Wikipedia:What I am reading at the moment

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9muses

Just Finished: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente
Now Reading: The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
Up Next: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Last updated on: 4 January 2007

23skidoo

Recently finished: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman () (very dark novel from the His Dark Materials trilogy)
The novelisation of the Doctor Who episode Carnival of Monsters by Terrance Dicks () (short and sweet - quite well done)
Now reading: Nothing at the moment.
Reading next: There are about 10 books vying for this position.

Last updated on: 11 January 2009

Acheney

Just finished: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Now Reading: Dune by Frank Herbert
Up Next: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Last updated on: 28 December 2005

Ajcounter

Just finished: Notre coeur by Guy de Maupassant
Now reading: Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Up next: En route by J.-K. Huysmans (still!)

Last updated on: 09:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Alvin6226

Just finished: Vector (novel) by Robin Cook (novelist)
Now reading: Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Now reading: Toxin (novel) by Robin Cook (novelist)
Up next: undecided

Last updated on: 7 May 2006

Ambi

Just finished: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Now reading: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Up next: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Last updated on: 18 December 2005

Arkhiver

Just Finished: Rendezvous_with_Rama
Now reading: Rama II
Up next: 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) OR Condemnation (Novel)

Last updated on: 21 February 2006

Blorgina

Just Finished: Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Now reading: Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
Up next: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Last updated on: ?

bogdan

Just finished: Marea aspiraţie, by Tom Sharpe
Now reading: ~~Faust~~ Eric, by Terry Pratchett (in French ;-)
Up next: Wilt, by Tom Sharpe

Last updated on: 28 December 2005

Boylo

Just Finished: Dark is the Moon by Ian Irvine
Now reading: The Way Between the Worlds by Ian Irvine
Up next: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Last updated on: 23:57, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Breed Zona

Just Finished: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (very good, but not as good as And Then There Were None, IMHO)
Just Finished: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (brilliant but disturbing)
Up next: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (when winter break rolls around)
Up next: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Last updated on: 8 December 2006

broadway4life155

Just finished: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Now Reading: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Up next: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Last updated on: 23 Februarary 2008

Catmoongirl

Just Finished: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Now reading: The Lakota Way by Joseph M. Marshall III
Up next: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

Last updated on: ?

Chrissypan

Just Finished: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Now reading: Restless Water by Jessica Speart
Up next: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Last updated on: 7 May 2008

Davidals--Davidals

Just Finished: Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian
Just Finished: A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong
Now reading: First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata
Now reading: River Town by Peter Hessler
Up next: I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

Last updated on: 07:12, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Deb

Just Finished: The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig
Now reading: Glimpses of the Wonderful by Ann Thwaite
Up next: Speaking for England by David Faber

Last updated on: 30 April 2008

dfvanden

Just Finished: The Vivisector by Patrick White
Now reading: Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs by Gerald Murnane
Up next: The Sea by John Banville

Last updated on: 11 October 2006

Edna H.

Just Finished: Wycliffe and The Redhead by W. J. Burley
Just Finished: The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Now reading: Underworld by Reginald Hill
Up next: Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson

Last updated on: 10 April 2007

Errabee

Just Finished: The Nose, The Overcoat, Nevsky Prospekt, The Portrait by Nikolai Gogol
Now reading: Poetry by Alexander Blok
Up next: The Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, Smoke by Ivan Turgenev

Last updated on: 17:03, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

fantasylover12

Just finished: Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic
Now reading: Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic
Up next: The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

Last updated on: 28 June 2006

Gizzakk

Just finished: Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz and Proven Guilty (novel) by Jim Butcher.
Now reading: The Year's Best Science Fiction (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois
Up next: unknown

Last updated on: 5 May 2006

GlassCobra

Just finished: Homeland by R. A. Salvatore, The Legend of Nightfall by Mickey Zucker Reichert
Now reading: Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh, Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh, The Prince/Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli
Up next: The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip

Last updated on: 27 May 2008

GregoryEvans01

Just Finished: Spin/Robert Charles Wilson - ()
Now reading: Timequake/Kurt Vonnegut
Up next: Undecided

Last updated on: 18 April 2007

Hellycopper

Just finished; The Acceptance World in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time
Now reading; Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Saki's wonderful stories
Up next: Possibly Vanity Fair or The Idiot

Last updated: 6 March 2006

Ibis3

Just Finished: A Short History of Nearly Everything/Bill Bryson
Now reading: The Faerie Queene/Edmund Spenser and Topics/Aristotle
Up next: The Visit/Friedrich Dürrenmatt and The Mountain and the Valley/Ernest Buckler

