Beloved Books I’ve Given Away

an exercise in letting go

an exercise in letting go

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I consider the following books to be very close to my heart. If one of them speaks to you as well, click its cover to see whether it is available for purchase online.

Love Letters to Lucy — Love Letters to Lucy by Sierra MacPheat (signed)

Counter-Clock World — Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick

Geography III — Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop

Lolita — Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Handmaid's Tale — The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Radio Free Albemuth — Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick

Lullaby — Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

The Portage to San Cristóbal of A. H. — The Portage to San Cristóbal of A. H. by George Steiner

Player Piano — Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The Drowned World — The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard

Fugitives and Refugees — Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk

Jennifer Government — Jennifer Government by Max Barry

Nation — Nation by Terry Pratchett

A Clockwork Orange — A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin — The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen

Beautiful You — Beautiful You by Chuck Palahniuk

Mother Night — Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Jim Baen Presents: The Technicolor Time Machine — Jim Baen Presents: The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison

The Deathworld Trilogy — The Deathworld Trilogy by Harry Harrison

Collected Poems: 1934-1952 — Invisible Monsters Remix by Chuck Palahniuk

The House Gun — The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer

Life and Times of Michael K. — Life and Times of Michael K. by J. M. Coetzee

Other Women — Other Women by Evelyn Lau

Cosmopolis — Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo

Obasan — Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Howl: 50th Anniversary Edition — Howl: 50th Anniversary Edition by Allen Ginsberg

Collected Poems: 1934-1952 — sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way by Charles Bukowski

Selected poems — Selected Poems by John Ashbery

Collected Poems: 1934-1952 — Tumour by Evelyn Lau

Collected Poems: 1934-1952 — Crabwise to the Hounds by Jeramy Dodds (signed to me)

Elegiac Feelings American — Elegiac Feelings American by Gregory Corso

Autobigraphy of Red: A Novel in Verse — Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson

Collected Poems: 1934-1952 — Collected Poems: 1934–1952 by Dylan Thomas

Lunch Poems — Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

Haunted — Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (signed to me)

Solaris — Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

Solaris — Solaris by Stanisław Lem

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub — Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanisław Lem

The Star Diaries — The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem

Memoirs of a Space Traveller: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy — Memoirs of a Space Traveller: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem

Davie Street Translations — Davie Street Translations by Daniel Zomparelli

Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing — Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Gun, with Occasional Music — Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

A Scanner Darkly — A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Come on In: New Poems — Come on In: New Poems by Charles Bukowski

Antipoems — Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great by Nicanor Parra

Pale Fire — Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Burned Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Stories — Burned Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Stories edited by Chuck Palahniuk

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So — Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So by Mark Vonnegut

scars on th seehors — scars on th seehors by bill bissett

Erotic Poems — Erotic Poems by e. e. cummings

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins — The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh

Pomes All Sizes — Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac

Room — Room by Emma Donoghue

Lullabies for Little Criminals — Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill

Fresh Girls and Other Stories — Fresh Girls and Other Stories by Evelyn Lau

The Room — The Room by Jonas Karlsson

Three Men in a Boat — Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Robinson Crusoe — Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Gulliver's Travels — Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Beowulf — Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

Paradise Lost — Paradise Lost by John Milton

Home of Sudden Service — Home of Sudden Service by Elizabeth Bachinsky

Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse — Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse edited by John Whitworth

W;t — W;t by Margaret Edson

Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men — Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men by Jane Ward

Neuromancer — Neuromancer by William Gibson

The Disaster Artist — The Disaster Artist by Tom Bissell, and Greg Sestero

Company Town — Company Town by Michael Turner (signed to me)

Venus in Furs — Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Cannibals — Cannibals by Stanley Cooperman

Machines Like Me — Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

Written for Strangers: Poems of Love & Eros — Written for Strangers: Poems of Love & Eros by Martha Brooke Giesbrecht

S by Doug Dorst

Swan — Swan by Mary Oliver

Hard Core Logo by Michael Turner (signed to me)

Broom Broom — Broom Broom by Brecken Hancock (signed to me)

He, She, and It — He, She, and It by Marge Piercy

Walden Two — Walden Two by B. F. Skinner

Pygmy — Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

Memento & Following — Memento & Following by Christopher Nolan

The Visible Man — The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

The Professor and the Madman — The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

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