I was bad. Even if you don’t count the fact that I finally cataloged two boxes of books that were my mothers, on at least three occasions during the month I bought armloads of books. I’m not even going to compare what I read to what I bought to claim any sort of victory against my hoarding like I claimed last month. You’d just laugh. I’m not even going to attempt to count the number of books I added this month.
Electronic books I got for free:
- The King of Lies / John Hart
- Down River / John Hart
Library books acquired
and returned (or soon to be):
- The Myth of the Rational Voter / Bryan Caplan (review)
- Deadville / Ron Koertge (review)
- Tree of Smoke / Denis Johnson
- Twilight / Stephanie Meyer (review)
- Letter to a Christian Nation / Sam Harris (review)
- The Taqwacores / Michael Muhammad Knight (review)
- Breaking Rank / Norm Stamper (review)
From a visit to the Seattle Mystery Bookshop for a Lisa Lutz signing. This is why bookstores do signings. They get people like me who show up for them and buy out the store’s stock of books.
- Curse of the Spellmans / Lisa Lutz
- Revenge of the Spellmans / Lisa Lutz
- Homicide My Own / Anne Argula (a.k.a. Darryl Ponicsan)
- Krapp’s Last Cassette / Anne Argula
- Casino Royale / Ian Fleming
- Moody Gets the Blues / Steve Oliver
- Fury / G. M. Ford
- Shaman Pass / Stan Jones (review)
- Child 44 / Tom Rob Smith
- Edge of Evil / J. A. Jance
Heather gave me a book:
- Three Cups of Tea / Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
My friend Michelle pared down her books so she could move into a smaller place (from a studio to even smaller!). Some people adopt abandoned puppies from the pound; I adopt people’s abandoned books.
- I’m No Hero / Henry Friedman
- At the Drop of a Veil / Marianne Alireza
- Interpreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
- House of Sand and Fog / Andre Dubus III
- Fiskadoro / Denis Johnson
- Girl, Interrupted / Susanna Kaysen
- The Virgin Suicides / Jeffrey Eugenides
- Let’s Learn Hindi / Chaytna D. Feinstein
- Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement / Nikki Giovanni
- The Pure and the Impure / Colette
- Ultramarine / Raymond Carver
- William Faulkner: Early Prose and Poetry / William Faulkner
- American Psycho / Bret Easton Ellis
- The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories / Jack London
- How to Win Friends and Influence People / Dale Carnegie
- The Red and the Black / de Stendhal
- Cat and Mouse / Günter Grass
- The Fox / D. H. Lawrence
- The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels / Henry James
- The Fountainhead / Ayn Rand
- Slapstick / Kurt Vonnegut
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask / David Reuben
- A Spy in the House of Love / Anaïs Nin
I figured I’d already blown any pretense of restraint for the month, so why not go to the Friends of the Seattle Public Library book sale (or as I like to call it The J. A. Jance remainders sale
):
- A Is for Alibi / Sue Grafton
- Cruel Intent / J. A. Jance
- Damage Control / J. A. Jance
- 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
- 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
- The Elegant Universe / Bryan Greene
- The Secret History / Donna Tartt
- That Hideous Strength / C. S. Lewis
- Titan / John Varley
- The Mile-Long Spaceship / Kate Wilhelm
- The Woman Who Married a Bear / John Straley
- Software / Rudy Rucker
- Adulthood Rites / Octavia Butler
- The River of Time / David Brin
- The Lathe Of Heaven / Ursula K. Le Guin
- Four Ways to Forgiveness / Ursula K. Le Guin
- Ecotopia Emerging / Ernest Callenbach
- First Avenue / Lowen Clausen
- The Best Science Fiction of the Year / Terry Carr
- The 1976 Annual World’s Best SF / Donald A. Wollheim
- Thirty-Three Teeth / Colin Cotterill
- Flood / Andrew Vachss
- Strega / Andrew Vachss
- Ratking / Michael Dibdin
- Book Crush / Nancy Pearl
- Papal Sin / Garry Wills
- Deepsix / Jack McDevitt
- Little, Big / John Crowley
Photo Stacks of Books by Tom Reynolds used under a Creative Commons By-Nc-Nd 2.0 license.
