lonely LibraryThing books
Phantom Scribbler asked "
Do any other Library Thing users feel lonely when you see that you're the only one who owns a favorite book?" and in a comment
Susan said that
someone should start a post with a list of Library Thing onlies as a way to get book recommendations. Well, 27% of the books (51/190) listed in my
Library Thing account are held only by me, and I'm not sure those 51 are books I'd go off recommending everyone put on their reading lists.
But just for the sake of the game, here are 10 of my favorite unshared books (in no particular order):
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Zola and the Bourgeoisie: A Study of Themes and Techniques in Les Rougon Macquarts, by Brian Nelson [I
love Zola, enough to wish my French was better than it is (it sucks).]
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Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic, by Peter Kafer [although I haven't used it yet for an essay, I know I will more than once so I bought it as a preemptive strike against having to get it via ILL.]
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Cappuccino Cowboy, by Dustin Wells [
discussed here]
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The Folding Star, by Alan Hollinghurst [author of
The Swimming Pool Library, which I like better than
The Folding Star but don't actually own a copy anymore for whatever reason]
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American Gothic: An Anthology, 1787-1916 [who doesn't love anthologies?]
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The Absent Man: Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chestnutt, by Charles Duncan [One of the books I repeatedly checked out of the library and then realized screw it, I'll just buy my own copy]
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Gothic America, by Teresa Goddu [see note above]
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Arthur Rimbaud, by Enid Starkie [My favorite Rimbaud bio]
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Chimney Rock and
Shine Hawk, by Charlie Smith [some of the precious little contemporary fiction I own]
