Hornby!

Happy week-before-publication-day to the fourth collection of columns from Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” More Baths Less Talking! To celebrate, we’re giving away 5 (five!) free copies of the book. Reply to this post with your own “Books Bought” and “Books Read” lists for the summer, and 5 (five!) lucky winners will be contacted by one of the many members of our vast customer service department and will, shortly thereafter, find More Baths Less Talking on their doorstep, front porch, entryway floor, post-office box, or in the shrubs adjacent to one of the above. So, tell us: what books have been piling up on your bedside table or occupying your waking hours this summer?

Happy week-before-publication-day to the fourth collection of columns from Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” More Baths Less Talking! To celebrate, we’re giving away 5 (five!) free copies of the book. Reply to this post with your own “Books Bought” and “Books Read” lists for the summer, and 5 (five!) lucky winners will be contacted by one of the many members of our vast customer service department and will, shortly thereafter, find More Baths Less Talking on their doorstep, front porch, entryway floor, post-office box, or in the shrubs adjacent to one of the above.

So, tell us: what books have been piling up on your bedside table or occupying your waking hours this summer?

Notes
  1. readingisacyn answered: Bought- 50 Shades of Grey, Polysyllabic Spree, Magician King, Insatiable Gardener’s Guide, Eating Animals, Let the Great World Spin
  2. mishappeningsoflife answered: Capote’s In Cold Blood, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and Ira Glass’ The New Kings of Nonfiction.
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  5. sunlightthroughblinds answered: Bought: Young Men & Fire, Spy Who Came In From Cold, Man Eaters Of Tsavo // Read: Pulphead, The Little Sister, Hell House, Cultural Amnesia
  6. strangecaffeine answered: Books Bought:
  7. rngsw answered: Animal Farm, Groundswell
  8. motionality answered: I’ve read over 30 books this summer; some good, some bad. The most notable words so far have been from love letters and wikipedia entries.
  9. rswingle answered: Books Read - Fun Home, Are You My Mother, Gone Girl, Kick Ass, El Narco, Power of the Dog.
  10. meldej answered: Bought: The Family Fang, The False Friend, Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, The Tiger’s Wife; Read: all but The Tiger’s Wife
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    Books bought: Drift by Rachel Maddow, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago, Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut,...
  12. fantacrap answered: Prayers of the Cosmos, Andy Kaufman Revealed!, Feast for Crows, A Dance With Dragons, The Game of Life and How to Play It
  13. toddbotblog answered: Bought: A BiggervMessage, conversations with David Hockney, the Last Avante Garde Read: Chance & Circumstance, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire
  14. bookloversnevergotobedalone answered: Bought-Home,A Word Child,Sense of an Ending,Tar Baby,Read-1Q84,Sense of an Ending,Sula,Home,Swamplandia!,Sun Also Rises,Beyond Religion,+more
  15. galapagosgal answered: Read: Art of Fielding, Everything is wrong with me, Then we came to an End. Bought: A Hologram for the King & Isn’t it pretty to think so?
  16. ryanleeee answered: On bedside this summer: Suttree, Wind up bird chronicle, Paris Trance, Last Evenings on earth, Encyclopedia Russian Criminal Tattoos
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  18. asoundthatquakes answered: books read: Middlesex, Lit, About a Boy, Songbook, My Life in France
  19. moreraventhanyou answered: Stone Arabia, The Pale King, You & Me, Love Rock Revolution
  20. zoeritts answered: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz!
  21. zachbot3000 answered: Most Recent purchases: Old Man’s War, Redshirts: A Novel with 3 Codas, Why We Broke Up, Paradise Lost, and Hellboy: Seed of Destruction
  22. redflyer answered: Reply field is too short for the full list! Most recent book bought: Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks MRBRead:The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
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