Last updated on: 20 August 2006

JulesH

Just Finished: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (The best book I've read this year. But then it's long enough that I started reading it last year.)
Now reading: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Up next: Undecided; potentially Blade Dancer by S. L. Viehl

Last updated on: 8 February 2007

Kanogul

Just Finished: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Now reading:
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (for school)
- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (for school)
Up next: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Last updated on: 6 November 2007

Katharineamy

Just Finished: The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
Now reading: Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Up next:

Last updated on: 4 July 2007

Kevinalewis

Just finished (Fiction): Under Enemy Colours by Sean Thomas Russell - ()
Just finished (Non-Fiction): One Book Rightly Divided: The Key to Understanding the Bible by Douglas D. Stauffer - ()
Now Reading (Fiction): The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian - ()
Up Next (Fiction): The Ionion Mission by Patrick O'Brian
Up Next (Non-Fiction): I am not but I know I am by Louie Giglio

Last updated on: 08:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

KF

Just finished: Frost in May by Antonia White ()
Now reading: The Turner Diaries by Andrew Macdonald
Up next: who knows

Last updated on: 22:44, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

kkarma

Just Finished: Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks ()
Just Finished: Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo ()
Now Reading: Crank by Ellen Hopkins ()

Last updated on: 04:43, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Lady Nimue of the Lake

Just finished: Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell
Just finished: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula le Guin
Up next: The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams

Last updated on: 09:23, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Ladywitchthought

Just Finished: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan ()
Now reading: Faking Sweet by J. C. Burke ()
Up next: The Truth Cookie by Fiona Dunbar ()

Last updated on: 04:41, 31 May 2008 (UTC) (UTC)

Liveste

Just Finished: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Now reading: A Party in San Niccolo by Christobel Kent
Up next: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li

Last updated on: 11:43, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Merope

Just Finished: The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza
Now reading: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Up next: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Last updated on: 5 September 2006

Mukk

Just Finished: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Now reading: In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
Up next: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Last updated on: 23 October 2007

NicosT

Just finished: Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Now reading: Steinbeck's East of Eden
Up next: Dickens' Bleak House

Last updated on: 7 June 2006

Nucho

Just finished: Intuition by Allegra Goodman
Up next: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Last updated on: 11 April 2006

Panic!out

Just Finished: ~Waking Rose~ by ~Regina Doman~
Now reading: ~The Children of Húrin~ by ~J. R. R. Tolkien~
Up next: ~ The Riddle~ by ~Alison Croggon~

Last updated on: 16:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

PeregrineV

Just Finished: Killer Instinct by Joseph Finder
Now reading: The Athena Factor by W. Michael Gear
Now reading: The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks
Up Next: ???

Last updated on: 15:26, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Pieguy48

Just Finished: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Now reading: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Great book)
Up next: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Long book ._.)

Last updated on: 4 December 2006

Pokemon Buffy Titan

Just Finished: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Now reading: Matilda by Roald Dahl
Up next: Monster Island by Christopher Golden

Last updated on: 5 March 2008

Psychedelicrabbit

Just Finished: Money by Martin Amis
Now reading: The Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes
Now reading: After Tamerlane by John Darwin
Now reading: Nana by Emile Zola
Up next: Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes

Last updated on: 8 May 2007

Random556

Just Finished: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Now reading: The Spook´s Curse by Joseph Delaney
Up next: The Spook´s Secret by Joseph Delaney

Last updated on: 5 February 2008

Rockthevote

Just finished: The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Now Reading: Magyk by Angie Sage
Up next: The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien

Last updated on: 26 January 2006

Roxysmashsir43

Just finished: Lemony Snicket's/Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Now reading: Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Up next: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

Last updated on: 28 July 2006

Rtrace

Just Finished: Was by Geoff Ryman ()
Now reading: The Hungry Tiger of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Up next: First Lensman by E.E. Doc Smith

Last updated on: 13:16, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Runch

Just Finished: Crusader by Sara Douglass () (Why, why, WHY did I read this...?)
Now reading: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Up next: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Last updated on: 4 June 2007

Samiam70002

Just Finished: The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time, Vol 3) by Marcel Proust
Just Finished: The Long Day Wanes by Anthony Burgess
Now reading: The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
Up next: Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, Vol 4 by Marcel Proust
Up next: Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson

Last updated on: 2 December 2006