Books you never fail to see in charity shops.

Couplehood

seeing tons of updike esp the rabbit series @ book sales this season, prob means ppl who owned them have recently died :(

Just walked by neighborhood streetseller and they had a more interesting selection than usual, such as The Sound and The Fury, then I, the Jury then a copy of Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun with a SEXY PHOTOE of Lee Remick on the cover.

Sanctuary with Requiem for a Nun

Also The Portable Oscar Wilde, Three by Flannery O’Connor, The Threepenny Opera

Little Fauss and Big Halsy, Bonjour Tristesse, Elmer Gantry, The Hound of the Baskervilles, DO U SEE?

Cloud Atlas has been fairly common in the charity shops recently.

Cloud Atlas mittelbraus its way thru every charity shop in the world

Still no sign of Morrissey's Autobiography. I was sure it would be a straight-to-charity release.

I see it quite a lot, up here (Glasgow). Never see his novel, though (probably because it never sold any copies to begin with).

the 50 shades of grey and twilight series are ubiquitous ime

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/23/09/32732A7A00000578-3505687-image-a-30_1458726175497.jpg

The version of Running Dog with the awesome/trashy thriller cover

https://www.jhbooks.com/pictures/medium/152271.jpg

And "Offshore" (although obvs it is vv good)

That Delillo cover is like the canine answer version to Alan Coren's Golfing For Cats

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51P%2BJhTELDL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Yikes! My thoughts went "Awww, a cat playing golf... cool sweater... er, swastika"

it's a collection of coren's never very funny columns in punch magazine, so named bcz he -- amusingly! -- noted that the topselling books of the time were abt either cats or golf or hitler, so proposed a title that somehow combined them all

This being Oregon, I never fail to see multiple copies of Krakauer's Into the Wild. Sometimes there will be a round dozen of them shelved side-by-side. They are more prevalent even than Wild, Cheryl Strayed, which rarely shows up in herds greater than five at once.

I still see some of the Bridget Jones series of novels, but they are fading away to obscurity after a period of ubiquity. Tom Clancy is finally sinking into the sunset, too.

Just dropped off a bunch of books (and some CDs) at Housing Works. Wondering whether I am going to that freeing feeling or an emotional hangover/backlash or both and in what order or in what intensity.

The past four or five years I've noticed that Nicholas Sparks' novels occupy at least two feet of shelf space in all the charity bookshops I frequent.

Entire shelves for James Patterson

entire warehouses filled with gently used Elegance of the Hedgehog trade paperbacks