Aw, I’ve read so much good stuff lately (The Witch Boy is, what, 47 books ago?), but this post is about the books I…might? will?…the books I’m considering getting rid of.  Submitted for your approval:

I’d say about half of these are textbooks left by a former roommate in Brookline, who said I could do what I wanted with them.  Which turned out to be making a profit, as I was able to hawk a number of them at nearby used book stores for somewhere between $100 – $140.  After that I put some of them out on the curb for a day so people could take what they wanted.  Since then, though, the remainder of Dave’s books have just been weighing down the lowest shelf of my bookcase – a noble service, but I think it’s probably time for them to seek their fortunes elsewhere.

Additional books include a few old text books of my own, how-to’s on writing that Kristen or I won at different NaNoWriMo events (I will probably donate them to that cause again), and some material that is pure miscellanea.  The full list, bottom to top:

1. Children and Books (Gutherland, 9th edition)
2. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (ed. Larry D. Benson)
3. The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition)
4. The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition)
5. The Victorian Age (Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition)
6. The Romantic Period  (Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition)
7. The Sixteenth Century / The Early Seventeenth Century (Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition)
8. The Middle Ages (Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th edition)
9. The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes (Staines)
10. Idylls of the King (Tennyson)
11. Fall of the Roman Republic (Plutarch)
12. The Annals of Imperial Rome (Tacitus)
13. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (J.D. McClatchy)
14. The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (2nd edition)
15. The Norton Introduction to Poetry (J. Paul Hunter)
16. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (2nd edition)
17. Garfield: His 9 Lives (Jim Davis)
18. The Corvinian Library History and Stock (Cs. Csapodi)
19. Leave the Office Earlier (Laura Stack)
20. Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
21. How to Think Like Sherlock (Daniel Smith)
22. Tools of the Writer’s Craft (Sands Hall)
23. The Faith of a Writer (Joyce Carol Oates)
24. Your First Novel (Rittenberg & Whitcomb)
25. Libraries in Hungary (Jenő Kiss)

Literally as I finished this, Kristen shared a random phrase with me from facebook: “Sometimes you just have to chuck it in the fuck it bucket and move on.”  I may yield on a few of these: no kidding, Chrétien de Troyes is on my to-read list, and it’s a bit ridiculous that I’ve not read Idylls of the King, but otherwise…

At least I can feel good about Brideshead Revisited and Garfield: His 9 Lives.  July 12, 2016 and March 26, 2018 respectively.

ETA 4/30/18:

26. Kristen Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset, trans. Charles Archer)
27. Free At Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle (Sara Bullard)