Like Goodreads, yes.
As for your list, I haven't read much of what's on there, but The Bad Beginning and Ghost In The Shell both come highly recommended.
edited 3rd Apr '12 8:02:56 AM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!Once you're set up, come over to my profile: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4401570-skjam
and you can see what books I have rated and determine if you want to send a friend request.
I've had Goodreads for ages, and never updated it. Your post spurred me to reactivate my account and go into a book-adding frenzy.
Comments on your recommended list:
- The Bad Beginning: One of my favourite children's series. There's a good deal of literary, philosophical and historical references for older readers, and a delightfully dark sense of humour.
- Cat's Cradle: Vonnegut is a bit polarising. This is one of his most famous works - personally not my favourite, but it's a quick, easy read.
- Edgar Allan Poe is fantastic - both his poetry and his short stories. Aside from his wonderful horror, he also wrote some of the first (and very wordy) detective stories, and a few "comic" stories.
- The Gathering Storm: This is actually the 12th book in a very long series of immense volumes. The 14th and final book is coming out next year. If you like epic fantasy with long, complex plots, and have a lot of time on your hands, start with The Eye of the World. The quality is a bit inconsistent across the series, but when it's good, it's very good.
- Skip Beat: I haven't read this myself, but my little sister (who is thirteen years old) adores the television adaptations. Do you like shoujo manga?
Now might be the time to check out the Unfortunate Events series, yes, given it's done.
That's why I have been holding back on Wheel Of Time; I think I got Gathering Storm instead of Eye of the World because I rated Warbreaker highly. (Impulse buy because I stumbled across a Brandon Sanderson signing.) But soonish this series will be complete and ready to check out.
I have read and enjoyed several shoujo series; only a couple of chapters of Skip Beat though—the premise looks cool.
And now that you've added a bunch more books and sorted to shelves, what's Goodreads recommending for you?
Here are the recommendations from my "Read" list:
- The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf
- Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey
- Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
- Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
- Queen Lucia (Lucia, #1) by E.F. Benson
- The Collected Short Stories of Saki - I actually own a volume of Saki's stories, but I haven't read all of them yet.
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) by Steven Erikson
- The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola
- A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
- The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) by Isaac Asimov - I started the Foundation and Empire, but never finished it.
- The Bone Doll's Twin (The Tamír Triad, #1) by Lynn Flewelling
- Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd
- Le petit Nicolas by Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny - well, I loved Goscinny's Asterix books...
- Wodehouse: A Life by Robert Mc Crum
- The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges - I've read "The Aleph". Not sure about the others.
- The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History by David Beerling
- The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 by Samuel Beckett
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson - I've read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
- Life, a User's Manual by Georges Perec
- Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
- Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution by Lynn Margulis
- The Briar King (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, #1) by Greg Keyes
- The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1) by Colleen Mc Cullough
- 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman
- Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) by China Miéville
- Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
- The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
- Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) by William Gibson
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- On Art and Life by John Ruskin
- Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
- Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
- The Antipope by Robert Rankin
- The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
- The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
- Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
- A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg
- The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese
- The Book of Ultimate Truths by Robert Rankin
- Loving by Henry Green
- The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine de Pizan
I've read the Foundation Trilogy, but so long ago I couldn't rate it now...have to put it on my to-read list.
The Tamir Triad is generally good, but I was annoyed by the postscript for spoilery reasons involving a particular background element.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was very loosely adapted for the Blade Runner movie—Deckard's wife, for example, was completely written out. The Mind Screw elements are much more to the front.
I know I've read The First Men in the Moon, but again it's been so long that I couldn't properly rate it.
Just trying to remember all those books (or at least the ones that were memorable) should give you hours of fun.
These are the shelves I have set up right now: Currently Reading (gives no recommendations as I am currently reading something obscure), Read, To Read, Adventure, Anthologies, Children's, Comedy, Comics, Fantasy, Favorites (only gives two recommendations, both from the same book), Firstreads (free books I've gotten from Goodreads giveaways in the expectation I would write a review), Foodie, Heroines, History, Horror, Manga, Martial Arts, Military and War, Mystery, Pulp, Romance, SF, Sports and Games, Western, YA.
So, it's been about a month, and I have nearly doubled the number of books rated on Goodreads, fiddled around with the shelves some, and have some new things they're recommending to me. (I noticed that after I passed about 300 books the recommendations started updating much less often—there's one shelf that after two weeks still doesn't have its own recommendations.
Let's take a look, and then let's hear about your recommendation shelf updates/comments on the recommended books. I'm not reposting anything that's left over from last time.
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb
- Beauty Pop by Kiyoko Arai
- Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood by Algernon Blackwood
- Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
- Cat And Girl by Dorothy Gambrell
- Children Of The Sea by Daisuke Igarashi
- The Complete Anne Of Green Gables Boxed Set by I.M. Montgomery
- Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
- Dealing With Dragons by Patricia c. Wrede
- The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
- A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
- Eragon & Eldest by Christopher Paolini
- Exodus by Leon Uris
- Fifty-To-One by Charles Ardai
- Grandville by Bryan Talbot
- Happy Cafe by Kou Matsuzuki
- Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Love Hina by Ken Akamatsu
- The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Laukester Brisley
- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori
- Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
- Penny Arcade Volume 3: The Warsun Prophesies by Jerry Holkins
- Preacher by Garth Ennis
- Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor
- Sabriel by Garth Nix
- Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees by Nancy Ross Hugo
- Silver Smoke by Monica Leon
- The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North by Jack London
- The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by HP Lovecraft
- Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis
- Truth About Bats by Eva Moore
- Twin Spica by Kou Yaginuma
- Two Generals by Scott Chantler
- The Wallflower by Tomoko Hayakawa
- Wandering Son by Shimura Takako
- What A Wonderful World! by Inio Asano
- Winnie The Pooh Treasury by A. A. Milne
Another month has gone by, let's see what new things Goodreads is recommending to me. (It goes in fits and starts, I've noticed. One or two weeks where no amount of adding to shelves brings new recommendations, followed by two or three days of rapid change.)
