or related:

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - Spider Robinson
I am Legend - Richard Matheson
Unusual tales - Guy de Maupassant
Titus - Mervyn Peake
Vampire of Ropraz - Jacques Chessex
The sparrow - Maria Doria Russell
Grumbles from the Grave - Robert A. Heinlein

Other:

Collected stories - Mavis Gallant
Gulag: A History - Anne Applebaum
Memoirs: Fifty Years of Political Reflection - Raymond Aron
The War - Marguerite Duras
Dialogues with Leucò - Cesare Pavese

And expect it to grow exponentially....Huh?...What?....Who said that? I'm innocent I tell you...

You have some great names on that list including Cesare Pavese, Matheson, Peake, Gallant, Maupassant and Heinlein. You may assume I have a number of collected works of these people. Excellent stuff.

Back on topic.....I luckily have most of what I'm after that is already in print, so my to buy list is at around 50-60 books. However a number of these are not easy to soruce and/or pretty expensive, so I get them periodically or if I happen to spot one somewhere rather than rush out alll at once to purchase. Then there's the ongonig "to be published/written items" of interest incl. series like NYRB (literary), Masterworks (SFF), Wordsworth Tales of Mystery and Supernatural (for the horror), Penguin Blacks (literary) and Harvill classics (literary) and authors whose latest works I keenly collect and the occasional anthology thrown in if it fits into my library's theme.

I tend to be structred when I preruse new and second hand bookshops as I pretty much know what I'm after.

 

[Allegra]

My over four hundreds unread books have been causing me great distress and anxiety because I have so little time to read! So I've trimmed my next to-buy list considerably to this size:

Surface Detail - Iain M. Banks
I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett
The Rembrandt Affair - Daniel Silva (my favourite contemporary spy novel writer)
Under the Dome - Stephen King