# Post random titles from your Amazon wishlist! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500 "2009-11-06T00:45:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/1 "2009-11-06T00:45:39Z")
I want to see what everyone has on their book wishlist. So if you have one at Amazon or wherever, post a few titles. This doesn’t mean that you plan to buy the books; if you’re like me, you use your wishlist to make library requests, too, and to remember neat books you want to read. Rules: 1. Post 5 random titles. 2. They must be off the first page of the wishlist (most recent)–I know you all have multiple-page lists. Ideally, post the very top title first. Here are mine: Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones (#1, not yet published) Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age by Kay S. Hymowitz Puffin Book of Classic Indian Tales by Meera Uberoi Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present by Hank Stuever Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves by Crystal Renn ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/2 "2009-11-06T00:53:06Z")
Just books? My five most recent are: 1. Punisher: Frank Castle - Welcome to the Bayou trade paperback 2. Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown (Profiles in Popular Music) by Dr. Christopher J. McDonald 3. Ronin by Frank Miller 4. Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength by Laurie Helgoe 5. From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF (Science Fiction) of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown My actual five most recent includes 1, 2 and 3 from above plus Rush - Working Men (Live) DVD and Green Mind by Dinosaur Jr. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/3 "2009-11-06T02:55:06Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#): > > 1. From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF (Science Fiction) of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown I have this; it’s awesome, which you probably know. **dangermom** , I’m glad you started this thread. I didn’t know that Amazon doesn’t remove items from the list after they’ve been purchased. _The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart_ by M. Glenn Taylor _Ice Moon_ by Jan Costin Wagner _The Girl in the Glass_ by Jeffrey Ford _The Unforgiven_ and _The Searchers_ by Alan Lemay Opinions appreciated, if anyone’s read any of those. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/4 "2009-11-06T03:59:49Z")
The Mastery of Music: Ten Pathways to True Artistry by Barry Green (Author) Complete Preludes, Nocturnes and Waltzes: 26 Preludes, 21 Nocturnes, 19 Waltzes for Piano (Schirmer’s Library of Musical Classics) by Frederic Chopin (Composer) The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin (Author) The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/5 "2009-11-06T04:30:37Z")
I think you’ll see a theme here: Probability Measures on Metric Spaces by K. R. Parthasarathy Probabilistic Inequalities by George Anastassiou An Introduction to Ergodic Theory by Peter Walters Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks by Andrew Gelman, Deborah Nolan Supermodularity​ and Complementarity​ by Donald M. Topkis ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/6 "2009-11-06T04:46:59Z")
I have a separate Amazon wishlist just called “Library books” so I can keep track of what I want to check out. Otherwise, I’ll forget and go to the library with nothing in mind. I have 194 books on my library wishlist. The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake – (I was intrigued by the recent thread on him in CS and actually checked it out of the library today) The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano Awaiting Your Reply by Dan Chaon Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne This is How by M.J. Hyland ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/7 "2009-11-06T05:01:29Z")
Just added these a week ago: The Everyday Life Reader, edited by Ben Highmore Ordinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit Theories & Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings, edited by Stiles & Selz ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/8 "2009-11-06T05:32:33Z")
My first couple of books are ones I want to buy as gifts, so… Hidden History of New Hampshire by D. Quincy Whitney Waiting for May by Janet Morgan Stoeke Pillsbury Complete Cookbook Here are five I want for myself: A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick Illusion by Paula Volsky Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Sharyn November The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/9 "2009-11-06T06:02:45Z")
_Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805_ by Eric Sloane _The SS Brotherhood of the Bell:_ Nasa’s Nazis, JFK, And Majic-12 by Joseph P. Farrell _Way Station_ by Clifford D. Simak _Kick-Ass_ by Mark Millar _Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution_ by David A. Clary ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/10 "2009-11-06T13:49:42Z")
What a great idea for a thread! It’s tempting to edit this to make myself look more … something … (or at least less, you know) … but the five most recent additions are: 1. _The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective_ by Kate Summerscale. [Memo line: “sdmb”] 2. _Knit Kimono: 18 Designs with Simple Shapes_ by Vicki Square 3. _The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World_ by David W. Anthony 4. _Deer-Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War_ by Joe Bageant 5. _The World Without Us_ by Alan Weisman ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/11 "2009-11-06T14:58:30Z")
