Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[-Carlos-]

Brazil by John Updike
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[Fantasy Moon]

The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas
Nothing's Sacred - Lewis Black

 

[Stewart]

Clock Without Hands, Carson McCullers
The Old Patagonian Express, Paul Theroux
Moses Ascending, Sam Selvon

 

[-Carlos-]

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner

 

[annewhitfield]

I just bought The Birds & The Bees by Milly Johnson.

 

[StillILearn]

Eat, Pray Love, Kingsolver (I gave my other one away.)

World Without End, Follett

Buddha, Chopra

Mothers and Sons, Colm Toibin

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche

(and last, but certainly not least

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

and

The Twenty-Seventh City, Franzen This last one is described as being An All-American hybrid that is nothing less than brilliant by Dan Cryer of Newsday. And as being Permeated with intelligence, beauty, and subversive humor, teeming with life, always on the edge of igniting from its own repressed energy. - by John Blades of the Chicago Tribune. (This guy likes Franzen almost as much as I do.)

 

[Fantasy Moon]

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

 

[joderu95]

Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo
Tracks - Louise Erdrich
Lunar Follies - Gilbert Sorrentino
The Gift of Stones - Jim Crace
The Pesthouse - "

 

[Robert]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

 

[ink-heart]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

That's a great book. And when you have read it, watch "Apocalypse Now" (again), by all means.

 

[-Carlos-]

Pincher Martin by William Golding
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

 

[Stewart]

Zapata, John Steinbeck
Once There Was A War, John Steinbeck
The Acts Of King Arthur And His Noble Knights, John Steinbeck

 

[saliotthomas]

Zapata, John Steinbeck
Once There Was A War, John Steinbeck
The Acts Of King Arthur And His Noble Knights, John Steinbeck

Stewart you are going to be hicthiking in Irland!

 

[Stewart]

Stewart you are going to be hicthiking in Irland!

I know. Luckily, it's annual bonus time, so I can afford a few extra indulgences.

 

[SFG75]

Went to goodwill and robbed them blind

Our Economic Morality by Harry F. Ward
-A great social gospel inspired book on economics. I'm not certain how this book from 1930 made it into a place like goodwill, but it was definitely a gold nugget amidst the romance novels.

K-I-S-S-Guide to Feng Shui by Stephen Skinner
-Yeah, I need to learn how to create lasting harmony in the home using ancient methods.

I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe.
-I've been wanting to read this for a LONG time, now I get the chance.

Freedom is as Freedom does by Corliss Lamont
-A good cold war book on the state of freedom at the time. Should be very relevant given the contemporary American scence.

Educating for Character by Thomas Lickona
-A great topic, and a controversial one at that.

 

[Landslide]

The City and the Mountains, by Eça de Queiroz

It wasn't exactly purchased, it came for free with a newspaper...

 

[Stewart]

The City and the Mountains, by Eça de Queiroz

de Queiroz is someone I'd like to read eventually. His works - or at least some - are available in English, thanks to a small publisher.

EDIT: Oh, and I bought With Borges by Alberto Manguel yesterday.

 

[Gracie61]

Playing for pizza by John Grisham.....after all, it's settled in my hometown......

 

[-Carlos-]

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

I also purchased several non-fiction books- from home remedies to English text books.

 

[sparkchaser]

How do you read those so fast man?