Well, I’ve done it again. If I see books for close to a buck a piece then I just can’t help myself. Things like the picture below happen. I scour every shelf, weigh my feelings of want and need, inevitably convince myself I need them all, and then trying and figure how much I can explain away so Lisa will let me get them…..all of them.

This haul was made possible by the incredibly low prices at Deseret Industries, a thrift store of wondrous proportions. (Not a sponsored post…..just a PSA for bookaholics.)

How much did this literary dragon horde cost me? Only about $43. How many books? 32. How many books did I leave on the shelf? ….too many…..

Left

• Dragon Wing by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Deathgate Cycle #1)
• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn #1)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings #2)
• The Nixie’s Song by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles #1)
• The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)
• The Invasion by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #1)
• Tracker by Gary Paulsen
• Fablehaven by Brandon Mull (Fablehaven #1)
• Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull (Fablehaven #2)

Center

• Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender #3)
• Sanctuary by Mercedes Lackey (Dragon Jousters #3)
• Fall of a Kingdom by Hilari Bell (The Farsala Trilogy#1)
• Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern, Harper Hall Trilogy #2)
• We Bought A Zoo by Benjamin Mee
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson #4)
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson #1)
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games #1)
• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings #3)

Right

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea #1)
• The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin (Chronicles of the Necromancer #1)
• The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks (Shannara Series, Shannara Trilogy #2)
• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks (Shannara Series, Shannara Trilogy #1)
• The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks (Shannara Series, Shannara Trilogy #3)
• The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
• Treason by Orson Scott Card
• Mockingjary by Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games #3) (Again…..)
• Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune #1)

I don’t know if I have room on my shelves for these, but I’ll just have to make room. I’m sort of proud of myself, there are 4 books that aren’t SF/F and I’ve only read one of them. I think the most surprising is We Bought A Zoo. I enjoyed the movie and thought the book version might be better. (Same with Earthsea.)

With this haul I’ve finished off Lord of the Rings and start/add on several favorite series, Mistborn, Fablehaven, Animorphs, and Dragonriders of Pern. The entire Shannara trilogy was a great find, and there was 3/4 of the Heritage of Shannara there that I left behind. Let’s just say if they’re there when I go back, they won’t be when I leave. But now I have no excuse not to read them.

My biggest find is probably the hardcover copy of Dune. It’s a newer printing, 2002, but I love hardcovers and I’ve been looking for this classic for quite sometime. (Just got to read it now….I’m a horrible SF/F fan, I know.)

Picked up another copy of Mockingjay……and we can’t return it. I’ve considered doing a giveaway but don’t know if it would be something people would want. It’s used, not recently published and the third book in a trilogy. I might be able to get a few cents in store credit at a used bookstore. Or I could mark the crap out of it by underlining every time she whines. Any ideas?

Robert