Books Brought Home November/December, 2020

Vicious Circle by Mike Carey

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

I have done two books hauls this month so far.

Some modern stuff:
Yeonmi Park : In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Ottessa Moshfegh : My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Emily St. John Mandel : The Glass Hotel

And then a Penguin Classics haul:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o : The River Between
Horace Walpole : The Castle of Otranto
H. G. Wells : The Invisible Man
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis : The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

Dark Highway by Lisa Gray

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Confessions of a Curious Bookseller by Elizabeth Green

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

The Peripheral and Agency by William Gibson.

I got some great books for my birthday last month:
An Apple a Day: A Heartwarming Collection of True Horse Stories by Kimberly Gatto
The Witches are Coming by Lindy West
Women Who Read Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollmann

And I got these for myself:
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition by J. K. Rowling
The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis (for book club)
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver

New books in December:

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll

Johnny Lycan & the Anubis Disk - an LTER
The Cosmic Turkey - an LTER

And then Santa and the Birthday Fairy came -
A Promised Land
Twisted Twenty-Six
Dear Fahrenheit 451
Two for the Road

Hope Santa put plenty of reading material in your stocking, too!

My husband gave me Dune by Frank Herbert for Christmas.

New thread for the new year: https://www.librarything.com/topic/328141