I have a couple of wishlists with books…one’s a list of textbooks that I hope in vain someone will buy for me before I actually have to shell out the cash myself since I am but a poor grad student, one is just books, the other is my main list of everything I’d like right now. I’m picking and choosing from the first pages of all three of those because I can. 😃 1. _Mutabilitie_ by Frank McGuinness 2. _Anansi Boys_ by Neil Gaiman 3. _The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland_ by R.F. Foster 4. _Cook’s Illustrated Best 30-Minute Recipe_ 5. _Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died Through the Northern Ireland Troubles_ by David Kittrick & others It was actually a bit alarming to realize exactly how far down I’d have to go on my non-textbook lists before I found books that weren’t related to Ireland. And I don’t even use Amazon to keep track of my library visits – I have a notebook for that. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/12 "2009-11-06T15:52:34Z")
I use Amazon all the time, but I don’t use the wishlist function. I usually either just go ahead and buy whatever I come across or don’t, depending on expense, etc. Maybe I can play along, however, by listing my 5 most recent purchases? Or would there be something else that would be a closer equivalent? 1. The Flowering of the Middle Ages – Joan Evans 2. The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture – Mary Carruthers 3. Blink – Ted Dekker 4. Reign in Hell – Keith Giffen 5. Mystical Astrology According to Ibn Arabi – Titus Burckhardt ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/13 "2009-11-06T16:41:27Z")
I keep a long Amazon wishlist, because I put everything on there that I’m even slightly interested in. Here are five recently added ones that I’m actually likely to buy in the next few months: \*William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147-1219 (2nd Edition) \*by David Crouch \*Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son \*by Michael Chabon _The Scarlet Lion_, Elizabeth Chadwick _The Blade Itself_, Joe Abercrombie _Starbound_, Joe Haldeman (releases in January) ---
**Author:** ![Mervyn\_Pumpkinhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mervyn\_Pumpkinhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mervyn_Pumpkinhead)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/14 "2009-11-07T03:53:33Z")
I also have _From These Ashes_ by Fredric Brown on my list! Also: _Pumpkin Teeth_ by Tom Cardamone _The Marquis of Bolibar_ by Leo Perutz _Nights at the Circus_ by Angela Carter _Dæmon in Lithuania_ by Henri Guigonnat _Alone with the Horrors_ by Ramsey Campbell ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/15 "2009-11-07T04:14:56Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > 1. _The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective_ by Kate Summerscale. [Memo line: “sdmb”] I was disappointed with this book. If I can remember who I loaned it too, I’ll get it back and send it to you. Maybe you’ll like it better than I did. I found it really dry and emotionless, which is something, considering the subject is a child murder. > [@Mervyn\_Pumpkinhead](#): > > _The Marquis of Bolibar_ by Leo Perutz Isn’t Perutz something? I had all his books once (were there more than three?) but sold them during a budget crunch. I wish I had them back. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/16 "2009-11-07T06:50:04Z")
> [@JessEnigma](#): > > 1. _Anansi Boys_ by Neil Gaiman I have a love-hate relationship with Gaiman, but this one was in the love column. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/17 "2009-11-07T14:32:06Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I was disappointed with this book. If I can remember who I loaned it too, I’ll get it back and send it to you. Maybe you’ll like it better than I did. I found it really dry and emotionless, which is something, considering the subject is a child murder. Thanks – but maybe I’ll just knock it off the list unread (wouldn’t be the first time, nor, I’m sure, the last). Your specific comment, frankly, trumps the generic “sdmb” of the recommendation. ---
**Author:** ![Mervyn\_Pumpkinhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mervyn\_Pumpkinhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mervyn_Pumpkinhead)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/18 "2009-11-07T16:11:03Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Isn’t Perutz something? I had all his books once (were there more than three?) but sold them during a budget crunch. I wish I had them back. Yes, I am really enjoying his books so far. I think that Little Apple is the last easily available one that I have to get. All of the ones printed by Arcade back in the early ninties are cheaply available used on Amazon! I am a little surprised at your response, since I cherry picked those listings to see if I could introduce anyone to an obscure author. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/19 "2009-11-07T16:13:45Z")
Why do I keep reading the title as ‘random **titties** ’? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500/20 "2009-11-07T16:48:35Z")
> [@Mervyn\_Pumpkinhead](#): > > I am a little surprised at your response, since I cherry picked those listings to see if I could introduce anyone to an obscure author. 😃 Well, it worked for Guigonnat and Cardamone. 🙂 You’re the only other person I know who’s read Perutz. Angela Carter I’ve heard of but haven’t read. I’ve read a lot of Ramsey Campbell but not recently. There was a thread awhile back asking for books that no one else has read. That’s where I found _Elleander Morning_ and a few other titles that were really good. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-titles-from-your-amazon-wishlist/516500.md?page=2)