The Great Purge of 2014: Books

Yup, I'm parting with even more books. I seriously own too damn many. I've read some articles on minimalism and decided to use some of their ideas.

More than once I asked myself, "I've had this book since college and haven't read it. Why not?" Based on that, I'm parting with:


Fiction
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald
The Accidental Bestseller by Wendy Wax
Been There, Done That by Carol Snow
A Vist from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon Silko
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano
Children of Men by P. D. James
The Art of Losing by Rebecca Connell
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
Summer People by Brian Groh
School's Out by Christophe Dufosse
Bedtime Stories edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
This Is Not Chick Lit edited by Elizabeth Merrick
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Here Comes Another Lesson by Stephen O'Connor
The Scandal of Lady Eleanor by Regina Jeffers
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson
Room by Emma Donoghue

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg

Teen
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky

The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan

What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sones

Prom Nights from Hell edited by Meg Cabot

I Am Number Four by L. Lorre

Lost Voices by Porter


Mysteries
Heat Wave by Richard Castle
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
The Dark End of the Street edited by Jonathan Santlofer
The Missing Ink by Karen Olsen
Murder of a Bookstore Babe by Denise Swansom
Suite 606 by JD Robb et al
The Other Side by JD Robb et al
Three in Death by JD Robb
The Dark End of the Street edited by Jonathan Santlofer
Russian Roulette by Austin Camacho
Collateral Damage by Austin Camacho

Genre Fiction
Steampunk edited by Jeff VanderMeer
Shadow on the Sun by Richard Matheson
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Stolen Kelley Armstrong
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
City by Alessandro Baricco
Paul Is Undead by Alan Goldsher
Chyrstallia and the Source of Light by P. M. Glaser
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Beyond the Dark edited by Angela Knight
Unbound edited by Kim Harrison
Dates from Hell edited by Kim Harrison
Bite edited by Charlaine Harris
Grails: Quests of the Dawn edited by Richard Gilliam
Love Is Strange edited by Martin Greenberg
The Werewolf's Guide to Life
The New Vampire's Handbook
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker


Nonfiction
The Mirror Effect by Dr. Drew
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
It's a Wonderful Lie edited by Emily Franklin
Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles
Fame Junkies by Jake Halpern
Good Time Girls of the Alaska Yukon Gold Rush by Lael Morgan
50 Facts that Should Change the World by Jessica Williams
In Search of Dracula by Raymond McNally
Such a Pretty Fat by Julie Lancaster
Reduced Shakespeare by Reed Martin
Lit Riffs edited by Matthew Miele
Letters to Juliet by Lise Friedman
Spin magazine: Greatest Hits

Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene

Second Reading by Jonathan Yardley

George Steiner at The New Yorker
See Jane Date: Writing Chick Lit
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010
Suddenly Frugal
A Very Short Introduction to Bestsellers

Memoir/Biography
Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
I'm Just a Guy by Bill Engvall
Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl by Susan McCorkindale
Lost in Suburbia by Tracy Beckerman
Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent
Stories from Candyland by Candy Spelling
Adventures of a Continental Drifter by Elliott Hester
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kit by Bill Bryson
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This by Bob Newhart

Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster

Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson

Crossing the Heart of Africa by Smith

Confessions of a Continental Drifter by  Hester

The Whole Five Feet by Christopher Beha

Head Over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy by Harrison

Badass by Shannen Doherty



Other
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Bla Bla Sex (random sex factoids)

Forbidden Knowledge Sex

Cruel and Unusual Idiots

Stupid Science

Stupid on the Road

Planet Dog: A Dog-lopedia by Sandra Choron

If you're interested in any of these titles, you know where to find me.