- Animalia by Graeme Base
- The Apprentice: My Life Life in the Kitchen by Jacques Pepin
- The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard Burton
- The Art of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher
- {{ Batwoman}} #1 by J. H. Williams III
- The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William J Bernstein
- The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
- The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
- A Child's Garden of Verse by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Christmas Carol, the Chimes & the Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
- Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler
- The Complete Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde
- The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
- The Complete Tales by Beatrix Potter
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
- Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels by Dashiell Hammett
- The Dispossessed: an Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt
- The Enchanted Castle & Five Children and It by E Nesbit
- Essential Tales and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
- Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
- The Forgotten Realms Atlas: Advanced Dungeons And Dragons by Karen Wynn Fonstad
- Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting by Ed Greenwood
- The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola
- Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
- The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius
- Hana Kimi #1 by Hisaya Nakajo
- Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola
- Home Cooking: a Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
- Hunt at the Well of Eternity by Gabriel Hunt
- The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
- Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Life, on the Line: a Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat by Grant Achatz
- Literature Guide: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Scholastic Literature Guide
- Love Com by Aya Nakahara
- The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute by Michael Ruhlman
- The 52 by Geoff Johns
- Nodame Cantabile #1 by Tomoko Ninomiya
- One Hundred Bullets #1 by Brian Azzarello
- Otomen #1 by Aya Kanno
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E Woods Jr.
- Prague Winter: a Personal Story of Remembrance and War (1937-1948) by Madeleine Albright
- The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs
- Pygmalion and Three Other Plays by George Bernard Shaw
- The Rangers Apprentice Collection Books 1-3 Box Set by John Flanagan
- Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev
- Selected Stories by O Henry
- Stone Soup: An Old Tale by Marcia Brown
- Superman: For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb
- Thanksgiving: the Pilgrims' First Year in America by Glenn Alan Cheney
- Thief! by Megan Whalen Turner
- The Turn Of The Screw and the Aspern Papers by Henry James
- Une Vie Dans les Marges by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
- Victory at Yorktown: the Campaign that Won the Revolution by Richard M. Ketchum
- The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr.
- Who Wrote The Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman
Other notes: My Harry Potter love brought up a whole bunch of Arabic language books for some reason. Fixed my "foodie" shelf so it actually recommends books on food. Discovered that a bunch of Dungeons And Dragons books are on file.
Your thoughts?
It's been a while, my reading slowed down and no new shelves, so the list without repeats is much shorter now.
- Batman: War on Crime by Paul Dini
- The Black Stranger and Other American Tales by Robert E Howard
- Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
- Clues in the Woods by Peggy Parish
- The Complete Stories and Poems by Lewis Carroll
- Electric Daisy by Kyousuke Motomi
- The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
- Finder, Vol. 1: Sin-Eater 1 by Carla Speed Mc Neil
- Happy Cafe by Kou Matsuzuki
- Hellboy: Darkness Calls by Mike Mignola
- The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
- KOP by Warren Hammond
- Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E. Howard
- Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Northwest of Earth by C. L. Moore
- The Return of the Sorceror: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith by Clark Ashton Smith
- Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
- Thor Visionaries: Walt Simonson, Vol. 1 by Walt Simonson
- The Throne of Bones by Brian Mc Naughton
- Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
- Una Vida Errante by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
- Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne
Any thoughts on these books, any updates on your own shelves?
Bumping this up by a year or so... Again, if you have read any of these books, or have heard interesting buzz, let us know. Goodreads is currently recommending to me, based on books I've read...
- All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen
- Axiomatic by Greg Egan
- Batman and Robin, Vol. 1: Batman Reborn by Grant Morrison
- Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
- The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
- Borderland by Terri Windling
- A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
- City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller
- Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
- Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer
- Doctor Mirabilis by James Blish
- Drawing Words & Writing Pictures by Jessical Abel
- Duncan's War by Douglas Bond
- Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: The Land That Time Forgot by Russ Manning
- The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
- The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
- Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Firefox by Craig Thomas
- Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford
- The Goon: Noir by Thomas Lennon
- A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
- The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
- Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
- King Arthur and his Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory
- Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- The Mansion by Henry van Dyke
- Meet Me in the Dark by Lilly M. Love
- The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Mistletoe Murder by Leslie Meier
- Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton
- A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith by Cathy East Dubowski
- The New Teen Titans Archives, Vol. 1 by Marv Wolfman
- Of Men and Monsters by William Tenn
- Optic Nerve #1 by Adrian Tomine
- Pandora's Legions by Christopher Anvil
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
- Run Silent Run Deep by Edward L. Beach
- Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William S. Baring-Gould
- Sin City, Vol. 1: the Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller
- Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Raise Them Bones by Scott Snyder
- Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis
- The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories by Nicholas Gurewitch
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
You can see books I've actually reviewed at my blog, http://www.skjam.com
Your thoughts and comments?

I've been adding shelves to my Goodreads page to further sort the books I've rated, which means that I have quite a few recommendations based on said shelves. It's interesting to see what they think my taste is.
I thought I'd share a list of what Goodreads is recommending to me. If you know any of these books and have opinions on them, let me know. Or share what Goodreads has recommended from your shelves.
edited 3rd Apr '12 7:06:37 AM by SKJAM