I seriously have a problem. Below are the books purchased in the last couple of months. In my defense, I only paid full price for the first one. And the others were from used book stores that I don’t frequent too regularly or library sales that only happen once a year or so.
Nonetheless, I still realize I have a problem. But it’s one I love to have.
Rainy Day Books:
Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 1st edition, signed
Half Price Bookstore:
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Water is Wide - Pat Conroy
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men/Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
In A Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
A Prayer for the Dying - Stewart O’Nan
Think Twice - Lisa Scottoline
The Faith Club - Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
A Different Half Price Bookstore:
Maus 1 - Art Spiegelman
Maus 2 - Art Spiegelman
The Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Things The Carried - Tim O’Brien
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins
Seeing Voices - Oliver Sacks
Musicphilia - Oliver Sacks
Spook - Mary Roach
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susana Clark
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
A Thousand Cuts- Simon Lelic
Mudbound - Hillary Jordan
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
KC Library Sale:
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Silas Marner - George Eliot
The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
100 Selected Poems - ee cummings
B is For Beer - Tom Robbins
Stranger Than Fiction - Chuck Palahniuk
Overland Park Library Sale:
Waiting For Godot - Samuel Beckett
The Forgotten Garden -Kate Morton
Bloodroot - Amy Greene
The Keep - Jennifer Egan
Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
Galileo’s Daughter - Dava Sobel
The Other Queen - Phillipa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillipa Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance- Phillipa Gregory
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
The King of Kings County - Whitney Terrell
The Moonflower Vine - Jetta Carleton
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett
Run - Ann Patchett
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith
Think Twice - Lisa Scottoline
Look Again - Lisa Scottoline
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Uglies - Scott Westerfield
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The Liar’s Club - Mary Karr
The Tortilla Curtain - T. C. Boyle
The Sandman: The Doll’s House - Neil Gaiman
Graphic Classics: Arthur Conan Doyle
Amulet: The Stonekeeper - Kazu Kibuishi
And one more trip to Half Price Bookstore:
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
How to Talk to a Widower - Jonathan Tropper
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
John Henry Days - Colson Whitehead
Truth & Beauty - Ann Patchett
So how did I do? Read any of these? Ashamed of my habit? Any others I should add to the list for my next shopping excursion?
