It’s a big one! I have to visit bookshops wherever I go, and I did A LOT of traveling this summer. I still can’t believe I got this many books in this short span of time. I’ll separate them by location of acquisition, since this was a summer of travel.
Garage sales in my neighborhood:
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Barnes and Noble:
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce (children’s)
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
Half Price Books:
Charles Dickens: The Dickens Bicentenary by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Ebooks:
Start Here: Ready Your Way into 25 Amazing Authors by Jeff O’Neal
Free summer book exchange at my local park:
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories by various authors
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Teen-age Treasury of Imagination and Discovery by Seon Manley (ed.)
From my mother:
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
English Critical Essays: Twentieth Century by Phyllis Maud Jones (antiquarian)
An incense shop in Glastonbury, England called Star Child:
The Little Pocket Book of Spells by Akasha Moon
Christ Church gift shop in Oxford, England:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Skoobs Book Stall in the Guildhall Market in Bath, England:
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Mr. B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath, England (see my post!):
The Parasites by Daphne DeMaurier
The Break by Pietro Grossi
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (see my review!)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Trident Booksellers & Cafe in Boston, MA:
Interpreter of Maladies with The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Raven Used Books in Boston, MA:
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Brattle Book Shop in Boston, MA:
The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne by Catherine Reef (YA non-fic)
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America by Tony Horwitz
Make Believe by Joanna Scott
Longfellow Books in Portland, ME:
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle
Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA:
The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac
and a lovely illustrated copy of The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, which I find extremely amusing.
Rose Read 
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