booksale haul, and then some

[meganbmoore]

Finally finished going through all the books I got at the booksale, as well as updating the backlog. Due to my steadily increasing appreciation for reporting on Amazingly Bad Fiction (I blame Dollhouse for this. I blame it for a lot of things.) I’m afraid I was even more indiscriminate than I usually am. If you are unfamiliar with me and charity booksales, I tend to grab anything that vaguely looks like something I might try out in the future, and read perhaps half of them. The list also includes a bunch of other things acquired deliberately. I’ll let you decide which is which.

Louisa May Alcott: The Inheritance
Rochelle Alers: Vows, Hideaway
Sherman Alexie: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian
Isabel Allende: Daughter of Fortune
Julia Alvarez: En Busca de Milagros
Bridget Anderson: Rendezvous, Soul Mates
Sylvia Andrew: The Christmas Belles
Catherine Archer: Velvet Touch, Dragon’s Dower
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sandition, Catharine and Other Stories
Peter S. Beagle: Tamsin
Donna Bell: The First Waltz
Sara Bennett: Kissing the Bride
Angela Benson: The Nicest Guy in America
Steve Berry: The Templar Legacy
Sara Blayne: The Captain’s Bride
Sybil G. Brinton: Old Friends and New Enemies
Terri Brisbin: The Countess Bride
Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey
Anita Brookner: Fraud
Debra Lee Brown: The Virgin Spring
Bill Bryson: Shakespeare
*Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess
Loure Bussey: A Taste of Love
Adrianne Byrd: Defenseless
Viveca Carlysle: Sweet Lies
Philippa Carr: The Pool of St. Branok, Saraband for Two Sisters, The Miracle at St. Bruno’s, The Black Swan
Robyn Carr: Runaway Mistress
*Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Barbara Cartland: Lights Laughter and A Lady, Love in the Moon, Bride to the King
Kristin Cashore: Fire
Willa Cather: Great Short Works, My Antonia*
Elizabeth Chater: The Reformed Rake
Marion Chesney: His Lordship’s Pleasure, The Desirable Duchess, Penelope Goes to Portsmouth, Belinda Goes to Bath
Tracy Chevalier: Girl With A Pearl Earring
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White, The Moonstone
Thomas Costain: The Black Rose
Michael Cunningham: The Hours
Tessa Dare: Goddess of the Hunt
Sarah Dessen: Dreamland
Anita Diamant: The Red Tent
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Conch Bearer
Linda Donn: The Little Balloonist
Jennifer Donnelly: The Tea Rose
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
Alexandre Dumas: The Black Tulip, The Count of Monte Cristo*
Alexandre Dumas, fils: Camille
Sarah Dunant: In the Company of the Courtesan
Meredith Duran: Bound By Your Touch
Dorothy Eden: The Marriage Chest, The Laughing Ghost, The Shadow Wife, The House on Hay Hill
Carolly Erickson: The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray
Cheryl Faye: A Time For Us
Edna Ferber: Saratoga Trunk
*F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Tracy Fobes: Portrait of A Bride, Portrait of a Man
Bette Ford: One of A Kind
Gwynne Forster: Ecstasy
C. M. Franzero: The Life and Times of Cleopatra
Sally Gardner: The Red Necklace
Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters, Cranford & Other Stories
Margaret George: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
Layle Giusto: Something So Right
Roberta Gellis: Roselynde, Alinor, Rhiannon, Sybelle, Gilliane, Fires of Winter, Fire Song, Thrice Bound, Dazzling Brightness, The Rope Dancer, Knight’s Honor
Anna Godberson: Envy
Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield
Tracy Grant: Secrets of A Lady
Carmen Green: Silken Love, Keeping Secrets
Simon R. Green: The Spy Who Haunted Me
Philippa Gregory: The Virgin’s Lover
Lauren Groff: The Monsters of Templeton
Shirley Hailstock: Legacy
Jennifer Hale: The Secret of the Devil’s Cave
Margaret Peterson Haddix: Just Ella
Charlotte Haldane: The Last Great Empress of China
Joan Hiatt Harlow: Shadows on the Sea
Joan Haslip: Lucrezia Borgia
Barbara Hambly: Patriot Hearts
Pete Hamill: Forever
Elizabeth Haydon: The Floating Island
Joan Hessayon: The Helmingham Rose
Georgette Heyer: The Quiet Gentleman, The Corinthian, The Black Moth, No Wind of Blame, The Toll-Gate, Cotillion, An Infamous Army, Sprig Muslin, Regency Buck, Faro’s Daughter, The Convenient Marriage, A Civil Contract
Donna Hill: A Private Affair
Joan Aiken Hodge: Shadow of A Lady
Diana Holquist: Hungry for More
Victoria Holt: The Pride of the Peacock, The India Fan, The Demon Lover, Secret for A Nightingale, Seven for A Secret, The Spring of the Tiger, The House of A Thousand Lanterns, The Mask of the Enchantress, The Judas Kiss, Mistress of Mellyn, Menfreya in the Morning, The Silk Vendetta, Kirkland Revels, On the Night of the Seventh Moon, The Landower Legacy
Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda
Elizabeth Hoyt: The Raven Prince, To Taste Temptation, The Leopard Prince
Carla Jablonski: Silent Echoes
**Samantha James: A Perfect Hero
Elizabeth Janeway: Daisy Kenyon
Beverly Jenkins: Before the Dawn, Night Song, Vivid, Topaz, Through the Storm
Paulette Jiles: Enemy Women
Doris Johnson: Night and Day
Julia Justiss: The Wedding Gamble
Jeanne Kalogrides: The Burning Times, The Borgia Bride
Andrea Kane: The Silver Coin
*Carolyn Keene: The Hidden Staircase, The Mystery of the Lilac Inn, The Ghost of Blackwood Hall
Marcia King-Gamble: Remembrance
Mary Kingsley: The Reluctant Hero
Martha Kirkland: Miss Maitland’s Letters
Jacqueline Kolosov: The Red Queen’s Daughter
Justine Larbalestier: Magic Lessons
Anna Larence: Second Time Around
***Stephanie Laurens: All About Love, On A Wild Night, To Distraction, The Lady Chosen, Beyond Seduction, A Gentleman’s Honor
Barbara Leigh: For Love Alone
****Kim Lenox: Night Falls Darkly
C.S. Lewis: Till We Have Faces
Shelby Lewis: Sensation, Delicious
Johanna Lindsey: Marriage Most Scandalous
Denise Lynn: Falcon’s Heart
Maggie MacKeever: Cupid’s Dart
Elizabeth Mansfield: Mother’s Choice
Felicia Mason: For the Love of You
Dianne Mayhew: Playing With Fire
Geraldine McCaughrean: The Stones Are Hatching
Gail A. McFarland: Summer Wind
Eloise Jarvis McGraw: The Golden Goblet
Kasey Michaels: The Questioning Miss Quinton
China Mieville: The Scar
Julie Moffett: Light A Single Candle
Gilbert Morris: The Honorable Imposter, The Captive Brides, The Gentle Rebel, The Saintly Buccaneer, The Holy Warrior, The Dixie Widow, The Pilgrim Song
John Mortimer: Rumpole of the Bailey
Zoe Oldenbourg: Catherine the Great
Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Susan Spencer Paul: Beguiled
Jean Plaidy: Queen in Waiting
Candice Poarch: With This Kiss, White Lightning
Elena Poniatowska: Tinisima
Francis Ray: The Bargain, Incognito, Heart of the Falcon
Deanna Raybourn: Silent on the Moor
Serena Richards: Rendezvous
Mildred Riley: Journey’s End
Jennifer Roberson: Lady of the Forest
Sari Robins: One Wicked Night
Jane Robinson: Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
*****J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Brian Ruckley: Bloodheir
Anya Seton: Katherine
Nevil Shute: Pied Piper
Janice Sims: All the Right Reasons
Joan Smith: Love Bade Me Welcome, Francesca
Hayley Ann Solomon: A Rag-Mannered Rogue
Mary Stewart: The Gabriel Hounds, The Moonspinners, Rose Cottage
Lynn Stone: The Knight’s Bride
Rex Stout: Bad for Business, Death Times Three, Too Many Women, Black Orchids, Three for the Chair, The Father Hunt, A Right to Die
Lytton Strachey: Eminent Victorians
Indu Sundaresan: The Twentieth Wife
Janelle Taylor: Wild Winds
Rhonda Thompson: Desert Bloom
James Tipton: Annette Vallon
Brenda Rickman Vantrease: The Illuminator, The Mercy Seller
Sarah Waters: Affinity, Fingersmith
Evelyn Waugh: Vile Bodies
Brent Weeks: Shadow’s Edge, Beyond the Shadows
Phaedra Weldon: Wraith
Nancy Werlin: Impossible
Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth
Connie Willis: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Crystal Wilson-Harris: Cherish
Gayle Wilson: Lady Sarah’s Son, Her Dearest Sin, Honor’s Bride
Angela Winters: Only You, A Forever Passion
Courtni Wright: Blush
Lawrence Yep: Dragon’s Gate, Child of the Owl
Marcus Zusak: The Book Thief

*Acquired for reread. (Many of these I used to own at some point. Various Victoria Holt’s should have the asterisk too, but I’m not sure which.)
**This is, indeed, the author of the Abducted Nun book.
***I stopped reading her ages ago but am told she got decent again. We’ll see.
****This has the potential to be the Awesomely Bad Romance Novel of Awesomely Bad Romance Novels.
*****Though, I got the first 3 books at last year’s booksale, and haven’t even thought about reading them.

A couple other notes:

1.  A lot of Harlequin Historical romances in there.  I'm trying to remember what I thought of the ones I read in college, but mostly drawing a blank, aside from the names of a couple authors I enjoyed.
2.  Having now read two of her historical fiction/mystery novels, I'm very curious about Roberta Gellis's better-know historical romances, but rather nervous, as they's Old Skool, and tend to be mentioned in the same conversations as Bertrice Small's "Skye O'Malley" (Hate!  So much hate!  This, incidentally, is the series where she flatout calls f/f sickening, and portrays f/f rape as infinitely worse than m/f rape.  That's only a bit of the hate, though.)  books, though not actually compared to them.