Books by the Foot

I have loads of paperbacks in my garage which you are very welcome to buy for 50p each...general popular fiction stuff...

This is a brilliantly bizarre thread, however I'd like to hijack it

If we're thinking about what books to fill the bookcase with, my top 10 would have to be (in now particular order, mixture of fiction & non-fiction) - there's a definite bias towards thriller fiction, fantasy and science based non-fiction.

1) "Sapiens" - Yuval Noah Harari

2) "The God Delusion" - Richard Dawkins

3) "Dune" - Frank Herbert

4) "Day of the Jackal" - Frederick Forsythe

5) "Bad Science" - Ben Goldacre

6) "Born to Run" - Christopher McDougal

7) "Da Vinci Code" - Dan Brown (Please don't judge me - this is a guilty pleasure!)

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" - John Le Carre

9) "Dead Famous" - Ben Elton

10) Anything by Terry Pratchett (I couldn't nail it down to just one, the use of language is just superb)

My suggestions for the first 10 would be:

1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

2. Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene

3. On Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin

4. Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy

5. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières

6. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind

7. Room - Emma Donoghue

8. The Handmaiden's Tale - Margaret Atwood

9. Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene

10. The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

a VERY different list to mine, but each to their own agree with Captain Corellis Mandolin though - a thoroughly good read.

Just a suggestion, put what books you do have on the shelves & fill up the space with ornaments & framed pictures

Somebody currently offering books on here have a look.

Get some of those video cassette cases that look like books:

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pict/162373636280_/Fake-Books-Vhs.jpg

I want to build a garage but don't have a car. Can anyone recommend somewhere I can get one?

I have loads of paperbacks in my garage which you are very welcome to buy for 50p each...general popular fiction stuff...

Hi Huxley,

Thanks for the offer but someone has just kindly given me a ton of books from a divorce.

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I want to build a garage but don't have a car. Can anyone recommend somewhere I can get one?

The same place you got your head without a brain

Hi Huxley,

 

Thanks for the offer but someone has just kindly given me a ton of books from a divorce.

 

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The same place you got your head without a brain

The tin man?

The tin man?

Don't give him ideas he'll be getting a tincase and asking for tins next.

St Lukes on crookes have a massive library of cheap books

Seems the OP is not alone, I had a google and there's a market for this.

http://www.booksbythefoot.com/

I don't drive but I want a garage. Any cheap cars going?

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Only kidding. Well, half-kidding. Worth asking though, if you'd asked this before bonfire night I had a load of books that weren't my thing that I'd been given custody of, but no-one ever took interest in. All wacko stuff but would have filled a shelf.

It didn't fill a shelf but it roasted a potato

But maybe someone else has a box of random writings