Autumn 2012 Reading List

I enjoy making lists, but I love making book lists. Now that summer's basically over, I thought I'd create a nice, ambitious reading list for the fall ...Maybe too ambitious...

New Additions to the Library for Autumn Reading:

• David Sedaris' Naked
• Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes
• J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey
• John Irving's The World According to Garp
• Annie Barrows &  Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus
• Diane Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle
• Ellen Raskin's The Westing Game
• Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth
• Vera Brosgol's Anya's Ghost
• Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
• Art Spiegelman's Maus I
• Art Spiegelman's Maus II
• Daniel Clowes' Ghost World
• Mark Gatiss' The Vesuvius Club Graphic Novel
• Sabrina Jones' Isadora Duncan
• Mat Johnson's Right State

Leftovers from Summer Reading List that I'd Still Like to Read:

• Max Brooks’ World War Z
• Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
• Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Shadow
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea
• John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces

Leftovers from Summer Reading List that I Don't Particularly Feel Like Reading but Still Might Read:

• Richard Adams’ Watership Down
• Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life As We Knew It
• Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
• Yann Martel's Life of Pi   
• Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter
• Ann Brashare’s My Name is Memory
• Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale
• Markus Zusak's I Am the Messenger
• Sharon Creech’s The Wanderer
• Natalie Babbitt's The Search for Delicious

Ahhh, that's some satisfying book listing. I suspect I'm pretty much setting myself up for failure to attempt to read all of these books in the next three months, but we shall see. Either way, it's my idea of a good time.

Newest Arrivals

Over the past few weeks, I've acquired a substantial amount of new and used books. Some are giveaways, some gifts, some products of self-indulgent book-binging... and all mine, mine, MINE! Observe:

These three hailed from  the used bookstore to knock a few books off the ol' wishlist. 

And these gorgeous graphic novels are also all from the used bookstore. Can you tell I feel considerably less guilty over buying books when they are purchased from the used bookstore? I justify these guilt-free splurges several ways: 1) They are significantly marked down from their retail prices, 2) It is my personal duty to the community to patronize local brick-and-mortar bookstores, and 3) These books used to have a shelf they once called home, and they need me to adopt them because their days of readability are not yet over.

In this pile, the first book was a gift from a co-worker who highly recommends the series after learning I haven't read anything of the steampunk genre yet, and the second is a gift from my mother for a long day of travel.

These beauties were all won in GoodReads' First Reads giveaways. Though I think I am going to cool-it with the giveaways as I don't have any particular interest in some of these books other than that they were free.

And last but not least (by any means), these were all purchased with a birthday gift card! I put that generous gift card to excellent use, as you can see.

Though it probably goes without saying, I openly admit that I am a full-fledged bibliophile, and I make no apologies.

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