Thursday, September 22, 2011

List #15 Tom Campbell

Tom Campbell: The Regulator Bookshop. Durham, NC. 27705

Non-Fiction
--Dispatches by Michael Herr
--Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
--A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube by Patrick Leigh Fermor
--Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
--The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter
--Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry
--The Heart of Understanding by Thich Nhat Hanh
--Last Train to Memphis; The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
--Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O’Hanlon
--Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
--Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
--Oak: The Frame of Civilization by William Bryant Logan
--At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch
--Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton
--On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
--Ethel and Ernest: A True Story by Raymond Briggs
--Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
--Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson
--The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

Fiction
--Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
--The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
--A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
--Little, Big by John Crowley
--Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
--Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O’Brian
--Island: The Complete Stories by Alistair MacLeod
--If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
--Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
--The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
--The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
--Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
--Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
--Possession by A.S. Byatt
--The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
--The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
--Any Human Heart by William Boyd
--Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
--A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
--Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
--Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
--The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
--War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
--The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
--The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
--Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
--Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
--Last Orders by Graham Swift
--The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
--Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
--The Death of the Fox by George Garrett

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