After planning for a month to go, I almost forgot the Canton Library Book Sale, and luckily noticed the sign on my way from the grocery store. Raced home, got my book list, and with 45 minutes till closing time, drove back, found the library, parked a good hike away from the right door (why can they plaster signs all over town yet not point out which library door is open?), raced through the tables and filled a bag for $5. This method of sale explains the reason for some of these, but I did manage to get one that was on my "To Buy" list.
Eight American Authors – A Review of Research & Criticism
Mystic River – Dennis Lehane
A Man in Full – Tom Wolfe
Ghost Story – Peter Straub
Disclosure – Michael Crichton
Theophilus North – Thornton Wilder
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough
QB VII – Leon Uris
Stories for Late at Night – Alfred Hitchcock
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Dean’s December – Saul Bellow
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier
The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Odyssey – Homer
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
The last two I’ve read a long time ago, but I didn’t still have my copies of them and they are ones to be reread. Well, sixteen books for five bucks ain’t bad.
Odd thing I’ve noticed at these local libraries sales; my own hometown of Burlington had the best sale for what I am looking for, the classics in fiction and some of the humanities. Either our town is highly literate or they hold onto their books for decades before donating. In which case I fit right in here (obviously buying books I’ve already read). I’d love to see what happens to my own collection some day. I do hope that whoever ends up cleaning out my house lives with and reads some of them before recycling them again.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology