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Because the Friends of the Multnomah County Library had their big fall sale this past weekend, a huge stack of books came into my house.
Not counting the eight Jack Reacher books that Hubby got (he's only just now discovered Lee Child, although I've been raving for years), the stack includes:
Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement by Graham Greene
The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School, Claudine in Paris, Claudine Married, Claudine and Annie by Colette (one of several omnibus editions I picked up; I read a lot of Colette when I was in college, but don't remember any of it; on my French Connections list)
The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (a great Modern Library edition with dust jacket)
The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 and The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944 (I am in a Paris book reading mood, so got these to add to my French Connections list; too bad I couldn't find Vol. 2)
The Vicar of Wakefield and Other Writings by Oliver Goldsmith (another cool Modern Library edition with dust jacket)
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf (her last novel; I have an aspiration to read more Woolf)
Cities of the Interior by Anais Nin (in for a penny . . . )
Maurice: A Novel by E. M. Forster
The Beet Queen and Love Medicine by Louis Erdrich (Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle award)
The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott (in a nifty boxed set of paperbacks)
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (I've seen this around a lot -- it looks very good and I want to read it right away)
The Secret Hangman by Peter Lovesey (I've now gathered three of his books but haven't read any of them yet -- must start)
The Complete Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton (I've been meaning to get to these; here they are in an omnibus edition)
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (I took a flyer on this one)
Toward the End of Time by John Updike (I'm an Updike completist)
Absolute Truths by Susan Howatch (the sixth and last book in her series about the Church of England; I want to read the series and still need the first two)
Brief Lives by Anita Brookner (I was inspired by International Anita Brookner Day)
House Made of Dawn by Scott N. Momaday (this won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969)
Small World by David Lodge (the sequel to Changing Places, which I loved)
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
The Avignon Quintet by Lawrence Durrell (a doorstop of an omnibus edition; Monsieur: Or, The Prince of Darkness, the first book of The Avignon Quintet, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize))
Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire by Gary Wills (looks great and is going on my Venice List)
The Lion by Nelson DeMille (because I am so loving Cathedral that I am stocking up on his others)
Enjoy your books! The only one I have read is House Made of Dawn.
ReplyDeleteI read the first two of that Susan Howatch series and enjoyed them. Can't imagine why I didn't go on with the rest. Thank you for reminding me.
ReplyDeleteLola: What did you think of House made of Dawn? It won the Pulitzer and sounds good to me, but has mixed reviews on amazon.
ReplyDeleteBarbara: I read one of the follow up series and keep meaning to get back to them. I need to get the first one so I can get started. Maybe time to check the library.
Wow, you found some real treasures!
ReplyDeleteI love library sales. I've read many Roddy Doyle books but not the one you bought. I hope you enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteGreat library sale finds! I haven't read any of these. Hope you enjoy them all!
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