Like many book fanatics, I have a tendency to buy new books before I’ve read all the books I already own. The following are some of the books that I have bought and not yet read. Some of them I bought because they looked interesting; some I bought for other reasons.
- Ian Rankin – I picked up some of Ian Rankin’s books at a book sale, loved them, and have since acquired all of his books that feature John Rebus.
- Sarum – I read London and The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd and enjoyed them immensely. While I couldn’t really get into New York or Paris, a quick skim read shows that Sarum is more like the two books that I liked.
- The Count of Monte Cristo – My English class in high school studied the movie in preparation for an exam. Since then I’ve wanted to read the book and see how different it is.
- Ngaio Marsh – The first story that I read by Ngaio Marsh was in a book that also contained an Agatha Christie story. Naturally I read both stories, and found that I really liked her work, so I bought some more of her books.
- The Horse Whisperer – My mother was reading this book right before I was born. It doesn’t look like a book I would usually choose to read, but it has some sentimental interest to me.
- The Queen’s Sorrow – This looks like it’s similar to Philippa Gregory’s books about the Tudor period. It certainly deals with the same characters and setting.
- The Lady and the Poet – by Maeve Haran. Historical fiction.
- The Perfect Sinner – by Will Davenport. This looks like good old historical fiction in a medieval setting with a smidge of romance (but not too much).
- The Lost Library – by A. M. Dean. It’s about a library, and I love books. Why not?
- The Borgia Bride – by Jeanne Kalogridis. Historical fiction.
- The King’s Concubine – Historical door-stop about Edward III’s mistress. She looks like an interesting character; it’ll be nice to learn about her.
- My Lady of Cleves – by Margaret Campbell. Another Philippa Gregory-like story about another of Henry VIII’s wives.
- The Genesis Secret – by Tom Knox. This appears to be a mystery with a long-hidden secret. Intriguing.
- The Winter King – As a child, I went through a stage of reading everything I could about King Arthur so a grown-up novel on the same general theme was appealing.
- Icarus – by Russell Andrews. I picked this up because I’m familiar with the character of Greek myth, and bought it because it looked like an interesting mystery.
- Brother Cadfael the Second Omnibus – middles ages, mysteries, an easy style, what’s not to love? I’ve read two Brother Cadfael books already and enjoyed them, so I picked up an omnibus when I saw it.
