Newly Revised Bookcase

I buy from charity shops; I'm rarely a giver, a passer-on type book-reader. I keep 'em all. Not unless I really disliked a read. In which case, I'd bag it up & leave it on a bus, a train, a bench on the Meadows. One woman's doom is another woman's escapism.
   I had a dream of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Of sliding ladders and coffee tables and comfy chairs. Of my very own library space with books going back to childhood & the ones I'd managed to retain from then. 
  The dream diminished about 7am this morning in the name of self-storage and Going Away. Hence this post is being written as a Holding Place to list all that I'm parting with (to Oxfam/friends over Amazon/eBay) so that one day when I'm less nomadic, I can rebuild and restructure again. Some of them I may well be happy with having read once, others I will want to own again & have in my possession. Frustratingly, some of them I've still not yet got round to* but this way I may yet still get there, one day.
  Although I feel to be parting with a lot, it's actually what I'm holding onto, what I don't want to Second Copy - aside my obvious favourites - which feels more telling: Drina Ballerina (the complete series), my C.19th US Writing & Culture texts, Riverside Chaucer...

Here we are then. 

The Ones Which Got Away:

1. Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
2. Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
3. Maya Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings; Gather Together In My Name
4. Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle (annot.)
5. Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice
6. J.G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun *
7. Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
8. Corrie ten Boom - The Hiding Place
9. W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk *
10. Brontës: Shirley; Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Villette
11. Albert Camus - The Plague * 
12. John Cleland - Fanny Hill 
13. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
14. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness *
15. Truman Capote - In Cold Blood * 
16. Wilkie Collins - The Woman In White
17. Roald Dahl boxset
18. Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders
19. Anita Diamant - The Red Tent
20. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime & Punishment
21. Ann Elizabeth Cree - The Viscount's Bride; The Duke's Mistress (M&B Regency)
22. Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
23. Eve Ensler - The Vagina Monologues
24. Louise Erdrich - Love Medicine (annot.)
25. Sebastian Faulk - Birdsong
26. Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana; Jill Has Two Ponies; A Stable for Jill
27. Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
28. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Tender Is The Night
29. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary 
30. E.M. Forster - A Room With A View
31. Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
32. Betty Frierdan - The Feminine Mystique 
33. Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club
34. John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
35. Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl
36. Ellen Galford  - The Fires of Bride (annot.)
37. Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
38. Goethe - ..Young Werther *
39. William Golding - Lord of the Flies 
40. Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
41. Axel Hacke - Little King December
42. Thomas Hardy  - Tess.., Mayor of Casterbridge; Far From The Madding Crowd                   
43. L.P. Hartley - The Go-Between
44. Zoë Heller - Notes on a Scandal
45. John Hershey - Hiroshima
46. Nick Hornby - High Fidelity; About A Boy                   
47. Ted Hughes - The Dreamfighter; What is the Truth?
48. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go; The Remains of the Day;
    An Artist of the Floating World (annot.)
49.  Brian Jacques - Redwall,  Mattimeo, Mariel, Salamandastron,
     Mossflower, Martin the Warrior, The Bellmaker
50. Peter Jinks - Hallam Foe
51. Jack Kerouac - On The Road
52. Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
53. D.H. Lawrence - Women In Love; Sons & Lovers
54. Ira Levin - The Stepford Wives
55. C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
56. Andrea Levy - Small Island
57. Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince  (annot.)
58. Marlowe - Edward II 
59. Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing; Cities of the Plain
60. Ian McEwan - Atonement; Enduring Love
61. A.A.Milne - When We Were Very Young  (HB)
62. Toni Morrison - Beloved; Song of Solomon (annot.)
63. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
64. David Nicholls - One Day
65. Anne O'Brien - Conquering Knight, Captive Lady 
66. Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
67. Tom Perotta - Little Children 
68. Ross Raisin - God's Own Country
69. Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight *
70. Michèle Roberts - The Looking Glass; All the Selves I Was (poetry)
    
71. Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
72. J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
73. Janette Seymour - Purity's Passion
74. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
75. Anita Shreve - Eden Close; Fortune's Rocks
76. Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres (based on King Lear) 
77. Patricia M. St. John - Treasures of the Snow
78. J.R.R. Tolkien - Fellowship
79. Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots & Leaves 
80. Horace Walpole - Castle of Otranto
81. Daniel Wallace - Big Fish
82. Jill Paton Walsh - Torch
83. Evelyn Waugh -  A Handful of Dust 
84. Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey; Plays (Windermere/No Importance)
85. Oscar Wilde - Table Talk (HB, ed. Thomas Wright)
86. Jeanette Winterson - Sexing The Cherry
87. Eric Williams - The Wooden Horse 
88. Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

Poetry: 

1.  Siegfried Sassoon - The War Poems
2. TS Eliot - Old Possum's Book...
3. Rupert Brooke - 1914
4. Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist; Human Chain
5. Simon Armitage - Kid
6. Ted Hughes - Crow
7. Philip Larkin - High Windows
8. W.H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love
9. W.B. Yeats - The Tower
10. Steve Turner - Poems
11. Carol Ann Duffy - The Good Child's Guide To Rock'n'Roll 
12. A World of Poetry - ed. Michael Rosen
13. Essential Poems for Britain - ed. Daisy Goodwin
14. Golden Apples - Poems for Children
15. Poetry Please - Radio 4

The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas

English Mystery Plays
Follies  -  Goldman & Sondheim
Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw

1. Ann Ladbury's Making Things Do Sewing Book 
2. The Penguin Book of Sewing
3. The Simplicity Pocket Guide To Home Sewing
4. Machine Patchwork
5. 101 Patchwork Patterns

1. A Very Short Introduction: Aristotle; Freud; Marx (OUP) 
2. Beginning Theory - Peter Barry
3. Introducing Feminism; Introducing Postmodernism (Icon Books)
4. Second World War - Martin Gilbert

1. How To Become Ridiculously Well-Read In One Evening
2.  How To Sound Clever 
3. If I Had A Sheep - Mick Inkpen 
4. Judi Dench - autobiography by John Miller
5. Little Miss Neat & Little Miss Brainy
6. W.G. Sebald - On The Natural History of Destruction
7. One Hundred Books in Haiku
8. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories 
9. Melvyn Bragg - The Adventure of English (HB)
10. Stephen Fry - The Ode Less Travelled 
11. The Compleat Works of Wilm Shkspr (abridged) - ReducedSCo
12. The Faber Book of Greek Legends (ed. Kathleen Lines - ff)
13. The Man Who Listens To Horses - Monty Roberts
14. The Thingygummy
15. The Wicked Wit of Women 
16. Being Elizabeth Bennet - Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure: Webster
17. The Jane Austen Pocket Bible - Holly Ivins